I'm located in the SE Michigan area, used to be in West Michigan.
Most of my experience sawing was cutting for firewood for us and for profit so we didn't perform massive tasks and we rarely felled massive trees as they were a nightmare to then get back out as we didn't have a skidder or anything like that, just trailers, saws, and beat-up old trucks. This was mostly in my younger days as we went to gas heating and wood pellet stove sometime around when I turned into a teenager. N
Never seen a barber chair or anything really crazy, we would just notch and back cut and things pretty much went as planned. We never did anything too technical. If we could we would try and top a tree first or have it topped if it was near buildings. I'm sure we did our fair share of stupid things looking back, which is how I ended up in this thread.
I have a preference to stay away from motorized tools at the moment as manual labor is stress relieving for me and I have a very sedentary office/lab job.
Edit to add, I appreciate the input and information from everyone. It's one reason I enjoy bladeforums. There's usually someone willing to answer a question and even more willing to give you far more information than you asked for to teach you thinks you didn't even know you should know.