Joe wrote:
I woke up this morning to find a tree in my back yard had broken off
and fell about 6 feet off the stump. It's is buttressed by some high
tree branches of an adjacent tree. It's about a 50 foot tree with no
real width to it just basically a big one foot
diameter log. I need to get it to fall so I can cut it up but it looks
like it's in a pretty secure lean. How can I safely cut this tree
down?

Is this all on your property, that the tree branches holding up the fallen
tree belong to you, and that the tree will fall onto the ground and not onto
any other structures? If yes: cut the branches of the tree which are
holding up the fallen tree. Of course, I ain't going to climb my fat ass
into a tree to do it myself, since I don't have a harness, climbing spikes
or the practice swingin' a chain saw whilst danglin' and clinging to the
trunk of a tree. I'm going to call a tree cutting outfit.

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Dave
www.davebbq.com