What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[McMXi]

I just got home from work…we have ambient temperature At 31F, 45mph wind, snow, sleet and rain not to mention I am older than I was last year…that cab sure looks toasty.

Our place up North is gonna get a good pounding (high wind and lake effect) the next few days and I realize that not only am I getting older but that cab sure looks TOASTY.

did I mention that cab looks toasty (you got me thinking about my preferences for sure with the enclosed tractor porn.

It's a wet cold at present so the cab is particularly nice. It gets so hot in there that I end up turning the heat way down and selecting outside air. Heat has never been an issue in that cab, even on the coldest of days when the temperature is in the -20°F or colder range.

Keeping the cab nice and cool is more of a challenge on really hot days when the tractor is working hard out in the sun. A full tint would help, but I think insulation above the headliner would do the trick. I'll get to it eventually. In comparison, the M6060 cab is an ice box on hot days.

 

[Bearcatrp]

Moved snow today. Not allot but got my snow legs practice. With talk of allot of snow this year, if it happens, will be ready.

 

[Old_Paint]

About ten years ago I bought a DR Pro330 lawn & leaf vacuum trailer. Initially used it behind a JD X360, and now behind my BX2380. The mower deck shreds the leaves somewhat, then the vac shreds them even more, so I get an (advertised/claimed by DR) 330 ft³ of leaves per load. The Dr vac does a really good job and is easy to unload. I've filled it 17 times so far this season, and about half the leaves are still on the oaks, so I'll likely end up with about 25 loads by season's end.

I’m constantly on vigil watching for one that I can restore or repair. Seems like any that are put out to pasture are too far gone to bother. Restoring them would cost more than a new one. Anyone with a lot of leaves and the money for a vac tends to keep it till there’s no repair possible. Can’t say I blame them.

Something easier to dump would be a blessing. For now, I line the little trailer with a cheap tarp and pull the leaves out that way. It’s pretty quick, but not as easy as it was when I was in my 50’s. 70 aint far off, and all the old injuries from when I was young, dumb, 10 feet tall and bulletproof remind me that was a false sense of security, not a fact.

Next option is gonna be to build a custom knockoff that fits my needs.

 

[McMXi]

We've had a fair amount of snow so I was blowing and pushing this morning. Here's the typical snow blower action shot.

 

[S-G-R]

We've had a fair amount of snow so I was blowing and pushing this morning. Here's the typical snow blower action shot.

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Still mild and sort of green here. Might look like your pic Wednesday.

 

[In Utopia]

We've had a fair amount of snow so I was blowing and pushing this morning. Here's the typical snow blower action shot.

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Beautiful scenery for sure, glad it's 68 degrees in Texas this morning.

 

[KubotaHawg]

Leaves, leaves, leaves. Three houses/yards. 600’ of gutters. A couple short sections of road. A couple foot paths by the houses we keep clear of leaves.

Serious question, why don’t you burn instead of move leaves so much?

I live on 7 acres, all wooded, and have a cabin on 60 in a 1 acre clearing. I blow leaves off the patio and foot paths at home into big rows away from the house and back burn downhill—twice each fall. Takes about two tanks in the blower to do each time.
I prescribe burn entire 7 acre hillside at home every other year in February or March, and most of the 60 acres every 2-3 years. Good for the soil, native forbs, and wildlife of every type out there too.

Tractor is used to mow/maintain dozed trails/firebreaks out at the cabin but backpack leaf blower is all I use at home to create firebreaks , too hilly and rocky for tractor use.

Edit: I should add that I am not in city limits, don’t have a grass blade of lawn at home, and Arkansas is a very burn friendly state (and weather conducive to burning so few restrictions).

 

[JonM]

got the blower on for todays storm.

 

[McMXi]

Beautiful scenery for sure, glad it's 68 degrees in Texas this morning.

It's 5°F here this morning! First thing I do after letting my dog outside is get the fire going, then I make coffee. It's a beautiful sunrise and it's warm in the house so all is good.

 

[McMXi]

got the blower on for todays storm.

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That is one heck of a nice blower!

 

[mdhughes]

Thursday we used the L3901DT to move firewood from outside storage to the shed where our wood burning boiler is.

Friday we used the L3901DT and grapple to move logs to our splitting/outside storage area to be blocked up, split and stacked. It was in the mid 30's, the best temperature for splitting firewood. I'm not a fan of firewood that heats me twice.

We were going to do some more splitting today, but it is snowing.

