The Fecon Bull Hog: The Ultimate Mulching Machine for Land Clearing

When it comes down to efficiency and effectiveness, the right land-clearing machinery can make all the difference. Enter the Fecon Bull Hog, a top-tier mulcher designed to tackle an array of projects, from large-scale forestry management to residential landscaping. Let’s explore what makes the Fecon Bull Hog a standout choice for professionals in the field.

For a fuller picture of what forestry mulching does for your land, see our guide to the benefits.

What Is the Fecon Bull Hog?

Fit for various configurations—from skid steers to excavators to tractors—The Fecon Bull Hog is a powerful forestry mulcher that efficiently clears land by grinding down vegetation, including trees, underbrush, and stumps. The Bull Hog’s advanced technology enables the machine to transform dense foliage into mulch, which can be left on-site to enrich the soil or removed for disposal.

Key Features of the Fecon Bull Hog

• Durable Teeth: Equipped with replaceable forged or carbide mulcher teeth on an FGT or DCR rotor, the Bull Hog can chew through dense material effortlessly. Carbide teeth are highly resistant to impact and abrasion, offering an extended lifespan.
• Versatile Attachment Options: Compatible with various carriers like skid steers, excavators, and tractors, the Bull Hog provides flexibility, no matter the project.
• Compact Design: Its compact size allows easy maneuverability in tight spaces while offering powerful performance.
• Advanced Mulching Technology: The Bull Hog’s unique design enables it to efficiently mulch even the toughest underbrush, trees, and stumps.

The Bull Hogs for Skid Steers

Standard Flow
Fecon offers a hydraulic Bull Hog mulcher for your standard flow skid steer or compact track loader, running on 17 to 30 GPM, which is ideal for clearing brush, trees, and stumps down to ground level. We recommend this option for trees up to 5″ in diameter.

High Flow
Fecon offers a complete line of hydraulic Bull Hog mulching head attachments, the BH62SS, BH74SS and BH85SS, for your high-flow skid steer on 30 to 50 GPM. Opt for the High Flow if you intend to mulch standing trees 4-6″ in diameter or intermittently process 6-8″ trees.

Blackhawk
Use the Blackhawk mulching head for vegetation management and land clearing needs, especially in regions with higher temperatures and longer growing cycles. It’s designed to process stringy, fibrous, dense, and fast-growing materials quickly.

The Bull Hog for Excavators

Attached to an excavator, the Bull Hog forestry mulcher is perfect for clearing trees and brush along roadsides, ravines, creeks, riverbanks, and places that could otherwise be difficult to reach. See all our options:

35-10 Ton

Designed for 3.5 – 10 ton excavators, this attachment features a split ring rotor design and knife tools for maximum performance. You can also mount this on backhoes and side arm booms.

8-15 Ton
The CEM (Compact Equipment Mulcher) model offers the ideal balance of weight and durability for your excavator, delivering impressive performance on excavators with less power and lifting capacity.

12-20 Ton
Heavy Duty Bull Hog models offer excellent durability and lower weight than Severe Duty models.

15-45 Ton
Our Severe Duty line, the BH40EXC, BH80EXC and BH200EXCXD excavator mulching heads, is by far the most robust attachment available, built to withstand the down-pressure capabilities of larger excavators. For maximum production, pair with our Fecon BHP270 hp power pack.

The Bull Hog for Tractors

PTO Bull Hog
The Fecon PTO Bull Hogs uses innovative cutting technology to deliver superior mulching for land clearing and maintenance for crop perimeters, fence rows, grazing overgrowth, pasture reclamation, and other agriculture and farm operation needs. These versatile PTO mulcher attachments come in three sizes, the RK6013P, RK6015P and RK7316P, to fit a range of 45-110 horsepower tractors.

Bull Hog 150-200 HP
This Bull Hog mulcher for your purpose-built forestry tractor is ideal for clearing brush, trees, and stumps down to ground level. Quickly mulch standing trees and intermittently process up to 8-10″ trees.

Bull Hog 200+ HP
Hydraulic-driven Bull Hogs are configured to provide the best combination of cutting tools, width, weight, and driveline options for operation on open-loop, load sense, or closed-loop hydraulic systems up to 600 hp. Whether you prefer tracked or wheeled prime movers, big or small, to climb slopes, cross wetlands, or drive down paved roads, you can count on the proven reliability and performance of the Bull Hog.

Applications: Where Can You Use the Fecon Bull Hog?

The versatility of the Fecon Bull Hog makes it suitable for a wide range of applications, including:

• Forestry Management: The Bull Hog helps manage tree density and promote healthier growth by clearing and maintaining forests.
• Land Development: The Bull Hog is perfect for preparing land for construction or agricultural use by clearing unwanted vegetation.
• Storm Cleanup: The Bull Hog quickly removes fallen trees and debris after severe weather events, restoring safety and access.
• Utility Right-of-Way Clearing: The Bull Hog ensures utility lines remain accessible by clearing out brush and trees that could obstruct service.
• Farm Maintenance: The Bull Hog helps manage overgrown areas on farms, maintaining land health and usability.

