Smilingreen
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I have been contemplating selling off my John Deere tractor and implements and buying a track loader with high flow hydraulics. I have a few acres of pasture land, but the majority of my farm is mature woods. A maintenance nightmare. This past weekend, I got ahold of a Cat 289D3 with a 60 inch forestry drum mulcher on it. I cleaned up my service road around the perimeter of the woods, cleaned up some trails and blazed a few new ones. I also cleaned up about 2 acres of forest floor of the thick underbrush and dead standing timber that is next to my home. I would have never been able to do that with a tractor and bush hog. (trust me, I have tried) A rotary drum forestry mulcher that goes on a track loader is very nice, but I don't do forestry mulching for a living and once I get my woods whipped into shape, it would end up just sitting in the equipment shed. Seeing rotary drum mulchers run $25k and up in price, that is a very large investment for a implement that would basically sit and rust once the initial cleanup is done.
So, I have been looking at buying a heavy duty brush cutter: One that can do standard bush hogging of field grass, keep fence rows cleaned up, cut trees up to 6-8 inches and primarily, keeping the mature forest floor cleaned up of underbrush. After doing a bunch of reading, I kind of like the Quick Attach Mega Mower X. I may be going about this backwards, but I plan on buying the brush cutter first, before I buy a (used) trackloader to run it. Reason is, I currently have access to a Cat 289D3 track loader any weekend I want to use it. (for the cost of refueling it and sending it back on the truck full and clean. Son-in-law works for Cat)
So, do any of you own a Quick Attach Mega Mower X brush cutter? If you do, how do you like the performance of it, any quirky issues, maintenance costs, price, dealer support? Any other heavy duty brush cutter you could recommend that mounts to a trackloader with high flow hydraulics?
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So, I have been looking at buying a heavy duty brush cutter: One that can do standard bush hogging of field grass, keep fence rows cleaned up, cut trees up to 6-8 inches and primarily, keeping the mature forest floor cleaned up of underbrush. After doing a bunch of reading, I kind of like the Quick Attach Mega Mower X. I may be going about this backwards, but I plan on buying the brush cutter first, before I buy a (used) trackloader to run it. Reason is, I currently have access to a Cat 289D3 track loader any weekend I want to use it. (for the cost of refueling it and sending it back on the truck full and clean. Son-in-law works for Cat)
So, do any of you own a Quick Attach Mega Mower X brush cutter? If you do, how do you like the performance of it, any quirky issues, maintenance costs, price, dealer support? Any other heavy duty brush cutter you could recommend that mounts to a trackloader with high flow hydraulics?
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