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There are no formal situations this side of the pond.

Big word from a small mind, I'll own it :D.

I know much better than to get in this discussion, but my normal degree of reticence is overcome by my dislike of the arrogance I perceive here...so please pardon my less than polite wording. Murph, you are full of feculence.

Hope Jerry comes to address this, but in the interim, I agree with what my friend Stig says.

I do indeed recall that slant back cut, now that you mention it Stig. Never employed it myself,which is clearly a gap in my experiences that I ought to have remedied years ago. Maybe you ought to 'splain it for the poor benighted youngsters come lately to the 'House :D. Jed...stick saw...

Long bars allow the cutter to stand back some, better than short bars do :). Another case of "relatively" safer.

Stig makes mention of being too lazy to bind generating the need to Coos Bay cut heavy leaning alders, or anything else with the propensity to barberchair if you look at them wrong... There were so many days I cleared snow loaded alders off of roads in my USFS road maintenance years, sometimes...

If the tree has sufficient diameter to take a bored back cut, that's a great choice too...except for the truly horrendous head leaners. Stig's right too, of course. Bind the thing, no real worries after that.

Coos Bay cut...do a search here for details. There are a couple of variations. Another choice might be the so-called golden triangle. The Brit/European crowd may have more input on that felling cut, though it's not unknown here stateside.