Dangerous Tree

We had a big cotton wood tree next to our garage that was getting way too tall. It was not a strong heavy tree and had short roots. Everyone began to worry that it would fall on our house with one of these big winds we get here. Our landlord came with his homemade bucket and got up there and cut off many branches first. Then he cut off the first half of a "V " section at the top. It felt into the neighbors yard but didn't do any damage. Then they hooked some sort of cable and chain to the rest of it and just pulled it over. What was left was cut lower to the ground and then he had someone grind the stump right down below ground level. We are relieved to be rid of the tree. It gave no shade and started gobs of little cottonwood trees everywhere. We had more little trees in the flower bed than flowers and were always pulling them out.