M.D. Vaden
vadenphotography.com
Along with a pond and plants I'm installing this week, I included in the estimate to remove 4 piles of cactus branches that were cut last winter for this lady.
I bought some gloves to do the job, but the cactus still puncture them - but not by much. I ended up burning the cactus. Anyhow, the gloves were from a feed and garden store and are designed for working with barbed wire. These are amazingly light weight and flexible. I'm going to try them out on roses next time I need to prune some.
Thank-God this lady had a lot of old wood laying around, because burning is easier than hauling. There was about 10 cubic yards of the cactus - I'd say near 5000 lbs of it in the heaps. I alternately put cactus (still wet and green) and wood on the pile and literally cremated them.
Basically I "cooked them down" until they dried and would burn.
I did not use the gloves much at all, but I'm glad I learned about them. They will come in very handy in the future. I used a pitch fork most of the time.
The label on the gloves says that they are up to 100 times more puncture resistant than some other types of gloves.
My guess for palm material is something like Kevlar. They were $29.99 for one pair.
I bought some gloves to do the job, but the cactus still puncture them - but not by much. I ended up burning the cactus. Anyhow, the gloves were from a feed and garden store and are designed for working with barbed wire. These are amazingly light weight and flexible. I'm going to try them out on roses next time I need to prune some.
Thank-God this lady had a lot of old wood laying around, because burning is easier than hauling. There was about 10 cubic yards of the cactus - I'd say near 5000 lbs of it in the heaps. I alternately put cactus (still wet and green) and wood on the pile and literally cremated them.
Basically I "cooked them down" until they dried and would burn.
I did not use the gloves much at all, but I'm glad I learned about them. They will come in very handy in the future. I used a pitch fork most of the time.
The label on the gloves says that they are up to 100 times more puncture resistant than some other types of gloves.
My guess for palm material is something like Kevlar. They were $29.99 for one pair.