What a good idea. Did you have to drill a hole for the pin?
Carl set up a gin pole sort of thing when he had a tree on a roof above an AC unit. I thought how good it would be to be able to make rigging point for some situations, such as a very long conifer limb over landscape plants. If the end of the limb can be secured, and the butt roped, it could mean being able to take that limb in one piece
I haven't needed it on the Boxer's grapple (yet), as the Gehl has enough lift for most situations. It was just a thought for your using the bags. I have a bag from Amazon...http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002WAHFTA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage...that I have used a couple of times, but even with the Gehl, it's a challenge, as I'm usually loading it on top of brush/rakings, and so it's hard to "empty" the bag without it all falling off the sides of the trailer.
This is the BMG for my Boxer. It's the newer version. The opening is ~2-1/2" square, and there are two 3/8"(ish) holes on the sides that could be used to pin an extension "jib" in place. The tube is 18" deep, so a 4' bar would extend 30" if bottomed out in the grapple tube.
Carl lashed a tube (3" I think) to the vertical grapple mast for the job you mentioned. Since the Boxer does not have parallel lift, inserting a bar in the horizontal tube should work fine.