Not really Drew. Unless you count hiring a lumber jack as me felling the tree. 

A four-foot diameter hemlock died and remained precariously hovering 150 feet over our house. Western hemlocks have little rot resistance and thereby fall within a few years of dying.

I’ve cut many trees in my lifetime and know that occasionally one falls differently than you had planned.  In my thirties, I climbed and tied trees off so they could be pulled in the desirable direction. Even so, several defied expectation. This tree needed to be taken down in sections lest it land on our house.  Even on this day, a tied off dead maple, managed to confound the experts by going the opposite  direction as intended.

Wisdom includes knowing and acknowledging your limitations. Plus watching the expert take that huge hemlock down in sections was interesting.

Drew