Someone needs to teach ya how to notch n directional felling....that way ya won't get that one section splitting off and wasting a stave or two there...plus your tree will fall where you want/need it too....I see lots of videos of dumb people cutting a tree without notching and directional felling near there possessions like cars n houses,and they take no consideration of the heavier side of the tree and don't notch and directional fell and watch the tree smash there truck or house....be careful if your cutting trees like that...
I actually worked quite a bit at that. It was leaning over the garage. Got the tree leaning away from the garage and it looked like it was pretty well past the post you see in the photos, and I just let it fall there.
You're right, I see it a lot, but falling trees has been my job in the family for a while
Relevant story though, a big Elm in a driveway I was looking at for staves forked about twenty feet in the air, but had survived eighty plus miles an hour winds, so nobody thought it was dangerous. I'm outside while the sun is going down working on my first car when it starts raining again, so I go inside, and not ten seconds later the earth shakes and I hear the sound of crunching metal.
The rain must have finally soaked the moss enough to pull the branch, which I found out was rotten to the core, from the tree and right on top of my '80 Chevette. About four tons of wood sat on one and a half tons of car, and my heart sank like a rock
If I'd inspected the tree before parking under it I'd still have four on the floor and thirty miles to the gallon. I learned my lesson
