Nice story, Bob.
It must have been about ten-twelve years ago that crazy priest asked me to remove a Zelkova to make way for the temple rebuilding. I went over there without my pulling or climbing gear, as usual he is always giving me inadequate information and the work has to be done right now. The tree was fairly straight, but had a long horizontal heavy limb opposite the lay. As it turned out, one of the temple members that owns a construction company was there and so was his backhoe, a pretty large one. Instead of going back to the shop to get what I needed, the guy says he will push it with his hoe. He starts pushing it with the SIDE of the bucket, and being a stubborn sob, wouldn't listen to any reasoning to the contrary. The tree slipped off the side of the bucket and went backwards and smashed the edge of the existing temple's roof, totally wrecked it. Had the temple not been scheduled to be demolished to make way for the new one, it would have cost a fortune to repair. Still, I felt like a clod. I further learned that using the side of a bucket is an omen for disaster, but I already knew it.