What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Magicman]

Going to build a deck and a new set of stairs. Just havent had a chance to do yet.

That will be nice and I understand the "chance" thing. Kinda like a roundtuit.

 

[Old_Paint]

Got it delivered!

You're gonna love it. For a "little" tractor, it's got some serious grunt. Got mine in November. Was still in the crate when I bought it. It's got all the attitude of a much larger machine, especially with loaded oversize R14's. You'll find that your box blade is gonna come off the ground a lot, and it'll be hard to knock off crowns over a hill because the lift bottoms out all the way down. If the front is lower than the back, the blade may not even touch. The big tires pretty much require that you move the lift links to the closest holes in the arms. That lets the arms go up and down a bit farther. You'll lose a little lift capacity, but I have an 850 lb chipper that it lifts with no problem.

 

[Old_Paint]

Didn't get any photos before it got dark, but got notified today my building permit was approved, so I started on the pad for the concrete slab that will be my lil' Orange feller's new abode. When I started, I was nearly 18 inches off grade from the NW corner to the SE corner, and generally speaking a 6" drop east to west. When I knocked off for dinner, I had the south corners within a quarter inch, and was down to about 8" of slope front to back. Still got about 3 inches drop west to east across the front. Having to take my time with it because the soil is REALLY wet. Can see it bubblegumming up to 5 feet away from the tractor as I go across it. Hard to pack anything in those conditions. I'm moving a few inches of dirt, then packing it down with the LX, then go get a few more inches. If I can get it under 2 inches drop front to back, I'll get the gravel and fines to get it ready for a slab. Will take some snaps tomorrow and post. Set up a construction corner and grade reference before I started so I can pull up the markers while I'm diggin. Was box blading some and wasn't watching what I was doing out front. Poked a hole in the old red shed at the corner with the Piranha. Didn't even feel it make contact on the aluminum siding on that thing.

 

[B737]

Box bladed this yesterday, got most of the lumps out....
used to be woods, it's about to become lawn I'm excited to be a part of the transition!

 

[nbryan]

Box bladed this yesterday, got most of the lumps out....
used to be woods, it's about to become lawn I'm excited to be a part of the transition!

That's a really great looking job there! Says a lot about what a little 26hp Orange CUT and a box blade can accomplish. I'll be really busy with mine this year! When it stops snowing, blowing, and re-freezing the ground here, that is.

 

[OrangeKrush]

Box bladed this yesterday, got most of the lumps out....
used to be woods, it's about to become lawn I'm excited to be a part of the transition!

Looks really good.. that’s s pretty good size area and since it was wooded.. I’m sure that was a job!

 

[Crash277]

Box bladed this yesterday, got most of the lumps out....
used to be woods, it's about to become lawn I'm excited to be a part of the transition!

Great leveling job!! Im doing the opposite at the back of my property. Letting Mother Nature grow the forest into my yard a bit more.

 

[Old_Paint]

Box bladed this yesterday, got most of the lumps out....
used to be woods, it's about to become lawn I'm excited to be a part of the transition!

Very nice work. Dunno how rough it was, but that looks great. When you say forest, are we talking large trees, or scrub? Don't see any significant stump removal signs. If that's the case, very well done covering subsoil with topsoil.

Are you going to till it before you sod/seed it, or just drag it? Looks like fairly decent soil. Get a soil test done before you try to put anything down on it. Take several scattered about the area. Generally speaking, forested ground can be pretty low pH, and nothing will grow on it. Might want some lime on it before planting to bring the pH up a little.

Good to have maneuvering room to learn/use a BB. BTW, if you need some rain to water it, come get some of mine so I can get back to my new shed project. The pad I started excavating last night is now a large mudhole. Won't be able to touch it for a week again. We get a couple days of sun, then a frog-stranglin-gully-washin-turd-floater. Anything stirred up takes forever to dry back out because of the clay content. Broken up, the water goes in, but doesn't come out. Undisturbed, the clay is like a seal and the water just runs off. I disturbed a lot of clay last night.

