Years ago, late 70's I think, in one of the world oil crisis's, me and a few friends decided to start heating our homes with wood. In Utah there isn't an abundance of wood like some places. This is a desert. But a farmer friend had a huge cottonwood out in the middle of a hay field that he said we could cut down with one condition. We had to cut it off at ground level so he could mow over it. We knew a guy that worked for a tree service and he showed up with the longest chainsaw I've ever seen. I think it was a 6-7' bar. We got this tree all limbed down to a stump that was about 10' tall and about 6' thick at the base and then started cutting the stump off at the ground with the big saw. The saw started to bind when we were about 2/3 of the way through it. The stump weighed tons I'm sure and the soft green wood just compressed when we tried to hammer wedges in. So we hooked a chain around the top of the stump and tried to rock it back by pulling on it with a 4 wheel drive pickup. This was spring and the field was wet so we then managed to get the truck stuck and had to get a tractor to pull out the truck but still couldn't get the saw out of the tree. We ended up taking the bar off the saw and we had to all chip in and buy a new bar and chain for the tree service. It was expensive too! And that stump stood there for years with a new tree growing out of the side of it eventually and that bar and chain still in the cut. About 10 years ago the hay field became a subdivision full of new houses. I wished I could have been there when they ripped that big stump out of the ground just to laugh at how stupid we had been and to maybe try one more shot at cutting up some of that incredible cottonwood that would have been in that stump.