• MeanElevator
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    Wear eye and arm protection against the yuccas. Best approach is to trim the leaves and then cut the stalks. Patience is the key.

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      Going to need a chainsaw for the big ones I suspect. Will be hunting pups for years.

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        Yeah, not a chainsaw. I used a reciprocal saw with a pruning blade.

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          Second a Recipo. Tough little buggers can take out almost anything.

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        The stalks and leaves are pretty fibrous. I ended up using a handsaw cause the fibres got tangled in the chain.

        It’s a fairly soft plant, so doesn’t need a lot of elbow grease for manual sawing.

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          Is a tad beyond a hand saw… I have no bananas so cucumber for scale

          Yucca of doom more yucca