Go rent a tractor with a front loader and a 15ft batwing mower. Put the loader down about a foot off the ground and start mowing.

 

All depends what you want to do with it.
You could turn it into hay fields, plant some sort of crops are let it go it all or some go back to nature.
You could talk to the farmer next to the property who has something growing in rows in top part of the picture. Was the owner or your family of the land friendly with the Property Owners bordering the 50 acres?

 

What equipment do you have to work with? Tractor with bush hog, Z turn mower or what?

 

Take a tractor with a bushog and clean it up and see what's there. Get any big rocks and debris if any out of there. Then if you feel you want to grow hay get a hold of a bigger tractor like 4020 or 4320 john deere and work the ground and get it fit to grow something other than weeds.

 

Go rent a tractor with a front loader and a 15ft batwing mower. Put the loader down about a foot off the ground and start mowing.

What equipment do you have to work with? Tractor with bush hog, Z turn mower or what?

Take a tractor with a bushog and clean it up and see what's there. Get any big rocks and debris if any out of there. Then if you feel you want to grow hay get a hold of a bigger tractor like 4020 or 4320 john deere and work the ground and get it fit to grow something other than weeds.

Some people will Bush hog it for free for the hay. You would need a 12' + bat wing Bush hog to get it done quickly. Hire a pro if you have no experience

Bush hog that and knock it out, make sure you get any rocks out of it.

Then I see a big tractor purchase in your future.

Thank you all for the input.
I don't have any equitment myself, so I'll mostly likely rent a Tractor with front loader with a batwing and see how it turn out, and I'll definately need to purchase the equipments in the future.
There aren't any rocks in the field.
What other type of equipment will i need to grow a hay field?

 

Some people will Bush hog it for free for the hay. You would need a 12' + bat wing Bush hog to get it done quickly. Hire a pro if you have no experience

 

Bush hog that and knock it out, make sure you get any rocks out of it.

Then I see a big tractor purchase in your future.

 

All depends what you want to do with it.
You could turn it into hay fields, plant some sort of crops are let it go it all or some go back to nature.
You could talk to the farmer next to the property who has something growing in rows in top part of the picture. Was the owner or your family of the land friendly with the Property Owners bordering the 50 acres?

The farmer next to the property is growing Blueberries in rows, I guess we can say we are quite friendly.
From scale 1 to 10 how hard is growing a hay field? 1 being a backyard lawn, 10 being a blueberry field? LOL

 

Not sure why a front end loader is needed. No one around here Bush hogs with a loader on. You don't want the grass lay down

 

Its not going to lay it down to affect the cut. Heck the bushhog its self will lay it down more than the bucket. You use the bucket to hopefully hit or catch anything that you would run over in the tractor or the the bushhog and tear it up. Like a rock, old tree stump, big log, a random piece of trash dumped out there....

 

You're not going to tear up a Bush hog. They have stump jumpers on them. The blades are huge and swivel. You just stop the tractor if you feel a big object like a log. But the Bush hog is made for rough cutting. You hit something with a loader and you might get thrown off the tractor. Like I said there are many farms around here. Nobody Bush hogs with a loader in the close to the ground position. Rarely even see one on during Bush hogging. Tractors are not bull dozers.
He will need spare pins for the Bush hog. There is one at the clutch. The clutch is there to keep you from damaging the gear box. There is also one at the gear box. These are made to break off if you hit something like a hump etc. Can be a pain to put back on. These are built in safe guards. Usually fields are pretty clean and have been Bush hogged before.
City lots are where you risk running over bottles and other trash dumped
There is no place around here where you can rent a tractor and a Bush hog. Most people either buy one or hire a pro. Really be the same or cheaper to hire a professional than rent a tractor and a Bush hog. I rented a chipper a long time ago and it was $40 per hour back then. So you are talking two pieces of equipment. Fuel and rental

 

berlinbai,
I would hire-out the first mowing.
There's always the possibility of damaging the rented eq. & having to deal with that.
Something as simple as a flat tire can turn into a major headache.

Grassfire,
I've got an open-station utility-type tractor on the rotary mower so I sit lower than a row-crop type.
If I'm cutting tall saplings & weeds, they'll pop up after going under the front axle & scrape along the sides & bottom of the tractor.
I've had wiring damaged, gotten slapped in the face & showered with seeds & pollen, etc.
I use the loader to bend everything down enough to not assault me or the tractor.

 

Different techniques in different part of the world i guess. I contract mowed a thousand miles of interstate and highway in Louisiana for over 10 years. And i know the ends and out of a bush hog and can probably take a john deere brand apart and put it together with my eyes closed. we've hit stuff on the side of the road that just destroyed 15 and 20 foot batwings. A stump jumper only stops so much but run over a big piece of steel or a spare 18 wheeler tire and stuff is breaking seen it to many times. Those clutches only do so much. 9 times out of ten your breaking the yolk on the pto shaft or even the main pto coming out the back of the tractor. And anyone with sense isnt going to be going fast enough across a grown up field they know nothing about to hit something hard enough with a bucket down to tear it up. Im also not saying for regular mowing practices with the bucket but if im sending 150,000 dollars worth of equipment into an over grown field that i have no clue whats in there myself or a worker will have the bucket down just as added precaution. But sure a farmer thats mowed his place for years and know his land like the back of his hand wouldn't need to do that

 

Highway department here does not use buckets. They take a lot more risk than field mowing. I agree with that. I did mention City lots as having junk in them. Not much risk in field mowing. SC main industry is agriculture. Nobody uses a bucket.
If you are getting hit with weeds then you need a bigger tractor that sits up higher. Referring to the other poster, tech.
The biggest risk to Bush hogging is rolling the tractor over. Not seeing a drop off in high grass

 

Go rent a tractor with a front loader and a 15ft batwing mower. Put the loader down about a foot off the ground and start mowing.

Agreed!

 

Really? So this guy is going to rent a 15' bat wing. Do you know how big of a tractor you need to pull a 15 foot bat wing? 80 plus hp . So this newbie is going to drive and operate a big tractor and Bush hog. Not to mention how to get it to the job site. The rental cost. One flat on a big tractor like that would cost $100 or more to get repaired. Get a flat out in the field would really complicate things. The newbie also has to learn how to operate the hydraulics of the lift

 

Hey berlin,
Where are you?
State & general area?
Was gonna lookup your cash rental rates for ya.

 

If your out in the country, which it sounds like you are, maybe talk to neighboring farmers and see if you can maybe set up something with them. Either pay them to do it or trade some other service with them. Just an idea.