I appreciate everybody's replies!
First off, I don't think there are trees that would reach the cabin if dropped, and if there are I am not touching them, not until I know what I am doing. I have no experience and I am not planning to start off with the one of dropping a tree on a house
She simply asked to cut down a few pines for them to use as firewood this winter, and the rest would be done later. I am itching to try the 026 so I may just drive out there to cut down two or three; there might be a lot of snow there now, so I may have to clean up the stumps in the spring. They have been burning leftover construction lumber for the last year and are running out, she said. So NO, I am not cutting down hazard trees!
I will definitely get PPE, chaps for a fact and maybe even a helmet. Not that much money compared to stitches and the cost of a hospital visit for my wife with a heart attack if I get a kickback or a limb falls on my head. My wife works in a safety office and she is determined to set me up right on this.
I will get wedges! I didn't even think about that. Ropes as well; secondary saw is on hand but I may get another bar as advised above, maybe an 18" sprocket nose since I have the 16" already?
I will get RS and RM chains, I will want to have those on hand in the future regardless of this particular undertaking. So I recon a visit to a dealer is in order, I am not seeing much mail order Stihl stuff anywhere. Perhaps I can look at the PPE at the same time. I have a round 7/32 and flat files, and they are coming with me for a field touch-up, but I guess I need other files from the dealer to work on RS chains? I will look that up on the web.
Is there a going preference against say Northern Tool helmets and chaps? Seem to be fairly inexpensive compared to Huskies I see at a nearby box store.