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My uncle was cutting down a tree near a large metal building not long
ago. He had the tree almost ready to fall, and a big gust of wind
came up and did it for him... Right on to the building. Oops.

(I was not there, but did see the downed building.)

The one time I cut down a tree and it was important that it
fall in a particular direction, I tied a rope around it a
ways up the trunk, and used a pickup truck to keep tension
on it in the direction I wanted the tree to fall (having
made sure the rope was long enough that the tree didn't
fall on the truck, fortunately).

John