Chopping down is the easy part. Cutting up is hard.
When I was a kid in Portland, we had a big maple tree in the back yard. It survived the 1962 Columbus Day storm, but came down in a windstorm a few years later. Most people would have got a chainsaw to cut the thing up, but my dad went to some estate sale and got an 8-foot crosscut saw instead. My brothers and I (and any friends we could talk into helping) spent more than a few hours with saw and splitting tools turning that tree into firewood. Great firewood, though; we were still burning pieces of that tree years later.