Dean - See PICT0303.JPG on this web page....
http://www.peppel.com/katrina/page0003.html

I did a lot of chainsaw work after Katrina. In this picture we got TWO saws
bound up and needed a 3rd to free them!

Saw on the left was fist to bind up. Initially it looked like this tree was
under pressure from a tree and branches to the left and the root ball on the
right so I started from the top. I was wrong and before I could pull the saw
it bound. Second saw, the one on the right, came in from the bottom. That
cut should have been proceeded by a relief cut on the top first, but wasn't.
You can see the result. We brought in a third saw and cut just to the right
of the second saw to free the first two saws.

To do what you described we used a bobcat with pallet forks!
See http://www.peppel.com/katrina/page0006.html pictures PICT0382.JPG
through PICT0386.JPG for how we used a bobcat to get a tree off a roof!

Something cheap, that can be handled by one person, and would fit in the
back of an SUV would be ideal! Invent something.

P.S. - Those pictures began uploading to the net 9/27/05 at 9:30AM. if you
do not see the images try back a few minutes later and they will be there.

"dean" wrote in message
ups.com...
Just think about lifting it in the middle, a foot off the ground. Think
of sawing off a couple of feet on each end alternately. Its a logger's
dream!