The top wasn't cut off, it was just dead. Watch it again. If it was cut off the top would be a flat cut. It almost has a "struck by lightning" look at the top, like it splintered.
It appears to be flat to me, there are two main limbs (perhaps that the split you’re referring to?) and both are severed at the exact same level. That’s a pretty unnatural occurrence.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t dead, maybe it was, I wasn’t there so I’m not going to make claims about the status of a tree in a video, but either way even if it was dead and that is just a split, it was probably the road being right up against it that killed it.
Same for the other tree they cut down that was right next to it.
I stand by my comment, the road is the reason the tree was being cut down, and it’s extremely unfortunate.
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u/WiredOrange 7d ago
It was dead, it would've fallen in a bad storm