I've done a bit of this recently, ratchet strapped an aluminum ext. ladder, (no powerlines nearby) to the tree up as high as made sense, used a cable choker, clevis, short piece of chain, then my longer lengths of chain, putting my tractor well out of the trees path.
This is dangerous work, these trees leaned back towards the backyards in the photos, tractor was facing down a slope and heavily ballasted, loaded tires, big hunk of cast iron on the 3pt, and a loader. I tested each one with a few tugs, one came right over, roots and all, even got the stump out, others, I carefully tensioned just enough to make em fall opposite the lean. I figure you have to use care, too much tension, dangerous to cut, not enough, she goes in the wrong direction or who knows what, though while they're upright, seems easy enough to influence em to fall on target, but with cutting trees, can't leave anything to chance.
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