You're right about the leverage. I cleaned up an old hedge row between the 2 fields, that now have houses in them. I ratchet strapped a ladder to the tree, secured a choker in an appropriate place where it would not shear off the top, removed ladder and placed some tension on the line, so as not to drop the trees in the neighbors yard on the other side.
It worked so well, a few I did not have to cut, the darned carpenter ants had gotten in a few of these, or I would have left them alone. With enough extra chain, to clear the tractor from the path of the falling tree, from the drawbar I literally pulled this one right over, though I was facing down a slope, surprised but it came out easily.
I used to clear pipe and utility easements in NJ, was assigned an old 955 Catepillar, and the bucket was nice, sometimes I would dig around them, use the bucket height to push em over, some were just too dangerous, I would commandeer an excavator working on site, to the dislike of the of the foreman, my @ss under these trees, I did as saw fit or told em to hire a tree service outfit, some of them were downright huge old oaks and the like, and they can be hollow on top, from ants or otherwise, still look healthy/normal always dangerous work.
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