Why do you use a toothbar?

[Mossy dell]

Field olives and fence lines are the reason I bought a Piranha for my B3200. I got tired of the olives coming back after brush hogging my property. Now I just lower the bucket and the bar grabs them and rips them out of the ground. Makes it easy to mulch with the brush hog and they don't come back. It also comes in handy when getting in to the fence rows to pop out the multiflora rose and other invasive plants. Nice to be able to lower the bucket to the ground and sheer plants off or rip them out. I have tried digging a bit but with our clay, the FEL on a B3200 is not the tool to use alone.

I am getting ready to put the Piranha on my bucket and wonder if anyone has used it to shear off small pines? I'd like to try thinning some pines without tearing up the soil, so going for their roots is probably out. But being softwoods, I wonder if they'd cut fairly easily with the Piranha?

 

[johnjk]

I would bet you will pop the roots out. Pines are surface roots so soil disturbance should be minimal