Cottonwood Removed (soft ringing sling ) / San Diego CA

Populus deltoides, the eastern cottonwood or necklace poplar, is a cottonwood poplar native to North America, growing throughout the eastern, central, and southwestern United States as well as the southern Canadian prairies, the southernmost part of eastern Canada, and northeastern Mexico.

[paulchaney]

Why could't you just have flopped it over into the street? What was in the way to prevent from doing that? It seems like all that nice, careful rigging was just to take up time, or for show.