What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[BBFarmer]

We have a short slope down to the road. It’s kind of steep. That’s washed out in the past.

Fingers crossed , over the years I’ve got a decent handle on water control so it doesn’t sheet flow down the driveway to the road and wash my driveway out.

Probably just jinxed myself…..shouldn’t have said that…..

Aint figured out how to load videos on here yet. But man do I wish I could show you what I deal with when one of our gully washers comes about. You talk about moving some water.

Its enough that if the pond (which is right behind the house) is low, it'll fill her up in one night.

It was an on going thing since the homes construction in '93. This was always treated as a secondary home/hobby farm for the previous owners. And possibly why it never had a driveway.

Then my dumb@$$ came along, put one in, as well as not considering how much dirt I moved TOWARDS the house. And here we are a few years later payin for it.

 

[D2Cat]

Maybe you need to build a terrace of some sort to protect the house from the water.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

I'm worried about the tariffs making the cost of the metal skyrocket and increasing the cost of the implements. I know some land pride stuff is made here so those should be ok but I'm not sure about the box blades.

My company fabricates things from metal, don't worry about it. Prices will go up in the short term (they already have been), but people forget about fuel being over $4.15/gallon this time last year; this year prices went up a little from $2.35 to $2.65, today is $2.95--that's a big jump but would you rather be over $4.50?

Steel is the same, we were at $1.10/lb for A36, went down to $0.54 after the election, are at $0.67 now, and will likely hit $0.70 from tariffs; would you rather we have followed the previous trend and have gone from $1.10 to $1.30 or be at $0.70?

You'll be fine concerning steel prices.

The real concern is the electronic chip market.

 

[papajoe]

Planted an acre of sweet corn yesterday. Will plant another acre in about two weeks.

 

[RCW]

I like how you have your box blade suspended on that line and off the ground. Looks like you have plenty of room to hang more implements.

That made me laugh! Does look like it’s hanging from a blue clothesline….

Of course, it’s maple sap tubing running down the hill to the gathering tank by the road.

Saw the neighbor dairy farmer/syrup producer Wednesday. He said season is about done. The little bit of sap in the tank wasn’t looking nice and clear anymore…..

 

[nerwin]

For those of us who don't have a farm but have a tractor for doing general tasks around the property....have you ever sat down and thought about projects you could do with the tractor? Haha

Since I'm a first time tractor owner, I sure as heck am!

I have a 7.5x.7.5ft rubbermaid garden shed that I need re-level. I put it in several years ago with what little I had. I just barely got the side by side and I built the shed in the garage, minus the roof part and dragged it into its final location with the winch. The sxs barely could do it haha. I didn't have a good base, I did the best I could with what tools I had at the time but it's sinking now, no longer level and the panels are uneven now. I have a hard time closing the doors. The shed is built on a pressure treated subfloor, it's a really solid floor.

The shed alone weighs around 330lbs and the subfloor probably around 200-ish pounds? I'm wonder if the 48 pallet forks and the tractor will lift the entire shed because that will make things a lot easier. I want to get it out of the way without damaging it and then prep the surface..should be a lot easier with the tractor and actually grading it out properly. I want build the shed up a little higher and I'm going to use what I have laying around for a base. I have a bunch of cinder blocks I'll use to keep the shed up off the ground say 1-2" to have some sort of air gap, I then I want to fill it in with bunch of stone with landscaping paper.

I am hoping this will be better because right now water does run toward the shed but it never gets in it.

I think it would be a fun project to work on. Of course any advice would be appreciated.

 

[RCW]

For those of us who don't have a farm but have a tractor for doing general tasks around the property....have you ever sat down and thought about projects you could do with the tractor? Haha

Since I'm a first time tractor owner, I sure as heck am!

