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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HanSolo" data-source="post: 70399" data-attributes="member: 7905"><p>When I was operating heavy equipment in the San Antonio area back in the 70's, the best piece of equipment for clearing brush and small trees that I operated was a HydroAxe. It was a very complex, large and powerful machine that could obliterate any vegetation up to about 10" diameter trunk. 150 gal. of hydraulic fluid pumper through two large hydraulic drive motors turning a large disk with two rotating 250 lb. tear drop shaped blades. It would throw small logs about 50 yards. The big selling point was that it mulched everything down to the ground and the roots would be so shocked re-growth wouldn't happen. If you could find something like that in good used condition - that beats the heck out of trying to root out small trees. Anything larger is going to require an excavator or dozer anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>