We rarely lose a coconut tree but when we do it's most often done in by an unseen killer that burrows into the heart of the tree from below. There's not much we can do to save the tree and this is what we find when we take it down. In our experience this has happened only to fairly young trees.
13 November 2011
The house (3)
After the foundation comes the framework for the first story and the 'floor' on which the second story will sit. Construction is different from what I'm used to. Each interior corner is a 4" x 4". There is a lot of diagonal bracing. Much of the framing is 21" on center rather than 16" on center.
