sounds like a long day
how did you wedge the tree up so you could get that cutoff under to hold it up? or was the cutoff part of another tree and the cut one was a leaner?
as an East Coast guy, the trees out that way (oregon) blew my mind
even the Forest Service asked how we go that log under the tree. we never even thought about it, but it wasn't that difficult even though that short 12 ft piece weighs about 7K.
here is the tree before we cut it
you can see it is much lower to the ground. since it was blown over, the root ball is still at the bottom and attached to the ground
when we made the first cut, the top end dropped and the lower end rose up
then made the second cut in the upper section, put a block under it so we could get a choker around to to move once cut
pulled on it with the truck and it spun 90 degrees.
since the road slopes to the left, we just cleared it and the two of us rolled it to the down hill side.
it stopped under the lower section and we moved on as the goal was to get the road passable, not fully cleared shoulder to shoulder.
there are 1000s of trees just like this that came down all the same day.
I got the wind speed records for that date from a local remote weather station just north of this area
95 mph average with gust up to 123mph