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Overheating and minor tractor damage turn Brad's brush-clearing job into a decision about which work to hire out.
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I Sold This Before It DESTROYED My Tractor!
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- 0:24Brad secures the lift arms with safety blocks before inspecting the tractor.
- 0:57Compressed air clears dense dust from the cooling screen after an engine warning interrupted mulching.
- 6:40Large oak root balls show why the clearing job repeatedly stalls the mulcher.
- 11:44Brad shows a bent step and displaced fender caused by a trapped stick.
- 13:41The tractor works through the final oak and cedar thicket along the fence.
- 15:37With the clearing complete, Brad gives his verdict on keeping the attachment.
How much clearing is worth putting a tractor through? Brad reaches his answer after blowing dense dust out of the cooling screen, inspecting a bent step and pushed fender, and finishing the last thicket along Piney Grove Homestead's fence line.
"I still don't have enough tractor for that forestry mulcher," he says. The job gets done, but the attachment leaves on a trailer. Next time, he plans to hire out the heavy mulching rather than risk a major breakdown. For Brad and Deb's Northwest Florida homestead, this is progress with a subtraction: a cleared boundary and one less implement to keep.
"I Sold This Before It DESTROYED My Tractor!" was the most-watched of four new uploads, drawing about 82,000 views. The comments make an interesting equipment discussion of their own. Viewers describe sticking with excavators and brush cutters, weighing skid-steer hire, and reconsidering a mulcher purchase after seeing the demands of this job.
Elsewhere, the work moved from brush to surfaces. A gravel-driveway video joined an exterior porch-floor coating project involving concrete grinding, polyaspartic coating and weather delays. The porch upload currently has the strongest daily viewing momentum on the channel. An electric UTV test also asked whether the Campus E1 could tow a heavy load of water and gear; the manufacturer provided the vehicle.
The channel added roughly a million views over the week, more than any of the nearby homesteading and outdoors channels listed here, though its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is now well below its usual level. Beyond the new projects, October's generator connection warning remains active, examining a neutral-to-frame bonding issue in a review of a manufacturer-provided generator.
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What viewers say
Regardless of what happens on that fence line going forward, at least it still benefits you. I know I would probably do the same thing because "that's just what we do". Nice job and it looks wonderful and gives you piece of mind.
@onamissionfortruth6326See it on YouTubeI will keep using my excavator and the old Bush hog for that. I thought I wanted one of those until I saw this. Thanks for the advice.
@GeorgeWest-x7oSee it on YouTubeThanks for sharing this. When I first saw one of these mulchers I immediately wanted one but the more I look into the more I think it's worth hiring someone with a skidsteer to do it instead. I don't like the idea of looking back all the time, the risk of flying debris on an open station tractor, and the overheating issues due to the high hp requirements and hydraulic flow.
@CottageHillFMSee it on YouTube
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Had a tractor and a brush hog. Replaced it with a Toro commercial zero turn and surprisingly it held up until I got it down to grass cutting height. Also hit a few stumps, the deck on the commercial version is a beast.
@garyharper2943See it on YouTubeWhat a relief to have that messy fence line cleared up, eh? I've been watching other channels (Idigit, Brushworks, Three Hands, etc) to see the variety of mulchers and it is really interesting what's available now. I imagine a dedicated skid steer mulcher would be preferable for this task?
@osimnodSee it on YouTube
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What does PTO stand for in tractor equipment?
A power take-off transfers mechanical power from a tractor to an implement such as the forestry mulcher.