Ive gotta get around 20 acres cleaned up. It is a jungle in NETX. Mostly briars and sweetgums. How much does this normally cost? Aerial spraying is not an otion nor is burning.

thanky

Go ugly early!

What area of NE TX? I work for a pipeline company and have several mower vendors that are looking for work.

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When you say bushhog are you talking about a disc harrow or a shredder? A bushhog to me is an offset disc harrow but it sounds like you are talking about shredding.

"What area of NE TX? I work for a pipeline company and have several mower vendors that are looking for work."

Bowie County, hook me up!!

Yeah, Im talking about shredding.

YOu might check out the wood gators. They will just leave a fine mulch instead of large wood chips.

I will be out of town for most this week, but I have put a call to our field guys up there for a list of people we use. If you dont hear from me by Saturday/Sunday, email me at geogaggie05@yahoo.com

your local nrcs office should have a list of names of local folks.

Bush Hog is the name of a company that makes shredders, among other farm implements. Those of us who grew up in the years before Bush Hog came on the scene still refer to it as "shredding".

It is like how "Kleenex" brand became a generic name for all tissues.

"Bush Hog is the name of a company that makes shredders, among other farm implements. Those of us who grew up in the years before Bush Hog came on the scene still refer to it as "shredding".

It is like how "Kleenex" brand became a generic name for all tissues."

Weird, I'm almost 37 and always heard it referred to as either bush or brush hogging.

Wierd, I'm 25 and have always heard of it as shredding...

I can top that... a lot of oldtimers call it "rotocycling".

Shredding is the term everyone understands.

I assume that regional usages come into play as well. In my part of the world, we "shredded" cotton or sorghum stalks after harvest and before using a "tandem". Full name of the latter is "tandem disc harrow", and I've heard it called "disc" and the plowing "discing".

We had no pastures to "mow" and the shredders were made by John Deere and Rhino. We also had no brush or bushes. So no one called the implement or the process "bush hogging".

I think almost everyone calls pickup trucks "trucks" these days. When I was younger, "pickup" was used in the Panhandle, but folks around College Station used "truck". To me, it had to be a 2-ton grain truck or bigger to be a "truck".

About 1975 I heard a guy in Duncan Dining Hall talk about needing to work on his pickup. I asked him where he was from....Amarillo.

SBCBonfire:

Before rotary cutters (shredders) were in general use, farmers pulled stalk choppers over their cotton. Think of flat blades around a central shaft, somewhat like the paddle wheel on an old Mississippi stern-wheeler.

So instead of shredding, folks talked about chopping cotton stalks. As opposed to "chopping cotton" which was actually hoeing weeds out of the cotton crop.

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Found a guy with something resembling a bobcat with a grinding head on the front that weighs a shade over 17000 pounds. He says he vcan get around 3/4 acre/hr for $140/hr. It sound like a good deal, what do ya'll think?

A dozer guy said he could push and pile for 201 per acre but i would have to brun and deal witht he aftermath.