What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Since I already had some damage from sticks poking through the factory front plastic grill, I installed this Lown Performance grill guard. Had to pack it with washers to get it sorta centered, as the guard is about an inch wider than the attachment points. Crooked enough to bug me, but good enough until warm weather.
Also wrapped a bunch of my hydraulic hoses with protective spiral wrap you can see in first pic. My hoses for the grapple have taken a beating.
Also wrapped a bunch of my hydraulic hoses with protective spiral wrap you can see in first pic. My hoses for the grapple have taken a beating.
OntheRidge
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I put my chain box (ammo can) on the ROPS (still haven't painted the one for the chain). I just used ammo cans and some brackets that I made to fit existing holes in the ROPS just above the fender on the lower section on both sides. Not sure what they were intended for, but apparently was for me to bolt on a couple ammo boxes. I keep some very basic tools and a rag for working attachments on the left side(the orange one), and a 20 foot 3/8" chain on the right. I still need to consider a carry-all because I'm usually doing something that requires shovel, axe, pickaxe, hammer, wedges, rake, pitchfork, hoe, weedeater, etc etc etc when I go out on the tractor. BUT, I don't have room in my shed to store it, meaning I'd have to unload it every task/project. Still better than walking back to the shed because I need that one-more-tool and then not having enough room to carry everything back. Most times, I just use a little homemade trailer I built, which serves very well, but isn't capable of carrying much more than about 500 pounds. It was designed to pull behind my riding mower (pre LX2610SU) so wasn't much point in making it heavier.
This was taken just after I finished the installation of the Summit 3FV kit for the grapple. The shop is a complete mess at the moment awaiting fairer weather for a good cleaning. I used the ammo cans from Harbor Freight, and already had one hinge failure (on the orange one). The spot welds for the hinge on the lid popped loose. No biggie. I just drilled each of the spot welds, then closed them back up with a wire welder, and voila! That hinge ain't coming off again. I like the detachable lids on the ammo boxes. I take the lid off the green one, pull one end of the chain out and drop it. It rattles a bit coming out, but between the fat tires and the inertia of the chain coming out, it doesn't touch the fender.
X2 on the Quick hitch. Most of them have Cat 2 lower hooks and top link. That's always puzzled me. You're going to need some adapter bushings for the lift pins and the top link to make them fit to eliminate a lot of slop in the pin pockets which will cause undue wear to the pins and the QH. Tractor Supply has Cat 1 to Cat 2 and Cat 2 to Cat 3 bushings. They're a perfect fit, but make sure you're paying attention to whether you're grabbing Lift Arm bushings or Top Link Bushings. The lift arm pins are usually larger than the top link pins.
I got the Harbor Freight Speeco knockoff for about $100. ALL QH's seem to have laser or plasma cut hooks on the bottom and are very square on top. That tends to make them hang on things rather than hook them and pick them up. I tapered the corners on mine (leaving the gullet full thickness for strength) which helps guide them into the pin pockets on some of the implements, and the taper on the top of the hook helps pull it in around the pin. RARELY do I ever have a problem hooking anything up now, and seldom get off the tractor. I usually leave the latches down and can hear that loud snap when the latches engage after passing the lift pin. There is an aftermarket top hook for the Speeco and it's clones that pushes the top hook out an additional 5/8 inch. Sometimes the top pin on the implement is the biggest problem to connect and won't let the implement fully engage on the bottom hooks. I gnawed on it with the grinder some in a few places which drastically improved it without replacing the top hook. So far, so good, haven't needed the replacement. It takes me longer to drive to the attachment than it does to connect it. I can swap out implements in seconds without leaving the seat of the tractor. If the attachment has a prop, though (such as my landscape rake), I do have to get off at least once to stow that or deploy it when changing implements.
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I chamfered the edges of the latch supports too because they tended to hang on the pin pockets of my box blade rather than going in. Some would call me a poor/lazy driver for not aligning the tractor better, but if my objective was to make it easier to swap implements, job done.
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Rounding the corners off helped tremendously with the QH, especially on implements that have closed pockets for the lift pins.
Cleared the lane today, only the second time this season. I have the snow pusher on the front and the box blade on the rear. It seems to be a good combo. The pusher does most of the work, then the blade scrapes the off the last bit. Plus they both add weight/traction.
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The Orange started a job down the road today. Old growth mesquites are staying. Cleaning out the thick canopy below, heavy trees and brush all got to go. I running out places to stack the brush piles.
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Are they harvesting the trees? What are the plans for the wood if they are harvesting them (firewood, BBQ wood, charcoal…)
Curious minds want to know!
Beautiful! Dang that looks peaceful. Hallmark movie scene lol.
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Everything gets burned in piles the size of school buses. Everything is invasive species except Live Oak trees. The older growth mesquites and Live oaks will remain. This area is in a flood plain, the native grasses do really well here if sunlight can reach the ground.
There is no shortage of mesquite bbq wood around here.
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Service and work all day!!
Waiting(paid machine hourly...) on rock truck to repair a driveway, then back to clearing.
Waiting(paid machine hourly...) on rock truck to repair a driveway, then back to clearing.
Picked up a bigger back blade for scraping the driveway today, 7 foot which will come in handy seeing as I added 3 inch spacers to the LX2610 last fall for an increase in stability plus clearance for tire chains.
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Russell King
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Sorry I misunderstood your original post. But more curiosty…. What are the invasive species of trees you are removing?
There are a lot of Chinaberry around here, and now the Vitex Chaste trees are loose also. For now we have them all gone but I wouldn’t say they will stay gone. There are too many mesquite trees (brush) trying to come up but they are somewhat easy to eliminate them with a trencher or a post hole digger. And they don’t spread all that fast. The oak wilt eliminated almost all the live oak but there are small (baby) ones trying to make a comeback.
I am sure you have plenty of invasive grasses (KR Bluestem and others) and invasive weeds. We have plenty of bamboo and Giant Reed around, but none on my property. We are working on our 5 acres to get rid of the beggar’s lice and Johnson grass that was just everywhere. It is slowly coming to eradication on those two. Now onto the burr clover!
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Over 100 years ago, this area was grassland prairie with scattered oaks.
Wildfires were not extinguished back in day and native Americans would also intentionally set fires. Some locals have some old tin pictures and I swear you can't see a tree in the background for miles.
There's like 30 trees/brush species down here that are invasive, most commin; mesquite, huisache, persimmon, hackberry, honey locus, acacia, and prickly pear, mex cactus
Is this a view of your truck's bed or a trailer? At first glance it looks like a truck bed haha.