08-30-2009, 03:48 AM
Cutting the stuff is easy with common heavy duty pruners, I could cut it for hours non stop and fire up the chainsaw for the 3"+ diameter stuff.
I'm not sure about working in the higher elevations around Puna or where there is some wind but down in Waa Waa, no breeze... It's most exhausting to pull them down through the trees and then to haul them off to a pile. We have to run the Jeep non-stop with AC on max and jump in it every 15 to 20 minutes just to cool off while consuming mass amounts of water. My tanktop and shorts end up saturated in sweat in less than 1 hour of removing these damn things. I was only able to go at this for 8 hours one day, the rest of the time we limited it to around 4-6 hours a day.
I've worked my keaster off over in Kona outside, day in day out and I could have ripped this guava to hell over there, but over here in lower Puna... sweat won't even evaporate here. I can't imagine using a brush and grub puller either, not unless I pulled a couple then went back inside and had some lemonaid.
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
I'm not sure about working in the higher elevations around Puna or where there is some wind but down in Waa Waa, no breeze... It's most exhausting to pull them down through the trees and then to haul them off to a pile. We have to run the Jeep non-stop with AC on max and jump in it every 15 to 20 minutes just to cool off while consuming mass amounts of water. My tanktop and shorts end up saturated in sweat in less than 1 hour of removing these damn things. I was only able to go at this for 8 hours one day, the rest of the time we limited it to around 4-6 hours a day.
I've worked my keaster off over in Kona outside, day in day out and I could have ripped this guava to hell over there, but over here in lower Puna... sweat won't even evaporate here. I can't imagine using a brush and grub puller either, not unless I pulled a couple then went back inside and had some lemonaid.
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.