[GaryCrow]

Whoever cut it down knew to notch it to control it's direction of fall and the back cut was pretty straight. I grew up in rural Mississippi, have a bunch of timberland, and have been running a chainsaw all my life. I couldn't have done a better job than that & that's not a small tree.

It's highly unlikely that was done by a 16 year old at night with somebody holding a flashlight. Most English kids have never seen a chainsaw, much less would they be able to fell a large tree like that. Dropping a good sized tree like that is not that easy to do correctly.

[BlackVeil]

Good details, and thanks for your post. The tree was also marked all around with white paint, at the cut line, as they do when planning a tree removal, and there is no reason for a teenage vandal to do that.

This event is a humdinger! Inexplicable.

[Jolla]

I couldn’t have done a better job than that & that’s not a small tree

That was my thought upon seeing the photo, it was a pro that cut it, and not with a small chainsaw.