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Nine guides, one cluster

Start at the hub if you are still choosing a category. Go straight to a spoke if you already know what the work is and need the carrier match, the hydraulic demand and the honest limitations.
00 · Pillar

Forestry Machinery and Excavator Attachments: The Australian Buyer's Guide

A commercial buyer's guide to forestry attachments in Australia. Tree shears, stump grinders, mulchers, grapple saws, grabs, pruners and tillage tools matched to carrier size, hydraulic flow and job type.

8 min · 7 sources cited · reviewed Sept 2026
OMEF BIG INCH BI500 tree shear in green, mounted on the stick of a John Deere 200D LC excavator in a contractor's yard
012–50 t

Tree Shears: What They Do, What They Cost You, and When They Pay

Fell and hold standing timber in one motion

6 min · 5 questions answered
Trevi Benne WE 010 stump cutter closing its toothed jaw on an extracted stump, surrounded by split timber and root debris
0211.5–28 t

Stump Cutters: The Attachment Most Buyers Confuse With a Stump Grinder

Split and size extracted stumps for processing

6 min · 5 questions answered
Orange and blue Dipperfox SC600 stump grinder on a backhoe boom, standing over the pile of coarse wood chips it has just produced
031.5–30 t

Stump Grinders for Excavators: Cost Per Stump Is the Only Metric That Matters

Destroy stumps in place, in ground

7 min · 5 questions answered
OMEF TE series forestry mulcher on an excavator, showing the fixed-tooth rotor, front pusher bar and hydraulic hose routing
041–30 t

Forestry Mulchers: Buying by the Hectare, Not by the Brochure

Reduce standing vegetation to mulch in one pass

7 min · 5 questions answered
OMEF GS400 grapple saw on a compact Kubota excavator, jaws open beside a standing trunk in autumn woodland with a cut log on the ground
053–30 t

Grapple Saws: The Attachment That Takes People Out of the Tree

Cut and hold simultaneously, from the ground

8 min · 6 questions answered
Green OMEF PFIMX log grapple closed around a freshly cut hardwood log, with more logs laid out on the ground behind it
0613–25 t

Log and Forestry Grabs: The Highest-Utilisation Attachment You Will Own

Move timber, brash and biomass

7 min · 5 questions answered
OMEF TG series hydraulic hedge trimmer on an excavator arm, its disc head set vertically against a tall beech hedge
07Excavator / telehandler

Mechanical Pruning: The Category That Sells Recurring Revenue

Trim, shape and cut without gripping

7 min · 5 questions answered
Green OMEF CPT series soil compactor on a red excavator, consolidating the fill on a benched mountain access track
082–20 t

Tillage and Ground Preparation: Getting Paid for the Second Half of the Job

Drill, compact and work soil after clearing

7 min · 5 questions answered