oh lord hes up on a skinny platform 30 some f eet up

hi BarBaraPrz yes he was in a bucket mounted on a trsuck and as I watched he was soon around on the other side of those huge trees. wow they look like something out of sci fi story now reduced to bare trunk and a f w stubby fat branches looking more like arms. I imagine the owners of the apartment complex were worried that a large branch might come down and hurt someone walking along the street. they s re did their job in a hurry too. I watched and felt so glad I was on solid floor in my room and not up there in that cage. heights and I just do not get along.my only phobia but its a dozy ,. lol.

hi john thanks for the needed laugh ha ha he he oh my g osh just imagine if the guy up there did have some sort of seizure and the guys down below did not know about it at first wow.[

So long as he doesn't kick the bucket!

hi Janey I was watching them mutilate those trees and wondered what would happen if I was sent up; that high in a tower like thing. I bet I would just pass out from fright. Fear of heights is my only phobia but my plams were sweaty watching those guys.those big trees were so pretty and now look like a tornado had struck. the accidental fall I had came from not using a ladder. I piled a chair on top an end table then climbed up on the chair and was hanging new drapes when the chair slipped and I fell down into the upset end table. I bruised my right `leg so badly it swelled and my hubby insisted on taking me to the ER they x rayed both legs but I was lucky.no broken bones. Needless to say I did not do that stunt again. in fact I coerced my hubby into finishing hanging the drapes. I am so afraid of highths that its not ev en funny

Hi Hatley, Mum once stood on a stool to get at the curtain rail in the back room and she fell off it, nearly banging her head on the corner of a table. Fortunately, she had no broken bones either although she has fallen at work before now, breaking her wrist, and also burnt her foot with a red hot potato as it fell onto bare skin at home (she had sandals on) and I remember that came up like a balloon. Why did the guys chop the trees in the first place? It sounds like you're not very happy about how they look now. I must admit, I hate it when someone chops a tree down for no apparent reason. Someone did that over the road from Dad's front room. It was a cherry tree that was full of blossom in the spring..gone. Even more frustrating is the fact the people have since moved out. Dad has no 'greenery' to look at now.

hi janey boy I did notlive thatfall down for a long time,You poor mom drppp9ing a hot potato on her poor footl ouch. Oh those guys are not c utting them done wheat theydo it take off all the green brancehs cut the height of the tree back and leave them with big fat stumpy arms and bare trunk . they look ugly righrt now but in time they wil bush out and be all green and pretty so I guess these guys know what they are doing,.

That sounds so scary Hatley! I've been fortunate-I never had a fall like that, so I can imagine how frightened you must have been! I was just a little girl, somewhere around nine months or so, and my mom told me how I had fallen into the pool. I never learned HOW I got out of her sight for something like that to happen, but I know my dad built a fence around the pool immediately! I know that I can't look straight down unless I'm holding something tightly, but I wasn't scared when I visited the Empire State Building and looked out from the Observation Deck.

hi scorpiobabes I used to climb trees as a kid but something happened I think it was a fall at a reservoir where we were all fishing and the bank gave way beneath me and I fell about twenty feet into the water.I was not hurt but I was only five but knew how to float and my granddad pulled me out be me hanging on to the end of his fishing pole and he pulled me into the shore.I was badly frightened and from then on was really scared of heights all the rest of my life. I watched those guys for awhile then could no longer bear it s o cam back to my computer.

Perhaps you need to get out more! all the best, urban

oh m y my first good laugh of the day thanks Urban I needed that its cold here in sunny California, I should not c omplain as hot as it was all summer and m ost of Sept. but I am human and humans do bi.a.t.ch. A chainsaw I have heard must be kept a certain way and no good trim trimmer ever loans one out. I am glad the guys are in harnesses and I saw a whole bun ch of lines going to his cage. He acted very confident of himself. I tried to imagine myself up in that cage and yes chainsaws would speak in tongues before anyone ever got me up that high in a cage with harness or not. brrrr.I have on ly one phobia but its a dozy as I am reall afraid of heights. lol

I've never seen a chain-saw deceive itself into thinking it's speaking in tongues.

Hatley don't be embarrassed, even the most bravest person you can think of, has a fear of something. I can't stand spiders, so when I thought my phone might have been under this dresser, I refused to put my hand under it in case a spider lived there so my husband did. Unfortunately no phone, but at least I didn't have to check it.. The trees I have to trim are over our house and probably destroying our roof, so I have to cut them back. Not looking forward to the "job" but I am looking forward to when it is done and over with..:)

hi carm I really wish I wasn't as it can get embarrassing, anyway these trees are huge and I guess they haven't been pruned for years but these guys take all the leaves and most branches off and leave st ubby looking things with the huge u=under branches. I don't really know why they are cutting them back so far unless they think they are safety hazards they are close to a bunch of apartments in a large complex. the birds used to live in their branches too. yes even at t en to fifteen feet thats getting up there and a chainsaw needs a person with real experience to use it safely.I can imagine this outfit today really cost the owners of the apartment comples. it is a huge one gtaking in several blocks so hope they do not mutilate all those trees. lol,.

oh Carm do be careful on the ladder and with the chain sqw.wish you had someoneto do it for you an able bodied guy or some relative? anyway do be really careful.

he he got me no I s aw chainsaw massacre one and t hat one was e nough for me. nO i was watching out the window as the guy starting to mutilate gorgeous huge trees into spindly stick looking things with fat arms reaching into the sky'like they were imploring God to give back all my beauty. my second laugh of the day thanks.Its 7;58 am on a sunny cold morning in Southern Calif. why am I not happy its cold after all the hot hot days we had? Glad that gu y had all those safety lined on him. he looked like he was enjoying himself. brrrrrr better him than me. I get nervous on the balcony of a second floor apt.so not me up in that cage.

