A large part of picking a ex size has to do with how hard you wanna make it to move the machine. That aside, I would use a 240 to 330 with a stump harvester. This winter a clearing/grinding contractor did the new walmart site. He had a 270 with a stump harvester handling the stumps and splitting trees for the grinder. I watched the 270 work and was impressed with how much got done, made it look easy. Woulda taken som
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