Good job! Finally someone posted a video of a brush cutter cutting brush. Most videos I've watched show people cutting thick "grass". A string trimmer can do that. The mess I have to tackle is at least as thick as what you cut here. More like the stuff at the 6:00 minute mark. Before I plop down $500.00+ on a brush cutter, I wanted to see what it was capable of.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video, I like to get my moneys worth out of my tools as well. Stihl equipment can be pushed pretty hard from what I understand.
I'm watching this one year after the fact....but let me tell you that the music was really relaxing and offered something different. Great job, great music, stay blessed.
Nothing takes down brambles like a mulching blade, I use an Oregan blade, it's cheap and does a fantastic job. I don't have a brushcutter as such but I have two Husqvarna 535LK pro combi's which cope with it very easily, I even use a clearing saw on it and it takes out 3 inch saplings no problem, takes seconds to change the head too! Nice tidy job chap! 👍
The mulching blade is definitely a huge game changer. The trimmers themselves are honestly such amazing tools, the possibilities for attachments and uses is endless. They just need to be made😅 Thank you! 👍👍
I’ve been using a hedge trimmer and when the battery runs flat, shears and a lopper for the briars. For the black locusts trees popping up a chainsaw getting it a low as possible so the riding lawnmower can run over the remainder without getting damaged. Tomorrow I’ll be trying a machete on some of the briars and see how that works. I might upload the progress on our “First Time Homesteaders” channel.
been eyeing a brush cutter to do some areas where my pto cutter isnt worth maneuvering into. looked around and found the 131 was a good option but your video just convinced me, I will be buying one
Ive been doing the exact same thing around my property. The classical music in this video really calmed me down. My whole body is vibrating and i smell from 2 stroke. One of the songs just made me sigh in releif. Thanks lol
One follow up question: after you’ve cut through everything do you have to go through again and clean out all of the cuttings or are they small enough they can be left on the ground? In other words, will everything that’s cut start to regrow if left on the ground? Thanks again! We’re starting a big blackberry removal on our property and trying to clear them out without accidentally making them worse. Appreciate ya!
@@NormSpecial I usually leave the debris as it’s not the debris that grow back but the root balls. Your best bet is to monitor the area and watch out for neon green type sprouts that can appear to look like thistles, those are usually the blackberries. Cut them down again, or pull out the root balls, or you can spray a herbicide on them. The goal is to keep them cut down and if possible, replace the blackberries with a different growth such as grass.
These things are great. I’d recommend the Stihl FS-131 for sure. Once you cut down the thick stuff later on it can be cut easily with regular .95/2.7mm+ trimmer line.
I have acres to do on a hillside, am gong o knock it down with a strimmer then use my flail on the quad to mulch it right down to bits. It will need spraying when the new growth starts to allow soft growth plants to grow instead.
Usually once you cut it 3-5 times throughout the year they will die out. At least once in every season and then if you want you can add whatever extra's you want. Good luck! :)
I have brush to cut, and I am a chicken, so I just want to use a string trimmer. Is the best approach to start at the top of a plant/stalk/weed - and work your way down? Thanks!
If you are using string, side to side starting from the top, if you have a blade you can start from the top and go all the way down and just repeat moving to the left.
Hi, again! Here, I saw real smoke, or I'm wrong? What kind of cutter did you use in this work? Steel blade? Great job! See you soon in another UA-cam video ☺️🇵🇹
Hi Cristina! In this video it’s also water vapor and a little bit of dust. I haven’t had any experiences with things starting to burn, thankfully, while mulching/grass cutting. This cutting blade is called: BGTool Mulching Blade Thank you for watching Cristina! :)
@@golovinpropertyservices hi! Can you use this tool on fresh blackberry bushes, or do you need to wait until fall when they're starting to die? Thank you.
the part i need is how to pick the cuttings, do you have advice...i need to clear it off the land and also i have a big blackthorn infestation that is now hundreds of small trees with huge thorns
Hi Maja, Apart from raking the cuttings up or using a blower, I am not aware of any other methods. But if you have a blackberry infestation and use the method of mulching them up, I'd recommend leaving the cut pieces where they are unless you are planning on planting grass. The cut-up vines create a natural mulch layer which will keep other plants from growing for a limited time. What I do is mulch everything once and then go over the entire area again focusing on chopping up all the material that's on the ground so it becomes smaller and decays faster. Thanks for watching, hope this helps!
