Step Two!
Time to get rid of that super ugly dead tree that's blocking the entrance and threatening to crush a vehicle. I didn't get pictures of the various phases of cutting… but here are the basics..
Cut perpendicular to the tree/horizontal until you'r about 1/3 of the way in on the side of the tree you want it to fall. For me, this was the side facing the drive way.
Once that's done you then go up about twice as high from the cut as the cut is from the ground and cut down at 70-80 degrees until you meet the original cut, and remove the big chunk.
Back cut. Goto the backside of the tree and cut towards the very first cut. The big chunk you removed turns into a sort of hinge, and pushes the tree in that direction. Of course, this is assuming the tree has a center of gravity directly over the bottom of the tree.
For better and more full directions: http://www.jonsered.com/int/chainsaws/f ... p-by-step/
Mine was actually leaning heavily towards my neighbors house. So that was a concern. I wrapped the tree with a rope, and tied it to the bumped of my truck, which I pulled tight. I didn't go all the way with the fell cut, and then used my truck to give it a tug in the right direction.
https://goo.gl/photos/x44qbZUHehco7y32A
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Made a mess.
Here is post-clean up.
https://goo.gl/photos/UvJbgXHZYvWQyuBC7
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https://goo.gl/photos/jB9dKbuVLE63fM1m7
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Next up, stump removal!