Trailblazing through a jungle of Asian Honeysuckle

Cleared about 600 feet in 3 hours. Have another 600 feet to go.

Several of the parks around here are renting goat herds to control the honeysuckle. Do you have to treat the roots or does grubbing it out kill it. I helped a lady from our church cut back some of the honeysuckle on her place. What a mess. gobble

You are making her saw and you on that TM ,, what a man.. LOL: Looks good in the end. I guess you did not want to scratch up the KUBOTA.. Thought of you yesterday local guy had a termite for sale gas that ran two years ago. he sold it for $ 2500.00 .

I rented a track loader with a brush cutter last year. I bet it would have cleared the 600ft in about an hour or less. It was pretty amazing to lift it above a big bush, drop the cutter and watch the bush disappear.

jm.
Tell Larry next time you find a Terramite in your Hood.
How old was the terramite?? If it had a good engine that would make a parts tractor. The engine costs about $2000. Pump and torque motor aren't cheap either. Parts aren't cheap, period. Let me know the next time one comes up for $2500.

Karen goes nuts with the 8 inch alligator. She is ruff on them. Burned up 2 so far. I repaired one. We have 2 spare gators.
She loves attacking the honeysuckle in the winter. No gardening, so she goes after honeysuckle.
Good thing we ran out of battery power yesterday. 3 hours a day is enough.

No way will I run a tractor through a jungle with a cab.

I had to cut many branches in my trees when using Kubota to mow the yard.

I'm also glad the terramite doesn't have a radiator, air cooled. Yesterday I picked up a stick and would have put a hole in a radiator.

One time I picked a stick and put it in the crankshaft seal.

No way would I even consider damaging the cab windows.

I had to relocate the lights on Kubota. Tree branches broke two lights.

Terramites are for Jungle work and safer than most open air tractors. It has a full roll cage and a seat belt. You can't imagine how dangerous jungle warfare is when pushing branches that could come back and get you.

Tractors without a full roll cage and seat belts are death machines.

Looks like the buckthorn mess we have, can't kill it very easily

Your gismo may be faster when it comes to cutting brush, but will it remove stumps and level dirt too??
I had escalation work to do. The ground is far from being level. There is about an 8 ft drop off. So steep I need to move a lot of dirt to make a road we can drive the Mule on.
Removing large stumps requires the hoe to dig them out.

This is the way I've been doing it for about 25 years. I just traded that Land pride mower in on a new Woods BB84.60. One foot wider and a good bit heavier. Two swiveling tail wheels. I can see the advantages of a skid steer, though. I might just buy one in the near future.

BTW. That Land Pride mower you see in the pic was about 25 years old, full of dents and rust spots but it sold off the dealer's lot almost immediately.

Have you ever punctured a tire doing that? I have done the same thing with my cutter and Kubota but have always been worried about puncturing a tire on a small cut off stump.

I could take my Long/Landini R9500 I paid $900 for with the 10ft $500 Sidewinder thru that stuff and never slow up while the wife rode on the fender.Heck with having thousand$$ of buck$ in a tractor and scared to use it on a job(LOL)

You use what you want.
The terramite is better clearing a jungle.
Kubota has strong points. but you are working blind inside cab. 360 view with terramite.
Lower to get under tree branches.

Its your money, buy what you want.
I'll do the same.

People don't understand there's more than brush hogging. Stump remove, leveling
ground.

No. After cutting this way for 25 or so years I never once punctured a tire. I always thought about it, though. That's why I'm going forward in those pictures. I didn't want to back up while cutting and risk driving over the punji stakes. It cuts that stuff better backing for several reasons which I do when I back into my fencelines but the tractor tires don't run on the cut brush in that case.

Nice job!

Looks more like a job for an excavator or a dozer since it can be sort of just plowed out with the blade. Or pulled out with an excavator. I guess I would not worry about the stumps to much if they are ground level when broke or pulled off/out. Big problem I see with digging it out is all the dirt removed from the digging with the root ball or from the bucket. Like a posthole if to big not enough dirt and if to small no place for the dirt.