There are times when I wish my brush hog was wider than my tractor"s rear wheels, since I have not figured out a good way to take care of edges with the 5 foot wide machine I have. Things would look better if I could get closer to fences. My 641D handles the 5 foot brush hog just fine, in almost anything I have ever tried to cut. But maybe a wider machine would have trouble bogging down.
One thing not mentioned so far, is the NEED for an Over Running Coupler when using any size brush hog with a Ford tractor. It is flat SCARY for the tractor to continue going forward after you have put in the clutch for a stop, propelled by the huge flywheel effect of the brush hog blade assembly. An ORC will let the PTO driveline to harmlessly ratchet, allowing the tractor to slow or stop normally. I have seen ORC"s at farm stores for between $60 and $100. I think they are well worth the expense and work to install them. It only took one time having the tractor almost hit a fence to make a believer out of me!
I guess I would try to decide on buying the larger brush hog by thinking about how much they want for it. I am assuming it is used. I would probably buy it and try it out to see if it would do the job I was asking it to do with the tractor I had to use it with. And if it was just too big for my tractor, I would try to sell it to someone with a larger tractor. Good luck!
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