What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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NCL4701
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Ours used to be shared. My brother and his wife lived in one of the three houses on the road, my mother and father in another, and my wife and I in the third. My brother moved away with his family about 25 years ago. My mother passed in 2013 and father in 2022. Our son and his then fiancé lived in my parents old house for a couple years before moving for his job. So now it’s me and my wife with one road, three driveways, and three houses. One house is our residence, one is a true guest house, and the third is storage/shop/deer processing/overflow guest house.
I do find grading work to be enjoyable and gratifying. It’s been even more enjoyable with the top/tilt with a float detent valve. It’s a long, convoluted story why I bought my L and why the road and driveways got into a barely passable in 2WD state. Family relationships can be complicated. First thing I did with the L was fixing the road and driveways. My father very much appreciated my rehabbing and then maintaining the road, and later refreshing and maintaining the trails and creek crossings. I very much appreciated him paying for the ~180 ton of rock the road and driveways needed for the 30 year refresher. Doing things for people who truly appreciate it is a substantial reward in and of itself.
After this recent maintenance, the only other current user, my wife, said it does look better but she doesn’t understand why I need to do this. Instead of trying to explain water management and erosion, asked her if she could explain why she’s compelled to clean all the floors in our house at least three times a week. She thought for a minute and said she now understands. So I don’t know if she appreciates it, but at least she doesn’t complain.
If I had folks who abused it and then expected me to fix it, I wouldn’t fix it until it got so bad my wife’s 4Runner or my Tundra were struggling with it.
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Got to love these temp swings, Friday at noon, we are 81 degrees. Saturday at noon we were 45 degrees. Not sure if I'm supposed to be wearing shorts or long underwear.
Well I know it’s not tractor related but I’m too excited to not share this. I went to the dealership yesterday and well…I bought my first truck. Not using it to tow the tractor with but it’s gonna be daily driver or weekly driver depending if I car pool occasionally.
I struggled for years and worked my butt off, I figured I deserved to get myself a new truck that is my own. I was driving home and I couldn’t believe I actually bought a truck brand new.
I absolutely love the way this truck drives, it’s smaller than full size pick up but it still has a usable 6ft bed and drives like a truck!
It’s a 2026 Nissan Frontier SV 4x4 with dark armor package and the sv convenience package so it’s loaded with heated seats, mirrors, steering wheel, remote start, spray in bed liner, etc.
I struggled for years and worked my butt off, I figured I deserved to get myself a new truck that is my own. I was driving home and I couldn’t believe I actually bought a truck brand new.
I absolutely love the way this truck drives, it’s smaller than full size pick up but it still has a usable 6ft bed and drives like a truck!
It’s a 2026 Nissan Frontier SV 4x4 with dark armor package and the sv convenience package so it’s loaded with heated seats, mirrors, steering wheel, remote start, spray in bed liner, etc.
Another day of puffin’ smoke here. I did shuttle the evaporator up the road this morning with the B and the new battery makes a world of difference starting it up.
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Ahhh, sorry, I misunderstood.
Now heated steering wheel, that is something, especially in a cold climate.
You never know up here. We could have a foot of snow in May, but I need/want to move dirt and would prefer to leave the rock bucket on the M6060 in the event that it dries up and proves to be useful. The problem I might have is disconnecting the 3rd function hoses since some things are hard to do given the current state of my hands. When I left the hospital on Tuesday afternoon I had to ask one of the nurses to tie my boot laces since there was no way I could do it without fumbling like an idiot for 20 minutes!Oh no, not that, your going to bring on a huge snow storm!
Hope your hands doing well!
Overall my hands are doing well and other than a dull ache/pain the first day (Advil for that) I've had very little discomfort. The surgeon told me that I could remove the bandages on Sunday afternoon so of course I removed them Friday morning. I'd had enough of those bloody things. He also said that I shouldn't lift anything heavier than 5lb. Seriously? That's not going to happen. The surgeon and team did a great job, but did they need eight people in the OR for a local procedure? Admittedly two were in training, but this is the kind of procedure that could be done on the kitchen table. I was in a gown with fancy socks and a skull cap, warming blankets, a heart rate and blood O2 monitor, a freakin' DJ who seemed to be in control of Spotify! No wonder this procedure is close to $7k.
