What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[RMS]

Not the 5" that was called for but plenty to get out and play in. I turned on pandora and listened to a mix of Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, Alan Jackson ( you get the picture) and just enjoyed. Forgot all about the crap going on in the world for a while and smiled. It doesn't get any better than that.

Hopefully by the end of the week we will have bare ground again so I can start removing hardscaping from the backside of the house in prep for an addition to give my wife a nice sewing room.

 

[In Utopia]

Sometimes, a wider width can be an advantage or a hinderance.

I wished my BB was 6-12" wider when grading the patio - - would have been easier to get close to the house.

Often, I use it for a counterweight like @NCL4701 mentions. Then wider is not necessarily a good thing, especially in tight quarters if the BB is wider than your loader bucket....

Yep, you sure can get into trouble with one that's wider than the tractor. I was using my free 7' box blade and wham, snagged a tree root and it spun me around. Getting it out wasn't fun.

 

[biketopia]

I bought a box blade at first, was great to bring my driveway back to life after years of neglect by the previous owner. It's also been handy around the house for other dirt-moving projects and loaning out to buddies. Last year I bought a land plane for the driveway and man it's so much easier & quicker. It's great for a quick maintenance run every few weeks. I spread out a few yards of gravel with the bucket on Friday and then spent 20-30 min going back and forth to bring the driveway back to life.

 

[BBFarmer]

I mean the 3901 has benefit of more horsepower so it can probably pull the 72 inch box a lot better than my 2501.

You'd be surprised what that 2501 can actually pull. I bet a couple proud owners could chime in with some shocking stats.

I know my 3301 never had a problem. A couple times with the scarifires all the way down in hard ground it'd get you.

Never knew the weight of the landplane I had. It was a cat 2 and all I could do to get it hooked up. It was unusable without the loader. And even with the loader on, on one spot of my driveway that has a roundabout, if I turned slightly it would dig in and raise the front tires up.

I figured at some point a 3pt arm was going to break off or something. But that ole 3301 always handled it like a boss.

 

[ken erickson]

It is normal to get wet heavy spring snows even into early April here in Central Wisconsin. We had a 4 inch snow a few days ago and waited till today to remove ( sick with a sinus infection etc). This might be the last snow removal for the 2024/2025 season.

Completely un-related but some might notice the "hazy" appearance to my LaView security camera. The camera is shaped like a light bulb and screws into my front porch light which is a carriage light fixture type. Anyways a spider made a nest in it this last summer, and due to me not being able to reach up into it to clean out the web I grabbed a can of deep woods off, (only thing I had) and sprayed up and around the camera. Obvious the camera uses a plastic lens and the Deep Woods Off must have melted or hazed the lens. Lesson learned! Good thing they are cheap, about 25 dollars.

 

[forky]

I hope you are right about this being the last snow removal Ken, but Spring like
weather sure isn't what we have had lately. The last snow hasn't even melted
off the hanging trees yet.
I enjoyed the 45 minutes on the tractor cleaning up the snow though.

 

[ken erickson]

I hope you are right about this being the last snow removal Ken, but Spring like
weather sure isn't what we have had lately. The last snow hasn't even melted
off the hanging trees yet.
I enjoyed the 45 minutes on the tractor cleaning up the snow though.

I do not want to jinx anyone living in central Wi but here are some pictures of the 2 foot plus snow , April 15th of 2018. Yikes. lol

 

[RCW]

I do not want to jinx anyone living in central Wi but here are some pictures of the 2 foot plus snow , April 15th of 2018. Yikes. lol


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Might have been the same storm but recall a foot-plus here in Central NYS about that date. Real wet/heavy.

My snowblower is still on but will be coming off shortly.

 

[RCW]

Might have been the same storm but recall a foot-plus here in Central NYS about that date. Real wet/heavy.

My snowblower is still on but will be coming off shortly.

Took blower off today.

 

[RCW]

Took blower off today.

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…..and put loader on. Guess I can take my winter work lights off, and need to put the skid plate on before I get into the ton of limbs/sticks that have blown down over the winter. Picked up most of the big ones.

 

[NCL4701]

Eight bushes in front of one of the houses were out of control. Couple years ago they were nearly to the gutter line and covering the whole front of the house, including the walkway to the front door, like a giant hedge. Pruned them back to just below window sills and about a foot from the walkway, but that left rather large spikey limbs exposed that weren’t great visually and were downright hostile to anyone or anything that brushed against them.
This year, gave up on them and cut down seven of them. Left with these sprawling multi-stemmed stump clusters.

Stump grinder took them out rather efficiently.

Definitely not finished but at least now we have something we can work with.

Left the smallest one on the corner.

All washed up and ready to put away until next time.

 

[nerwin]

I need to rent a stump grinder this year to get rid of a very large stump. Too much to dig it out with the tractor...would rather just grind it down low and cover it with top soil. I have a few more stumps to remove in a location that would be a little sketchy with the tractor so when I get the stump grinder, I'll just whack those while I'm at it. I'm hoping to get one with tracks on it this time...will make it easier than the wheel one I used a few years ago.

 

[Sidekick]

…..and put loader on. Guess I can take my winter work lights off, and need to put the skid plate on before I get into the ton of limbs/sticks that have blown down over the winter. Picked up most of the big ones.

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Geesh, it's snowing up here again . March came in like a lion and is going out like a lion this year. That piranha bar makes a BX look like a mean dirt eating machine .

 

[RCW]

Geesh, it's snowing up here again . March came in like a lion and is going out like a lion this year. That piranha bar makes a BX look like a mean dirt eating machine .

It was snowing pretty hard while I was tinkering with the tractor.

Probably an indicator of the “Snow God’s” distaste.


Nothing was sticking, so that’s good.

 

[RCW]

Terrible picture but put the BXPanded Under Armor on the BX today.

If guys are running a BX through brush, some kind of protection for the bottom is a good idea.

HST fans get busted easily by a small limb. Lift pump and fuel filter is quite exposed under there as well.

 

[RCW]

Geesh, it's snowing up here again . March came in like a lion and is going out like a lion this year. That piranha bar makes a BX look like a mean dirt eating machine .

I missed the piranha bar reference. Love that thing. I did quite a bit of dirt work when I first got the little BX. Piranha Tooth Bar did make quite a difference. It was a wise choice on my part.

One of my first additions 12 years ago, and it's never been off.

 

[nerwin]

Just saw that we might be getting 7 inches of snow this weekend.

I ain't plowing it.

It can stay.

 

[ajschnitzelbank]

Swapped the blade for the hoe. We’ll probably get a huge snowstorm now!

 

[nerwin]

Swapped the blade for the hoe. We’ll probably get a huge snowstorm now!

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Yep, that's how it works.

Theres an impending storm for me this weekend. But I sure ain't plowing it lol. The following Monday will be 60 and rain so nature will plow it for me

 

[RCW]

Just saw that we might be getting 7 inches of snow this weekend.

I ain't plowing it.

It can stay.

We’re on the warm side of the system. Supposed to be almost 70 degrees here.