Luke, when you say climb, do you have appropriate climbing gear? I only ask because I don't know what your skill level or level of experience is. I do this as a second profession and I can tell you from experience, climbing and felling can be extremely dangerous. As can work from a lift or bucket truck. Trees harness and enormous amount of potential energy and typically when we fudge something, we're on the losing end.
Also, as far as climbing gear goes, id say I have somewhere in the ballpark of close to 2k dollars tied up in climbing gear, not counting my saw, just the shit to get me in a tree.
Depending on how many trees need to come down, you may want to look into hiring a professional, it will likely be cheaper than you buying climbing gear and a saw. Also, you could buy a bigger saw and look at what a tree company would charge to put the tree on the ground for you and then you could handle processing and disposal. My price to just put a tree on the ground is substantially lower than doing the whole job in most cases. I typically spend as much or more time on cleanup than I do on actually making the mess.
If you have a Stihl dealer close by, an MS193T is a good in tree saw.
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