Mulchers/brush cutters

[tjones91111]

I just recently bought a 2011 cat 289c to do some clearing on our property. I am having a hard time deciding on what type of cutter to buy. I think a drum style mulcher will be best for my needs, but I am not sure? Does anybody have any suggestions? The property was cleared about 10 years ago and then burned. Since then, a lot of sunlight has made everything grow like crazy! I am not familiar with the positives and negatives on all of the cutters. Can anybody help me make a decision? Mainly will be cutting heavy brush with probably 10-20% trees roughly 5-10" in diameter. A lot will be smaller, some bigger.

Thanks,
Tanner

 

[kfxgreenie]

I run a Bobcat T750 with a Brushwolf M-ax which is a rotary cutter, for personal use. I bought the rotary cutter because I wanted what I thought 1 attachment to do initial cut and maintain both grass and brush, small trees, 1-8" diamater. In hindsight I wish I would have bought a mulcher to get everything cleaned up brush small tree's and pine tree tops and a few hidden stumps out of the harvested land, and then traded it for a rotary cutter to maintain what the mulcher did, and mow trails feilds. I believe a mulcher would be much faster on intermediate to larger trees and shread the larger stuff finer, and the rotary faster on small brush and grassy areas. No one perfect attachment for everything I learned. In the end the Brushwolf M-ax is doing the job, but on larger stuff i just cut it, work around it, and go back with the root grapple and move it to a burn pile. A mulcher would be more efficient, but cost a lot more as well. I guess for what i saved on the rotary cutter over the mulcher i will come out ahead, but it is not as prouctive.

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