Pulling Down A Tree With A Hand Winch 

you need safety gear to go with your chainsaw. in my experience it is a very good idea to get the strap or rope two-thirds of the height of the tree. two straps onto winches can make it a lot easier to guide where the tree will go. there are times when the strap or rope loses all tension the tree will go far-left or far right of where you thought it should go. get the strap as tight as possible. most hand winches have about 6 to 8 ft of cable. you want the most tension possible with your wench. you want as much cable left as possible so that you don't have to then undo the wench and redo it.

“Cliffhanger”! Great video. Good job. Thanks for sharing.

Good job! Shitthebed moment when you didn’t know where the crack came from! 😂

Vines can grow between trees and cause a problem when the tree starts to fall. You wouldn’t think that a little vine can have that big of an effect on a falling tree.

Nice job! I am planning to do something similar with a tree leaning toward my house. I am going to use four 300 foot 12000lb ropes and four hand winches to make sure tree doesn't crash into my house when it falls. Hope that's enough. LOL

Good Job taking your time. Slow and steady keeps you safe.

it was nice to see that you had an escape route which is something many people forget about.

I remind myself everytime I bring a tree down that some of my best friends with lots of experience have chopped themselves up with their chainsaw because they weren't wearing the right boots or chaps.

I take them down the same way, but I need to get something like you have at the top of the ladder to keep it centered on the trunk. Did you make it?

I’m dropping one like this tomorrow. It’s always a bit spooky dropping a tree that you are trying to drop in a direction it isn’t leaning.

Can u say Accident waiting to happen?

good job

friend got eye damage because he wasn't wearing a helmet with a screen.

Get yourself a couple of wedges, to get it going and block a back-fall. You did a great job with the tensioning on that come-a-long to keep it tensioned in the right direction, too.

Put base at the bottom of the trunk of the anchor tree

I was not liking the idea of pulling a tree towards me with winch, so I was considering snatch block so that I'm winching behind or to the side of the tree just in case it falls while winching.

Sometimes, it's better to KNOW things, before you do them.

Easy drop.

those are some nasty vines...

this is a very unprofessional video