Front-End Loader Best tooth bar for clearing land with a SCUT

jKlaus · Feb 11, 2015

So.. I just purchased a '15 JD 1025R TLB and am trying to determine which tooth bar I should purchase given my application. I have probably 1.5 acres of overgrown / not maintained woods. At one point it had all been clear cut and wasn't properly thinned as it grew back up. To make matters worse at some point someone introduced an extremely invasive bamboo species. All this said.. I need something to help me clear out lots of bamboo, virginia creeper, and pines varying in size. I have no issues cutting the pines out via chainsaw (I don't expect full sized tractor performance out of a SCUT).

The two bars I am currently considering are:
North American Implements - Tooth Bar - NAI
Bxpanded - BXpanded Piranha Tooth Bar

It seems like Bxpanded's bar may do better at cutting bamboo; but NAI's seems like it'd do better at pulling/racking vining plant life. I have yet to request a quote from NAI but if anyone has any idea what we'd be looking at there I'd be interested to know. Also if anyone has had positive experience with another manufacturer please feel free to throw their name in the hat as well.

Thanks!

newbury · Feb 11, 2015

I've a half acre that was mostly covered by 30 years of growth. Bamboo, vines, saplings, etc. the two tools that helped me most was the Piranha and clamp on pallet forks. With the Piranha bar I could "cut" just below most of the stuff and the pallet forks helped piling it up, sort of like a poor man's grapple.

I wasn't really able to cut the bamboo much with the Piranha but it worked great for the softer stuff.

jKlaus · Feb 11, 2015

newbury.. good to know what I should be expecting out of the PTB going into it. I have also stumbled across a set of debris forks. Clamp on Debris Fork, 48 In. Bucket | Agri Supply, 87636
Any thoughts?

jKlaus · Feb 11, 2015

newbury.. good to know what I should be expecting out of the PTB going into it. I have also stumbled across a set of debris forks. Clamp on Debris Fork, 48 In. Bucket | Agri Supply, 87636
Any thoughts?

jeff9366 · Feb 11, 2015

Consider a Field Cultivator for bamboo and Virginia Creeper.

Fred Cain Tractor 5 Shank 3 Point Field Cultivator, Ripper, Tillage Tool, Jitterbug, Field plow, Bermuda grass plow

Tractor Seabee · Feb 11, 2015

I made my own tooth bar using some pretty aggressive teeth for my BX 25. That made a real digger out of it. Takes some welding skills to do that though. For handling the junk and piling up to burn or chip I use 4 clamp on forks for the FEL. works a lot better than 2.

Ron

ddd75 · Feb 12, 2015

for that small size i'd just hire a guy to clear it out. i had a guy come out with a bobcat that had some attachments for clearing stuff just like that.. he'd clear through that stuff in no time.