I couldn't do it...

Just getting to the work can be the biggest part of a job sometimes.

Years ago I helped dead-wood a group of Douglas fir with my buddy Wes Burns. There was about 30 trees in the group, and all of them were tipping-out, plus and minus, 200 feet tall. Well, about 20 foot shy of the top of one fir I looked above me and could see no more dead wood. Ah, figuring I was done I made my exit from the tree. It was late, last tree of the day, and I was tired. Lo! The customer points to the top and said, "You missed one!" Sure enough, right above where I left off. Now that's just F'ing great. I was so pissed with myself. 180 feet, just to go get one stick! Oh, did I mentioned I was tired?

A fitting moral to this story I think would be, "Out of sight, out of mind." Or maybe better, "Double-check before making hasty exit."
 
My advice would be to get a long screwdriver and use it as a probe to see how far you can get it under the root plate if any and also to check how deep the decayed section and hollows are.
 
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REVENGE!!! Wife did not quite get my crawler parked back into its spot from winching the tree earlier in this post. Came home for lunch and something looked funny. A tree from further up in the woods had fallen and the canopy landed right where the crawler is normally parked!

 
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