I have a 7.5x.7.5ft rubbermaid garden shed that I need re-level. I put it in several years ago with what little I had. I just barely got the side by side and I built the shed in the garage, minus the roof part and dragged it into its final location with the winch. The sxs barely could do it haha. I didn't have a good base, I did the best I could with what tools I had at the time but it's sinking now, no longer level and the panels are uneven now. I have a hard time closing the doors. The shed is built on a pressure treated subfloor, it's a really solid floor.

The shed alone weighs around 330lbs and the subfloor probably around 200-ish pounds? I'm wonder if the 48 pallet forks and the tractor will lift the entire shed because that will make things a lot easier. I want to get it out of the way without damaging it and then prep the surface..should be a lot easier with the tractor and actually grading it out properly. I want build the shed up a little higher and I'm going to use what I have laying around for a base. I have a bunch of cinder blocks I'll use to keep the shed up off the ground say 1-2" to have some sort of air gap, I then I want to fill it in with bunch of stone with landscaping paper.

I am hoping this will be better because right now water does run toward the shed but it never gets in it.

I think it would be a fun project to work on. Of course any advice would be appreciated.

Physics are everything.

Your tractor can certainly lift the shed, but 7.5x7.5xHeight(?) might be a challenge.

Pushes a lot of weight both away from the lift point, but also is HIGH and WIDE....

With forethought should be doable. Slow and easy.....doubt 48" forks would do it without some other accommodations.

 

[nerwin]

Physics are everything.

Your tractor can certainly lift the shed, but 7.5x7.5xHeight(?) might be a challenge.

Pushes a lot of weight both away from the lift point, but also is HIGH and WIDE....

With forethought should be doable. Slow and easy.....doubt 48" forks would do it without some other accommodations.

Well either way, I can probably drag it out regardless.

Could make extensions for the forks...I see that done before.

 

[Sidekick]

Well either way, I can probably drag it out regardless.

Could make extensions for the forks...I see that done before.

We want a video of you moving it .

 

[nerwin]

We want a video of you moving it .

Maybe when it stops snowing first!

 

[Russell King]

You could build a frame from 4x4 or whatever size fits the best. Level that frame as you build it the fill it with compacted gravel. Place shed on the gravel base.

Here is a video on what I mean for the base. This guy does some odd stuff but gets there eventually. I would have used Timber Screws and not deck screws.

if you set it on cinder blocks, I assume you mean using them “incorrectly“ on their sides so you get a solid surface? I would figure out a way to fill them with gravel so they can channel water through and drain.

As far as moving it, lift it up and get some boards under it then pull the boards and shed like it is skiing.

 

[RMS]

Change of season readiness. I swear, the hardest part of the process is hooking up the pioneer fittings for the loader. Even after cracking the fittings on the loader to make sure there was no pressure they were still a bear to get on.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Well either way, I can probably drag it out regardless.

Could make extensions for the forks...I see that done before.

Get three pieces of PVC pipe or Wood poles and pick it up put the pipes under it and roll it out of the way.
I did that with my 20 foot seaboard container.

 

[nerwin]

Get three pieces of PVC pipe or Wood poles and pick it up put the pipes under it and roll it out of the way.
I did that with my 20 foot seaboard container.

It's not that heavy haha. I can pick it up with my hands...it's just bulky.

 

[McMXi]

We had snow yesterday but back to a beautiful day today so I got a lot done this afternoon/evening. Everything went remarkably well so either I'm learning or it was just one of those good days!

I started by removing the snow blower from the MX and placing it on a pallet in preparation for summer storage. I reinstalled the hydraulic top link and hooked up the EA box blade. Next up was to get the B&W 3" tow & stow hitch installed in the custom receiver that I made last year for the M-1078. This was the first time I've used the hitch on the M-1078 and that also went well. I had to do a little file work inside the square tube of the receiver due to welding deformation, but it wasn't bad at all.

