What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[ajschnitzelbank]

I just bought 16 of them for $15 a piece. I was waiting a long time for a deal like that to come around, and when it finally did I jumped right on it. My dad was down there with the trailer just a couple days after the listing.
They were in Grand Rapids, if I recall correctly. I've seen a lot in PA for pretty cheap.

I’d jump on that deal, too! I missed out on two different postings this year for $25 a piece. Most people around here (New York) are asking $75, with many asking even more, and a few asking “only” $50 (which seem to sell quickly).

 

[Magicman]

Grandson Luke opens the receiving pit while Grandson Ben is steadily pushing stems toward him.

When I took this picture Ben is pulling the stem out and pulling a pair of innerducts through the bore hole.

 

[RCW]

Really just a practice run snow blowing. Had 4-5” on the ground

Been ready for several weeks, but haven’t needed to blow snow yet. Been using this set up for 10 seasons now.

Wanted to make sure all was in good order. Driveway was also new crusher run this spring.

Saying 8-14” coming.

All worked fine. Will revisit at 0500 before work.

 

[Snowman7]

I put up 80 drive markers so the wife can see the drive in the snow. Guaranteed a snowless winter but I did get some exercise. A bit easier to reverse than a front mount snow blower

80 markers, wow, I will probably put up about 20 and that is more than norma, lol

 

[Bee-Positive]

I finally got to test my semi-homemade snowplow today.
13” of VERY WET heavy snow so far and still coming down.

I had a 48” plow blade from a Craftsman 26 hp RLM I got 15 years ago, been sitting around just waiting for a project. I bought a receiver tube and welded it into the cannel on the plow mount, bolted a step bumper receiver to the bucket. Also cut a 48” length of tubing as a skid for the gravel driveway.

I was worried that the weight of the plow and force of pushing snow might bend the bucket, but after using twice now I see no deviation…yet. Something I’ll keep an eye on.

Not sure what kind of plastic the skid pipe it is but it’s works great. If it breaks, I have an old pile of them out back. Bolting a receiver to the bucket allows me to just pull the pin, take off the plow and use the bucket when the snow piles need to be moved around.

Haven’t put my tire chains on yet but the turf tires did really well without them, spun a bit when the snow got really piled up on the bucket, but I just took smaller bites for now.

 

[DustyRusty]

looks good

 

[River19]

Got ~18" of heavy wet snow here in NH the past 36hrs or so.

Two rounds of using the B2601 with the blower and back blade.....today was messy, add in some downed trees and power outage and the chainsaw and whole house Kohler genny are all earning their keep today.

People wonder why I have all the "equipment" I do.......today is the "use case" for all of them. Generator purring, Kubota earned its keep, Honda tracked blower got some work in and the chainsaws freed up the mailbox and cleaned up a few downed limbs for now.

 

[Bee-Positive]

Got ~18" of heavy wet snow here in NH the past 36hrs or so.

Two rounds of using the B2601 with the blower and back blade.....today was messy, add in some downed trees and power outage and the chainsaw and whole house Kohler genny are all earning their keep today.

People wonder why I have all the "equipment" I do.......today is the "use case" for all of them. Generator purring, Kubota earned its keep, Honda tracked blower got some work in and the chainsaws freed up the mailbox and cleaned up a few downed limbs for now.

Thats awesome, sounds like a weeks' worth of work and more to do. Can never have too many "toys" when they're the right ones for the need.

 

[MOOTS]

Picked up some logs from a buddy doing a tree job near me. Will get them cut and split in a few weeks.

 

[RMS]

Got over 14" of heavy snow. Also had power outage and a bunch of downed limbs to take care of. Went to start the tractor and all I had was a click. Was on a tender, but stuff happens. Jump it and got the first round done. Afterwards I removed the connections and cleaned the terminals and ground on the frame. Did the cleanup and some paths to give it a good workout. Put it away with a charger on it vs the tender. I'll check it tomorrow.

 

[Jsjac]

We got 12+ inches of snow here.
Close to the end of the clearing snow I heard a clunky, clunky sound.
Found the bolt that holds on the fan on the shaft missing.
Had to go to town to get the bolt to fix it.
Got it fixed and finished the clean up.
The snow here was very heavy and wet.