Benefits of Using a Fecon Bull Hog for Land Clearing

We cannot overstate the environmental and practical benefits of the Bull Hog. Here are a few key ones:

• Waste Reduction: By mulching on-site, the Bull Hog minimizes the need to transport debris, reducing our carbon footprint and costs associated with waste disposal.
• Efficient Clearing: The Bull Hog’s powerful performance accelerates the clearing process, allowing for quicker project completion.
• Improved Soil Health: Mulch left on the ground enriches the soil, promoting nutrient cycling and improving land health.
• Invasive Species Management: Effective at controlling invasive plant species, the Bull Hog helps preserve native ecosystems by removing competition for resources.

Find the Right Bull Hog for Your Carrier

Every Bull Hog is matched to its carrier by hydraulic flow first, then by weight class and cutting width. Find your machine in the table below, then follow the link to that head’s full specifications and request a quote. If your carrier sits between two classes, send us the make, model, hydraulic flow and horsepower and we will confirm the right head.

Rotors and Teeth: How the Bull Hog Cuts

The rotor is the spinning drum at the heart of every Bull Hog, and the teeth bolted to it are what actually meets the wood. Getting this pairing right matters more to daily running cost than almost anything else on the machine, because teeth are a wear part and the wrong ones in the wrong ground wear out fast.

Fecon builds Bull Hogs around two rotor systems. The FGT rotor takes four different tool options, three carbide variants and a knife tool, so a contractor can reconfigure the same head for different conditions rather than buying a second machine. The DCR rotor is offered on the larger tractor heads alongside FGT. Larger tractor and excavator heads are available in both configurations.

As a rule of thumb, carbide teeth are the choice for rocky, sandy or abrasive ground because they resist impact and abrasion and hold an edge far longer. Knife tools cut faster and leave a finer finish in clean wood where there is little grit, but they dull quickly if they find stone. Many crews run carbide year round simply because a single unexpected rock can end a set of knives.

Watch for tool holder contact. Once teeth have worn down far enough that the tool holder itself starts touching the material, performance drops and the holder begins taking damage that is far more expensive to put right than a set of teeth. That is the point to order replacements, not later.

The Bull Hog is a drum mulcher, meaning a horizontal rotating drum set with many teeth, rather than a disc mulcher that uses a spinning disc with a small number of fixed blades. A drum mulches material more finely and more evenly, which is why it is the standard for forestry work, while a disc cuts faster but leaves coarser material behind. If you are still deciding between mulcher types, our guide to choosing the right forestry mulcher covers deck, disc and drum in full.

For the complete tooling breakdown, see the Bull Hog teeth and rotor guide, browse genuine Fecon replacement teeth, or view the Bull Hog rotor systems.

What a Bull Hog Costs and How to Get a Price

Fecon does not publish a single list price for the Bull Hog, and there is a practical reason for that rather than an evasive one. A Bull Hog is not one product. It is eleven head families across three carrier types, each available in several cutting widths, each configurable with a different rotor and tooling package, and each needing a mount matched to your specific machine. The same nominal head can differ substantially in price depending on the rotor system, the tool choice, the mount, and options such as the trap door or a variable speed motor.

What that means in practice is that every Bull Hog is quoted per setup. Fecon sells through a dealer network, so the quote comes from the dealer who will also handle your installation, parts and service.

Broadly, cost tracks the same three things that determine which head you need. Larger cutting width costs more than smaller. Higher hydraulic flow classes cost more than standard flow. Severe Duty excavator heads built for 15 to 45 ton machines sit at the top of the range, and standard flow skid steer heads sit at the entry point. Beyond the head itself, budget for replacement teeth as an ongoing consumable, since tooth wear is the main running cost of any forestry mulcher.

To get an accurate price quickly, send us four things: the make and model of your carrier, its hydraulic flow in GPM, its horsepower, and the largest material you expect to cut. With those four details we can confirm the correct Bull Hog head and put a real number in front of you rather than a range.

Request a quote, or find your nearest Fecon dealer. If financing is part of the decision, Fecon offers equipment financing options as well.

Renting, Buying and Finding a Dealer

Fecon builds Bull Hog attachments and sells them through a dealer network rather than direct, which shapes how you go about both renting and buying.

On renting: Fecon does not rent equipment itself, but many Fecon dealers operate rental fleets and will rent a Bull Hog head, often on a machine, by the day, the week or the month. Renting is the sensible route if you have a one-off clearing job, if you want to prove a head works on your carrier before committing, or if you need a second machine for a short peak. The quickest way to find out what is available near you is to contact your local dealer directly, because rental fleets vary by region and by season.

On buying: your dealer handles the quote, the mount matched to your carrier, the installation and the ongoing parts and service relationship. That last part matters more than buyers often expect. A forestry mulcher is a wear machine, and having a dealer nearby who stocks genuine teeth and rotor parts is the difference between an afternoon of downtime and a fortnight of it.

On used machines: Fecon Bull Hog heads hold their value and turn up regularly on the used market. If you are looking at a used head, check the tooth and tool holder condition first, confirm the model against your carrier’s hydraulic flow using the spec table above, and check that replacement teeth for that rotor are still available. Fecon still stocks genuine replacement teeth and kits for legacy models as well as current ones.

Find a Fecon dealer near you, or contact us and we will put you in touch with the right one.

Why Choose the Fecon Bull Hog for Your Mulching Needs?

Professionals consistently choose the Bull Hog for their mulching needs for plenty of reasons. From performance to durability to versatility, the Bull Hog can handle even the most challenging mulching tasks while delivering high-quality results. Whether you’re in forestry, agriculture, or landscaping, the Bull Hog can help you achieve your land management goals effectively. Have questions? Contact us today!