What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[jyoutz]

With our move date rapidly approaching I have been filling a 20yd rolloff with the tractor. Cleaning out the basement workshop alone has generated a ton of crap. Its an easy choice - have I used 'whatever' in the last year or 2. If not, out it goes. Included were a lot of things that had nostalgia value, at one time.
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I know what you’re going through. Two years ago, I decided to concrete the floor in my barn. I rented a 15 yard roll off dumpster to discard 16 years of junk accumulation.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

While installing new rear tires today....I decided also to set my wheels as outboard (wide) as the rims would allow. Previously they were at the narrowest setting and the tractor has always felt more than a little 'tippy' in off camber situations.

I was amazed to find that I gained an entire 12" of overall width which dramatically improves the 'seat of the pants' feel for stability.

Very little of the tires are still under the fender-wells now, so no doubt I'll be throwing some mud on myself at times.....but its worth it I believe for the added safety.

It also greatly increased the clearance between my 3 pt. turnbuckles and the tires.....which before was quite crowded with certain implements attached.

Before:

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After:

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Nice.

Going to consider doing this as well
Last night I almost slipped off a small hill in the rain. Of course I wasn't wearing the seat belt, until that happened. I was burning ALL my brush piles.

I'm also looking for an offset 84" cutter(great for under trees and fence lines with brush), waiting to hear back from a few local salesmen. So the wider stance wouldn't affect 95% of what I do.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Sold the M7060.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Worked burn piles till 1am this morning.

 

[mcmxi]

Sold the M7060.
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Are you replacing it with something else?

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Are you replacing it with something else?

No sir.
Not gonna have any additional cattle leases etc. I'm 49 and retired, just refocusing/simplifying my future plans.

 

[mcmxi]

No sir.
Not gonna have any additional cattle leases etc. I'm 49 and retired, just refocusing/simplifying my future plans.

Thanks ... and all the best to you, whatever your future holds.

My future seems to be getting more complicated and less focused! I'm removing the snow blower and front hydraulic blade from the MX this afternoon in preparation for spraying a 12 acre field. I put an add on Craigslist recently and have been getting way more requests for work than I anticipated. I bought a new trailer this week to give me the option to haul the M6060 with the rear wheels set where I want them.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Are you replacing it with something else?

Oh, I did get a L305DT this past week, it was my wifes grandfathers tractor. This tractor came off a family ranch that sold last year, and I bought it from my inlaws, it has almost 500hrs, 200+ hours I put on it many years ago when we used to hunting etc.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Thanks ... and all the best to you, whatever your future holds.

My future seems to be getting more complicated and less focused! I'm removing the snow blower and front hydraulic blade from the MX this afternoon in preparation for spraying a 12 acre field. I put an add on Craigslist recently and have been getting way more requests for work than I anticipated. I bought a new trailer this week to give me the option to haul the M6060 with the rear wheels set where I want them.

Yeah I have a side business as well, that's what really buys/pays for the equipment. I'm gonna step away from that too! I will still do work for prior customers I like. The proper liability insurance will cost you about $2500 to $3k a year, use and call 811(free) for anything if you're digging. I have had a few turds over the years not pay in full or not at all, that's frustrating as hell.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Thanks ... and all the best to you, whatever your future holds.

My future seems to be getting more complicated and less focused! I'm removing the snow blower and front hydraulic blade from the MX this afternoon in preparation for spraying a 12 acre field. I put an add on Craigslist recently and have been getting way more requests for work than I anticipated. I bought a new trailer this week to give me the option to haul the M6060 with the rear wheels set where I want them.

Oh, there are a few customers out there, no matter how much you accommodate their needs, or modify the contracted/obligation job, they will never be happy(you learn about this behavior of course after you complete the job). I swear one guy, a fellow Army retiree gave me so much hell over nothing, I basically ended doing the job almost free, just to keep a his negative review from showing up on my business Google.

It's Aholes like that make doing side work no longer fun.

 

[Trapper Bob]

Looks like you could have placed those footings out farther, to where there will eventually be deeper water.

The high water mark will be 4” under the dock. It will be about 4 ‘ at the front. The pond is not big enough to need a boat. It is just a place to sit out of the grass.
Before the clean out, the pond level did not vary more than a couple feet. I hope that holds true now.

 

[S-G-R]

Thanks ... and all the best to you, whatever your future holds.

My future seems to be getting more complicated and less focused! I'm removing the snow blower and front hydraulic blade from the MX this afternoon in preparation for spraying a 12 acre field. I put an add on Craigslist recently and have been getting way more requests for work than I anticipated. I bought a new trailer this week to give me the option to haul the M6060 with the rear wheels set where I want them.

Any pics of the new trailer?

 

[S-G-R]

Pressure washed the tractor, blower and snow pusher. We didn't have frost all winter so by times I was moving as much sod and gravel as snow.

 

[mcmxi]

Any pics of the new trailer?

I posted this photo in the "tractor on your trailer" thread. I'll use this trailer next week for a test run when I use the MX to spray Roundup on 12 acres. It's going to be weird driving up the ramp with a cabled remote in my hand so that I can lower the deck back down with me still in the tractor. I have a wireless remote kit installed on the big dump trailer and have another kit that I bought for the small dump trailer but maybe I'll install it on this new trailer. We'll see how that goes.

 

[fried1765]

Pressure washed the tractor, blower and snow pusher. We didn't have frost all winter so by times I was moving as much sod and gravel as snow.

No frost all Winter?
Those Cavendish potatoes will likely get an early start!

 

[S-G-R]

No frost all Winter?
Those Cavendish potatoes will likely get an early start!

I expect they will have spuds in the ground in the eastern end of the island by the third week of April.

 

[NCL4701]

We did not have severe weather here, so thankful for that. We did have a LOT of rain and still coming down. Good day to check out the general drainage situation around the houses and more routinely used trails to make sure water is going wherever it’s supposed to be going. Way too wet and rainy to do anything else outside.

There’s usually no water in this area. Another 30’ and there’s a little waterfall where it dumps into the creek that was running about 4’ today (about 3.5’ above normal).

Did use the Kubota just a little bit inside, though. Greased the loader and used it as a stepladder to put an eye in the ceiling joists for the block & tackle to dress deer if anyone is able to do any deer hunting this fall. Of course they stay on a shelf most of the time; only the eye bolt stays up there all the time. Used to clean them at my father’s house but my son and his fiancé live there now. They both do some hunting but I don’t know her well enough yet to know if she’s the kind of girl that field dresses and processes her own deer or if she shoots it and calls her dad to take it from there. Maybe we’ll find out this fall.

 

[hoot owl]

I used my L2501 Thursday for pushing and burning piles of brush. My son and I burnt 2 large piles around 30 x 40. I stayed busy moving 4 smaller piles in to the 2 that were burning. As of last night 1 was still smoldering. We have 1 more large pile and about 1 acre of smaller trees to clear yet.

 

[mdhughes]

I used the L3901DT to pull my driveway back up the hill yesterday after we had a really hard rain. One of my culvert pipe got block with leaves.

 

[RCW]

Started to prep mower deck for season.

Obvious it was a dry summer with little mowing.

Blades are in good shape. Will hit them with an angle grinder, but won’t take much.