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Good advice to remember, for sure. Sometimes it gets hard to calculate. Betting your level of experience against something that you haven't quite done before. Then there are the added variables of species, free of decay or not, etc. The had part is when interesting turns into scary.

Not a pull tree, using wedges, and I had one set back hard on a steep slope over a road once, and hate to think what might have been the result had a car been coming by at that moment. While hurriedly clearing it out, one did get stopped by the blockage The impatient driver said something and...

Very good description, Chris, like reading about one's self. I'd rather be doing something else at the moment feeling...then instant gratification and relief when it goes ok. Funny how that works.

A tree jack is a good thought, but the tree may not have been a large enough diameter. There was plenty enough pull to get the tree over, I just frigged up on the cutting in coordination.

Lucky and even got payed, Dave, but could easily be sitting here holding my head. Definitely too much hinge on that Willie, my first concern was leaving enough hinge to get the tree over before breaking, and it messed up the perspective. Once the crack started it became more complicated. As...

Ah, Willie's whizzy.

By vertical cut, do you mean a gap, Stig? Seems like those trees could have been barberchairs from hell, MB, even with the chain.

Yeah Peter, setting those lines would have surely helped, and there were attachment points (other trees) to anchor to. What I had brought with me was inadequate for the job. Wondering what you guys think about a tree that will require a lot of pull and cutting between to get it over, do you...

Burnham, this experience in retrospect very much mirrors your thoughts. A sawyer who can do controlled cutting with patience, and having a guy pulling who knows when the pull is maxed out and it is time to cut more, with good communications between them. The cutting could have been much better...

Kind of like that Leonard Skynyrd song where "the water (sweat) is falling on the floor".

Another holding line probably wouldn't hurt, and I envisioned a few different scenarios developing if the tree went over backwards still held by the cable and the butt dropped somehow off the embankment, it going through the big windows was something that occurred. Normally, I would have sought...

Out of the blue I received a call from an architect friend to go cut a tree that was leaning over a recent house that he designed, growing on a slope above. He came over and drew a picture, the approximate angle of lean. The next day we loaded my gear into his van and drove there, an hour and...