Nicely made, I'm about to take over a 20ha vegge farm thats overgrown with berries, once slashed, how can i deal with the root without harming the soil for future veggie growth? Or should I use excavator with grubber or will that just spread the seeds everywhere? G'day from down here in Australia!
Very informative video and comments. Thank you! TIL: mulching blade. Have you tried other kinds of blades for comparison? I just started clearing berries (etc) and planting natives. Would you then do another pass with a mower, to further break up those stalks? (I heard > 6" will reroot and grow back). We're also mulching before planting; getting lots of opinions and I'm still noob. Some crews dig up the root bulbs. Some also get the runners. Some don't even bother! Again, great video. I appreciate your soundtrack too. (I've added Chris Haugen to my playlist.) Cheers, Jason
I brought a mulching blade by oregon the 2 blade 1. Using it on my fs131 brushcutter. Bloody hell the vibration is unbelievable. How can someone enjoy Using it is mind blowing. I tried it on my fs460 same just enough to cause problems in the hands. Does any1 know why this is happening?
@@golovinpropertyservices sorry is was my fault. The blades moved away from the centre when tightening it, so it was not in the centre. Hence the vibration. All sorted now, blade completely destroyed the brambles!! What to buy the 3 blade Oregon. But I think may I need to use a more powerful machine compared to the fs131 brushcutter As still put a lot of pressure on the machine. I used it on my fs460 was perfect.
Yes, they will grow back. There are several ways to do it, when they keep growing back, just cut them several more times and the roots will eventually die. You could also spray them with a weed killer. You could wait for them to sprout again and then just pull the root out by hand. If if it’s an area where you don’t want anything to grow, it would be a good idea to get that area covered and place bark, mulch, or some other type of surface covering to keep any vegetation from growing.
The back and side yards of my fixer upper house are more bramble than they are yard. I have a brush cutter attachment for my weedwacker, but is there any more efficient way to pick up all the scraps to clear the ground below than just picking them all up by hand and putting them in the bin?
Well you could try cutting them up a lot smaller and then going over it with a lawn mower if the terrain allows for it. If there’s rocks and other obstacles then your best bet might be just raking them up and putting them in the bin.
I use a Stihl FS90 R with a hedge trimmer head on it instead of the rotating blade and could have done that job in about an hour with it. You really should upgrade to a long handled hedge trimmer for cutting those blackberry bushes.
Hi Paul, I do have a Stihl KM 130r and also a hedge trimmer attachment for it. But I haven’t had much time to practice with it as I’d like. I’ll take it into consideration next time I’m doing a blackberry job. Thanks from your recommendation Paul :)
Hi Cameron, This is the: BGTool Mulching Blade I purchased it off Amazon, Oregon sells the same design blade as well but for a few more dollars. Thank you for watching! :)
@@CameronNottle Here’s the link, if it doesn’t work just simply search up “BGTool Mulching Blade” www.amazon.com/BGTOOL-Replacement-Mulching-External-Diameter/dp/B082T36JGH
Took 5 hours to complete the job, probably could’ve been a little bit faster if the blade didn’t get chipped up with all the rocks lying around, but it was still a fun time! :)
In some cases, if you have the right timing, it can kill off several of the vine bulbs. But most of the time, this is done to clear up the area so that the property owners can handle the area themselves with lighter equipment. If this process is repeated several times throughout the year as they grow back, it will eventually kill them since they aren’t able to go through photosynthesis and pollination.
Well for this job specifically, I did it for $325 for the 5 hours. Biggest thing to look for is what condition the ground is in, does it slope, are there obstacles, the size of the area, how dense the bushes are. Things like that. But when I do the work I don’t usually stop for breaks apart from a quick 1-3 minute water break then get back into it. You have to take into consideration fuel costs and the blades. This area had lots of jagged rocks scattered around with a nice layer of moss covering them which beat up the blade pretty bad. But it worked out well.
Like anything you do, regular maintenance is key. If you cut them when they just start to sprout you won’t have an issue. You wouldn’t leave your lawn untouched for 6 months would you?
But did you really “remove” them all in 5 hours? As in all cuttings/scrap/brambles/leaves OFF site? Or just knock them down? The cuttings root themselves with ease, and that’s the biggest part of the job - the clean up.
