The shear is the single best tool in cedar control available. We are clearing at a rate of 15-20 machine hours a week right now. Amazing what a quick difference it makes in the look of the land and the quality of the grass and browse. Our goal is the get the ranch back to what it looked at in 1900 less the metal barn, about to be built house, etc.
The only thing I see that I would do different, and I'm no expert, is that I would use a curved blade setup like they use on the jaws of life. The blades, when tip to tip, look like a parrot beak. That way, one you get them around the tree, they don't push back, they just snip it off. But again, I'm no expert, just going by fire service experiences. Good work otherwise.
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