 

[leveraddict]

Only 7" of very wet snow here in NEPA! When I pushed it into a pile it had a blue tint to it! Thats wet! Had to run the BX backwards with the back blade for traction.

 

[River19]

Thats awesome, sounds like a weeks' worth of work and more to do. Can never have too many "toys" when they're the right ones for the need.

I guess officially we got 21" here and it was heavy and wet. Power came on at 3:15am this morning so out almost 24hr......good workout for the whole house generator. I want to check my propane level as I track it fairly closely so I am curious as to what ~24hrs burned at the actual load we have on it.

I think today might be some additional cleanup with the saw and clippers. Check the tractor over and get some more fuel here......assuming our local stations also got power back.

Not sure if some of you also deal with odd comments from people who may not live in "the sticks" or "rural" areas like I get occasionally from even my extended family......"Oh you got to play with your toys"..... that actually annoys me a bit as without those "toys" my uphill 650' driveway would be impassable, we would have eaten off my camp stove and had a house that dropped into the low 50s if not the 40s filled with 2 freezers loaded with food, a hot tub that eventually will cool down etc. Not sure when having the right equipment and being mostly self sufficient and prepared became "the owner of toys"...... perhaps I should have wasted money on new cars or a $15K side by side Razor or something........lol. Mini-rant over.

 

[mdhughes]

Used the tractor with the grapple to move a couple logs to my splitting area. Blocked them up, split and stacked. No pictures, didn't have anything with me to take pictures with.

 

[BAP]

Got ~18" of heavy wet snow here in NH the past 36hrs or so.

Two rounds of using the B2601 with the blower and back blade.....today was messy, add in some downed trees and power outage and the chainsaw and whole house Kohler genny are all earning their keep today.

People wonder why I have all the "equipment" I do.......today is the "use case" for all of them. Generator purring, Kubota earned its keep, Honda tracked blower got some work in and the chainsaws freed up the mailbox and cleaned up a few downed limbs for now.

We got the same amount of snow here. Very wet and very sticky. Luckily, power never went completely out. Kept going out for 10-15 seconds. Snowblower handled it fine as far as blowing, but miserable to get it to feed into it as it wanted to keep pushing forward in front of it into a pile like a plow. Kept having to stop, and ram into the pile to get it to feed into the auger.

 

[River19]

We got the same amount of snow here. Very wet and very sticky. Luckily, power never went completely out. Kept going out for 10-15 seconds. Snowblower handled it fine as far as blowing, but miserable to get it to feed into it as it wanted to keep pushing forward in front of it into a pile like a plow. Kept having to stop, and ram into the pile to get it to feed into the auger.

Same experience with this concrete crap pushing. Ended up taking half cuts and still needed to stop and ram every 50'. Still better than walk behind blowers !!!! lol

 

[DustyRusty]

I guess officially we got 21" here and it was heavy and wet. Power came on at 3:15am this morning so out almost 24hr......good workout for the whole house generator. I want to check my propane level as I track it fairly closely so I am curious as to what ~24hrs burned at the actual load we have on it.

I think today might be some additional cleanup with the saw and clippers. Check the tractor over and get some more fuel here......assuming our local stations also got power back.

Not sure if some of you also deal with odd comments from people who may not live in "the sticks" or "rural" areas like I get occasionally from even my extended family......"Oh you got to play with your toys"..... that actually annoys me a bit as without those "toys" my uphill 650' driveway would be impassable, we would have eaten off my camp stove and had a house that dropped into the low 50s if not the 40s filled with 2 freezers loaded with food, a hot tub that eventually will cool down etc. Not sure when having the right equipment and being mostly self sufficient and prepared became "the owner of toys"...... perhaps I should have wasted money on new cars or a $15K side by side Razor or something........lol. Mini-rant over.

I got that from one of my neighbors when I drove up to a large tree that fell across the power lines, and after the power company put the lines back up and restored the power, my toy chain saw cut it in half, and my toy BX23S pushed it to the side of the road so he could go to work. After I was done I said, "I'm taking my toys and going home! Have a good day".