Good job! Finally someone posted a video of a brush cutter cutting brush. Most videos I've watched show people cutting thick "grass". A string trimmer can do that. The mess I have to tackle is at least as thick as what you cut here. More like the stuff at the 6:00 minute mark. Before I plop down $500.00+ on a brush cutter, I wanted to see what it was capable of.
Thanks! I'm glad you liked the video, I like to get my moneys worth out of my tools as well. Stihl equipment can be pushed pretty hard from what I understand.
I see the Stihl Brushcutter comes with a grass cutting end. Do you buy the brush cutter attachment also? Hopefully it does a nice job on berry Vines.
I'm watching this one year after the fact....but let me tell you that the music was really relaxing and offered something different. Great job, great music, stay blessed.
Nothing takes down brambles like a mulching blade, I use an Oregan blade, it's cheap and does a fantastic job. I don't have a brushcutter as such but I have two Husqvarna 535LK pro combi's which cope with it very easily, I even use a clearing saw on it and it takes out 3 inch saplings no problem, takes seconds to change the head too! Nice tidy job chap! 👍
The mulching blade is definitely a huge game changer. The trimmers themselves are honestly such amazing tools, the possibilities for attachments and uses is endless. They just need to be made😅 Thank you! 👍👍
Just tried an oregon blade on a crappy off brand tool. Holy Christ did it do the job. Amazing tool.
Oregon vs Oregan
Imagine doing a job this size with some handheld clippers that’s what I’ve been doing
I was doing the same. I then said F that! So i rented a hedge trimmer. Way quicker
Same! Lol
I’ve been using a hedge trimmer and when the battery runs flat, shears and a lopper for the briars. For the black locusts trees popping up a chainsaw getting it a low as possible so the riding lawnmower can run over the remainder without getting damaged. Tomorrow I’ll be trying a machete on some of the briars and see how that works. I might upload the progress on our “First Time Homesteaders” channel.
Me too!
been eyeing a brush cutter to do some areas where my pto cutter isnt worth maneuvering into. looked around and found the 131 was a good option but your video just convinced me, I will be buying one
That’s awesome to hear, it definitely gets handles extremely tough jobs. I’m happy that the video helped you in your decision.
Thanks for watching! :)
Ive been doing the exact same thing around my property. The classical music in this video really calmed me down. My whole body is vibrating and i smell from 2 stroke. One of the songs just made me sigh in releif. Thanks lol
good job 👍🏻
gotta show this video to my grandpa, he’s got some horrible brambles just like this at his house
Thank you! It is very satisfying to watch!
Brilliant. You just saved me a weeks worth of work. Grateful 🤟🏼🧠🔥⚙️
I’m glad I could help somehow! 😁👍
One follow up question: after you’ve cut through everything do you have to go through again and clean out all of the cuttings or are they small enough they can be left on the ground? In other words, will everything that’s cut start to regrow if left on the ground?
Thanks again! We’re starting a big blackberry removal on our property and trying to clear them out without accidentally making them worse. Appreciate ya!
@@NormSpecial I usually leave the debris as it’s not the debris that grow back but the root balls. Your best bet is to monitor the area and watch out for neon green type sprouts that can appear to look like thistles, those are usually the blackberries. Cut them down again, or pull out the root balls, or you can spray a herbicide on them.
The goal is to keep them cut down and if possible, replace the blackberries with a different growth such as grass.
Solid gold, thanks much! That simplifies a lot. Great channel!
Great job you are a worker my friend looks good just about to do some cutting this weekend
Thank you! Have fun!
I might have to pick me up one of these brush cutters, we got a thick mess of bramble choking off the hillsides around my property.
These things are great. I’d recommend the Stihl FS-131 for sure. Once you cut down the thick stuff later on it can be cut easily with regular .95/2.7mm+ trimmer line.
I have acres to do on a hillside, am gong o knock it down with a strimmer then use my flail on the quad to mulch it right down to bits. It will need spraying when the new growth starts to allow soft growth plants to grow instead.
Usually once you cut it 3-5 times throughout the year they will die out. At least once in every season and then if you want you can add whatever extra's you want. Good luck! :)
That little weedeater did work! mine kept breaking the string on my blackberry vines.
Nice job, sir! Looks great! 👍👍😁
Thank you very much my friend! And thank you for spotting the mistake, I appreciate it!! :)
@@golovinpropertyservices -- De nada! 👍
Just ordered an Echo 410 today
So satisfying to watch
I’m hoping to do some more blackberry mulching this winter and late fall :)
I hope you got paid good money for this JOB! That was quite the job! In the end it looks really good! 💯👍
Thanks! Well, I would say for the time it was a good price. But I am curious, how much do you think I got paid for this job?
