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I should read a whole post before replying. I don't know why, but all the farmers in our area do the high back cut thing, and never use tag lines. They have more trees come over backward than you want to think about. What happens is,  since they don't have a lean, or a tag line, they cut the hinge through. Then a slight wind pushes the tree backwards, closes up that high, down ward wedge, and pushes the butt of the tree right off the front of the stump, into the ground, then it comes right back at them. Lots of farmers get killed that way.