Equipment for Clearing Land: Some Jobs Start Rough & Stay That Way

The first fifty feet are waist-high weeds. Behind them, saplings have swallowed an old fence line. There's a washout cutting through one corner, half-buried concrete where a shed used to sit, and enough deadfall to keep a grapple busy until lunch.

It’s rough. Nobody else is on the way to clean it up for you, though. That's the job. Are you equipped to handle it?

You can’t beat one attachment senseless from property line to property line. Attack that mess in stages with carefully chosen armaments.

What Are You Cutting? Choose Your Mower & Attack.

A skid steer brush mower is called a “brush hog” for a reason. When tall grass, weeds, brush, and saplings up to 3 inches, block access to the rest of the property, the Prime Brush Mower gives you the cutting power to open trails and knock back overgrowth.

Its four free-floating blades swing back when they strike rocks or stumps, protecting the drivetrain from impacts hiding under all that green.

Even heavier growth? Call for reinforcements with the Prime Direct Drive Brush Mower. The badass direct-drive design eliminates the gearbox entirely — we’d rather send hydraulic power straight to the blade carrier. With the right machine maintenance, you’ll be taking on woody growth and trees up to 8 inches in diameter for years to come.

How Will You Grab the Mess You Just Made?

You’ve cut back the brush, but that will leave big brush piles behind. Skid steer grapple attachments handle the second half of the job. How will you arm yourself? Here are a few selection tips:

• The Prime Rock + Brush Grapple uses 3-inch tine spacing to hold branches, logs, and leafy brush but still lets you shake the dirt loose. The twin independent grapples conform better to uneven loads than a single clamshell, and the removable side plates give you more room when you're carrying long material.
• Root-heavy cleanup calls for a Root Grapple. Its wider tine spacing lets soil and rocks (or other smaller debris) drop through, but it still hangs onto tangled nests of roots, brush, and larger debris.
• For much bigger timber, consider a Forestry Grapple. The tall, heavy-duty design gives you more capacity for logs and bulky material with serrated grapple arms for extra grip.

You’re Ready. Now, Clear Land One Pass at a Time.

Once you've chosen the land clearing machinery for the job, give each attachment room to do its job in sequence.

• Open access first. Mow enough vegetation to see the ground. Locate obstacles and establish travel lanes.

• Cut the remaining heavy growth. Work into denser sections once you know what's under the machine.

• Pull what needs to come out. Trees, roots, and stumps too thick for your mower will still be left in the finished area and will need to be removed.

• Sort and move debris. Time to dispose of debris. Grapple brush separately from rocks, logs, or other material headed for disposal. You'll load faster and create cleaner piles.

• Clean up the surface. Once the big material is gone, finish grading or soil prep can begin.

Rough Ground Needs Prime Equipment

A land clearing job puts lesser steel into ugly places. You’re probably seen hidden rocks hammer and blunt mower blades before. All that heavy timber is bound to stress every weld and pivot point. What if twisty roots and brush catch a hose?

Get peace of mind with attachments built to be badass. Grade 50 steel, reinforced construction, protected components, heavy-duty hydraulics — you’re good to go. Operators choose Prime for equipment they can put into the thick of it.

Choose your weapon and go turn that ugly piece of ground into something useful.