Tree Felling with Rope?

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I am a newbie to falling, but I have always used a standard come along with a wire cable and attach that to the rope in the tree. Is a rope puller somehow better of safer than my come along with wire cable method? Thanks
with Maasdam kit came with 300 ft of 3 strand rope
 
I did a tree job a few years ago using the Maasdam pow'r puller for a tree that not only was leaning towards the building but, not only was I afraid that the tree was hollow from a crack (turns out it was) but the gas meter was on the same side of the building that the tree was nearby.
 
so I put a ratchet strap around the tree to keep it from splitting then I chained the butt end of log to a tree, so it would stop log from going down the bank and hitting gas meter. put face cut in the direction I wanted to fell it, bore cut, set wedges back cut, then pulled it over😀
 
so I put a ratchet strap around the tree to keep it from splitting then I chained the butt end of log to a tree, so it would stop log from going down the bank and hitting gas meter. put face cut in the direction I wanted to fell it, bore cut, set wedges back cut, then pulled it over😀
Nice placement of offset block. Rather dynamic drop, all things considered.
I've chained a few hollow trees and used wedges to tighten the slack.

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