Mowing Brush with Horses at Earthwise Farm & Forest, on You Tube
This is our new DR 13hp tow behind Field and Brush Mower. It weighs about 600 pounds, very heavily built, and stable. The controls are easy to reach, and the mower can be offset so that I can watch the swath for obstacles. Because it is so heavy, when it hits something hard like a rock, or saplings, it just thumps a dull noise, rather than the clatter bang of a 3pth bush-hog. There are some projectiles that come forward but the horses are used to loud noises, and I train them to take things in stride and to listen to me, so when they do get startled, they calm down quickly when asked. All in all I am quite pleased with the machine, and by the end of this season, if I had to hire someone to do all the mowing that I have done, or will do, I would have paid for the machine outright.
