As someone who has cut down dead trees, what was his plan? "This way, it can fall in any direction and it'll go fine" ?! So much extra work too, and with an axe! I'm not surprised at all it finally fell the way it did.
If other comments don’t get you sorted, Scrounger does it nicely. (if you trust some random site/ have no sensitive bookmarks; other options exist if not.)
✅ I'm in this picture and i don't like it.