Then I hooked up the big dump trailer to the M-1078, and because the bed on the truck and the dump bed are basically the same width, it was just about the easiest trailer hook up I can remember in terms of aligning the hitch to the coupler. I did have to adjust the coupler height on the trailer to get it to sit level. I even remembered to check to see if I'd be able to raise the bucket high enough to get over the mesh panels to dump dirt before I had a bucket full, and all was good. Of course, like the amateur I am, I managed to dump dirt all over the front of the tractor when I tilted the bucket too far back. I only did that once though.

The box blade is doing a great job and I'm trying to use draft control but it's still a big mystery to me! But progress is being made, and it's way faster to dump dirt into the trailer than making numerous trips with the tractor. This weekend I'm going to see what's involved in getting the weights that I got with the Buhler/Farm King rear blade hung on the EA box blade. I think that some extra weight wouldn't be a bad thing.

The deer don't seem to mind me being out in their field and a bunch were happily chewing on grass.

 

[RMS]

Getting ready for an addition to be put on. Getting rid of hardscaping my wife has disliked since we moved in. These blocks are around 60 lbs each so the loader makes it easier, not totally easy since I have to put them in the bucket lol

 

[Trailrated]

Magnificent


I also have 3 tractors,....... on only 12 acres.
Swapping attachments is rarely an issue for me.

I have 2 tractors and an excavator on 8.5 acres. LOL

 

[NCL4701]

It's not that heavy haha. I can pick it up with my hands...it's just bulky.

Had to move a 7.5 x 8 plywood box blind a few years ago. It was built like one of those little sheds that are delivered on a rollback, except it didn’t have any siding at all and the “windows” were more accurately gun ports but still a little stick framed building. Had to move it about a 1/2 mile, with around 1/4 of that being on ATV trails in the woods, cross two creeks, and then set it on a flatbed trailer for transport to anywhere I didn’t have to ever see it again. Tip of forks just barely made it past center of the blind.

It was bolted to a concrete block foundation so we had to either jack it up and remove the blocks or pick it up off the bolts and drive off with it. We chose picking it up with the forks as first option. No issue with weight. We were concerned it would roll off forward if for any reason it slipped forward even a couple inches, and sliding off sideways while on uneven ground was also a concern, so we strapped it to the fork rack. I’m sure we could have really cranked down on the strap and crushed it but some common sense is required for this sort of thing. We got it snug but not stupid tight.

First real problem: If you’re driving forward you can’t see anything except the building. No way to tell where you’re going or what you’re running into. So you need a decent spotter to drive forward.

Second problem: When we got to the wooded part of the trail it was a bit of a tight fit; kind of like pushing a pig through a pipe. I couldn’t see where I was going (see problem 1 above) and I also couldn’t see my spotter because the vegetation was way too thick for him to be off to the side. We ran all thread rods through the two outermost joists to make attachments points for chains and skidded it through the woods part of the journey.

Point of all that is there are several ways to move it, but if you pick it up with forks, you might consider lightly strapping it to the fork rack to ensure it stays on the forks like it should.

 

[nerwin]

The weather has been terrible lately...haven't been able to use the tractor so it has become a storage unit for the classic car cover for now



Joking aside....is it pretty normal for the bucket to curl up like this when the tractor's been sitting for a few weeks?



If so is there a better position to put it so it doesn't do this? Or is it just the nature of hydraulics in tractors? I mean there's no leaks, hydraulic level is still the exact same when I last topped it off.

 

[In Utopia]

My company fabricates things from metal, don't worry about it. Prices will go up in the short term (they already have been), but people forget about fuel being over $4.15/gallon this time last year; this year prices went up a little from $2.35 to $2.65, today is $2.95--that's a big jump but would you rather be over $4.50?

Steel is the same, we were at $1.10/lb for A36, went down to $0.54 after the election, are at $0.67 now, and will likely hit $0.70 from tariffs; would you rather we have followed the previous trend and have gone from $1.10 to $1.30 or be at $0.70?

You'll be fine concerning steel prices.

The real concern is the electronic chip market.

Gas prices are up due to the summer blend gas changeover. Give it time, it will settle back down.