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The following brush cutting tips will save you time, energy, and hopefully the budget for your brush removal projects.

Brush Cutting Tip #1: Dress for Safety & Comfort. Be sure to dress for the weather while wearing as little loose clothing as possible. It’s also a good idea to wear brightly-colored clothing to make yourself visible to others.

Brush Cutting Tip #2: Give the area a walk-through before cutting. Areas that need brush mowing can be filled with stumps, rocks and trash. Make sure to go through the area to find and, when possible, remove these items. Your brush cutter will thank you for it!

Brush Cutting Tip #3: Mark any obstacles. Once you have done the walk-through, it’s a good idea to mark any obstacles that cannot be removed from the cutting area with fluorescent tape or cloth. That way you’ll see those stumps and rocks before your brush mower meets them. [...]

Brush mowers, or brush cutters for rental are often seen as a necessary evil by equipment rental yards. On one hand, there can be a high demand for them and that demand can come from a variety of customer segments: from homeowners looking to clear their property of a season’s or more worth of growth, to contractors and land management organizations that need to maintain trails or clearing brush from the sides of highways. However, along with this demand, there are issues that arise with brush cutters in rental: they are seen as a product with a limited season and, because of the nature of work that they do, they can be high-maintenance as well.

At Orec, we hear these concerns when we visit local yards around the country. But when rental professionals do decide [...]