Well, did some cutting on that lot I got permission to take firewood from about a week ago, but did not get over there till mid afternoon. Got some before pics, but the after will have to wait as it was dark by the time I was done.
The good news is the two Ash leaners I was most interested in were both still solid, so I'm going to harvest some good wood (in the pic, they are both leaning to the rt). Both trees have been cut to length.
With both of them, I started cutting the trunk out from under them, but they were both hung up in the same dead Elm tree, so when I got close I hooked my Maasden rope come along to them and pulled them down. Glad I did it that way. I cut the larger tree first, and I had to pull it a lot to get it to drop, then I did the smaller tree. When I pulled on that one, one of the large branches from the Elm broke off and came down with it. It cracked like crazy, but I'm not sure if I would have heard it running my saw, but either which way I'm glad I was further away from it when it happened. It really came crashing down!
You can see the Elm in the first pic, but it is blocked in the second pic, and the larger Ash is leaning more (about 45 degrees). They were not giants, but long trunks and good firewood!
I hope to get back there tomorrow and will take some more pics if I do.