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Freshette, Fi, Lady J, Shenis, many choices, Fi, many choices.

You should have a climbing system with you, or better yet, in use, for emergencies. If you spike your leg, you are going to have hard time spiking down. An overhead climb line would be the best situation all around. You want both Fall Arrest and Work Positioning in your systems. Spurs and a...

Can you post some pictures/ descriptions of the trees you're up against? A 60' conifer is a lot different to remove than a 30' tall tree that's 45' wide. Wide open drop zones? Obstacles? If you want basic, you can buy a climbing rope and a rigging rope, and a couple snaps/ biners on top of your...

P.S. There is a Beginner Tree Climber Tips thread, or some such named thread. I'm sure it chocked full of stuff that you will and won't read in an instructional manual.

Flipline and lanyard are often used synonymously. The distinctions aren't worth going into at this point. You can have a steel core lanyard/ flipline or just plain rope lanyards. A long lanyard can both be helpful and a hinderance and danger. Here is just one thing that comes to mind, which...

I mark my gear with RED electrical tape for RIGGING LEMON (yellow) for LIFE SUPPORT. Your climbing line is not a rigging/ lowering line. Sure a 50 pound, top-tied branch isn't going to do anything to your climbline, but some people indiscriminately use their...

A cheap cambium saver tube will cut your friction (your climbing effort and wear and tear) considerably on your climbline compared to a dry crotch. I have some leather ones, fine for climbing and rigging, both on the same piece of gear. I don't know much about the conduit tube friction savers...

Horrible technique at around 12:50... tied climbline around small branch rather than main trunk. Didn't put flipline on one stem and climb line around other for balance. Has the saw upside-down, working way too high, having trouble reaching because the bar is on the bottom side of the saw, one...

Hand saw and practice. Spike/ spur the trees you will kill in time, not keepers, if you so choose. What YouTube videos of what goes wrong, too. Be safe. What kinds of trees and sizes?

Just thinking about this, Robert, as a new climber that doesn't know what to look out for when "cutting down a couple trees" aka vertical rope access and positioning, plus highly technical hand and chainsaw work to move large (hopefully stable) amounts of wood from way away from any help/ rescue...

Robert, I don't want to steal your fire about wanting to go do something very, very dangerous for a rookie who will not have anybody qualified to help in an emergency, and could lead to your death, but... you might consider getting a put on ground only bid for removals, do the groundwork that...