How to Use a Brushcutter | Cut Through Thick Grass, Weeds & Overgrowth - video Dailymotion

Shiva Tanamala

Overgrown weeds, tall grass, or dense brush slowing you down? A brushcutter is a powerful tool built for clearing tough vegetation that standard trimmers can’t handle. In this video, we’ll show you how to safely and effectively operate a brushcutter for landscaping, trail clearing, or site prep.  💡 Pro Tip: Use the right blade for the job—nylon line for light growth, metal blades for thick brush. Swing in a smooth arc and let the cutter do the work. ⚠️ Safety Reminder: Always wear full PPE—eye protection, gloves, boots, and hearing protection. Keep bystanders clear and never operate on uneven terrain without secure footing.  👍 Like, comment, and subscribe for more landscaping gear tutorials and brush clearing tips!  Hashtags: #Brushcutter #LandClearing #WeedControl #OvergrowthRemoval #LandscapingTools #DIYLandscaping #TrailMaintenance

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00:00Well, welcome back. And here we have a brush cutter. Now this is an oversized lawnmower,

00:18but it's not for the lawn, it's not for grass. It's for chopping down weeds, brush, particularly

00:26anything that's kind of thicker than grass. You could go very, very slow with grass, but it tends

00:35to just push it down. So don't wrench your bush hogs and sometimes, that's a slang for this,

00:40brush cutter is what it is normally called, but bush hog is a slang for this piece of equipment.

00:46It's more for knocking down your weeds in a field. Once they start getting up, you know, a foot or a

00:53couple of feet high. And if it gets up too high, maybe three feet, maybe you want to knock it down

00:57a bit with a trimmer first, and then go over it with the brush cutter. Now the blade on this is

01:04different than a lawnmower. Tip it up here and you can see that it's a thick, coarse blade, but the

01:12ends are loose. They spin around. And the reason they're loose is if because in fields or brush,

01:19sometimes you'll hit something and maybe a stump or a piece, hopefully not a rock, but these will flick

01:25back and give some resilience to instead of being broken or bent like your lawnmower blade would, which

01:30is obviously much, much thinner because it's only meant for grass. And these are fairly thick, up to

01:36about a quarter inch thick. So they may take a good chunk out of them, but they won't break and bend.

01:42So you run it at full speed. Now the body on these will tilt. And that's because of the terrain that

01:50you would be going over. Here we foam fill the tires, because believe it or not, in some areas,

01:57even where there's spruce trees or pine trees, the needles will actually get into the tires and give

02:02you flats. So a big benefit to have foam filled tires. Now the big thing on bush hogs or brush cutting

02:12is speed of operation. Now everybody, when they get high weeds, they want to get it knocked down. They

02:19want to get it done. It might be hot. June is a typical month for, for doing and using this piece

02:23of equipment. Dry conditions are the best. Wet conditions are your enemy. So you don't want to be

02:30out there in water. You don't want to be out there in mud. Drier conditions, the material will cut much

02:37better. It'll lay down. You won't get it wrapped around the blades as you would with wet conditions

02:44or high grass. It starts getting wrapped around underneath. And so it'll get shot out or left as

02:51a dry condition. So go very slowly and only go to the speed that you're actually doing and cutting and

02:58breaking things down. If you go very quickly and you're rolling over it and it's laying down, you're not

03:03giving the machine the chance to do its job. Everything is designed to work at a certain pace, at a certain

03:09conditions. And obviously, as we know, conditions vary. So go along slowly. You do have forward, variable

03:17variable forward speed. And you do have reverse. Now you don't cut in reverse. But usually when you're reversing,

03:23you'll tip the machine up to turn around or to get yourself out of a situation. And most all the

03:29machines, you can take this lever on the side here. And you can put it in or out so that you can push the

03:37machine manually or it would be under power. And you move that little lever in and out. And to start the

03:44blades turning, you would push down on the safety. Push the lever down. You'll hear the blades kick on.

03:51Have your machine up at full speed. And then start going along and brush cutting your material. Now

03:58you'll notice on the front, there's no wheels or anything. They're just skid plates. It just skids

04:02along the top of the surface. So obviously, if they've got real muddy or anything, these would be

04:07burying themselves down and getting the blade too close to the material. So take your time loading and

04:14unloading just very slowly up any ramps. Make sure you tie down your load. And don't forget to subscribe.

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