me and some freinds help a guy I know drop a tree, 8ft off his house.. No body wanted to do it so I did with a Stihl 440 mag 36in bar , and a ford ranger, nothing beats a Stihl.. this tree was 176 years old, but rotton at the top and was going to fall on his house, I think it went well tell me what you think.. This was in Lexington Kentucky .. Next door filmed the video, did pretty good. The chain was dull and my PPE was stolen the night be for. No money to get new and no place open to get it so get up and shut up do your job and go to the next one..

Thank you for sharing this video; let´s keep it by you being real brave to have done the job that noone else wanted to do.(Let´s stick to the fact that you were quite young back then to oversee a job like this)

I have been an arborist since the 1980s. And I think you did a good job. Sorry to hear your safety gear was stolen. I hope you had ear plugs anyway! Thanks for telling us the height of the tree and the age. The only thing missing is telling us the diameter. But you even told what chain saw you used, which I appreciate.

Excellent precision. Well done. Sad the tree had to go. Understandable, I had to have 8 trees that were endangering my house felled. Skinnier pines though, half the width of this old tree.

There was nothing wrong with this guys cut what so ever. His notch was opened to at least 70 degrees. The notch was at least 10% of the cut. His back cut actually looked perfect from this view. Level with the bottom of notch cut is fine. (He still left plenty of hing wood) From this angle all cuts looked very level. They did a fine job of wedging. Only downfall, they all should have been wearing chaps, hard hats, safety glasses, and gloves. Very nice cut though!

Nice work. Clean looking lines in your cuts, and laid the tree exactly where you planned. Sorry to hear you got robbed of your gear, but hopefully since this video (2009) you have replaced it all and are staying safe. People commenting on the risk of it falling the wrong way, just remember we only have a 2-dimensional view here, the picture often changes as you walk around the tree and assess the physics. Of course this tree is many times heavier than the pick-up, but a rope...