Don't listen to these armchair heros.
Eucs are godly trees who fall exactly where you want, providing you ask nicely.
Simply bend a knee and say, "please fall just where I say you will almighty arboreal God" and Shazam! The tree will land just where you tell the unsuspecting client it will.
Or on the other hand, maybe you should go to school, listen to your experienced peers, work with an decent crew for a year or even, God forbid, read a farking book!
To my treebrothers I say "excuse my outburst". To the FTA's I say "Read the post again newblah!".
I agree, freindly falling if you know what you are doing.
Jeff