What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[pokey1416]

Moved heavy wet snow this morning, had to push into driveways as the backdrag doesn’t have the right weight distribution to cut into the crusted snow very well. Due for a regen and parked in front of open garage door - mistake!

10th regen in 487 hours. What a crazy winter here in Michigan. Seems like the ground never froze good.

 

[RCW]

Blew a few inches of wet stuff again. Fell on bare and thawed stone. Lowered my shoes to leave a little more. The UHMW shoe liners help quite a bit. Don’t dig in as much. Slide over everything easier.

This is a pic I posted here a couple years ago. Welded a wider "foot" on the shoe, then a couple years later added the half-inch UHMW liner. Can be rotated 180 degrees if leading edge wears down. Hasn't happened yet; that stuff is really tough......

 

[Biker1mike]

Blew a few inches of wet stuff again. Fell on bare and thawed stone. Lowered my shoes to leave a little more. The UHMW shoe liners help quite a bit. Don’t dig in as much. Slide over everything easier.

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This is a pic I posted here a couple years ago. Welded a wider "foot" on the shoe, then a couple years later added the half-inch UHMW liner. Can be rotated 180 degrees if leading edge wears down. Hasn't happened yet; that stuff is really tough......

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Like many in the Northeast, between the plow blade digging in and the R1's spinning a trench I made the driveway a muddy mess. It is what it is.

 

[RMS]

Cleared the first round of about 16" of snow thus morning. Plan on getting out to finish after it stops snowing later today.

 

[gmbc]

I repaired my electric chute actuator system. I thought the unit was dead as getting power and would not work. I purchased a new actuator and installed and it did not work. I did some more checking with my meter and there was power. Found that when dealer installed the system they also had a connector on the ground wire between the batter and the wire itself and the connector had come apart and was sitting behind battery. So lesson is check how the unit is grounded and check the ground fully . Found out did not need new actuator just chase wiring ie Ground. Darn Electrical is tricky all the time. All good now though.

 

[MOOTS]

Measured the MX with bush hog length. About 25’. Thinking of getting a trailer and maybe do some side work.

Looking at goosenecks in the 30’ range.

 

[Jsjac]

We cleaned the snow once today.
Now it stopped snowing. Time to do the Finnish cleaning.
Got a fair amount of snow.
Maybe a foot or so.

I bought a trailer this week. Just waiting for the GVW sticker to come in. Being hooked up to a commercial pickup truck it needs to be under 10,000 pounds to avoid the CDL license requirements.
I need to get my CDL so I can tow anything I need to.

 

[fried1765]

BEFORE (complete with fresh deer tracks)
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AFTER (got rid of those pesky award-winning-picture-ruining deer tracks). Still have some shoveling to do around the cars. View attachment 97147

Skip the shoveling.
Wait for June!

 

[fried1765]

I just spent 4 hours clearing the drive and the yard.
6 to 8 foot piles of white stuff everywhere!
They are calling for more snow tonight and tomorrow.

That "white stuff" looks absolutely beautiful.....
........In the pictures.

 

[fried1765]

Measured the MX with bush hog length. About 25’. Thinking of getting a trailer and maybe do some side work.

Looking at goosenecks in the 30’ range.

Absolutely DO get a gooseneck!
They tow so much better than bumper pull.

 

[DustyRusty]

We got about 3 or 4 inches of wet heavy snow in North East Ct overnight, and it is more like glue than snow. It was so heavy that it would push the BX around if I got too much of it in front of the blade. Had to redo the main part of the driveway that the neighbor plows with his truck since he never plows it wide enough and leaves the snow along the edges to melt. If you don't push them off to the side, when they freeze the road gets too narrow, and when they melt, the water floods the dirt roadway, causing mud. Some people never learned how to plow snow!

 

[ScottHam]

Installed my new Bad Boy rotary cutter and was finally able to mow down the long grass that grew from all the rain we had here in the Texas hill country last September.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

That "white stuff" looks absolutely beautiful.....
........In the pictures.

Some of the front yard.

