There is this privet tree I wanted to cut down that keeps growing over the roof of my house and my neighbor's house. I don't know how a privet bush becomes a tree. I guess it takes 20 years or so. If I see privet on my property I immediately chop it down, but some previous owners were obviously slack in doing this.

I made a gap about halfway through with the chainsaw then the chain got stuck in the gap. I took an axe and chopped the rest of the tree down. Since I was doing this alone, the tree fell where it wanted to, which was in between the two houses. Fortunately no windows were broken or other damage. This freed the chainsaw.

It is obvious I know very little about how to chop down a tree.

Then I cut the tree into pieces with the chainsaw and put it out to the curb for garbage pickup. GEEZ. This was a JOB and a HALF.

(And you may want to be scared of me. When I was chopping the tree with the axe, I thought it was fun and a great way to blow off some stress. I got a little overzealous with my chops and flung the axe off the handle. Chop chop!!!)