Okay, I give up on beefing about gums. Thankfully, they don't grow here in Vermont, and neither do date/Phoenix palms. When I worked in Hawaii, I hated doing coconut palms, especially the 70 footers that grew at severe angles over manicured landscaping. Couldn't get a bucket in there, and when you were hanging from a chain wrapped around the trunk on the down side of the tree, hacking away with a machete over your head, with roaches, ants, and other vermin falling inside your shirt...that's when I wished I was a piano player in a whore house.
The best climber I ever worked with was a Samoan named Soapa. We did this Ficus tree in Oahu using a 2100 with a six foot bar forty feet up. Man, he was goooood!