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A breakaway lanyard can be used for work positioning, but breakaway if the tree fails, and the climber can't detach from the failing tree, to hang on the climb-line attached to a neighboring tree, or high-line. "No lanyard" can't be used for work-positioning.

Have you ever hung your rope in one tree, and worked in another that you were not willing to tie into, perhaps a leg catching a limb, or holding on with one hand while cutting with another? Maybe storm work, or a really, nasty dead thing?

I you can hang on it, it's too strong.

Are you using a breakaway, or have a weak connector?

Too dead is not what you need to know. Trees aren't too dead to climb. They are to damaged, weather from wood destroying organisms, electricity, etc. Sometimes, dead root-diseased trees don't fail in the storms where live root-diseased trees do fail. Live trees have more wind profile, mass...

Looks to me like a bit of an off-angle (strip of holding wood is not dead vertical 12:00 to 6:00) Coos Bay, at 1:45. I think it's all about proportion. If it won't hold, you've cut the strip too narrow. The cutter must judge species and condition, size, leverage, etc. In FOGT, IIRC, there is...

Not my understanding of a Coos Bay cut. Cut one side, then the other, leaving a strip. Then, cut top down a fast as possible. To strip will tear at the bottom. On limbs, I'll undercut a little, closer to the limb base, like sapwood cuts on a topping face-cut/ backcut.