Hey, piranha tooth bar people!

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GeneV

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Yes, I know, the piranha tooth bar is the cat's meow per all accounts. I need some input regarding a particular application, clearing tall thick grass and cattails, how's it with that? Specifically, does it cut through that stuff or just grab it and pull it out by the root?

I have a ratchet rake which is great for pulling everything out by the roots, but am looking for more or less knocking that stuff down without necessarily yanking it all out. I have a bunch of wetland I wanna plant trees in next spring, but don't wanna leave everything bare around them, and then having to reseed and so forth.
 
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The cattails will probably cut off okay but the grass not so much, unless it is fairly stiff, otherwise it most likely will just push over. I do love my piranha .
 
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Kinda all 3, cut,rip and pull when I did the 32foot x 45foot area I still needed to go over it with my teeth on the box blade to rip ot roots that were left behind.
Before.
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After.
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Cleanup with box blade teeth.
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Couple more.
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   / Hey, piranha tooth bar people!
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Hey Jim, yeh I seen you post that before. That second pic looks promising for my purposes.

Here's what I'm gonna be dealing with:

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I knocked all this down last time with a walk-behind brush hog I rented. You can't see it, but around 8 ft into that jungle is a wire fence I put up, that's also when I planted the trees in there.
 
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The cattails will probably cut off okay but the grass not so much, unless it is fairly stiff, otherwise it most likely will just push over. I do love my piranha .

That be cool by me, actually. I could mow through the grass with a few passes after that.
 
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Different applications, different results, I guess. My Piranha doesn't cut anything. It just pushes it. Sometimes that rips bushes out by the roots, sometimes it just pushes them over.

If I want to clear to bare earth, it is great. But it doesn't act like a lawn mower in any way. For me.
 
 

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