 

[Old_Paint]

Learned yesterday (the hard way) why the BB1260 would be so much better behind the LX2610SU. Getting into corners and close to tight spaces is next to impossible when your tires are wider than the blade. It's nigh on impossible to widen a dig because the tires have to ride on the edge and tilt the tractor. I should have paid closer attention when the dealer made the BB1248 part of my package. Wouldn't have cost more than about a hundred bucks more to have the 1260. So, I gotta learn better digging techniques with the bucket to make up for the narrow BB, or get a wider BB and sell this one to someone with a smaller tractor. I'm having NO problems ripping 3 inch roots out of the ground with the BB1248 behind the LX, so I figure a BB1260 won't be much more of a problem. More rippers might be just what the doctor ordered.

Here's what yesterday's progress on the new shed looks like this morning.

I have a swimming pool instead. That was all dry (well, sort of) last night at dinner time. I do like what I see with how the water's standing, other than the fact the water is standing. Says I've done a lot of dirt moving and I'm headed in the right direction. I lowered the corner nearest the tractor about 8 inches, pushed to the back, and then packed it. Did this in about an hour just by eyeballing it from the seat. still need to raise the back edge about 6 more inches and then I'll fill in with 8910 fines before forming. The slope was nearly a 16 inch fall front to back.

 

[B737]

Very nice work. Dunno how rough it was, but that looks great. When you say forest, are we talking large trees, or scrub? Don't see any significant stump removal signs. If that's the case, very well done covering subsoil with topsoil.

This is what it looked like beforehand. No material has been added yet. Next week. I was just getting things to flow a little better with the blade after the tree company made a disaster of it.

General grade was not too bad. Just needed to be smoothed out. There are a few pronounced high spots that are raised a bit with large 4-6 roots and big stumps. We are going to add some fill, and top with 4" of screened topsoil. There will be some settling over time but we're not going for golf course, just green. prob looking at 200 tons of material coming. Shoulda got 2650

 

[ctfjr]

Not as ambitious as B737 but last evening I put the last 2 (of 8) Box bushes in at the top of the driveway. This morning I used the PHD to drill 8 holes for the butterfly bushes and got them in the ground. This is New England and we are right on a Glacial Till. The PHD did a lot of dancing around as it pulled out a load of potatoes. It would have taken me 'never' to dig those holes by hand.

The forecast is for rain starting any minute and really raining tonight. As is was the ground in the backyard was still soft and the R14's were unkind to it. If I waited until after the rains it would probably be another 4-5 days to dry out.

 

[angrymatt]

Loaded it up to bring to the dealer to have a third function installed. Sadly im still about 2 months from the grapple showing up.

 

[Old_Paint]

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Loaded it up to bring to the dealer to have a third function installed. Sadly im still about 2 months from the grapple showing up.

Dat's some big ol' fat turfies on dat tractor!

I'm diggin on the dovetail trailer too. Kinda interesting if that tailgate is gonna hold up under the weight of a Big B, but nothing a little reinforcement can't fix. I see a pretty nice firewood stockpile in the background, too. Lotta work waiting to be done there.

 

[angrymatt]

Dat's some big ol' fat turfies on dat tractor!

I'm diggin on the dovetail trailer too. Kinda interesting if that tailgate is gonna hold up under the weight of a Big B, but nothing a little reinforcement can't fix. I see a pretty nice firewood stockpile in the background, too. Lotta work waiting to be done there.

Yeah those tires look like balloons! Believe it or not the ramps dont even flex and those tires are loaded plus a loaded heavy hitch. The ramps are made out of rugged square tubing (1x2 i think) instead of angle iron. Ive got a set of ramps rated at 12k i need to use if there is something on the back of the tractor. That pile is just whats remaining. Trying to wait on the grapple but that plan isnt going so well. Lol.

 

[Old_Paint]

This is what it looked like beforehand. No material has been added yet. Next week. I was just getting things to flow a little better with the blade after the tree company made a disaster of it.

