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Google El cheapo lifts.
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My ex neighbor had one for his business, but he moved out of state. From your pics, united rentals and buffalo rental have those for rent.
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Unfortunately I'm not in California right now cause I've got 3 scissor lifts and a couple of boom lifts.
Try US rentals or any other commercial rental yards.
You may be able to rent one for somewhere around $150 - $200/day for a scissor lift depending on the size. Double that for a boom lift.
Atticus Finch
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El Cheapo you can rent a 19' scissor lift for about $320 delivered and picked up after use.
If you rent it on Friday morning and call for pick up before closing Friday,
they won't charge you for Sat & Sunday. They will pick the lift on Monday.
They are closed over the weekend.
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Damn, I thought this blog was about plastic surgery.
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I am looking to throw a proposal at someone who has one,, that I think could be kind of a win/win situation for both of us. I am not looking to rent the equipment for free, but I am hoping for possibly a discounted rate, or at least delivery and pick-up of the unit, and I would like for it ti be set up fir me. It is for my parents' avocado tree. It is a "bacon avocado" tree, enormous and with what could be at least a couple hundred avocados that I am not able to reach, not even with the 30ft doca pole I got my dad. I'd be willing to split the avocados I pick right down the middle with the owner of the lift, whether or not he/she chooses to help me pick them, AND pay 100 -150 for the rental. I am tired of so many avocados going to waste every year!
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it sounds like you need to prun the tree ..it should not be that tall ..they probably taste a little watered down ...
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Wow. How big is this tree? Thought avocado trees got to be 30 feet.
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I have seen the tree. It is very healthy and happy. I have also had many avocados from this tree over several years time. I love avocados and have been eating them my whole life. Even had 2 trees in the backyard of one of my chidhood homes. But the avocados from the tree at Mystees parents house are by far the best I have ever had. They are the creamest, smoothest and most delish. And for sure the largest ones without being stringy I have seen. These are so yummy you can almost taste the high fat content in them.
No joke people, these are the best avocados you will ever taste! And yes, the tree is extra tall.
"A"
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you probably need a boom bucket lift or someone with a boom lift on a truck - sign shop or something like that.
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What you really need is a bucket truck.
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Be easier to go borrow the gorilla from the zoo and have him shake the tree
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I guess I'll just wait for the avocados to fall. They just aren't very good by the time that happens...
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After picking avocados for years as a teen, a ladder with a canvas bag over your shoulder is really the only way�you need to prune the fruit not pull it
http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/crops/i_avocad.htm
The branches are thick and a scissor lift would likely damage or break the trees limbs�and it wouldn�t get you close enough to to pick the fruit.
Hope this helps�
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I'm a member PETAT (People for Ethical Treatment of Avocado Trees) and thus I advice treating that poor tree with love and kindness so...
Use a chainsaw. Slight problem with not being able to acquire further avocadoes though.
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Hertz and Caterpillar rent them.
Both will deliver and pick up.
Good luck.
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go to home depot and get a couple of mexicans
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^^^ not a good idea. they will fall out of the tree and sue....
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Exactly what dataheart said !!! I've had experience too, that's the best way to prune the avocado tree.
So get your ladder out sexy !!
Pictures or it didn't happen !!!!
Be careful 
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Wait, the avocados will sue you if they fall out of the tree? Maybe that's why store bought avocados are so expensive--cost of covering litigation. 😁
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What's going on?
Reply w one sentence, I don't have my glasses.
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Mystee,
You need either a bucket truck or manlift, a scissor lift won't work as they are only straight up and down. Might consider a tree trimmer to prune it
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@Coach. Mystee is looking to harvest avocados from her tree.
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Aa bucket truck would be best, I'm sure, but a scissor lift only going straight up and down would still possibly work as I have a 30 foot doca pole that I can still use from the lift. I really like the ones of a bucket truck tho, but I will probably just end up climbing the tree myself again. I've done it before- I just get pretty nervous doing that sometimes...
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I’ll climb it, let’s do this.
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get a extending pole fruit picker
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I assume all the low hanging fruit is gone!!!!!
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I have a 30ft extending DocaPole I have been using- the tree is probably at least 50-60 feet tall.
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Stay out of the tree. You will not bounce if you fall.
By the time you get a piece of equipment capable of doing the job you'll have over $ 500.00 into it.
Even if you have 500 bacon avocados 🥑 it ain't gonna pencil out.
Sorry
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I will climb it with you if we gotta do it that way.
The tree will not be pruned to be any shorter. It is a great tree and produces wonderful fruit. But a lift or scaffolding around the tree to reach the top is needed.
Or we climb it girl.
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