So now I'm using band-aids and wearing gloves when getting firewood or messing with the tractors which works until I do something stupid with my hands. Yesterday while running the tractor I had a couple of forgetful moments and moved my hand in such a way as to cause pain. But all things considered my hands are healing quickly and once the stitches are out on the 16th I can get back to numerous projects.
In case anyone here is suffering from stenosing tenosynovitis (trigger finger) and wondering if it's worth having surgery, I would say it's absolutely worth it. I had three fingers done a few years ago and they've been problem free since. With these thumbs and middle finger I'm hoping that I'm done needing more surgeries. By the way, the thumbs are much less of a deal than the fingers and it's mostly the middle finger that's uncomfortable at times.
Tuesday evening after surgery. That spray on tan takes a while to wash off.
Saturday morning.
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I haven't bought a new vehicle since 2013 but I can appreciate the excitement. The color looks like a slate gray or something. Four cylinder gas engine I assume?
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Congratulations, you should be happy about it!
I love Nissan vehicles and mine have been trouble free since purchase (2016 was current Frontier, 1998 was first Frontier and 1975 DATSUN 280Z was the first one but was used).
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That right finger and left thumb look familiar!You never know up here. We could have a foot of snow in May, but I need/want to move dirt and would prefer to leave the rock bucket on the M6060 in the event that it dries up and proves to be useful. The problem I might have is disconnecting the 3rd function hoses since some things are hard to do given the current state of my hands. When I left the hospital on Tuesday afternoon I had to ask one of the nurses to tie my boot laces since there was no way I could do it without fumbling like an idiot for 20 minutes!
Overall my hands are doing well and other than a dull ache/pain the first day (Advil for that) I've had very little discomfort. The surgeon told me that I could remove the bandages on Sunday afternoon so of course I removed them Friday morning. I'd had enough of those bloody things. He also said that I shouldn't lift anything heavier than 5lb. Seriously? That's not going to happen. The surgeon and team did a great job, but did they need eight people in the OR for a local procedure? Admittedly two were in training, but this is the kind of procedure that could be done on the kitchen table. I was in a gown with fancy socks and a skull cap, warming blankets, a heart rate and blood O2 monitor, a freakin' DJ who seemed to be in control of Spotify! No wonder this procedure is close to $7k.
So now I'm using band-aids and wearing gloves when getting firewood or messing with the tractors which works until I do something stupid with my hands. Yesterday while running the tractor I had a couple of forgetful moments and moved my hand in such a way as to cause pain. But all things considered my hands are healing quickly and once the stitches are out on the 16th I can get back to numerous projects.
In case anyone here is suffering from stenosing tenosynovitis (trigger finger) and wondering if it's worth having surgery, I would say it's absolutely worth it. I had three fingers done a few years ago and they've been problem free since. With these thumbs and middle finger I'm hoping that I'm done needing more surgeries. By the way, the thumbs are much less of a deal than the fingers and it's mostly the middle finger that's uncomfortable at times.
Tuesday evening after surgery. That spray on tan takes a while to wash off.
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Saturday morning.
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My surgeon, such a great guy, I told him after the last one I hoped he didn't move up and out of the area as I would probably need him again. He said he loves the area and won't. He first did carpal tunnel release on me both hands, about 5 years ago .
I suffered with that since I was a teenager, mine was hereditary not form damage. 50 years of dealing with hands going numb but no more.
Bill
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Cleaned the ditches. Water was running over the top of my driveway. Probably the end of tractor work until things dry up.
Looks like one of those days when sitting in a nice, comfy cab makes all the difference. It's sunny, dry and very windy here. I've been hiking for a few weeks now and will head out on the 5.5 mile trail this afternoon after an hour or so of MX work.
It was comfy. One of the few times I wished I had a backhoe. The ditch is too deep to get down to the culvert with the loader.
Considering the current warm spell, I guess the sugaring season is about done, eh?