"BUSH HOG" info needed

My old "bush hog" ( unknown brand) (3 point hookup) is on its very last legs and am in the process of looking for a new one.. Another 3 point ?,  tow behind ?  The main use will be to whack at the red and willow brush that keeps popping up in the pasture area and along side my one field.. Another use will be to chop up that 6' canary grass.

My friend has a 3pt. 7' Woods BrushBull, He says it does such a nice job you could cut a lawn with it.  I have a very heavy duty 6' no-name 3pt mower that does a very crappy job on grass/brush, I would spend the extra money for a nice one next time.

Thanks  for the prelim info...especially the 6' idea..Bush Hog has been around a while and is on the top of the list to consider.. The last one lasted around 15 years ( sometimes abused !!)  and the repairs are getting to be a pain in the ass.. Been thinking that the 3 pt. would be better to manuever ( backwards sometimes) than a tow behind type.

I would consider a 7' with a D17 , in the tuff stuff you can always use the hand clutch to creep through and you will be as wide or close as wide as your tractor.  I use my 6' on my 32 HP john Deere compact, but it is a hydro and I go as slow as I need to the the tuff stuff.

I have had good luck with the light duty LandPride 6'. I used to run them around 400 hours doing custom work and then resell them for a couple hundred less than I paid for them. I now run a medium duty JD 8 footer twin rotor....cover a lot of ground but doesn't cut as clean as the LandPride. A 7' would be a good choice, but the price almost doubles for a 7 because not as many are sold...a 6 foot is probably the best value out there because they make (and sell) a ton of them. I was able to get my LP in Kabota orange....close to persian.

The problem with the two spindle is that they rotate in the direction to pick up the grass laid down by the tractor tires, which is great.  The blades are timed 90 degrees apart so there is some overlap and no strip that way. The problem is both blades moving forward in the middle of the deck (and in tall grass  the front of the mower bends it forward) so the blades tend to just strip the grass in the center unless you are cutting real short or going real slow. On a single spindle the blades are cutting sideways at the front, and strip the grass only on the rh side...which can be recut by overlapping the next pass if you cut in circles. You only get about a 4 1/2 foot cut out of a 6 foot mower, but it is a nice even field. I can get a full 8' cut in short grass with the JD, but if it is tall the front tires splay it out sometimes and the mower misses it...I just run the front tire half on the uncut grass and it seems to work well.

I bought a Woods BB84 for my 170. It does avery good job.

Dad has an old Woods BO-80.  It is an offset mower that my gradndad pulled behind his WC which is now my pulling tractor.  Dad uses it behind the WD now and it still does good after ???years.  It will leave a small trail as Eldon says about JD, but it is not a timed unit.  It has 6 V belts running everything  the offset is nice for mowing along fence/creeks

David KY wrote: I bought a Woods BB84 for my 170. It does avery good job.

I love that setup!!!

I bought a used 7' Bushhog last year and used it a little, but it scalped a lot more than the 6' due to the increased length....it is amazing how little the twin rotor JD scalps with the two rear wheels and short deck. I would only get a 7' if you have fairly even terrain.