Cutters & Shredders

Around here it’s a shredder. The catalog calls it a rotary cutter. Either way, it’s the implement that keeps a pasture from turning back into brush. Hang it on the three-point, drop it, and go. Fence lines, roadsides, the back forty, the strip along the creek where the yaupon comes up every summer.

There are two questions before you buy one. How wide, and how heavy. Width is about the acres you cover and the horsepower on your tractor. A cutter that’s too wide for the tractor bogs down in thick grass. Weight is about what you’re cutting. Mowing grass and a few weeds is one thing. Chewing up saplings and mesquite is another, and it takes a heavier deck, a stouter gearbox and a stump jumper.

Got real acreage? A flex-wing cutter folds up for the road and opens up wide for the field, so you cover more in a pass.

At our Conroe, Navasota, Normangee and Buna stores, cutters fit most brands of tractor. Our Bryan store carries Bad Boy, and Bad Boy makes rotary cutters and a flex-wing for Bryan buyers.

Bring your tractor’s model and horsepower and tell us what’s growing. Browse our implements on j5tractors.com, or come by and look at one up close.