Windmill, should I be concerned?

[Mightycanes]

Should I be concerned with this area of my windmill or is this considered normal?

[Palmsbro]

After seeing many up-close pictures of Trachycarpus fortunei trunks, yours looks fine/normal. However, if there is signs of something wrong in the leaves, then there may be cause for concern.

[Mightycanes]

Leaves seemed fine to me.  I’ll double check it tomorrow but it’s flowering right now so that should stand for something.

[Brad Mondel]

Looks fine. Over time the bottom fibers will naturally decay and fall off leaving a hairless trunk. 

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Looks like an animal may have rubbed it off.  Dogs, cats and squirrels love to do that.

[Mightycanes]

I do have some idiot squirrels, they like to dig holes everywhere.  Used to be 1 now it’s line 3-5.  So that could be them.

[frienduvafrond]

I have experienced some of that when the irrigation is spraying the trunk daily. I dont know if thats a possibility.

[palm789]

My cat keeps climbing my windmill palm,is there any safe way to stop him doing it,he wraps his paws around the trunk digging claws in.

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Spray the cat with a water hose every time it climbs up there. A few showers and it'll climb something else.

[palm789]

Lol

[Brad Mondel]

Squirrels like to rip the chest hair off for their nests. I hate them. 

[Mightycanes]

Makes sense on the squirrels usage.  I’m gonna have to pop a few of them and send them to the Palm Gods, lol.