That doesn't look like an "extremely dangerous tree" to me. In fact, it looks like a healthy tree.

I had one taken down in my yard many years ago. It was a 30 plus year old flowering cottonwood tree. They had to bring in a cherry pickere to reach high enough to start cutting it down. It was fascinating to watch those men climb like monkeys up the tree and cut off branches. The tree was between our carport and the neighbor's house. One glitch and that tree could have damaged the neighbor's house or our carport.

I think that saw was a little small for the job. I saw a stihl last week with a 6 ft bar

I had two trees taken out last year. Roots were threatening to break the house foundation. A job for pros, with those trees--75-foot liquidambars about 15 feet from the house. Not cheap, but done properly and I had no cleanup to take care of.

As to the tree in the Facebook video--that was barely a tree at all--if it's even past being a sapling.  A job I would have done myself when I ws 30-40 years younger.  I would have felled it and cut it up on the ground. 

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Originally posted by Owen

This https://www.facebook.com/reel/3235666369977677 showing the removal of an extremely dangerous tree reminds me of the town crew  removing a tree on the boulevard out front of our place a few years ago. 

In fairness my/their tree was a fair bit bigger, but from what I saw there was more than enough "overkill" to go around.... though thankfully everybody was kept "safe."  

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Now that's funny .........good one Owen.  Thank goodness no one was hurt!

i got 2 in the front that need trimming in the worst way.
         last quote i got was 2000 for both,, i just smiled and looked at him and said

"ok let me think about it."

Geez Terry, I think I might be your man .... too bad we aren't closer. 

Here's one I "trimmed" this spring* [was off line with the others, too close to the shop, dropping too many berries onto neighbour's yard, etc.].  Oddly**enough, we had an arborist assess a couple in the front yard, and to kill two birds with one stone, my lovely and talented assistant asked about some other apple and ornamental crab in the back yard that I had pruned last fall .... he said I'd done a ... (insert drum roll here) ... very competent job (insert fist pump here).

* will dig around it and remove it if/when the urge gets too much to bear.

** odd in that I have no training [not even internet how-to's] and just lopped "some" off the top and thinned out some of the inner branches.  [We'd already decided that it'd be "no big loss" as other smaller varieties would better suit the space.]

thats nice owen but ours are about 8 times that thick and 60 feet high and 50 feet wide ..... and 78,556,832 little willow oak leaves on them........

but hey ya never know !