Like several other posters above I used a 3/8" grade 70 chain (my go to chain) for removing a bunch of (formerly) low growing dead shrubbery that the deer had finished off this past winter. I just wrapped it twice around the biggest piece of the plant and looped the chain through by bucket hook. No issues.
PS after I got my toothbar I went to plan B. 1000 times easier n faster.