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I've used a DR and a BillyGoat, similar machine.  There's nothing they won't 
cut and grind up to 3" diameter saplings.

We  have about 7 acres that need hogged every once in a while due to the 
invasion of JoePie weed, iron weed, goldenrod, and ragweed.   The goats will 
nibble all those but since goats are hard wired not to eat below about 18" on 
the 
plant, it just provokes them into branching and growing more rank.

Consider the alternative of renting the machine once or twice a year rather 
than buying it.  The really heavy machine that sells for about $4000 rents 
here 
for $50 a day (24 hour rental).  You could use it twice a year for 40 years 
before you could pay for it.  The fly in this ointment is that ten acres in a 
day could be done, but it would wear you slap out!

I've got a scythe snath with a short brush blade.  Well peened and honed  it 
fells the rankest weeds with less (yes that's LESS) effort than drovering the 
big walk behind bush hog.  Most people who haven't done it imagine that 
scything is very heavy labor of swinging the thing like a demented samurai.  
That's 
not how it's done.  You rest the heel of the scythe on the ground and scoot 
it 
along as if you were shaving the pasture.  The scythe with the brush blade 
stays oiled up an under the eave of the chicken coop.  Whenever anyone has a 
spare twenty or thirty minutes, they grab it and amuse themselves in the 
pasture. 
 Over the course of a season the whole holding gets gone over twice or more 
without anyone much breaking into a sweat over it at any one time.