3pt attachment for tumbleweeds

[Catman8]

Does someone make a 3pt attachments to grind up tumbleweeds or bulky brush, most wood chippers do not have a large enough opening for bulky brush, what I was thinking is an attachment that is shaped like a big funnel say five feet in diameter in an upright position that was self feeding, that you could throw bulky brush into and it would shred it up. Anything like that out there.

 

[leonz]

If the tumble weeds have not taken up permanent resident status and started raising families, renting a diesel chipper with hydraulic drive feed roller may be the only way to manage this as tub grinders for wood biomass are a towed trailer/huge diesel powered item.

A PTO powered feed grinder would work but you would have to buy a used one somewhere and good used ones are not cheap.

Saying that:

A used flail chopper would work and perhaps a you and a number of neighbors could invest in a used one to share to ride herd on the tumble weeds.

You need to have enough power to run the flail chopper though so keep that in mind. and running over them and crushing them first would speed things along as you could simply pull the flail chopper up to the pile and pull the
flail chopper into it and just flail away.

You could use a heavy row crop mule to use to crush them first and shred them up using a flail shredder/flail mower.

 

[BrokeFarmerJohn]

A water hose, some gas and a match works nicely and is very cheap, burn them up and hose it all down really well after your done so there's no chance forest fires. I'm out east and have never personally seen a tumbleweed lol likely like you have never seen snow.