Palm leaves harvesting to make a Palapa roof in Yucatan Mexico

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I love learning new things.  But sometimes learning a new thing, just means you find out that the old thing you thought you knew was wrong.   

We've been working, off and on, on a new bodega (storeroom or garage) so I can have a place to put my tractor in out of the rain.   Things kept coming up that would demand attention.  But now we're back at it and needing about 600 more palm leaves to finish the roof.   The leaves that are on it now, I bought for about 7 pesos each (30 cents US).   And I guess I've got about 15,000 pesos spent so far and need to spend 6,000 more.   I was telling Salvador to get them ordered, and looked over at a palm on my land and asked him could we use those leaves.  He said certainly.

Now my first thought was "why didn't you tell me this before I spent 15,000 pesos.  But then I realize, he didn't tell me because I just told him to buy some and that's what he did.  He gives his opinion when I ask for it.

The long and short is I've got a lot of palm trees with these leaves, and I have more than enough palm leaves to finish without having to spend any money.

The guys have to go very high up in the trees to get them.  I think you'll enjoy this video.  Personally, I'd not go up on a ladder 10meter in the air (33 feet) on a ladder that is almost perpendicular to the ground.



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