Worked out better than when I watched a neighbor try to take down a tree not nearly that big. He had his boys wit a rope, told them to pull as he cut so it would fall in the yard. Of course they just stood there and the tree went the opposite direction, took out the power, phone and cable lines as well as the front of the porch. Not sure tugging a rope would have made a difference but his attempt to save a couple hundred bucks cost a couple thousand.