Some of the back yard.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Installed my new Bad Boy rotary cutter and was finally able to mow down the long grass that grew from all the rain we had here in the Texas hill country last September. View attachment 97253

Oh boy, that looks like a brush fire waiting to happen!
I would be terrified to mow that, one good spark and that's all she wrote!

 

[RCW]

We got about 3 or 4 inches of wet heavy snow in North East Ct overnight, and it is more like glue than snow. It was so heavy that it would push the BX around if I got too much of it in front of the blade. Had to redo the main part of the driveway that the neighbor plows with his truck since he never plows it wide enough and leaves the snow along the edges to melt. If you don't push them off to the side, when they freeze the road gets too narrow, and when they melt, the water floods the dirt roadway, causing mud. Some people never learned how to plow snow!

I don't have room enough to push snow around, especially the wet stuff like you and I got. My BX2360 couldn't push some of the 3-foot snowfalls we've had either.

One advantage of a snowblower is that you move it once...usually. I can also throw it such that it doesn't cause flooding problems during a thaw. House is at the bottom of a large hill.

I had to leave quite a bit this morning at the driveway apron; wet and tough to move.

That I'll likely scrape up with the back blade tomorrow morning. Pull it up the hill, then blow out of the way.

 

[RCW]

Some of the front yard.
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Some of the back yard.
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That’s not too bad. Know you’ve had much more.

Any consolation, here’s all the maple sap tubing in our woods next door. 150 taps on our place. Might have to zoom in to see blue tubing.

Maple season means Spring is coming!! (I hope)

 

[Biker1mike]

We got about 3 or 4 inches of wet heavy snow in North East Ct overnight, and it is more like glue than snow. It was so heavy that it would push the BX around if I got too much of it in front of the blade. Had to redo the main part of the driveway that the neighbor plows with his truck since he never plows it wide enough and leaves the snow along the edges to melt. If you don't push them off to the side, when they freeze the road gets too narrow, and when they melt, the water floods the dirt roadway, causing mud. Some people never learned how to plow snow!

LMAO ! Just over the hills from you. Give me 12 inches of powder any day over the snow, rain, sleet stuff.
We put money aside in the budget for grass seed and stone !
The local landscapers make a fortune every spring fixing the gravel driveways that they plow all winter. The full time residents just live with some crappy looking grass along the driveways !

 

[MOOTS]

Absolutely DO get a gooseneck!
They tow so much better than bumper pull.

Agreed. And no one asks to borrow it. The finance department wants to sell the 16’ car hauler first. Gonna pull it out and pressure wash and list tomorrow.

 

[Mowbizz]

Got a foot of heavy snow here in central NH just came in from doing my driveway, the neighbor’s parking spot across the road and my “off road” areas.
I was in the road clearing my mailbox for the mail lady and then turned toward my driveway to attack the 3’ berm of junk from the town plows…I got a foot into it and BANG! No more blowing…crap. Augers we’re fine BX5455HD snowblower and the fan was plugged solid with the crap.
Went back up the 500’ drive on the 1st path I made down to the road and got up to the garage to get my “poke stick” to clear the fan housing. Sure enough, the fan was freely spinning. Not having had a fan shear pin go, I started looking for the pin the. I noticed where 2 flanges meet the flanges were misaligned. I thought at first I had something major break but so figured out that’s where the fan shear pin goes. Whew! Luckily, I had bought spare shear pins for the augers and fan so I found them and fixed it. While digging the rest of the junk out of the fan housing, out popped a 2” freakin stone pushed up by the town
The road I live on is not in the best repair with the old asphalt breaking up in many places and the plows, of course, plow well wider than the edges to allow for future snow. Note to self: Be wary of what the town plows push into my driveway!

 

[BigG]

Measured the MX with bush hog length. About 25’. Thinking of getting a trailer and maybe do some side work.

Looking at goosenecks in the 30’ range.

30 feet will not be long enough. I put a L2501 and hog on my 30 foot Big Tex along with something else, i.e. lawn mower, roller, box blade and poof the trailer is to short. Monster ramps are a wonderful thing.