No chunks so my half hitch theory remains untested.
Target is about 40’ below the standing fir below log. Terrain is much steeper than it looks in pics.
Also installed a pull rope to help keep it from breaking off into its lean and pull it at a quartering angle off the lay. Then cut, wedge,pull, etc. and a butt tie with some slack
Tracked chipper is on my wish list. I would add on the scooping technique I have the grapples closed until properly lined up and then when I open them they lock against the bottom of the bmg
I have power rotation so I just turn it until it’s inline with the machine and then tip the boom back and down, if we’ve dropped a conifer and cut off all the limbs I can drive alongside the log and scoop up a big mouthful of limbs faster than I can pick them up one at a time and create a pile...
There was another tree growing up tight in front of it that made the high stump necessary, it was tangled up in the crown of the big tree and I couldn’t cut it first , had to go above the “Union”.