Spent 45 minutes last night watching everything there is to know about felling trees by Guilty of Treeson on Youtube. All the things Marcus said that I have never heard of before. Didn’t know those douglas Firs went over a hundred and fifty foot tall either. Spent many years working structural steel but you wouldn’t get me climbing 80 foot up a tree and firing up a chainsaw to top it. I’m pretty good with rigging, or at least used to be, but how those arborists clear out a big tree from the top down with ropes and not smash anything is beyond me.
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Guilty of treeson is another great guy to learn from he makes mistakes and owns up to them. I have learned a few tricks from him as well
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I would cut higher. No way, am I gonna be on a knee… I don’t run that fast (I was gong to say anymore, but I never really ever ran that fast.)
The trick is cut small enough pieces so when you do smash something, it doesn’t break. 
Honestly most tree services around here just use cherry pickers. Drop all the limbs off in small chunks.
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A good friend of our go-kart racing family- ran 2 mac 101’s on his twin engine racing go-kart-back in the mid 70’S. we had mac 91 - b1 engines on our go karts- race on the big tracks that the sports cars raced on, mid ohio-milwalki-wesconcin-granton michigan,indeanapolis- and a few other race tracks, wattcons grenn,new-york. them was the good old days.Our friend with the 101 macs-ran 100% alcohoul and got up over 100-MPH down the strait stretch of the track with his twin engine 101 mac kart.P.S no springs of any shocks on them karts either, broke a few kart frames allso.
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