Using a tractor with a plow and mulcher to create a firebreak ⋆

Kubota B7001 with a plow and mulcher to create a firebreak

To make a firebreak, in this case we use a Kubota 7001 tractor with a plow, depending on the task, a small or medium plow. But if the area is heavily overgrown with grass, literally a jungle, with bushes, a firebreak cannot be made without clearing the plants. If the task is more difficult, we use a more powerful tractor. But it will be more difficult to pull it out of the swamp, if necessary.

Kubota B7001 is a small tractor that was produced between 1976 and 1979. The strength and reliability of the model is amazing: now is 2025. The Kubota 7001 tractor was designed as a universal tractor for various agricultural works. Kubota B7001 has a three-cylinder diesel engine, which provided enough power to perform most tasks for farmers, for forestry workers.

Creating a fire protection strip, we use a tractor with a plow, depending on the task, a small or medium plow. But if the area is heavily overgrown with grass, literally a jungle, with bushes, a fire protection strip cannot be made without clearing the plants.

Order land site treatment, plowing of a protective strip from ground fires

For this, we use a trailed mechanized mulcher, which is mechanically connected to the tractor’s power take-off shaft. The mulcher turns the vegetation into a crushed form that is suitable for plowing with a plow and creating a mineralized fire protection strip.

But sometimes there are incidents – the tractor on the trajectory gets into waterlogged clay soil and has to be pulled out with a winch. The video shows just such a case when the tractor got stuck in wet clay. The customer was offered to manually clear the area and continue the fire protection strip by plowing with a forest plow.

By equipping the tractor with a bulldozer blade, we can fill the flooded small area with soil to create a solid strip of soil.