Cool Randy and just trying to help. Glad you did not take offense, because you are doing good work. I guess maybe more slack in the line, and you would not have to put rope lower for the top. Next time give it more slack, and you will have more room between you and the swinging top. Yeah it is hard, and I am spoiled that way to have help. Maybe you can team up with somebody in the near future, and learn each other a little sure helps having a partner. If you get a porta wrap, and have a ground guy, you can let the rope run-slack and then the top will clear you by plenty, and then lower it as well. My card reader is down, but I have some cool pics from today. We took those two oaks down, and the uprooted one that was leaning against the other tree, we decided if we cut underneath to drop it down would not have been good, because it was limb locked on one side, and was going to roll. So I put a call in to Jeanies's dad that's my future father in law. He lives ten minutes from the job, he brought his truck and winch we put a block in a tree across the pond, and ran the bull rope over to the winch line, and pull it over backwards, away from the house, and everything else.