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There you have it...wisdom.

;)

Maybe that will help...but I doubt it. Folks who count on any of the assorted gods to get them through, are whistling in the dark, imo.

As my friend Sean so accurately notes, "Tree work is NOT for almost everyone on the planet." Robert, so far I have seen many a fine attribute in your personality...but precious few in your skills, or ability to learn these skills, as they pertain to treework. It's not just the saw work. You...

Robert, at every point when your three main felling cuts were not properly formed, you could have easily repaired the mistake. Every one of them. Slow down and fix that crap before proceeding. Assuming you know what you are striving for in the first place. Of that I remain unconvinced...

:D

Not a realistic idea, imo...physics of a leaner like that pictured vs. a few lag bolts and a short length of board? No way that will hold.

Sean's last sentence says it all quite concisely.

I think some of y'all are overcomplicating this little fell. Robert screwed the pooch on his face depth and orientation, then compounded it with his equally poorly oriented back cut. All the rest was just chump change leading to the inevitable. I believe if he'd gotten the first three cuts...

The pulling was the least of Robert's problems, I fear. Brother, you can't yet put in a felling cut worth a litre of warm piss. THAT'S your main problem, still. I won't even begin to itemize the many other mistakes you made on this little bush of a tree. Others have done a fine job of that...

I'm probably being excessively ungenerous. We all have made mistakes, surely.

Robert...I think you might go back to the last pic in your opening post...read your yellow text...follow that thought. It's the only thing you got right on this effort. I know this sounds quite unkind, but it would appear this work really isn't something you are growing into. A wise man would...