Walking it down can be done with vertical slice cuts.
It can be done with a face-cut, and back-cut, podsibly stabilized with wedges, and pulled by rope remotely to trip, or pushed from a remote spot with a pusher stick.
You don't need to be at the butt when it moves.
Two oppossed...
@Altissimus
Have you considered a hook or ground- based 'belay' with your tail (maybe better on SRT without MA, but i don't think the DdRT shouldn't move much if your swing is arrested.
A groundie can also pull your tail towards the branch tip.
And a swing into a stub can break a rib that could puncture a lung.
A sharp stub could puncture a body.
I clean stubs before limbwalking swinging from one tree to another tree for sure.
I fold trees now and then at head high and ground level...a good trick in some situations where a hung- up tree is unavoidable.
Keeps the angle of the lodged trunk flatter.
Haven't folded one up high, yet.
This is a good idea, which I used recently.
Test your breakaway set-up with several break-tests to dial in your zip-tie needs or other means of breakaway.
A ground-worker can 'belay' your SRT tail to prevent you from hitting the anchor tree. Easy work, sitting in a chair in the safe area.
If you fall and pendulum 30' and hit the tree, it's said to be like falling 30' and hitting a tree (well actually, it's from rock climbing).
Out of your pay grade and out of your lane.
Would you dismantle trees that size if stability was no issue?
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