 

[Rosohatica]

I took the new dumper trailer out for a test run and went to collect firewood. The ground was extremely muddy, as you can see in the photos. I ran into several issues.

The area where my forest is located is quite tight, so I can’t make a loop to turn around — I have to reverse out. The tractor made deep tracks in the mud, and the trailer kept getting locked into those tracks. I couldn’t steer it sideways the way I needed while reversing; no matter what I did with the tractor, the trailer stayed trapped in the ruts. That’s when I got the idea to use a chain hoist — and it worked perfectly.

Then came the next problem. Since I had to use the winch, I detached the trailer from the tractor. That turned out to be a mistake. As I started loading the front part of the trailer, the screw that holds the support leg scraped along the leg, and the whole trailer tipped forward, as you can see in the images.

I had to unload everything, and even then it was too heavy to lift back into place without help — so I used the chain hoist again (very handy tool!) to pull the trailer and tractor together.

In the end, everything worked out.

It took me two trips to bring the whole tree home. The second trip was early this morning, when the ground was frozen — much smoother and easier compared to the muddy chaos yesterday.

 

[JonM]

That is one heck of a nice blower!

thanks. last year it was not fun clearing the horse dry lot with a snow pusher and bucket. got it last spring its a landpride sbp1684

 

[johnjk]

Got the 50 gal transfer tank out of the truck with the B3200, took a load of firewood to the back porch and put on the edge tamers. Now just sitting back and watching the snow. Put the tank on a pallet, up on wheels to move around. Will build a proper base for it.

 

[NCL4701]

Serious question, why don’t you burn instead of move leaves so much?

I live on 7 acres, all wooded, and have a cabin on 60 in a 1 acre clearing. I blow leaves off the patio and foot paths at home into big rows away from the house and back burn downhill—twice each fall. Takes about two tanks in the blower to do each time.
I prescribe burn entire 7 acre hillside at home every other year in February or March, and most of the 60 acres every 2-3 years. Good for the soil, native forbs, and wildlife of every type out there too.

Tractor is used to mow/maintain dozed trails/firebreaks out at the cabin but backpack leaf blower is all I use at home to create firebreaks , too hilly and rocky for tractor use.

Edit: I should add that I am not in city limits, don’t have a grass blade of lawn at home, and Arkansas is a very burn friendly state (and weather conducive to burning so few restrictions).

I’m not in a city, but open burning of leaves, trash, brush, or anything else is prohibited in our entire county.

When we moved here 30 years ago, open burning of yard debris was allowed. There are enough people in our area, burning leaves made a smoky fog over everything many days in leaf season. So I can’t really argue against the burn ban.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

I’m not in a city, but open burning of leaves, trash, brush, or anything else is prohibited in our entire county.

When we moved here 30 years ago, open burning of yard debris was allowed. There are enough people in our area, burning leaves made a smoky fog over everything many days in leaf season. So I can’t really argue against the burn ban.

Does that apply to agriculture as well? Are farms in your state not allowed to burn organic material/waste? (My assumption is your large property is minimally a farm from a Forestry standpoint).

 

[S-G-R]

Moved a few skids with the forks and then put the snow pusher on to adjust the skid shoes and then put it on my trailer for easy access.

 

[NCL4701]

Does that apply to agriculture as well? Are farms in your state not allowed to burn organic material/waste? (My assumption is your large property is minimally a farm from a Forestry standpoint).

It’s a county by county thing here. Many of the more heavily populated counties, Forsyth where we live being one of them, have blanket burn bans. Our place is a certified timber farm and also a certified agriculture district based on our use of the land. If I was performing a prescribed burn as a part of our forestry plan, I’m reasonably confident I could do that so long as I stuck to the specifications provided by the County Forester. We don’t have any prescribed burns in our forestry plan and I don’t think I could talk the forester into that for what is truly removal of yard waste, even though he’s been quite accommodating to our goals in the plan he constructed.

Large ag (what little of it remains in this county), landscapers, arborists, developers, loggers, etc. have to either chip/shred woody debris or haul to a landfill. Went from burning OK in county to burn with permit to no burning. I don’t believe burning pastures is acceptable here, but could be wrong about that. Haven’t seen anyone burn a pasture in many years. Used to be common practice.

 

[S-G-R]

got the blower on for todays storm.

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I've never seen on of the pull type blowers here. They look slick in videos but typically we would get too much snow to drive though with one here.