How would you suggest to clear this?

jerrybob · Feb 25, 2016

I have cleared acres of blackberry brush with a Piranha toothbar........well made product.......they will custom make one for your bucket. I never take mine off. Definitely a backhoe for the stumps.

BXpanded Piranha Tooth Bar

joefromga · Feb 25, 2016

Also have your hand on the pto control in case you get stalled.

deltatango · Feb 25, 2016

jerrybob said:
I have cleared acres of blackberry brush with a Piranha toothbar........well made product.......they will custom make one for your bucket. I never take mine off. Definitely a backhoe for the stumps.

BXpanded Piranha Tooth Bar

Look what arrived today. ..

airbiscuit · Feb 25, 2016

I cut 8' tall brush with a 15hp grey market Shibara and a 4' Kingkutter rotary cutter. I cut anything over 1 1/2" with a chainsaw and let the brushmower do the rest.

jerrybob · Feb 25, 2016

deltatango said:
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Look what arrived today. ..

You will enjoy that bar........well made......I even do some light digging with it. Good luck!!!!!!

2ndhalf · Feb 25, 2016

deltatango said:
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I have lots of dense shrub between trees that I would like to clear to bare earth. It doesn't look like much now, but in the summer it's so dense you can't see through it.

Can a bush hog handle 1"-2" scrub brush? I've been using the bucket to dig/pry out what I can. It's working but seems like I'm making slow progress.

I've already bought a toothbar to help with the tear out, are there any other attachments I should buy?

If you get a Heavy duty bush hog yes, you can take out up to 2" scrub brush... they are not all made the same though.

deltatango · Feb 25, 2016

2ndhalf said:
If you get a Heavy duty bush hog yes, you can take out up to 2" scrub brush... they are not all made the same though.

Yeah, it's looking like I am going to have to pay to play. The KK I've found locally is an xb line. I've heard that that's the cheap light weight model. Guess I'll have to keep searching.

xring100 · Feb 25, 2016

I've cleared a a lot of brush 2-3" diameter with my medium duty Bush Hog BH27 Which has a 3" rated cut. the side skirts are 1/4" plate. I've mowed over 4-5" stuff accidentally it usually just skims pieces off. No dents or irregularities in the deck.

Most of the used KK I've seen used look like they were used to clear mine fields. Maybee they do make some heavy duty models but the ones I've seen look like they should be relegated for field grass only.

There are some medium/ heavy duty 4 and 5 ft cutters. I'd look at land pride, woods, bush hog, JD I'm sure there are others

Some other pointers:
Make sure you have a good skid plate setup to protect hydraulics and filters.

Also the last thing you want to do is push over a tree and then have to back up without shredding the tree. Even with a skid plate, the limbs find themselves in bad spots.