Earlier this season our forestry mower cleared dozens of acres of firebreaks to make way for controlled forest burns. Running a 9-ft diamond-tipped mulching head, the machine cuts straight through thick brush and takes down standing birch up to 20 feet in a single pass — leaving a clean, defensible edge that contains a prescribed burn instead of feeding it.
Mechanical firebreak work is the unglamorous half of a burn program: get the perimeter right and the burn does the restoration work for you.