Can my tractor haul a large rotary cutter?

[sandman2234]

Most of the cutting will be through thickets and bushes. A real assortment of kinds. I知 planning on going real slow and even backing up to some if I have too. I h am not in any rush. This is an area I am clearing to build some houses, so I am only planing on cutting it once.

Be careful backing into some brush. What you don't or can't see is what will make a mess out of your brush hog or the lift arms on your tractor. Tractors are made to pull things, not push them in reverse. We get away with it alot, doing things like mowing or pushing snow, but backing into thick brush that you really can't see into can go downhill in a hurry. An immovable object covered by leaves with you in reverse can fold your lift arms faster than you can hit the clutch.
Bush hogs should be able to cut most any vegetation that your tractor can drive across is the rule I always heard (at varying to a very slow speed!) I would suggest a good front bumper and maybe adding a pan under the tractor, depending on just how much of the brush you are going cut. Limbs from brush and briars , as they go under the front axle tend to reek havoc on paint and tractor parts. That is one reason they build side-winder mowers, lol.
David from jax

 

[RickB]

Be careful backing into some brush. What you don't or can't see is what will make a mess out of your brush hog or the lift arms on your tractor. Tractors are made to pull things, not push them in reverse. We get away with it alot, doing things like mowing or pushing snow, but backing into thick brush that you really can't see into can go downhill in a hurry. An immovable object covered by leaves with you in reverse can fold your lift arms faster than you can hit the clutch.
Bush hogs should be able to cut most any vegetation that your tractor can drive across is the rule I always heard (at varying to a very slow speed!) I would suggest a good front bumper and maybe adding a pan under the tractor, depending on just how much of the brush you are going cut. Limbs from brush and briars , as they go under the front axle tend to reek havoc on paint and tractor parts. That is one reason they build side-winder mowers, lol.
David from jax

AND a high percentage of underbody damage is done when operators stop and back up with long, attached brush folded under the tractor. It's ok to drive over stuff. just keep going until it is all cut up.