About to pull the trigger on a DR brush mower

[spandit]

Spent a couple of hours playing this afternoon (and it's effing hard work!)

 

Before:

 

 

After:

 

 

At least you can see the trees in spirals (they haven't done very well this year, probably because of the bracken). Hauling the mower in between them is back breaking but on the way back to the house I cut a path through some rushes and willow saplings. It didn't falter once but does have a tendency to push stuff over rather than just cut it. When it does cut, it takes out whole clumps of rushes and when I checked the blade afterwards, there wasn't a ding in it, unlike my ride on mower which looks like it's been hand beaten out of bronze...

[spandit]

Strongly advise you to rethink the idea of a DR on high brambles.

 

I do take your point about brambles. The ones I have aren't specially high, about 2' but it does tend to get tangled in them rather than chopping them to bits. If they get in the way of the blade, then there's no contest, especially as I've just sharpened it (it may "cut through a brick" but it doesn't like it very much).

 

There's a bladeless cutter attachment available - turns it into a giant trimmer. Would this be any more effective against brambles, do you think? Might get one anyway as there is one area that I suspect is full of old bricks/rubble etc. and it should stop me wrecking the blade again - there was a lot of filing to get the nicks out of the edge!