What attachments should you use on a tractor to clear land.

[Reddogs]

I run my stump grinder on a gear drive tractor with creep gears, I've ground a lot of stumps with that combo and it works just fine.

I ground 32 stumps in one day, and made back half of what I paid for my grinder...

SR

Good deal.. I will look at the stump grinders and see what I find..

 

[jyoutz]

Also the most expensive probably. requiring some experience on one. There's a reason why skid steer mulchers aren't cheap and readily available for rentals.

That’s why the best and cheapest approach is to hire a professional forestry contractor and pay them by the acre, not by the hour.

 

[spruce Deere]

Best attachment I have found for clearing ground..... brush rake is not pictured with unfortunately.

This way you will have a tractor left for the clean up and future tractor work.

 

[WranglerX]

Obviously the comments about not clearing fire/fuel are a little on the naïve side..... Try living in California the new coastal desert.... We have fires of 300,000 acre's or more and some fires take out whole towns (Paradise Ca.) and most places within fire zone that have survived have had clear zone around residential and out buildings.... You can imaging the relief for some who have returned to find everything still standing, then there is the immerse sadness of having everything you owned burned to the ground and all you have is the clothes on your back.......

 

[spruce Deere]

I did fire mitigation work. Cleared many acres of brush and 'beautiful trees' from around structures

Nature is beautiful to live within, from a defensible distance.

 

[Fielding]

If its just a couple acres, this is the ticket.

Why bust up your own rig?

 

[JDZ735M]

I have looked at what the salesmen say will 'clear land' with a 30-40 hp tractor, but usually it seems to fall short of cutting heavy vegetation and large brush, to say nothing of trees. What can be used especially in the front of midsized tractor to knock down, mulch or grind to clear land.

The reason you need a 99 HP CTL to run a forestry mulcher head or serious brush cutter is that a 30-40 HP tractor is just incapable.

 

[jyoutz]

I have looked at what the salesmen say will 'clear land' with a 30-40 hp tractor, but usually it seems to fall short of cutting heavy vegetation and large brush, to say nothing of trees. What can be used especially in the front of midsized tractor to knock down, mulch or grind to clear land.

A tractor isn’t a land clearing machine, it’s a land maintenance machine. Many people have told you this in many different ways and offered solutions, yet you still keep asking the same question. A masticator on a skid steer is the tool for this job. This isn’t a DIY job with a small tractor.

 

[Reddogs]

A tractor isn’t a land clearing machine, it’s a land maintenance machine. Many people have told you this in many different ways and offered solutions, yet you still keep asking the same question. A masticator on a skid steer is the tool for this job. This isn’t a DIY job with a small tractor.

Well, Ive done it for over 20 years and rarely needed to rent the big stuff, so if it works.....

 

[jyoutz]

Well, Ive done it for over 20 years and rarely needed to rent the big stuff, so if it works.....

I would be interested in learning what you have “done” for 20 years. You have never fully described what exactly you’re clearing. Is it brush and saplings? Then a tractor will work. Is it pole timber or saw timber and downed logs? For the latter, a tractor can skid the material away to burn piles or log decks after you first saw the material into lengths. If you want to treat and dispose of material on-site, a masticator is needed, not a tractor.