Well, I went from 12 acres of hardwoods to an acre of yard with a few fruit trees so it's overkill here as well.
Story time...
Was commuting out of DC one afternoon and just about to exit the G.W. parkway and a dead tree falls across the off-ramp. One car clipped but amazingly everyone got stopped. That road is like Talladega during rush hour.
Get out of the truck and go up to see what's what... Bunch of people milling around. I'm pissed because I had just cleaned out the truck so no tools.
So the Sergeant comes out of me and start getting organized.. Get folks to start breaking off the smaller branches and call the DOT. One person declares that we should not do anything and sit in our cars until the proper authorities show up...
LoL
I pointed back up the Parkway where it was a wall of stopped cars without a shoulder.
Start asking if anyone has a saw. One dude runs back to his car and comes back with a little drywall hole saw. Good enough ... start going at the tree getting about 50% through the trunk and manage to break it and pitch it off the road.
Back in business.
OK..Chainsaw sparked that memory neuron