@@golovinpropertyservices sorry, I have no idea.
@@shafersshafers5231 Thats fine, no worries! I was just curious :)
@@golovinpropertyservices I’ll say just over one grand.. am I close?
@@Ragnar-7034 Actually it was $325
That’s a nice tool. Makes short work of a nasty mess. Those raspberries will be back before you know it though.
With proper maintenance they won’t have to worry about an area like this again.
u forgot to post the one week later video where all the blackberries are back =D
Unfortunately that’s not accurate. They do come back, but it is complete manageable with a regular string trimmer.
I am here for the awesome music and the murder of brambles .
Glad you like it😅
I have brush to cut, and I am a chicken, so I just want to use a string trimmer. Is the best approach to start at the top of a plant/stalk/weed - and work your way down? Thanks!
If you are using string, side to side starting from the top, if you have a blade you can start from the top and go all the way down and just repeat moving to the left.
@@golovinpropertyservices thanks!!
Hi, again! Here, I saw real smoke, or I'm wrong?
What kind of cutter did you use in this work? Steel blade?
Great job! See you soon in another UA-cam video ☺️🇵🇹
Hi Cristina!
In this video it’s also water vapor and a little bit of dust. I haven’t had any experiences with things starting to burn, thankfully, while mulching/grass cutting.
This cutting blade is called: BGTool Mulching Blade
Thank you for watching Cristina! :)
@@golovinpropertyservices hi! Can you use this tool on fresh blackberry bushes, or do you need to wait until fall when they're starting to die? Thank you.
@@SBereft Use them ASAP! Blackberries will grow all year, the faster you cut them the better chances you have of them never growing back!
the part i need is how to pick the cuttings, do you have advice...i need to clear it off the land and also i have a big blackthorn infestation that is now hundreds of small trees with huge thorns
Hi Maja,
Apart from raking the cuttings up or using a blower, I am not aware of any other methods. But if you have a blackberry infestation and use the method of mulching them up, I'd recommend leaving the cut pieces where they are unless you are planning on planting grass. The cut-up vines create a natural mulch layer which will keep other plants from growing for a limited time. What I do is mulch everything once and then go over the entire area again focusing on chopping up all the material that's on the ground so it becomes smaller and decays faster.
Thanks for watching, hope this helps!
What blade did you use? I know the video was sped up a lot, but judging from the shadows, it still looked like it went pretty fast.
Good Job. hopefully you did not get stung by bees.
Nicely made, I'm about to take over a 20ha vegge farm thats overgrown with berries, once slashed, how can i deal with the root without harming the soil for future veggie growth? Or should I use excavator with grubber or will that just spread the seeds everywhere? G'day from down here in Australia!
Nice
Thanks!
So did you pick up the debris or just leave it there .....
Very informative video and comments. Thank you! TIL: mulching blade. Have you tried other kinds of blades for comparison? I just started clearing berries (etc) and planting natives. Would you then do another pass with a mower, to further break up those stalks? (I heard > 6" will reroot and grow back). We're also mulching before planting; getting lots of opinions and I'm still noob. Some crews dig up the root bulbs. Some also get the runners. Some don't even bother! Again, great video. I appreciate your soundtrack too. (I've added Chris Haugen to my playlist.) Cheers, Jason
NIKKARI KAWASAKI JAPAN BRUSCUTER 2,7HP 53CM )VS FRICH ADOLF STILL FS 131 1,9HP 36CM )
Interesting comment!
I brought a mulching blade by oregon the 2 blade 1. Using it on my fs131 brushcutter. Bloody hell the vibration is unbelievable. How can someone enjoy Using it is mind blowing. I tried it on my fs460 same just enough to cause problems in the hands. Does any1 know why this is happening?
Are you running your FS-131 on full throttle?
@@golovinpropertyservices sorry is was my fault. The blades moved away from the centre when tightening it, so it was not in the centre. Hence the vibration. All sorted now, blade completely destroyed the brambles!! What to buy the 3 blade Oregon. But I think may I need to use a more powerful machine compared to the fs131 brushcutter As still put a lot of pressure on the machine. I used it on my fs460 was perfect.
What blade are you using?
Hello, will the blackberry bushes grow back the next year this way? If so, how do you prevent them from coming back?
