Bush Hog 306 or Brown Tree Cutter

[ArlyA]

Looks like you can swap ends with those blades.

Seems like the cutting edge would be facing the wrong direction if flipped over?

 

[two_bit_score]

Seems like the cutting edge would be facing the wrong direction if flipped over?

Possibly but looks like two have been swapped over already.

 

[Smokeydog]

Looks like you can swap ends with those blades.

Yes. They no longer make this style. Blades cut, two high, two low like an axe to take out chunks. These have never been flipped. Has more weathering wear than use. New style is still flipable but with one hole. Ultra tuff space age steel. Set of blades and bolts about $800.

Get a lot of new growth at the tree line. Some so thick can’t walk thru. This eats it like a snack.

 

[two_bit_score]

Get a lot of new growth at the tree line. Some so thick can’t walk thru. This eats it like a snack.

It looks like it would! Sure would be something to see in action.

 

[Smokeydog]

Mowed the pastures off with the brown tree cutter. No real power or speed advantage from a 5’ brown vs 6’ Bushhog.
I can grow black walnuts like weeds. 6-8’ first year, 15-20’ second.

Backing over small trees, clumps of privet, sumac, rose, olive is the biggest difference. Lot of thumping, jumping and noise with bushhog. Brown tree cutter cut’s smoothly without much effort till you hit big stuff you could not even touch with a Bushhog.

 

[60Ford861]

For those on this thread who asked for an update. My apologies for not seeing this sooner. The brown tree cutter/RX7320 did an awesome job of cutting thousands of small tulip poplars. It was hours and hours of very slowly reversing into thousands of trees and cutting them down. I ended up selling it over the winter and recouped what I paid for it. This year I have an old beater 7ft bush hog that does a great job of taking down anything that I left and is keeping everything in control. There are a lot of old rotten hardwood stumps that pop out when I hit them with the tractor or bush hog. As soon as they get removed I am looking to upgrade to a 12 ft flex wing. I would cry if I tore up a 15k mower the first use. The next step is time/mowing. Im going to let everything rot for a year or two then get a heavy offset disc to till everything up and start fresh.