Sendmessage/GetComponent (read variable only) help

EDIT - Answer helped - created knew unknown problem.

Skip slightly past First answer, under the 3rd body of codes I reply with a new issue in regards to a myTransform conflicting with Ref' to another object (neither are interacting in the script as far as I know - it throws a null error) any help would be great guys.

Ok so I've got something else I want to learn. I'll try my best to explain the situation because I'm getting a bit deeper and deeper... my goal is still to chop down a tree using click moving pathfinding. What I've got so far 1. Hover over, change color, on exit change back. 2. If clicked check player dist, if out of range, leave cutDown false 3. If within range, set cutDown to true 4. GOAL - send a message, or access cutDown in ChopTree to Player to determine if true so I can 1) Disable Movement, 2) Face Tree - I think I'll be fine in regards to LookAt calls once I do get to determine if I am really ready to cut down a tree.

These scripts are in a slightly mangled state at this time since I've been trying so many methods. Not looking for someone to write the script for me, looking for a better job at reading variables from another script. I looked over Sendmessage and Component in the ref - I understand Component and like I said how to change values - I only want to read... I've tried both methods but I can't seem to get the syntax right or find what I need as most examples involve a FP view, or 3rd with direct character control and not pathfinding control... Sorry for the long wall of text but I wanted to explain in detail rather then not.

CharacterAnimation script

 enter code hereusing System.Collections;
 
 public class CharacterAnimations : MonoBehaviour {
     //THE SCRIPT THAT IS IN THE SAME OBJECT IS CALLED "AIFollow" I do a public attach here.
     //Attach to AIFollow to get speed
     public AIFollow script;
     //Bool for is movving happenin to enable run animation?  If stop'd no run.
     public bool isMove;
     //Keeps track of movement
     Transform myTransform;
     //Stores the transform at last vector
     Vector3 lastPos;
 
     
     void Start()
     {
         //ref the script AIFollow at the start
         script = GetComponent<AIFollow>();    
         //declare move at false at start
         isMove = false;
         //establish a way to track this object
         myTransform = transform;
         //establish a way to store last vector from object
         lastPos = myTransform.position;
     }
     
     void Update(){
         
         if ( myTransform.position != lastPos )
               isMove = true;
         else
               isMove = false;
         //After checking to see if update was the same as old position, MAKE them the same.
         lastPos = myTransform.position;
         
         //If old vector was the same, move will be false and this will be bypassed.
         if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftShift) && isMove != false){
             script.speed = 14;
             animation.CrossFade ("mRunning");
         }else{
             script.speed = 5;
         }
         
         //if its bypassed and shift is not down, walk
         if(script.speed == 5 && isMove != false){
             animation.CrossFade("mWalking");
             
         }
         //since it was bypassed, and ismove is false, he cannot be moving.  Display idle animation.
         if (isMove == false){
             animation.CrossFade("mIdle");    
         }
     }
     //Function to make character get msg and turn toward tree sending it.
     void LookAtTree(bool cutDown)
     {
         Debug.Log("CutDown MSG IN");
     }
 }

ChopTree script

 enter code hereusing UnityEngine;
 using System.Collections;
 
 public class ChopTree : MonoBehaviour {
 
     //set tree health
     //private int treeHealth = 30;
     //Cut tree down
     public bool cutDown = false;
     //ref Player
     public GameObject Player;
     //distance to tree?
     public float playerDist;
     //store orginal color
     private Color startcolor;
     //display GUI text
     private bool showGUI = false;
 
     
     
     void Start()
     {
         //ref
         Player = GameObject.Find ("Reiss");
     }
     
     void Update()
     {
 
     }
 
     //Mouse over event to store color of tree, change red, and then show chop tree
     void OnMouseEnter(){
         startcolor = renderer.material.color;
         renderer.material.color = Color.red;
         showGUI = true;
     }
     
     //Mouse over event to remove GUI display and return to normal color
     void OnMouseExit()
     {
         renderer.material.color = startcolor;
         showGUI = false;
     }
     
     //information about the GUI to display and where to display it.
     void OnGUI()
     {
         if (showGUI)
         {
             //displace text in center screen
             GUI.Label (new Rect(Screen.width/2-50,Screen.height/2-50,100,20),"Chop Tree?");
             //check if mouse is down and within distance
             if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
             {
                 float playerDist = Vector3.Distance(Player.transform.position, this.transform.position);
                 CheckDistance();
                 //Debug.Log(playerDist);
                 if(playerDist < 13)
                 {
                     //if true going to start animations and damage to tree
                     cutDown = true;
                     SendMessage("LookAtTree",Player);
                     Debug.Log(cutDown);
                 }
             }
                 
             if (cutDown)
             {
                     
             }
         }
     }
     
     //Attempting to use a function call to check distance so update doesn't do it all the time.
     public float CheckDistance()
     {
         float playerDist = Vector3.Distance(Player.transform.position, this.transform.position);
         return playerDist;
     }
 }