"Andy Dingley" wrote in message

Thus all we needed to
do was rope the trees to ensire they fell the way we wanted

This is very difficult to do. There's a significant risk of them
"kicking". Instead of your rope pulling them to the left, the base
goes out to the right instead. This is especially the case for skinny
trees like Leylandii being cut halfway up.

Skinny?

You haven't seen ours :-)

Mary