For trees? I have an 036.
For brush, yes a gas brushcutter sounds like an appropriate tool since I have acres of dense brush to clear.
Or I guess I swing around a machete for weeks like I'm on some sort of deranged jungle expedition.
Now we're talking...
Oh hey now, the party has officially started!
We have an Aebi TT90 with a sick 6' Seppi hammer knife flail on the front for mowing high angle trails and taking out overgrowth. I don't know how many people here have operated a high angle tractor like that but holy shit- talk about a killer machine. 6psi in those huge tires, 4 wheel lockers on such a low & wide tractor with so much torque makes for some really cool crawling abilities. Also those hammer flails rock. Brush has no idea what hit it. Shame they're about $70k used! If you don't know what an Aebi is, look them up. Super fkn cool.
I want a Grillo Climber 10.27 so bad though for the regular shit. Much easier to use, and less expensive to fix.
For real though- people who need a competent, capable machine but don't want a full size tractor should look into BCS walk behinds. You can put a flail, sickle bar, brush or finish mower on them, rototiller, chipper, snowblower etc. and they're built like a real fucking tractor, not some Troy-Built dildo spinner. They aren't cheap but they can do a shitload of work with the right setup. Sulkie ready too. Check them out!
Don't get me wrong, they work but they're unforgivably gutless on both ends. I imagine they'd get the job done on a farm or long flat acreage, but I wouldn't count on them to mow a mountain etc like you'd think and hydraulic capacity is very low if you're trying to move yardage. Also the implements they sell are kind of flimsy and would likely die quickly.
Someday we will be living the dream but for now it's still kind of smoke and mirrors.
Local dealers sell Deere, New Holland, Yanmar, Kubota and Kioti.
So what's the carbon rocket box eurospec 6-speed manual diesel?
How about the basic Subaru outback?
You'd get that motherfucker stuck in two minutes...Don't forget to order the 100,000lb hoe you'll need to pull it out.
Call Asphlundh Gesundheit or someone pro if the job's too big for a brushhook, a saw, and a 4wheeler. That little string trimmer might work after they get done.
Euroapec 6-speed manual diesel= John Deere
Even if they aren't as sexy as a Deere don't overlook Kubota. They make good small tractors. I've talked to farmers who use them and they're very happy with them. They claim that the Kubota's get better fuel economy and have a lower cost of ownership than John Deere tractors. The biggest complaint I've heard about Kubota's are how slow they drive down the road (12mph).
Because it would be like trying to spread butter over a five acre English muffin with a 28lb knife?
I ran 11 seismic survey crews on a 500-mile job across lower Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, each one of those crews had an 036. I also had a land man with 5 other land men working under him to secure seismic and access easements from landowners, so we could run those saws all we wanted.
10 of those crews would leave the saw in the truck unless there was no other way.
1 would try to use the gas the other crews didn't use, until I had to run him off for making a gross error one fine morning, and finishing the day taking down a 60" live oak that the proposed golf course community had designed a road and a gated entranceway around. It only took them 2 tanks of gas and two hours to drop it, and they said the ground shook pretty darn good when it finally fell.
Name of proposed golf community? "Live Oak CC".
That little fuckup cost me $155,000.
Not the saw's fault.
Guy sounds like a fuckup.
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