"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"David Shepherd" wrote in message

- difficult to get it to fall the direction I wanted - fortunately my
neighbour was just as keen to see them felled as I and didn;t mind it
landing in his garden (nothing would grow near the damend things
anyway!)

I cut down a triple trunked Leylandii, more than 20 feet high. I had an
advantage as
it was close to my garage so I stood on the garage and cut off the tops
first. My advice,
if you do go DIY, is to check that the teeth n the bowsaw have an adequate
amount of
'set', otherwise it sticks, have another person out of harm's range pulling
with a rope,
make the appropriate wedge shaped cuts in the trunk, one on the back, one on
the front
( I think the one on the front goes below the rear cut ), and for heaven's
sake, make
sure there is either no wind at all, or a very light and steady wind going
very largely in
the direction you want the tree to fall.

Andy.