What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Kenny’s hooks are da bomb. Got the hooks on top of the bucket and d-rings in the bottom for heavy lifting. One of the least expensive and best mods I’ve done that has saved me a tremendous amount of time.
Oh my…That’s awesome. It looks like it would hold at least a fifth. (Doesn’t look like a Rehoboam) But would that hold a full handle? I have a small yard and really hate having to stop for a refill. That would be handy.
I have lemon aid in it, any thing stronger I have when done. Full handle has me stumped
. It will hold about half gallon of beverage of your choice. I got it a couple years ago at a Loves truck stop they were selling them for coffee, now if I was to drink coffee ( don't like it), I would not get very far and would need to drain some off often.
A handle is common slang for 1.75L of likker.I have lemon aid in it, any thing stronger I have when done. Full handle has me stumped
iirc the formula for distance dropped is D=16*T^2, where T is the time squared and D is the distance in feet.
so if it took 4 seconds to hear the splash the distance would be (4^2)*16= 256'
The formula use here is not exactly correct because sound travels at about 1125 ft/sec so a correction should be made. The splash would take about .2sec to hear. The distance would be closer to 230'
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I finished sawing those logs today so I will be back to bucking and skidding the remainder of the logs next week.
This last one completed my cut list for my porch railing.
The Cherrybark Oak is sawed and stickered and the Post Oak seen in the background is next.
The Post Oak turned out some beautiful lumber.
Ten 12' 2X12's which will be used for bridge decking at the farm.
Next week I will buck and skid the remaining three 12' logs and buck the limbs into firewood.
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I did a 3-1/2 hour cutting job yesterday and some of it was fairly intense. One of the areas to be cut had woody growth that was taller than the cab, but the MX and flail handled it well. The owner has some kind of SCAG zero-turn in the shop for repairs, but once he has it back he wants to be able to cut the areas that I handled for him.
You can see the swath that I cut getting into the old pig paddock in the fourth photo. The spring loaded clip that I used to hold the guard rod in place decided to leave the premises during this session, but fortunately I noticed and was able to find another clip. But now I remember why the rod is retained with a washer and cotter pin.
That tall woody stuff was challenging to cut, in part because the ground was so uneven with large dirt mounds all over the place. The flail did well but definitely took a beating.
So was this endeavor worth the $475 fee that I charged. Kind of, but not really. This was my first "commercial" job where some stranger pays me to do some work with a tractor. I cut my friend's place a few times each year and he's just a couple of miles away from this spot. He gives me some "pocket money" for cutting his field, but his place is easy to handle, it's fun, it's relaxing, but this is a different experience.
You can see the swath that I cut getting into the old pig paddock in the fourth photo. The spring loaded clip that I used to hold the guard rod in place decided to leave the premises during this session, but fortunately I noticed and was able to find another clip. But now I remember why the rod is retained with a washer and cotter pin.
That tall woody stuff was challenging to cut, in part because the ground was so uneven with large dirt mounds all over the place. The flail did well but definitely took a beating.So was this endeavor worth the $475 fee that I charged. Kind of, but not really. This was my first "commercial" job where some stranger pays me to do some work with a tractor. I cut my friend's place a few times each year and he's just a couple of miles away from this spot. He gives me some "pocket money" for cutting his field, but his place is easy to handle, it's fun, it's relaxing, but this is a different experience.
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How many acres did you clear for him? My experience is when you do something that has been neglected charge a bit more then you think you should!!
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I use the simple formula:
depth (ft) = 0.5 x acceleration due to gravity x time of fall in seconds squared
The error from the time it takes for the sound of the splash to get to the surface can be ignored since the speed of sound is much faster than the time it takes for the rock to hit water.
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I really don't know ... maybe three or four. I was charging him an hourly rate and I know he was thrilled with the difference and was surprised that I went flat out for the duration. The problem with this sort of work is that people don't want to pay a fair price. Most seem to be stuck in the time when some neighborhood kid cut their lawn for $4 per hour and seem to think that $130/hour is ludicrous.
The other thing about doing this "one off" type of work is that you have no familiarity with the lay of land, what's hiding in the tall stuff, where the holes are, etc. Luckily the whole valley floor near the lake and river is rock free so there was little chance of hitting anything like that, but I found a couple of steel barrels, a plastic barrel, hoses and some other small crap hidden in the tall stuff. Rather stupidly I backed the flail into some areas with nothing more than hope. As someone said, hope is not a plan!!
The owner needed to spend more money to get the entire property sorted out and to go from this to this.
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A couple more photos from yesterday's activities. There's a tall berm around the front and sides of the half of the property closest to the road which would be a pain to maintain with machinery. An excavator with a mulching head would be the way to go.
I have always had high respect for those tractor operators that cut the sides of interstates and highway overpasses, some of those slopes are like 30*+ degrees of angle. Just incredible.
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I've said this before but your dirt is just ridiculous. I'm green with envy over that. I have to drill 12 holes for the new pole barn build and I'm dreading it. It's going to be a goat rope for sure!
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Yeah, I'm not doing that! The berms in this case are 45 degrees at least and I offered to cut a 5ft swath around the base if I could get close enough but there's too much going on to be safe at that property. The owner will have to get a weed eater on those berms if it really bothers him. Personally, I'd leave them alone.
I've said this before but your dirt is just ridiculous. I'm green with envy over that. I have to drill 12 holes for the new pole barn build and I'm dreading it. It's going to be a goat rope for sure!
The soil here is incredible for farming and landscaping. The downside is that the lack of real rock/bedrock is that our roads don't hold up very well.
I did come across 5 of these bad boys in the 8 holes I dug
