South East Cornwall Low Energy build

I am curious to know why you went up a ladder and cut the branches off, a dangerous operation?

 

When I felled my trees, I just felled the tree whole, and then cut it up on the ground.  It looks like you had room to do that.

its better to leave 5' of trunk, it makes pushing them over and getting the roots out that much easier. If you wanted the stump out that is.

@ProDave - the branches of one tree were close to the overhead electrical cable in the picture, so I wanted to remove them in small pieces using a handheld saw. The ladder was tied to the tree and pegged to the ground to minimise the risks.

Felling the other tree as a whole had the potential to take out two others at the same time. If I'd had the opportunity, it would have come down as you suggest.

@Dave Jones - As you can in the pictures, a good 18" of trunk was left and my ground worker dug them out and has taken them away