I agree Scott, it doesn't look difficult to handle at all. Assuming the lean was not more severe than it appears and the wood is sound, I'd have faced it about the same direction, perhaps just a smidge to the right (looking at it from the camera's perspective), NOT cut the hinge off
, maybe leave it a little thicker on the left (maybe not), gutted the center of the hinge, and then just wedged it over. Two or three hardheads would have managed it nicely, I'm guessing.
I'm comfortable with what can be achieved with wedges, it's what I do. If one is not, then one must use a rope to accomplish the same things. Nothing wrong with that, it just is more time consuming, and
not necessarily as foolproof as many think at controling direction of fall.