Let me start with the 'repetitive disclaimer'. It goes like this:

I am not suggesting
you do it this way;
I'm simply sharing with you how I do it.

Many of the methods I use are not 'mainstream', though I choose the methods because they are faster, more efficient or just better-suited to working alone. I'm also not suggesting you work alone. There are times when I have a day helper, and there are times when I contract climb and have another tree company's ground crew below me. The fact is, my methods don't change a whole lot even if I have guys on the ground.

Now, I'm not truly all that different. Other than doing all the lowering myself from up in the tree, and how I control friction for descending the rope, much of the rest is basically mainstream as anyone else. Other differences are finer nuances in technique, little things that we will all find as uniquely our own. How I control friction (no friction hitches) is probably the biggest difference.

Lowering limbs from up in the tree, there's a lot of guys who do that, though mainstreamly speaking, usually the guys on the ground do the lowering of material. Unless we are lowering really big limbs (more than twice my weight) it is almost always more swift, efficient and secure if I do it myself.

Here is the definitive thread, titled Friction devices aloft...