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When you mess with leveraging forces that you don't fully understand, it can go wrong in a hurry. Think of that limb as a giant prybar pulling at the rigging. A 30' limb can generate many thousands of pounds of force on the rigging point. If you rig a limb to where the tie off point is 10' from...

It has little to do with 'balance point' and has everything to do with rope tension. By tying the piece off further away from the cut, it tensions the rope as the piece falls away from the rigging point. You still don't want to tie too close to the balance point because that will result in the...