</font><font color="blue" class="small">( There was a thread about a product called the "brush brute" a year or two ago. Pretty interesting attachment for a bucket. The weight of the attachment would require a larger compact tractor.
Could not find the thread but here is a link to their web page:
Brush Brute web page
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Well that's about the most stoic website I've seen in some
time.
Anyway, I had heard about this Brush Brute from a local dealer
who recommends it for removing small trees, brush and the
astonishing amount of laurel with which we find ourself
blessed. The deal is you don't dig with it, rather you
wedge into the teeth what you want to remove around 12-16"
above ground, and use the uplift of the loader (failing
that, the torque of the tractor) to rip the stuff out. If
you look closely the triangular teeth are undercut which
bites deeper into the tree than if the sides were
90-degree vertical.
Looks like it is worth a try but the price for even the
small 58" size is around $1600 plus whatever is required
to attach to your machine. That is rather steep seeing
as one can buy the steel to build it for around $50.
I have the dimensions off of an actual production model
and might actually get around to it at some point. For
those with similar thoughts you may be interested to know
it is a patented design and functionally described in the
accompanying document:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5111599
[You'll need a TIFF image file plug-in for your browser to
view the actual images of the patent.]
