Roadside trimming

[PoTreeBoy]

You guys must have different brush or different style. I go through with my pole saw and cut the overhanging branches and limbs up to 10 or 12 feet so I can drive through. Then brush hog everything right up to the trees I've left. Every few years, I walk through with my handheld brush cutter and get the few that come up out of brush hog reach. If I just trim along the sides, I have to do it more often, and the new growth blocks the view into the woods.

The pole saw is a lot of upper body work. I have a solution in mind if I get to spend more time at the farm this year.

 

[i7win7]

The pole saw is a lot of upper body work. I have a solution in mind if I get to spend more time at the farm this year.

Here's my Rube Goldberg solution to reduce upper body work.

Found New Job for Root Grapple

part 1 of 3 Latest hillbilly creation Grapple Pole Prunner: Materials: 12' treated 4x4, 2 gate hanger hinge pins and straps, 2 hanger straps for rolling door track and misc. hardware. I purchased a cheap 20v pole pruner at Walmart for this project. Unit was assembled on open grapple. 1. Turn...

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[JimmyJazz]

Who makes one? I've never seen one.

Go to the Woods website for starters . Others make them as well.

 

[bucktail]

Some of the older flail forage cutters were offset. They can sometimes be found for hundreds of dollars. The drawbacks are that they are designed to chop into a trailer and they are pull type giving you 2 more tires to maintain.
Some of the early stalk choppers were offset as well. They just discharge onto the ground behind them but I haven't seen one sell cheap in a while and you still have the tires to maintain. You'd need a remote for either one.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Here's my Rube Goldberg solution to reduce upper body work.

Found New Job for Root Grapple

part 1 of 3 Latest hillbilly creation Grapple Pole Prunner: Materials: 12' treated 4x4, 2 gate hanger hinge pins and straps, 2 hanger straps for rolling door track and misc. hardware. I purchased a cheap 20v pole pruner at Walmart for this project. Unit was assembled on open grapple. 1. Turn...

www.orangetractortalks.com

Thanks. I have modified my 40v Ryobi chainsaw for remote control (wired). I think I can mount it on a short pole to my loader bucket and get all the reach I need

 

[random]

You guys must have different brush or different style. I go through with my pole saw and cut the overhanging branches and limbs up to 10 or 12 feet so I can drive through. Then brush hog everything right up to the trees I've left. Every few years, I walk through with my handheld brush cutter and get the few that come up out of brush hog reach. If I just trim along the sides, I have to do it more often, and the new growth blocks the view into the woods.

The pole saw is a lot of upper body work. I have a solution in mind if I get to spend more time at the farm this year.

I've got a half mile, both sides, with various trees and a total of about 10-12' width. Without cutting down a bunch of fairly large trees (and exceeding my easement) I can't really push things back much more. Beyond that, I have another half mile that's mostly open field on one side, and mixed open field and trees on the other.

I need something that can keep the smaller stuff from encroaching on the cleared sides but also trim vertically on the sides from the tree branches and kudzu that grow into the road.

Hedge trimmers and chainsaw are just too much, with that much road to take care of. The sickle I was looking at has the angles I want and can cut most of the small trees that tend to grow along the edges. Looks like a couple more suggestions here to consider, although not all can do the vertical I need.

As always, lots of info from you guys, thanks!

 

[mikedlee]

Pretty overwhelming amount of info, thanks for all the input!

so looks like EA has an offset flail: https://www.everythingattachments.com/Ditch-Bank-Offset-Flail-Mowers-p/ph-bank-flail-mower.htm seems to indicate it can cut vertically. That's not a lot more than I was looking at for the sickle. But it says 4 ports required, which I don't have.

Titan has this https://www.palletforks.com/3-point...int-offset-flail-ditch-bank-mower/191521.html but that looks like it can only cut up to 65 degrees which wouldn't work.

@i7win7 thanks for the links, I'm going to have to look those over.

You had better make sure your tractor has the weight to handle the articulating flail mower attached to the 3PH. After my intense calculating and dealer input, my M6060 with FEL and loaded rear tires, I still flipped my tractor on it's side while mower was all the way to the side and at vertical 90* angle. Absolutely God was watching over me, as not a scratch on tractor or me. I was trimming privy hedges and I stepped off the tractor as it landed in the ONLY open spot that was about 24" long. A few feet more was a downhill 100' decline to creek. I believe the right front tire had low air pressure as the R4 tire bead unseated from the rim as it flipped. Took two JD's, one 4x4 to upright my Kubota.
I wish the Land Shark had been around when I was looking. BE CAREFUL!

 

[MilersoPisa]

I think that's a good idea. If you try nothing terrible will happen

 

[UpNorthMI]

You had better make sure your tractor has the weight to handle the articulating flail mower attached to the 3PH. After my intense calculating and dealer input, my M6060 with FEL and loaded rear tires, I still flipped my tractor on it's side while mower was all the way to the side and at vertical 90* angle. Absolutely God was watching over me, as not a scratch on tractor or me. I was trimming privy hedges and I stepped off the tractor as it landed in the ONLY open spot that was about 24" long. A few feet more was a downhill 100' decline to creek. I believe the right front tire had low air pressure as the R4 tire bead unseated from the rim as it flipped. Took two JD's, one 4x4 to upright my Kubota.
I wish the Land Shark had been around when I was looking. BE CAREFUL! View attachment 55012

Wow that’s a pretty scary photo, good to hear the safe ending. Sometimes no matter how careful we are we are reminded of the risks of tractor operation, things can go wrong real quick! I’ve looked at a number of these offset type cutters for my MX5800, but the more I look the more I think that a compact tractor is not a good solution. I’m saving my money to invest in a vertical brush hog type cutter for my Kubota track loader one day, until then, chain saw, pole saw and cutters.