I discovered PPOT about a year ago, and some of my favorite posts are about tree cutting.
Who can forget the thread about the neighbor who was about to drop the tree onto another neighbor's house?
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/842120-developing-situation-i-doubt-will-end-well.html
Rivetting I tell you!!!! So tonight I submit my own pathetic offering, a scraggly pine which threatens my daughter's playhouse. It it nothing more than a cheap dead pine, but is pitched towards the playhouse, so I will need to make it fall in a completely different direction than mother nature intends, or DOOM will befall the playhouse. This won't happen though for TWO reasons- 1. I payed $$$ coin for that playhouse, and 2. I assembled it (total biatttchhhhh!) -stay tuned my friends as I warp physics and do the impossible because I am too cheap to call a professional!
I do encourage people to contribute their own tree cutting adventures to this thread as to compile an ultimate pelican "how to" or "how not to" down a tree!
Tomorrow I strike- and by posting to PPOT, that gives me some incentive to actually get out and do it in the next week or two!