What machinery (wheeled or tracked) do you employ on your hunting or ag property? We've got an old 2x4 tractor and a skid steer for the following primary uses:

- leveling roads
- clearing brush (2011 dead cedar)
- creating firebreaks
- discing areas to encourage forb growth
- hauling
- pulling a trailer

The skid steer is a big one but looking at a dozer to get more effective at clearing dead cedar. We dont seed or till for anything due to being in west TX with no irrigation, but would love to try small food plots. What do y'all use on your properties effectively and why (obvious OB answer is blank check to Yellowhouse)?

Mulcher for clearing brush
Box blade for leveling and cleaning ruts

Effectively is stretch at my place, but I have a JD 6155 that does the majority of my brush clearing and shredding, and a 82 hp Ford tractor that does all field and food plot prep and planting work. I hire a dozer when I need one. In an ideal world I'd have a mulcher, skid steer and dozer added to the list.

I have atrctor that I use at my place. Typical attachments - shredder, adjustable blade for working roads, box bladewith rippers, auger for fence posts, sprayer for weed control, small disc to work the ground (fix ruts, food plots, etc).

Property owner has other attachments i can use, plus a couple of dozers and an excavator.

I would gladly trade a dozer for a skid steer with a mulching head on it if I could. Dozers are good to move dirt and push brushinto a pile, but they leave a lot to be dsired. A mulching head would be the tits and I would use the hell out of it.

JD compact track loader - rake with grapple for brush work.
JD backhoe for grubbing mesquite and brush
40 hp tractor with loader, shredder, and blade.
Dump trailer

Tractor with bucket
Skid steer with brush cutter box attachment
Bandit wood chipper
Log splitter

Grapple buckets are awesome at moving/loading piles of loose brush you cut down onto trailers or burn piles.

Pallet forks haven't been mentioned and are great. If you get deliveries they often charge you for bringing a forklift, so if you have one you can unload (or they can use yours) & save yourself money every time. Plus great for moving tee posts, lumber, plywood, etc. You can also use a ball at the end of a fork to move equipment around without a truck

John Deere 6615 for Ag work. Case 580D that I put a skid steer quick attach on it in place of the bucket and I ran hydraulics to the front so I can use any skid steer attachment on it. The back of it has a box blade with scarifier.
It is , without a doubt, the best and most used tractor on the ranch.
I use grapples and all kinds of other attachments on it.
Also have a John Deere 328D skid steer. First thing I did to it was put extra rear weight kit and foam filled tires so no flats. Have a tree shear and Danuser tree puller for it for cedar clearing. Works much better than dozer because it does not pull all the rocks up when clearing cedar.
I had a D5 dozer and sold it. Way to much maintenance and in the hill country, as said above, it tore up way to many rocks when clearing cedar.
If you have the country to use a dozer then get a track loader instead. It's just a dozer with a bucket and you can do everything a dozer can do and much much more due to the bucket.
Track machines have undercarriages and that is metal against metal and always tearing themselves up.
The best skid steer attachment I have is a concrete mixer... I use it constantly.
In our country I have a Beltec drilling machine for drilling post holes..... operates off the rear of the JD 6615 and puts heavy down pressure by hydraulic cylinders on the rock bit It is the 2nd most used attachment. Augers are useless in the hill country rock and will get you hurt.
Bale spears, heavy duty brush cutter, pallet forks are other attachments I use regularly on both the Case 580D and the JD skid steer.
Bat wing, bush hog, no till drill, 12ft disc plow and 12ft Chisel plow used for Ag and 150 gallon sprayer and pasture roller.
I have a small 30 HP JD tractor for small job bush hogging and Three point hitch lift with trailer balls for moving trailers quickly etc.

Basic farm tractor with loader and the following implements
Shredder/cutter sized accordingly
Box blade with ripper shanks
Pallet forks for loader
Grapple for loader.
As heavy duty a post hole diggers as you can find.

A 4x4 side by side. ( I love Kawasaki mules for our use.

A back hoe is a must.

And a covered fuel tank to support them.

90% of what you will need involves a tractor w/loader, shredder and a blade

We have a:
-5ft heavy rhino shredder for brush
-10ft pasture shredder
-straight blade for cleaning crossings and ditches
-box blade for basic gravel road maintenance
-small offset disc
-post hole auger
-3pt hopper spreader for fertilizer and overseeding rye

SxS for basic work, fence maintenance etc

This manages 200 acres very well. everything else can be rented as needed