Keep the stuff sprayed and it becomes an non-issue unless it's overhanging limbs from big trees.

not sure if we have the same friend, but a buddy of mine has a skid steer with the cutter, and he charges around $100/hr. He works in the East-Central part of the state. PM me if anyone needs his services.

I knew a guy one time that had a bat wing bush hog that he rigged to run while the wings were up.

Made some exceptional roads through his place.

What are you spraying?

Like someone mentioned: it seems like a sickle bar cutter would work. I'm sure they are expensive though.

A mixture of 1% gly and 1% 2,4D will kill most everything it touches. When sprayed on branches of larger trees, it seems to kill the branch, but does not kill the entire tree.

Sickle bar cutters are fairly cheap if you can find a working one. Fire ants caused me to sell mine as they would stop it up when cutting hay. Don't remember if they run when standing up, know it will leaning down but if it's thick brush, won't cut it.

If you stick a 3 to 4" oak limb in a sickle bar cutter, you will be buying a new sickle bar cutter.

You can try Clyde Green in Marion AL.

We have had good luck with a batwing bush hog and spraying. The batwing will reach out and cut back the small crap, usually privet.

Then I leave the boom on my sprayer vertical (like I am moving it between fields) and it will spray everything from ground level to about 10' up.

The sprayer is the key. If you can keep killing it back it is not that bad, but it is a never ending battle.

When I rebuilt my sprayer a couple of years ago I built a manifold so I can engage the left or right boom and the center section independently. I also have a 4th valve on it and attach a garden hose and have a wand. That is a pain to use tho cause I have to take the door off the tractor so I can ride along and spray stuff.

A 15' Bush Hog would allow you to small trees along road edges, but if it is larger trees and long hanging limbs then that's no good.

I hired a guy to clear a field for me and he use a Fecon. It is nasty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVygSS7i3kA

Land Pride makes a boom mower for larger tractors.

Looks like it works great. What area does that guy work?

Sorry jlbuc10, I am up here in Indiana. I did find a place that rents them to for 1000 per day. They would drop off and pick up tractor with the Fecon. So you might check into rental places to.

$1,000 could get you 10 day laborers for a day of work. I don't know which would be better, but that's a lot of money for a day.

For $1000 I can get 11 hours of bulldozer time with someone who knows what he is doing running it. Does not sound cost effective to me.Plus most of the stuff they hit on that video I could have done with my bushog.

BTW, we purchased one of those bucket mount attachments. Will update you on how it does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYE-14ynXk

Start about 2:50 on the video. The guy driving is about a trainwreck but they'll cut it. I just got a 2nd one so I'll be running 2 tractors this next summer.