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@gf beranek Huh?

Walking it down can be done with vertical slice cuts. It can be done with a face-cut, and back-cut, podsibly stabilized with wedges, and pulled by rope remotely to trip, or pushed from a remote spot with a pusher stick. You don't need to be at the butt when it moves. Two oppossed...

@Altissimus Have you considered a hook or ground- based 'belay' with your tail (maybe better on SRT without MA, but i don't think the DdRT shouldn't move much if your swing is arrested. A groundie can also pull your tail towards the branch tip.

And a swing into a stub can break a rib that could puncture a lung. A sharp stub could puncture a body. I clean stubs before limbwalking swinging from one tree to another tree for sure.

@sotc

I fold trees now and then at head high and ground level...a good trick in some situations where a hung- up tree is unavoidable. Keeps the angle of the lodged trunk flatter. Haven't folded one up high, yet.

This is a good idea, which I used recently. Test your breakaway set-up with several break-tests to dial in your zip-tie needs or other means of breakaway. A ground-worker can 'belay' your SRT tail to prevent you from hitting the anchor tree. Easy work, sitting in a chair in the safe area.

If you fall and pendulum 30' and hit the tree, it's said to be like falling 30' and hitting a tree (well actually, it's from rock climbing). Out of your pay grade and out of your lane. Would you dismantle trees that size if stability was no issue?