What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[S-G-R]

Why didn't you just get a tube? Not being a smart-azz, just curious.

Two shops didn't think a tube would last so I went new.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Spent the past week cutting a bunch of small >6 inch maple, ash and trees to open up the woods in front of my home. I stacked the logs for future processing and then chipped the remaining slash and piled it for later. I am finally using the WC88 chipper on a regular basis and it stays on the tractor since I have not been logging this season and usually have the winch on the back.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Good day.

got home from immunotherapy (bee venom) early today so I thought I would mow.

fueled up the little B lit my cigar and got after it. Such a nice day I thought I would touch up in the woods and when I got around to front yard I smelled smoke, and not my cigar. Could not figure out is someone burning or is it my machine…I looked behind me and saw smoke. So I immediately shut her down got off and sure enough there was smoke coming from under the guards on the deck. .

I shuttle the B over the pose and we gave it a good clean off and we were back up in short order.

 

[Bearcatrp]

Did some mowing, then put the forks on to move a downed tree after chopping it up. My over sized garden tractor did a good job.

 

[biketopia]

Used the tractor to move my brother's safe from my house, where it was stored, to his new house about 25 min down the road. We were doing everything we could to dodge the severe weather in the area. It started dumping at my place right after we left, but we were ahead of the storm all the way to his house. Got the tractor off the trailer with the safe safely on the forks, around the house to the back door. Then, about halfway through us manhandling it through the door, the skies opened up, and I got soaked, being the one pushing from outside .

Oh well, the tractor and I got a bath, then we watched the storm roll through and drank a beer until we could unload my truck and re-load the safe.

Got home and realized I'll be re-dragging the driveway today or tomorrow after the heavy rain came through before the driveway had a chance to fully be compacted down.

 

[S-G-R]

Mowed down the BIL's property. Mostly weeds and flowers with a bit of grass.

 

[netspyder]

chipdrop came today at the house - so i had to mow the back yard before picking up donnie from my sister's. got about 2/3 of the pile moved before i ran out of light. supposed to rain tomorrow, so it's good i got it mostly out of the way.

 

[Old_Paint]

Two shops didn't think a tube would last so I went new.

A small hole could/should have been patched from the inside and a tube would be no different than the inside of a new tire. I actually prefer tubes in offroad tires that don’t need balancing. As long as it’s just a puncture and not a gash that cuts the sidewall cords, it should be reparable. It ain’t like you’re running it on the interstate at 80 mph where heat would be the worst problem.

What other advice would you expect from a tire/tractor dealer? Unfortunately, that’s today’s culture, though. Throw it away and get a new one.

 

[biketopia]

Drug the driveway again, lookin real good now! I should really be more proactive about it rather than let it go for 6-9 months takes much less time and keeps things looking good.

After that, I split wood until well past dark using the floodlights on the ROPS for visibility.

I go in for hernia repair Friday the 31st, so trying to get a bunch of things knocked out before I have to be careful for 6 weeks.

 

[Old_Paint]

Yesterday, my son was mowing a neighbor’s yard with their Husqvarna Z-turn and the blades suddenly stopped. He found one of the idler pulleys and a few bushiy laying on the deck, and called me in a panic.

So I go get the mower and ride it over to my place and back it to my tractor shed. Popped out 4 hair pins and washers, moved the mower back a couple inches and disconnected the front deck lift rod. Then I tied a rope around the front of it and to the grapple and lifted the front while I rolled the mower back to get the deck out from under it. Just as I thought, one carriage bolt had broken and the repair was easy enough. I tend to be a pack rat, and scrounged though my collection of used hardware to find one that was about an inch too long. Figured out the bushing arrangement and the belt guide and had the deck repairs done in about 30 minutes. Reversed the process to get the deck out to put it back in. Put the belt back on and Bob’s yer uncle. The second idler (which is also the pivot for the belt tensioner bracket) was also loose, so I fixed that and greased the pivot while I was at it.

in other words, I did a lot more work on someone else’s machine using mine for the heavy lifting. At least both were orange. I was just worried they would get grumpy with him because he was on the mower when the bolt broke. Nothing he could have hit or done would have caused the bolt to break. Just vibration and fatigue caused by unbalanced blades or bent spindles. I’ve put a spindle in the deck before as a favor, so this is the second time I have repaired their mower.

 

[NCL4701]

The sewer line we use as a UTV/tractor road was blocked by a decent sized, long dead ash tree a couple weeks ago. It brought down a small white oak with it. Irritatingly, the white oak had a very much alive and juicy poison ivy vine that wasn’t big, but big enough to go all the way up the tree and have 3’ branches sticking out all over. Cut a chunk out of the vine near the bottom of the vine with a bush axe the day after we discovered it. By today, it had dried out a good bit. That gap gave me a spot to cut off the stump and hook a choker.
Pulled the entire oak out from under the ash and skidded it a little ways to where I could push the whole thing off in the edge of the woods. It was really nice to not have to mess with that poison ivy beyond cutting it in one spot near the base.
The ash was really simple. Cut it on both sides of the clearing and shoved it off into the woods.

