I'm back home. I got started on the tree, but I saw ice forming on the truck, and figured it was a good time to get out of dodge. I didn't want to play the slip and slide game getting home. Worked from the tip up, got to head level, and it wasn't really moving. Instead of playing games with a tangle of branches, and maybe dropping it on myself, I got the maasdam out to pull it out of the tree. I had that thing almost maxed out pulling that SOB over. The branches were stronger than I expected. Everything's stable, and I can finish at my leisure now.
Felt like I was in the PNW. Cutting spruce and getting dumped on with rain :^D Might be able to salvage the base of the tree, at least for a little while. One branch wants to be a leader, but has a bad anchor. I'll cut that off, tidy up the top, and see what it does.