Brush cutting on our Cat 255 and Cat BRX318. Forestry mulching on a rented mulcher we size to the stems, the slope, and the access. The walk decides which iron shows up.
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Drag the slider. Same kind of Northeast Ohio fence line we see every week — multiflora, saplings, and junk trees that never got a second look.
Two kinds of work
Brush cutting is not forestry mulching.
Brush cutting is the Cat 255 we own and the Cat BRX318 72-inch industrial rotary cutter on it. Forestry mulching is a different machine — rented, and picked for that lot. Stems, slope, access, and how fine the chip needs to be all change the iron. It is not always the same mulcher.
Cat 255 · Cat BRX318
Brush cutting
The faster pass, on iron that lives here. The BRX318 knocks down and chops standing grass, briar, multiflora, and saplings you can still see through — stems the cutter is built for, up to about 8 inches when they show up. What it leaves is cut vegetation and coarse chips, not a finished woodlot floor. Priced by the hour: $350 to show up, $150 an hour after that. We estimate the hours, then lock a firm number.
Rental mulcher, sized to the lot
Forestry mulching
Slower going, and a different machine. We rent the mulcher that fits the stems, the access, and the finish you want. Denser woody cover gets reduced in place to a chip carpet you can walk. Roots stay. Stumps sit at grade unless we quote grinding.
Ballpark the hours
Light cover is hourly. Mixed, heavy, and clear cut are by the acre. None of it is a bid until we walk it.