Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[jyoutz]

Can't shred cactus. That just makes more of it. It's like potatoes. A little piece will grow a whole new plant. I've been fighting that battle for years, but I've made head way on most of the front. The brushy area is too thick to get the tractor in to dig them out or spray. And way too many Rattle snakes to go traipsing in there on foot.

To take out cactus, use Tordon. Put a sprayer in your loader bucket and use a dye. Drive around and direct spray the cactus with a wand. One pint of Tordon plus surfactant and dye in a 20 gallon tank. Your cactus will be dead in 2 months.

 

[jyoutz]

To take out cactus, use Tordon. Put a sprayer in your loader bucket and use a dye. Drive around and direct spray the cactus with a wand. One pint of Tordon plus surfactant and dye in a 20 gallon tank. Your cactus will be dead in 2 months.

There is also a new product named Surmount that is specifically formulated for cactus. The main ingredient is Tordon, but there is another herbicide incorporated to make it even more effective. Both Tordon and Surmount are restricted use chemicals, so you will have to take a class and test with your local cooperative extension service to get an applicator’s license for personal use in order to buy the product.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Did a little job today that really needed minimal brush cutting but I wanted to try the new drum mulcher, I believe my forestry mower does a better job in this small stuff than this mulcher.

 

[2manyrocks]

I've never really thought about this before, but I suppose that a drum mulcher wouldn't be a good choice for mowing what most of us mow with rotary cutters. IMO, teeth designed for mulching small trees shouldn't be expected to be as efficient at that job as a rotary cutter. I suppose that running the mulcher on light vegetation helps to break it in before trying it on a harder job?

 

[jyoutz]

I've never really thought about this before, but I suppose that a drum mulcher wouldn't be a good choice for mowing what most of us mow with rotary cutters. IMO, teeth designed for mulching small trees shouldn't be expected to be as efficient at that job as a rotary cutter. I suppose that running the mulcher on light vegetation helps to break it in before trying it on a harder job?

Drum masticators (mulchers) are typically used for forest thinning of small and medium diameter trees and brush. And it’s preferred to operate them to create chunks of wood and not chips, at least in the dryer western forests. The chips tend to cover the ground and suppress grass and other vegetation growth and smolders when burning so that a ground fire will cook tree roots and kill trees. The chunks leave bare ground and discontinuous fuels so the effects are more positive.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I've never really thought about this before, but I suppose that a drum mulcher wouldn't be a good choice for mowing what most of us mow with rotary cutters. IMO, teeth designed for mulching small trees shouldn't be expected to be as efficient at that job as a rotary cutter. I suppose that running the mulcher on light vegetation helps to break it in before trying it on a harder job?

It's the work that I had and I already had it hooked up so I figured I would test it on the light stuff, I'm still new to these so I'm in the testing/practice stage.

 

[Fixastuff]

Did a little job today that really needed minimal brush cutting but I wanted to try the new drum mulcher, I believe my forestry mower does a better job in this small stuff than this mulcher.View attachment 3171799View attachment 3171800

Looks good to me.

 

[EddieWalker]

I like how low to the ground you are able to get with it.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

Yesterday's job consisted of fertilizing some fields that I no tilled in rye back in December and some lower cow pastures of bahia that are coming out, one old gobbler had his hens gathered up and was putting on a show yesterday morning.

 

[EddieWalker]

We don't have any wild turkeys in my part of Texas, so I'm raising a few so we can hear them gobbling!!!