It's a learning experience, for the most part, trees and tractors just don't mix.
I've had similar experiences, it is good policy to stay out from brush and trees, if whatever you are running does not have good protection, even then, things poke through protection like thick woven metal screens like what you see on crawlers set up for the woods.
Just last week, I had a darned staghorn sumac, come up between the loader frame and tractor, slid up to the outside of my leg, rubbed me but good, but it could have skewered my leg just the same. I've gotten away with a lot clearing brush and fallen trees, but it is without a doubt, nasty and extremely dangerous work. Last week I tried pushing an uprooted cherry, 8" or so, and I know that if I went far enough, it could have came off the bucket, right up the loader arms and probably taken my head off. This thing was so strong that I could push it and spring load it enough that it would push the tractor right back, up hill !!! I knew it was time to quit before I got started, or they'd find me on this old ford 850, with no head LOL ! Not good. Best to get the saw out and clear safely. Ice storm, Dec., 2008 sure made a real mess, still trying to clear some of it.
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