 

[Old_Paint]

Been a couple days, mostly because I caught a cold my grandson brought home from the germ factory (school), so I just laid up on the sofa watching TV with the missus till I felt better. I think she had it worse than I did.

I pulled about 20 small stumps and cleared and piled more deadfall in the area where I pulled up the stumps. It's shaping up pretty good on the back side of my property, but I still got a long way to go. Should have taken some before/after photos, but didn't. About all I could show now is the giant pile of roots, stumps, rotten logs and leaf mass that I've been piling up. Gonna get the bulk of it piled up, then rent a dump trailer for the weekend and hauls as much as I can to the dump. It's all rotten and waterlogged, so isn't going to burn, and besides that, I'd probably attract a lot of unwanted attention if I tried. I'm gonna let it drain/dry some before I haul it to knock down on some of the weight, too. Get charged by the ton at the landfill. It's about 40 miles round trip to the dump, so I'll have a long day on the Saturday after I rent the trailer. Dump isn't open on Sunday, and I may not be able to get it early enough on Friday to make a load, or to keep it on Monday long enough for a load. I nearly pulled the trigger on a dump trailer, but I simply wouldn't use it enough to make it worth the maintenance on it. I've never intended to use the LX or any of my other belongings to make money with, so I simply can't justify the cost of the dumper.
I guess I could take photos of the two lots on either side of me as 'before' photos. I was going to leave it 'wild' back there, but two things changed my mind. The first was a tornado that cranked up in my back yard about 6 months after I moved in. That put 36 trees on the ground that took me forever to clean up with nothing but hand tools. The second event was when I saw a 6 foot rattlesnake cross my yard and go back there to hide. I'm a lot happier to be up on the LX doing that work back there than on my feet. If he leaves, we won't have a problem. I don't have a problem with snakes doing snake things out in the woods. Just not in my yard.

 

[Chanceywd]

I guess officially we got 21" here and it was heavy and wet. Power came on at 3:15am this morning so out almost 24hr......good workout for the whole house generator. I want to check my propane level as I track it fairly closely so I am curious as to what ~24hrs burned at the actual load we have on it.

I think today might be some additional cleanup with the saw and clippers. Check the tractor over and get some more fuel here......assuming our local stations also got power back.

Not sure if some of you also deal with odd comments from people who may not live in "the sticks" or "rural" areas like I get occasionally from even my extended family......"Oh you got to play with your toys"..... that actually annoys me a bit as without those "toys" my uphill 650' driveway would be impassable, we would have eaten off my camp stove and had a house that dropped into the low 50s if not the 40s filled with 2 freezers loaded with food, a hot tub that eventually will cool down etc. Not sure when having the right equipment and being mostly self sufficient and prepared became "the owner of toys"...... perhaps I should have wasted money on new cars or a $15K side by side Razor or something........lol. Mini-rant over.

I have siblings that refer to my out in the sticks place as Area 51!

I installed a 20kw generac in july of 2021. Over a years time with a 10 min exercises one a week and an 8 hr outage I used about 40lbs or 10 gallons of propane. Way less than I figured as the manual says 3.5 gal per hour full load. I couldn't get an install of propane so I bought 3 of my own 100lb tanks and regulators. I have 3 tanks so I could switch them out. I had a 100 gal/420 lb tank for the house but they never would get back to me about size and hook up.

End of rant for me is I love living with my wife and 3 dogs in the country. Wouldn't trade places with any of my 4 sibs who all live in cities.
Just warming up the kubota to run thru the woods packing down the snow a little for people and dog walking.

Bill

 

[Flintknapper]

The second event was when I saw a 6 foot rattlesnake cross my yard and go back there to hide. I'm a lot happier to be up on the LX doing that work back there than on my feet. If he leaves, we won't have a problem. I don't have a problem with snakes doing snake things out in the woods. Just not in my yard.

^^^^^

Same here.

ALL non-venomous snakes get a pass, whether up around the house, my shop area or elsewhere.

Venomous snakes...in my yard or around the house have got to go. Venomous snakes around my shop might get relocated. Mostly Copperheads where I am. We have Timber Rattlers here too....but I've yet to see one.

Yours would have been an Eastern Diamondback or Timber Rattler. Wouldn't want to take a bite from either of those.