I'm assuming the Baldwin County in your bio is old info? We sell several a year in Baldwin County, AL. All Kubota SVL 95-2's like pcamper has but we have been selling Paladin Ground Shark Extreme rotary style heads mostly. They don't do as good a job at mulching the debris into tiny pieces but they're 1/2 to 1/3 the cost and have 4 bush hog style blades versus the carbide teeth on a drum head (lower maintenance costs). We sell both kinds though.

Skid Steer (Compact Track Loader to be specific) machines can be moved with a ton truck and a good trailer (pictured Kubota machine alone is about 12k and head maybe 2500 lbs). Some of the skidder based machines may weigh twice that or more and require a semi truck to move with a lowboy trailer. Different machines for different jobs. If you've got 2-10 acres needing cleared the big machines will usually have an hour minimum and trip charge making that job expensive.

What kills me are all the latter day Frontiersman people we get. They've bought 2-40 acres in Baldwin county and it's so thick Tarzan could swing through it. They will (or want to) buy a little 30-40 hp compact tractor and loader (weighing 3200 lbs plus loader) and a cheap box blade and bush hog and now they think they're going to "clean up" their place.

They will absolutely DESTROY a $20k tractor over a year or two doing a job they could have hired done for $3500-4000 and had done in a week. But if you ask, they'll tell you they are SAVING money. Blows my mind.

Had one today. Guy has a 23 hp SUB compact tractor with a little 4' light duty bush hog (only kind they make in 4' size to my knowledge). He was HIRED any a contractor to clear a 2 acre property. Grown up in head high crap. Wants to know how big a stuff his cutter will take. 1" maximum is my reply.

I suggested Roundup all of it, then burn, to reduce the volume of material.

"How long will Roundup take?" (He has a lawn maintenance company and doesn't know this?)

"Can't burn, its right in town". OK, hire a dozer or mulcher I reply.

"Contractor hired ME to do it, don't think he'd pay $2500". Well, contractor is a dumbass I think to myself, for hiring someone with an overgrown lawnmower who doesn't know what to do.

"Do they make a cutter and tractor I could buy to do the job?" He asks.

"Sure, a Brown Tree cutter and maybe an 80-90 hp tractor to turn it, $7-8k for cutter and $35-40k for tractor" I tell him.

"Well, that's cheaper than buying a CTL and mulching head". I tell him good luck and hang up the phone.