help us our Christmas tree is to tall

[aa battery]

i done cut off four feet so my neighbors tree would stand up. Im pantin like a little bird

[DigginThePast]

Did ya take it off the top?

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[aa battery]

Did ya take it off the top?

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heck ya less sawin

[DigginThePast]

[Red James cash]

Take a sawzall to the ceiling

[spartacus53]

aa, you're going about this all wrong, there is no need to cut anything

Red, good idea, but too much work and potential mess to deal with later

DO you notice how your tree is laying in this photo Well, just leave it there and trim only the top and the sides of the tree. Lighting is a breeze when you don't have to run around the tree for days with stings of lights. Just stand over it and drop the lights down

Do I have to do everything for you

Spartacus53, making your Christmas simple

[gleaner1]

I remember as a young boy, my dad would take me and the whole fam dam to cut down the chrismas tree every year. We would all trod out in the deep snow in the tree grove, look at trees and somehow agree upon which one to cut. My mom usually had the last word. It was cheap back then five or maybe ten bucks for a good one (blue spruce). Dad cut ours, a crappy pine, then got a real beauty blue spruce for my aunty (my dad's sister). We get to her house, drag the thing in, we are all a bit excited. It was a surprise of sorts. The tree was a little big, anyway, she sees it and hates it and says something like "what the heck am I gonna do with that thing?". Well, my dad got a look on his face to beat the devil and grabbed the tree and dragged that friken thing all the way back through the house out the back door and threw it into the truck bed and left a hell of a mess in the house, all the needles and such. We got the hell out of there. My mom and my poor little sister were besides themselves, I was stupified, but I felt his pain. I dont remember much after that but man, it was just a frikin terrible scene. My grandmother did not know whether to crap or wind her watch. Anyway, my aunt put up a real gem of a tree that year, a fake one, the fake ones were up and coming back then, and not really seen as acceptable by purists, as may be seen today. I think that was the year I got the stupid electrical experiment kit instead of the metal detector that I so desperately wanted for christmas. I love chrismas. Most christmas dilemnas are easy. But not all of them.

[aa battery]

Take a sawzall to the ceiling

[aa battery]

aa, you're going about this all wrong, there is no need to cut anything

Red, good idea, but too much work and potential mess to deal with later

DO you notice how your tree is laying in this photo Well, just leave it there and trim only the top and the sides of the tree. Lighting is a breeze when you don't have to run around the tree for days with stings of lights. Just stand over it and drop the lights down

Do I have to do everything for you

Spartacus53, making your Christmas simple

i never said i wuz very smert

[aa battery]

I remember as a young boy, my dad would take me and the whole fam dam to cut down the chrismas tree every year. We would all trod out in the deep snow in the tree grove, look at trees and somehow agree upon which one to cut. My mom usually had the last word. It was cheap back then five or maybe ten bucks for a good one (blue spruce). Dad cut ours, a crappy pine, then got a real beauty blue spruce for my aunty (my dad's sister). We get to her house, drag the thing in, we are all a bit excited. It was a surprise of sorts. The tree was a little big, anyway, she sees it and hates it and says something like "what the heck am I gonna do with that thing?". Well, my dad got a look on his face to beat the devil and grabbed the tree and dragged that friken thing all the way back through the house out the back door and threw it into the truck bed and left a hell of a mess in the house, all the needles and such. We got the hell out of there. My mom and my poor little sister were besides themselves, I was stupified, but I felt his pain. I dont remember much after that but man, it was just a frikin terrible scene. My grandmother did not know whether to crap or wind her watch. Anyway, my aunt put up a real gem of a tree that year, a fake one, the fake ones were up and coming back then, and not really seen as acceptable by purists, as may be seen today. I think that was the year I got the stupid electrical experiment kit instead of the metal detector that I so desperately wanted for christmas. I love chrismas. Most christmas dilemnas are easy. But not all of them.

thats about the same thing here.

