For a walk behind it does well, but like you describe, its surely nasty work on the operator in some conditions like you seem to have. I've done quite a bit of clearing back growth like that and its not so easy on a rotary mower and tractor, I'd prefer a dozer, but like you are doing you use what you have, just take your time if you can. Good time of year too, no ground wasps or even worse the white face hornets. I came real close to disturbing one of those 12 or so years back, glad I saw it and left it alone, that would be worse than getting dragged through multiflora!
The darned vines here are beyond belief, some are strong enough to hold up a 6' rotary mower, I had mine lift up high enough from the tail wheel getting caught, to video it running underneath. Sometimes they do pull off the trees. This work has prompted me to think about beefing up the back side of the mower, make some kind of catch for vines like this to hook onto them to pull them down. The tail wheel does this nicely, but its not strong enough to push or pull all that much, so you really have to work slowly. Beefing up the back of the mower would seem to work, so I can push over small trees and bushes, then just shred the tops or to where the mower has reached its maximum cutting thickness. However the 3 pt hitch is not really meant for this so within some confines it would work, beyond that its just abuse. I did a lot of this work this year, to maintain perimeters of old fields, sure is nasty work, glad I'm done for awhile with it.
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