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A spring board is a rarely used item, but good to have when the occasion calls, sorta like 4wd. Once, when it was wet and I had no caulk/ cork/ spike-bottom boots, I took a log leaned against a double-trunk cottonwood, after cutting the first as high as I could from the ground. I cut 4 steps...

Bedrooms have about a 30% occupancy rate, timewise, plus people are generally asleep, so they won't hear some preliminary cracking, if present, or know of ice loading up , if the ice loading starts once they are asleep. I make this point to people when doing evaluations of trees. A good...

Dropping the top off a tree first can reduce the effect of the top pushing on the stem. At the least, you can leave some branches below as energy dampeners.

You have to cut fast to get them to drop before they tip out too much. A sharp 200t comes in to play here. Watch for overhanging branches from swiping you on the way down. Some compromise between getting them to drop in the position you're in, versus letting them tip some. When you're cutting...

Ash dying from EAB, go larger. That treebuzz thread http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/tie-in-fail.31354/ sounds like a poor routing of the rope, with a poor/ As high as possible TIP, with decay, compounded into a fail.