Jason - that grapple reaches out about 24 ft.?
I've been dreaming grapples - ones that can do the job of a crane and also have a cut-off (similar to a harvester) bar option. I'm heavy on man-done removals for the pricing options offered to most people, but I am getting old fast. On the other hand if I don't climb, I age faster. I predict another three years max, doctors told me ten years past.
Extended reach, plenty of weight to counter, grab...cut...pull out and away, bring her down and stuff it in the shoot. Like ice skating only more care to keep the little breaks from destroying a $55,000 standing seam copper roof.
That would be a first try of something no one else is doing in the Hill country. Screw the helicopters and cranes, three years' post death give few alternatives.
Nitro glycerine works, as does Herculite...but those are for recreational felling out away from the homes.