A cherry-picker investigates a tree from the inside. Click for a larger version on the ABC website. Photo credit: ABC News: Karl Hoerr

See the open window at the top? That’s my office. Read the full story here:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/27/2256870.htm

The boom arm on the cherry picker, which is essentially a steel I-beam about 80cm square, bent in half on impact. It all happened about 20 minutes before I got to work. The driver was saved from being turned into a windscreen-mosquito on the building to the left by the tree.

Climate change skeptics take note: you may not care that trees suck up your carbon dioxide, but you'll miss them next time you drive heavy construction machinery off a tall building.