Last Tree of the Season

It's always a bit nerve-wracking to cut down some of the trees around our place.  Some of them are very tall and some are close enough to the house that if things didn't go just right... well, you get the picture.

The other day I felled the last one for this season, a 90-100 ft fir with a slightly worrisome lean.  I always use some ropes to put some tension on the tree in the right direction.  Once those are in place, it's really just the work of a few minutes with the chainsaw and the wedges and it's over.  This one came down in exactly the right place.  It will become firewood for some future winter but it won't need to be cut up or split until next spring.