 

[KubotaHawg]

Between yesterday afternoon and today mowed the two clearings and all trails/firebreaks/easement on my 65 acres, 8 hours seat time. Pretty good pace I think for 28 hp and a 5’ bush hog considering it was 5’ tall in a lot of places. I mow the clearings tall except for right by the cabin though so not too much bogging down, and my trails are all in the woods so not as thick there.

Main (legal) easement is badly rutted from runoff though, at a quandary as to how to tackle it. I never use that gate, use a different access gate with a double lock mine and the landowner who has a barn down there. He didn’t want another legal easement across his property, so I maintain the field by his barn and the drive to the gate and he’s happy with that.

Ruts on legal easement road—if you can call it that—are 18” deep in places and plenty deep to flip a small tractor. A bb or straight blade is not going to cut it, plus steep and narrow. Probably going to have to either rent a dozer or see if a friend who lives ~3 miles from there will drive his D4 down and do it. I can run a dozer but hate asking friends to use their equipment.

Edit: probably should have waited until tomorrow, 95 and humid today—supposed to get a rare Arkansas summer cool front tonight and predicted 78 with 15 mph North wind tomorrow but when have the time gotta get it done—and Arkansas weather is as predictable as the lottery…

 

[g_man]

Boy @ NCL4701 I am glad we don't get poison ivy like that here. We get plenty but it is like brush and only 16" high or so at most. Never saw a vine that ran up a tree.

I did a small job today. There was a smallish standing dead and dry Red Maple that blew down into one of our trails last April. I was on the 4-wheeler when I first came upon it and just cut it in pieces that I could roll off the trail. Today I still had some room in the front row on this years side side of the wood shed and thought that that tree would make OK early season fire wood. So I went out and picked it up.





I blocked it up on the trailer and ran it through the splitter if needed then into the shed. First firewood sawdust I have made in a while. I thought it would fill the space but not quite.




gg

 

[In Utopia]

Only 16" tall, boy are you lucky. We just got through my wife's fight with ivy that grew up three different trees and completely took over the canopy of all three. The "mother" vine looked like a tree next to the first tree it took over. When I cut it at the base, the diameter was almost 5". The other three were only about 1-1/2" in diameter. Found a couple more on the lot next to me.
Wife being the good wife she is cut all the small limbs off the first tree that came down across our fence not knowing it was nothing but poison ivy, not elm leaves. She's finally getting over the head to toe exposure.
My tree guys all 5 of them who cut up and piled the stuff up on the lot next door are allergic to it, don't know if I am or not, not going to try and find out.
This is the wife the day after....it got worse later that night.

 

[Paul Allwood]

I was about to make a crate to move firewood down to the house from our woodshed using the tractor forks. Then late yesterday someone about 5 minutes from home advertised an old crate on Facebook Marketplace that looked like it would be perfect, and it was free.

I collected it this afternoon, cut the mesh out of the front, added some old castors and tested it with the first load down to the house. This gets a much bigger load than the wheelbarrow and is a fair bit easier....and anything that needs me to get on the tractor is always good.

 

[S-G-R]

Mowed and then greased the FDR2584. I need to change the blades but I ran out of ambition in the heat.

 

[nbryan]

The sewer line we use as a UTV/tractor road was blocked by a decent sized, long dead ash tree a couple weeks ago. It brought down a small white oak with it. Irritatingly, the white oak had a very much alive and juicy poison ivy vine that wasn’t big, but big enough to go all the way up the tree and have 3’ branches sticking out all over.Cut a chunk out of the vine near the bottom of the vine with a bush axe the day after we discovered it. By today, it had dried out a good bit. That gap gave me a spot to cut off the stump and hook a choker.
View attachment 177553 Pulled the entire oak out from under the ash and skidded it a little ways to where I could push the whole thing off in the edge of the woods. It was really nice to not have to mess with that poison ivy beyond cutting it in one spot near the base.
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What we ID as poison ivy here, Canada southern prairies, I've never seen anything like what you seem to be calling the same. Well what do you know, it grows like a vine, too! Warmer climate down there in NC, as our winters are brutally cold and would probably kill exposed vines of poison ivy.

 

[NCL4701]

What we ID as poison ivy here, Canada southern prairies, I've never seen anything like what you seem to be calling the same. Well what do you know, it grows like a vine, too! Warmer climate down there in NC, as our winters are brutally cold and would probably kill exposed vines of poison ivy.

You aren’t missing anything not having the ivy.

Back in the 8th grade, we were studying plants, including poison ivy. Our teacher told us the big hairy vine type only lived on the west coast and she was glad it wasn’t in our area because she was highly allergic. It was abundant in the trees on the edges of the fields of the 200 acre farm where I lived. Whole story is pretty long, but the short of it is after a bit of spirited debate, I brought her a hunk of a 3” thick vine with a ~40” branch and cluster of leaves attached, safely enclosed in a quite large Ziploc bag. She confirmed its identity with a local Ag Extension Agent. Since I wasn’t allergic, I transferred it from the bag to a large jar for her to keep as a permanent specimen.

Here in central NC, our winters are generally pretty mild. Nothing like what y’all have, I’m sure.

 

[nbryan]

You aren’t missing anything not having the ivy.

No big ivy like NC, but we have it and it does its thing on those reactive here too, like my wife. She can spot it on the ground, where it grows here, way before I can. For good reason.
For me it caused reactions way back when, but I just give it respect when its growing and it's been many a year since that itch.