Ok, so I didn't cut this tree down with my own bare hands, but I DID watch somebody else do it, and then I cut off some branches from the bottom. Saw and everything. Real woods. Scotch. Snow. Barbed wire fences.
Q and A re: the tree
1. The tree is sparse - this tree was dying, ok? It's a touchy subject and we try not to bring it up;
2. The tree is not a "Christmas tree" - there were about five pine-y type trees in this forest, as far as I could tell. And they were like two stories high or something; and
3. Cutting this branch off a dying tree does not constitute "cutting down a tree with one's own bare hands" - fair.