Mechanical eng. student here working on an idea

Curious how people are actually dealing with soft rush on wet ground. feels like a problem without a good answer.

The pattern I keep seeing: rush thrives on the wettest ground, and that's the ground where a normal tractor and topper can't go without causing damage. Even where you can get on, topping alone doesn't really solve it since the cut rush is left lying there rather than removed, and it just grows back through it.

There are low ground pressure tracked machines that can cut and actually collect the material even on very soft ground, but they seem to exist purely in the conservation/reserve management world — hired in with an operator, not something built for a working farm to own outright.

Wondering if that lines up with what people are actually seeing on their ground, or if the real bottleneck is something else — cost, timing, labour. If anyone's used a tracked cutter on rushy pasture, genuinely interested in whether it was worth it.