The poor sap. Even if he knew how to fell a tree properly he probably would have failed miserably. A diameter of 36", in an urban area and you gonna need a team and a cherry picker and lots of rope to do the job right.
But to be fair to the maroon, if he had waited to assemble a team, rent the equipment and make a plan he wouldn’t have been angry anymore. Then felling the tree would have been meaningless for him.
So it’s probably better the way it went down.
