McLeod

[SoCalDeere]

What kind of tools to make it do You have avalable?

Do you have a tractor parts supply company near you ?

Sickle bar replacement teeth would make a great set of cutters
You can bolt them in a row on a piece of angle bar stock
Than add a handle

[Boating Bill]

The usual application up here in the Sierra is to cut into and drag forest duff: pine needles, deciduous leaves, pollens, grasses, The teeth also help tear though the Bear Clover (aka Mountain Misery), a woody resinous, stemmed pungent fern-like leaf subterranean racine building poisonous to other plants plant, Step 2 of the fuel ladder.
The hoe end is for scooping up dirt and gravel to cover the barrier wall of duff and Bear Clover. Pines tend to have a lot of near surface roots that are a royal PITA.
When you're 21 years old and you're working the fire line at 7,600 ft at 112°F in 45 lbs of equipment for 12 hours and it's day 8 and your tool gets stuck on a root and that's the last thing you have to clear before evacuating to cooler ground you tend to get impatient.