Yes, they will grow back. There are several ways to do it, when they keep growing back, just cut them several more times and the roots will eventually die.
You could also spray them with a weed killer.
You could wait for them to sprout again and then just pull the root out by hand.
If if it’s an area where you don’t want anything to grow, it would be a good idea to get that area covered and place bark, mulch, or some other type of surface covering to keep any vegetation from growing.
What l find is if you wait for them to sprout again then spray the young shoots with glyphosate (e.g. Roundup) they soon give up.
@@Mackeson3 Roundup is dangerous to the environment and humans.
You can also keep mowing the area, once you’re done cutting the briars down.
what blades(on the trimmer) are you using for this job ?
How long did that take?
This particular job with this machine took 5 hours.
The back and side yards of my fixer upper house are more bramble than they are yard. I have a brush cutter attachment for my weedwacker, but is there any more efficient way to pick up all the scraps to clear the ground below than just picking them all up by hand and putting them in the bin?
Well you could try cutting them up a lot smaller and then going over it with a lawn mower if the terrain allows for it. If there’s rocks and other obstacles then your best bet might be just raking them up and putting them in the bin.
I use a Stihl FS90 R with a hedge trimmer head on it instead of the rotating blade and could have done that job in about an hour with it. You really should upgrade to a long handled hedge trimmer for cutting those blackberry bushes.
Hi Paul,
I do have a Stihl KM 130r and also a hedge trimmer attachment for it. But I haven’t had much time to practice with it as I’d like. I’ll take it into consideration next time I’m doing a blackberry job.
Thanks from your recommendation Paul :)
@@golovinpropertyservices get out there and swing that thing around like Darth Maul on meth.
Well gotta aim for quality cuts before any sort of under the influence type of stuff lol
@@golovinpropertyservices If you haven't already, please share your video, reviews, etc of your hedge trimmer. TIA!
@@zappini I sure can! Are you thinking about just the hedge trimmer vs blackberry bushes or just on regular shrubs?
What's the name of the blade you're using here? Looks great!
Hi Cameron,
This is the: BGTool Mulching Blade
I purchased it off Amazon, Oregon sells the same design blade as well but for a few more dollars.
Thank you for watching! :)
@@golovinpropertyservices thanks David! If you could send me a link to that blade that would be fantastic!
@@CameronNottle Here’s the link, if it doesn’t work just simply search up “BGTool Mulching Blade”
www.amazon.com/BGTOOL-Replacement-Mulching-External-Diameter/dp/B082T36JGH
I didn't find it on amazon..
Here is a link to another one:
amzn.to/31ZfU7k
How long did it take you to knock that out?
Took 5 hours to complete the job, probably could’ve been a little bit faster if the blade didn’t get chipped up with all the rocks lying around, but it was still a fun time! :)
Does that kill the vines?
In some cases, if you have the right timing, it can kill off several of the vine bulbs. But most of the time, this is done to clear up the area so that the property owners can handle the area themselves with lighter equipment.
If this process is repeated several times throughout the year as they grow back, it will eventually kill them since they aren’t able to go through photosynthesis and pollination.
How do you bid a job like this? a grand or less?
Well for this job specifically, I did it for $325 for the 5 hours. Biggest thing to look for is what condition the ground is in, does it slope, are there obstacles, the size of the area, how dense the bushes are. Things like that.
But when I do the work I don’t usually stop for breaks apart from a quick 1-3 minute water break then get back into it.
You have to take into consideration fuel costs and the blades. This area had lots of jagged rocks scattered around with a nice layer of moss covering them which beat up the blade pretty bad. But it worked out well.
Yeah and in 6 months they're back worse than before
Like anything you do, regular maintenance is key. If you cut them when they just start to sprout you won’t have an issue.
You wouldn’t leave your lawn untouched for 6 months would you?
Where i can buy it?
Here's a link to another blade that I use, just a different brand:
amzn.to/31ZfU7k
Then there's me swinging a machete in my backyard for hours like a jackass....
It happens sometimes
But did you really “remove” them all in 5 hours? As in all cuttings/scrap/brambles/leaves OFF site? Or just knock them down? The cuttings root themselves with ease, and that’s the biggest part of the job - the clean up.
Get a razorback!
I haven’t heard of it, but I will check it out!
Well im a person
Thanks for being real & thanks for watching! :)
Welcome
whats the point of speeding up the video its a waste of time