Cutting alders 1" to 2". What's best for my BCS: brush cutter or berta flail mower

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Re: Cutting alders 1" to 2". What's best for my BCS: brush cutter or berta flail mow

My Beast Brush mower with a 22HP engine and 36" cut width would do that nicely. I've taken down far larger than 1" with little trouble. As noted above, if it can bend them over to where the blades can get to them, they're gone. But also as noted above, they leave nasty Punji sticks that can pay nasty with feet and tires. I've come close to twisting an ankle more than once on those. And you DEFINITELY don't want to fall on one. They tend to rot off fairly quickly though since they're more shattered and battered than cut clean.

Good point about the Punji sticks. One reason I sold my brush hog when I traded up. The other was seeing a good sized rock split in two and flung about 40-50 ft...that would have left a mark under the right circumstances.