One thing that has changed about that is that "back in the day" when you screwed up and ended up unable to wedge a tree over, you were truly screwed.
Today, grab the bigshot and set a dyneema rope and pull it over.
Easy as can be.
Some 25 years ago I had 2 fallers ask me if I would climb up and...
In a logging scenario one will have the occasional tree start to split up.
Most of the time one can simply keep cutting and it will cease.
The trick is to know when it is time to abandon ship and just get the hell out of Dodge.
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