Tree fall

No, I spelt it right. Tried to fell a 16m birch into the forest to the side of the house. The tree was coming out as it was already too big to manage and its roots were in a drainage ditch. I'd jokingly wanted it gone for a few years as it blocks the morning sun on the PV panels.
Climbed it, took out the branches that made it lean towards the gates, cut the wedge, and whilst cutting the fell cut towards the hinge it fell towards the gates. I'd opened the gates just in case, but one took a hit and it's bent a bit.  Needs a bit of welding and hitting.
The biggest casualty is the friend's pride who was guiding me!
Still, we chopped and cleared and swept the drive in double quick time.
It's around 2m3 of wood. About 2L of petrol and 10 hours of labour. And it still needs to be moved 60m, stored and split. It's an average timber for burning. Each round is 25cm long and weights about 30kg, and I've got 30 odd pieces, plus branches. All the tiny bits went in the trailer to the tip for turning into compost (another 2 hours work).
I could have had 2m3 of oak delivered for ~110€ in 50cm lengths.
In the second photo the last tree on the right has now gone (23/3) Taken down branch by branch. It was a willow, so too risky to climb that high. A 14m tree, and the highest branches came down on  a rope, the worst being pretty vertical and ~6m long. The top had moved about 1.5m from the stump.
We left a 3m stump to encourage it to sprout.

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After