How am I going to answer this without writing a book on here.
You never know who is looking at these message boards. Wether they are like me and go try every thing they see, how broke their horse is,etc,etc. I wasn't tieing off like that on those little heifers....just the first one for pictures. That horse and I have worked together like that for 11 years now. I wasn't even tieing off. I do tie off like that on bigger, wilder stuff. Sometimes 3 half hitches. See, in that move, their front legs became free. It is just around their neck and around their back legs. You have to get them to go down. When you get off and are on the ground, they can easily get up. Sometimes they really get to jumping and thrashing and making the rope bounce. I don't want any slack getting in the rope or they can easily step out and there you are with something just roped around the neck and might be mad. I want it to hold tight. Tieing off like that has always held for me.
100 different ways to do stuff. Everybody has their own way.
Brahmas are very very bad about laying down in the chute. If I don't brand them as babies, I like to brand them that way in the pictures. Works great! My brahmas don't like strangers, so I can do it by myself....nice, easy and quietly. Adults get branded in a chute at the vet. I don't have a chute.