[snakeyes]

I remember as a young boy, my dad would take me and the whole fam dam to cut down the chrismas tree every year. We would all trod out in the deep snow in the tree grove, look at trees and somehow agree upon which one to cut. My mom usually had the last word. It was cheap back then five or maybe ten bucks for a good one (blue spruce). Dad cut ours, a crappy pine, then got a real beauty blue spruce for my aunty (my dad's sister). We get to her house, drag the thing in, we are all a bit excited. It was a surprise of sorts. The tree was a little big, anyway, she sees it and hates it and says something like "what the heck am I gonna do with that thing?". Well, my dad got a look on his face to beat the devil and grabbed the tree and dragged that friken thing all the way back through the house out the back door and threw it into the truck bed and left a hell of a mess in the house, all the needles and such. We got the hell out of there. My mom and my poor little sister were besides themselves, I was stupified, but I felt his pain. I dont remember much after that but man, it was just a frikin terrible scene. My grandmother did not know whether to crap or wind her watch. Anyway, my aunt put up a real gem of a tree that year, a fake one, the fake ones were up and coming back then, and not really seen as acceptable by purists, as may be seen today. I think that was the year I got the stupid electrical experiment kit instead of the metal detector that I so desperately wanted for christmas. I love chrismas. Most christmas dilemnas are easy. But not all of them.

thats about the same thing here.

[gleaner1]

I remember as a young boy, my dad would take me and the whole fam dam to cut down the chrismas tree every year. We would all trod out in the deep snow in the tree grove, look at trees and somehow agree upon which one to cut. My mom usually had the last word. It was cheap back then five or maybe ten bucks for a good one (blue spruce). Dad cut ours, a crappy pine, then got a real beauty blue spruce for my aunty (my dad's sister). We get to her house, drag the thing in, we are all a bit excited. It was a surprise of sorts. The tree was a little big, anyway, she sees it and hates it and says something like "what the heck am I gonna do with that thing?". Well, my dad got a look on his face to beat the devil and grabbed the tree and dragged that friken thing all the way back through the house out the back door and threw it into the truck bed and left a hell of a mess in the house, all the needles and such. We got the hell out of there. My mom and my poor little sister were besides themselves, I was stupified, but I felt his pain. I dont remember much after that but man, it was just a frikin terrible scene. My grandmother did not know whether to crap or wind her watch. Anyway, my aunt put up a real gem of a tree that year, a fake one, the fake ones were up and coming back then, and not really seen as acceptable by purists, as may be seen today. I think that was the year I got the stupid electrical experiment kit instead of the metal detector that I so desperately wanted for christmas. I love chrismas. Most christmas dilemnas are easy. But not all of them.

thats about the same thing here.

aa battery, you are the man. snakeyes, NNM is sounding a hell of a lot better than NNY these days.

[Red James cash]

All that was the easy part,now how many times did you have to move it just right?

[Chug And Red]

I think I have Had 1 more beer than I should Have!!! The tree looks like I fits the Space It Is In!!!!! Chug And What About the Lights? Chug urp Oops Don't plug it those lights Yet!!!!!

[Red James cash]

Its christmas soon,have one or two more

[gleaner1]

If anybody likes I will do a ten pic spread of how to properly cut, trim and mount a real Christmas tree. I will show how to mix sugar in water and pour it into the bowl at the base of the Chrismas tree stand, to keep it alive (the Christmas tree, not the Christmas tree stand, which is a robust steel item, or at least it used to be before they were made in China and bend like wet noodles they are so cheap and crappy sorry for the rant)

[Ray S S]

aa, just a suggestion, here, try not to take it out of the middle of the tree.

Merry Christmas

Ray

[Mzjavert]

I use a table-top ceramic tree. I never have this problem.

Set the tree on the front porch.

[bigscoop]

Hmmmm.....I was thinking, "Might be easier to leave the tree in the ground and take you lights, gifts, and family to it."

[Goodyguy]

That is a great looking tree!
Well worth the effort to make it fit, just slow down and work on it a little at a time.
Hopefully you will be finished by midnight the 24th

Post a pic of it when finished.
Merry Christmas!


GG~