General grade was not too bad. Just needed to be smoothed out. There are a few pronounced high spots that are raised a bit with large 4-6 roots and big stumps. We are going to add some fill, and top with 4" of screened topsoil. There will be some settling over time but we're not going for golf course, just green. prob looking at 200 tons of material coming. Shoulda got 2650

But, if you had a bigger tractor, you'd finish quicker and be needing a new project sooner.

That's pretty much the same kinda stuff I'm scratching out and removing, but what I have is a lot thicker. And I mean A LOT THICKER, on much rougher terrain. There are also three rather deep ditches to contend with that drain the whole neighborhood. About half the tops are laced together with muscadine/scuppernong vines (wild ones), or completely wrapped in poison ivy (I'm not allergic [yet]). Tons and tons of useless underbrush too small for firewood, and what can be is crap stuff that won't burn unless you use propane under it (defeating the whole purpose). This house was built in 1975, and I think the timber was cut a few years before that off the entire parcel that was divided into lots for this neighborhood. No one before me was interested in trying to landscape or use the property, so it's been feral 50+ years. Imagine the mess after all the storms that topple shallow root trees and pestilence (beetles) that takes out pines in dryer times.

 

[Creature Meadow]

Hooked up the disk and cut in the oats in the garden. Ready to run the rows soon as the rain gets out of here.

My over wintered taters should peak out soon.

Asparagus is coming up, time to start cutting it.

 

[angrymatt]

This is what it looked like beforehand. No material has been added yet. Next week. I was just getting things to flow a little better with the blade after the tree company made a disaster of it.

General grade was not too bad. Just needed to be smoothed out. There are a few pronounced high spots that are raised a bit with large 4-6 roots and big stumps. We are going to add some fill, and top with 4" of screened topsoil. There will be some settling over time but we're not going for golf course, just green. prob looking at 200 tons of material coming. Shoulda got 2650

That came out looking great! That was a lot of work.

 

[hope to float]

Learned yesterday (the hard way) why the BB1260 would be so much better behind the LX2610SU. Getting into corners and close to tight spaces is next to impossible when your tires are wider than the blade. It's nigh on impossible to widen a dig because the tires have to ride on the edge and tilt the tractor. I should have paid closer attention when the dealer made the BB1248 part of my package. Wouldn't have cost more than about a hundred bucks more to have the 1260. So, I gotta learn better digging techniques with the bucket to make up for the narrow BB, or get a wider BB and sell this one to someone with a smaller tractor. I'm having NO problems ripping 3 inch roots out of the ground with the BB1248 behind the LX, so I figure a BB1260 won't be much more of a problem. More rippers might be just what the doctor ordered.

Here's what yesterday's progress on the new shed looks like this morning. View attachment 57255
I have a swimming pool instead. That was all dry (well, sort of) last night at dinner time. I do like what I see with how the water's standing, other than the fact the water is standing. Says I've done a lot of dirt moving and I'm headed in the right direction. I lowered the corner nearest the tractor about 8 inches, pushed to the back, and then packed it. Did this in about an hour just by eyeballing it from the seat. still need to raise the back edge about 6 more inches and then I'll fill in with 8910 fines before forming. The slope was nearly a 16 inch fall front to back.

Nothing wrong with a slope to the door. Makes power washing possible

 

[S-G-R]

Used the box blade to level off the driveway. It turned out well but we're going to have a lot of rain this weekend so I don't expect it to hold up for very long.

 

[DustyRusty]

What I did today, can't hold a candle to the work that others have been doing with their tractors. I changed the bulbs in my directional lamps from incandescent to LED's. First picture is the comparison of the incandescent to the LED... Second picture is both LED's. The front bulbs are 1157, and the rears, which haven't been delivered yet are 1156 bulbs. I got these on eBay and the specification for them " 2 Amber 1157 BAY15D LED 144 SMD Canbus No Error P21/5W Car Brake Reverse Lamp Tail Light Bulb." $10 for the pair with free shipping. I found the rears 4 pieces for $13.99 with free shipping.