Maybe they thought the trees were giant triffids and it was Chainsaw Massacre 2?

oh wolfie me too and my palms were sweating as I watched them. oh that horrid TexsasChainsaw Massacre my son talked me into watching the dvd and I had nightmares from it too Yuck.I don't even like climbing up into the nose bleed section at ball game, well now I am using a walker I have an excuse for not'going u up there. lolthat film really for me was just awf ul and my son and hubby laughed at a lot of it. I just thought it was gross. I am no good anymore just standin up on a chair. sense of balance is shot. I am told a lot of diabetics have balance prob lems. there are some exercises tha will hep I am told.

hi Garden gerty something is eating my ;osts drat. copy yes I noticed that a year ago they did another street like that and were so ugly and now they are 'gorgeous again,. the man had all sorts o f ropes hanging from him so guess h was fine. but me I could only watch for awhile then I had to come back to my lotting as my palms were actually sweating,amd I was safe on the floor of my room and in no d anger at all.

hi sid oh they did make them look so hideous with bare fat arms sticking ou t like a tornado had shorn all their branches. b ut I did notice a bunch of 'lines going f rom his cage so he was well protected evidently..It did not' take them long to r educe those huge bushy trees to bare skeletons I know that they will once again bush out and look good again later on. I knew I was safe but watching them my palms got sweaty and I had to stop and come back to mylotting. You would never get me up in one of those cages many feet up in the air. I am so afraid of heights. lol

hi Kashmeresmycat yes I could tell they were really skilled. me I would not be able to even get into that narrow cage and by the time they raised me up to cut those big trees I would be screaming bloody murder. lol good thing I was born a girl I guess. a man would get teased for being scared like that I imagine,. those trees look horrid now. they w ere so tall and all bushed'out and green,.now they are just bare stubby looking things.

Yeah it was one of my experience as a young boy. I was very hyper and energetic. I love to climb different kind of fruit trees.

hi julyteen oh my were you hurt concussion from being unconscious and falling?oh you would not ever get me up that high plus giving me a chainsaw too.I would probably have cut off a foot or something before learning how to use the chain saw I like to have my feet on solid ground or on the floor here in my room. watching was hard enough thinking what if that man fell or well all sorts of things went through my mind.

Hi bunnybon fabio wow I would have l oved wat ching here I was safe and not out on the edge of anything. I too get funny during some movies where someone is mountain climbing out onto the edge miles above the ground. My son and my hubby would really tease me."Open your eyes hon you are safe" oh yeah says you. lol. Somewhere though years back my husband and I saw Fabio doing some benefit in Phoenix Ariz when we lived in Tempe. He was just as good looking in person as in the movies. wow.

hi vidhyapakash yes it really is as the trees are huge and the owners of the apartment comp;lex feel that a bid brancxh couls fall and hurt som oenel. they are just pruning them way back and i saw another street where they did this and in a few months theyt bramches were back and the tree was gorgeous aqgainl i know it looks ugly right now but a little later they will be all bushy and green again,.

hi hacker welcome t o mylot wow you are new. hope you will emjoy yourself here as much a s I do .mylotters are a r eally friendly group so welcome aborard. I am fine and just have a vivid imagination. watching that g uy in his c age made me think of how i would feel if I was up in that cage many feet off the ground. I have this awful fear of heights and thinking of being up there a ctually made me nervous so finally had t o quit and go back to mylotting. the trees all shorn now look horrid but they will leaf out again and be pretty ag ain.. Y ou are very wise and hope you really have fu n here.

hi celticeagle I saw some lines but no harness. I watched for aehile then they had moved around behind the trees and I just could not bear any more watching lol there I was safe on solid floor too. lol I think the man has been doing this for many years and i was wondering what good those ropes would do.lol yes I think he is one of a few. the other guy looked loaded for bear he had so much stuff on him. lol. I could not watch any longer.plus those trees are now just big trunks with stubby arms sticking out no leaves amd they were so pretty .

Maybe he was on a pulley type thing. THey may have some new founded thing they use. THe ropes would work like a mountain climbers ropes. Maybe that is why he is so good at it. He could be a mountain climber! hehe

hi telmesh I think the aparment comoplex owners felt the trees were just so huge that if a sudden hard wind came up someone could get hyrt adn in sue happy Calif might even sue the apartment owners for damages. but although i know they will recover nicely and get all gorgeous a gain right now they look bizarre like something out of a sci fi story. lol me an my imagination. The mane did have all sorts of lines going to his cage.I have hard its much safe now and they do know how to prune so the tree stays healthy. I watched utterlyh faxcianate u ntil the idea of being up there that high got to me and I came back here to mylot. My palms were even sticky and I wa s safe on a flat floor and not w a y up i nj the tree tops. my fear of heights is awsfujl an I have to laugh at my self for feeling I was up in that c age. lol. imagination can be tricky.

Still the came back down to earth safely and you are fit and well as you were before so we can all be thankful for that even if the trees do look as though they have come straight out of latest horror movie.

hi echo yes I am so scared of heights that I get nervous walking next to the railing in the second story of some malls my hubby used to tease me about it but to me it was not funny at all. my son knows how nervous I get.I hate balconies too. I am sure even in t hat narrow cage he hae something tied to him. could not tell'for sure.