What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

IDKUBOTA

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L3800DT/FEL/BH77 and others
Dec 16, 2012
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Latah County, ID
L3800 and I attempted to use a 9 inch inch auger on north central idaho frozen ground... Took 30 minutes to get 2 inches. Not very effective. I suppose I'll be waiting until spring to build my 18x18' wood shed after all. I did get the building markers all laid out, though.
 

North Idaho Wolfman

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Jun 9, 2013
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Sandpoint, ID
IDKUBOTA, most of my place is the same way, It's just the drive that's turned to soup!:eek:
 

In Utopia

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L175 FEL
Apr 21, 2013
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Utopia,Tx/Pasadena,TX
L3800 and I attempted to use a 9 inch inch auger on north central idaho frozen ground... Took 30 minutes to get 2 inches. Not very effective. I suppose I'll be waiting until spring to build my 18x18' wood shed after all. I did get the building markers all laid out, though.
In Utopia when punching 9" holes I have to use a carbide tipped rock auger on my 640 Ford. Doesn't stop there. Got an 8' stinger coming off the rear with 85lbs on the end for added down thrust.
All this for drilling in limestone and caliche. I've spent as long as 5 (on and off) hours drilling one hole 2-1/2' deep for fence posts. All "T" post holes have to be predrilled with a 1-1/8" bit in a hammer drill...........lots of fun.
 

skeets

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BX 2360 /B2601
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SW Pa
Im thinking a case of powder would be a lot faster,,, and more fun too
 

BAP

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Dec 31, 2012
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New Hampshire
Didn't do anything on the Kubota today. It was -11 F this morning with 10-15 mph wind. However it is warm inside so I thought I would get around to posting some pictures of the Sight Guage I made for the bucket to indicate level. Pretty simple, used a Hound Joint, a piece of smooth rod and pipe. Welded a long nut to the rod, drilled a hole in the quick coupler, threaded the Hound Joint into the nut using a jam nut, slid it in the pipe and bolted that to the loader where the cylinder attaches. I notched the end of the pipe at the top to see the rod as it is getting close to level. With the threaded nut and joint, I can fine tune the adjustment as needed. Works slick and makes it much easier finding level.
 

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skeets

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BX 2360 /B2601
Oct 2, 2009
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SW Pa
Ya gota love anything where beer is involved and things that go BOOM:D
 

In Utopia

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L175 FEL
Apr 21, 2013
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Utopia,Tx/Pasadena,TX
Didn't do anything on the Kubota today. It was -11 F this morning with 10-15 mph wind. However it is warm inside so I thought I would get around to posting some pictures of the Sight Guage I made for the bucket to indicate level. Pretty simple, used a Hound Joint, a piece of smooth rod and pipe. Welded a long nut to the rod, drilled a hole in the quick coupler, threaded the Hound Joint into the nut using a jam nut, slid it in the pipe and bolted that to the loader where the cylinder attaches. I notched the end of the pipe at the top to see the rod as it is getting close to level. With the threaded nut and joint, I can fine tune the adjustment as needed. Works slick and makes it much easier finding level.
Thanks for posting, I know what I'll be doing next week.
 

Burt

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L3700SU, box blade, 6 foot rhino blade, 1 bottom plow, 3 point receiver hitch.
Mar 24, 2012
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Thanks for posting, I know what I'll be doing next week.
Well, I didn't do much either. We have no snow here in the West.

However, I did install my back end LED's replacing all the turn, flash and running lights.

Future info for any L3700SU or L3800 owners, the amber lights are all 1156 bulbs and the red one is L1157

The LED direct replacement for the L1156 is1156-A45-T (amber color)
The LED direct replacement for the 1157 is 1157-R45-T (red color)

The source I used is www.superbrightleds.com/

No problems after install, everything works super except that the lights are about 10 times brighter!

Burt
 

1coolbanana

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Kubota BX1860
Jan 9, 2014
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Australia
Got my little grey delivered on Saturday



Started out with this



and this



Been clearing by hand for a few days prior to this point



And after the last couple days with the Kubota raking up all the rubbish and regrading the trails....







Its been a very steep learning curve and a hell of a workout without power steer on but good fun.
Being a complete noob at this Ive been very careful and paranoid about rollovers so steady steady :eek:

This stuff is hard and really takes some serious skill, hopefully Ill get better at it as time goes on :eek:

Still have a long way to go but Im not confident enough to take on the really steep stuff to get down here to tackle this lot!



Anyway, Im having fun and getting the job done slowly but surely .....
 
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1coolbanana

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Kubota BX1860
Jan 9, 2014
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Australia
Seat broke and the dealer said "seats arent normally covered under warranty"
so thought Id better have a look and try and fix it :rolleyes:

Pulled the cover and foam off the 30 year old frame to find this rusted out mess



Cleaned up and put some primer and paint on



Put some aluminium plate across the top





Few extra layers of high density foam in the seat and backrest and should be good for a few more years :)



:) :D