Vincecj
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B7100D with FEL, home made folding rear forks, transport box and landplane.
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Not on the Kubota, but for the Kubota. I am having the side garage door on my barn changed from a 9' high door to an 11' high door. Old door was removed Thursday. header raised yesterday, trim work finishing today and the new door is to be installed tomorrow. Should make it alot easier to get the mini-ex in and out. and extra headroom to swing around for maintenance.
I use WD40 to prevent rust, carnauba wax to make snow slide, works pretty well, doesn't last forever. Pam cooking spray also works but requires more frequent application.
1.) I didn't think about that, but it would be funnier if she cooked....A few questions for you my friend:
1.) Lock her out only if I cooked supper?
2.) Have you met my wife? (She’s a fireball)
3.) And lastly, what’s your address and do you have a comfortable couch?
And yes she’s a good one so I’ll do whatever it takes to make her happy!
2.) Nope. Is she a redhead?
3.) I do have a sleeper sofa and it is comfortable, but if you're paying the mortgage like the majority of men she can get a hotel room if she's going to get that mad.
I'm glad you got a good one, seriously, which does seem common on OTT. (Maybe OTT needs a Dating forum.)
No need dating forum…. there is already a ‘buy, sell, trade’ section. (Below the classifieds section).1.) I didn't think about that, but it would be funnier if she cooked....
2.) Nope. Is she a redhead?
3.) I do have a sleeper sofa and it is comfortable, but if you're paying the mortgage like the majority of men she can get a hotel room if she's going to get that mad.
I'm glad you got a good one, seriously, which does seem common on OTT. (Maybe OTT needs a Dating forum.)
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Moved pallets, timber, and small equipment out of my little barn/shed and into my box trailer to make room. Put splitters and chipper under barn lean to and managed to squeeze the tractor in next to the mini with 3 inches to spare on each side. Much like a chinese puzzle. Next days will take off loader and mount blower. Tractor with forks makes it easier but still took all day with the ice and snow.
I really need to build a true barn/outbuilding of adequate size this coming year so I dont have play these maneuvering games each winter.
I really need to build a true barn/outbuilding of adequate size this coming year so I dont have play these maneuvering games each winter.
Recently we had a 20+ inch snow fall. I had a lot of snow to move/reposition. Took me a week to get the blasted stuff off the roof as it was both heavy and wind packed. What was raked on the decks had to be shoveled to the ground. I had piles that looked like the end of winter. So I uncovered the 2380, got it fired up and attacked these piles with a vengeance. Took me a while to plow a track through the deep snow to get to the house but once there, it was about two hours work to get those white mountains disposed of. That tractor saved my back big time. If I could have just got it up on the roof.
I have similar ground up here, but the rock auger that I bought a few months ago is a game changer. I bought a used Land Pride HD25 PHD a few years ago that came with 9" and 12" augers and they work great unless rocks are involved. The 6" rock auger does a good job, and although slow, it will get through the rocks up here with the help of the M6060. I'm now able to punch almost 4ft deep holes around the property without worrying about the need to relocate a hole.
Welcome to @Vincecj and @Brown i.e. the Welsh contingent. I've spent a fair amount of time in Wales (Caldey Island, Fishguard, Brecon Beacons, etc.) but not as much as my dad who was evacuated out of London to Wales during the war. It's always good to see members from around the world.
To the non-initiated, when the Welsh start talking about leeks, they're not referring to the hydraulic oil variety.
There's an expression in the UK for something that's leaking such as a boat. "It's got more leaks than a Welsh allotment" which I confess I've used more than once. Obviously it's a play on words with leek being replaced with leak. No disrespect intended to our Welsh friends.
ajschnitzelbank
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L4701, BH92, Frost Bite grapple, Logosol M8 mill, Stihl MS661
A friend of mine added some acres to his place which contained a small red pine plantation. I guess in the 60s or something there was a blight on spruce (I think it was spruce) in my area, so boy scouts and 4H and the like were planting red pines.
Anyway my friend wants them gone. They are tall (75’ ish) and straight, but not very large (11” dbh on average). About a hundred of them.
I started cutting a few today to try out on my Logosol chainsaw mill. We’ll see how the milling goes.
They were easy to cut, for the most part. an only one gave me trouble. Was the smallest one, and had a bit of back lean. My wedges were just too long. I lifted it a bit, but it was hung up in the top of a nearby tree. So I gave it a little push.
Anyway my friend wants them gone. They are tall (75’ ish) and straight, but not very large (11” dbh on average). About a hundred of them.
I started cutting a few today to try out on my Logosol chainsaw mill. We’ll see how the milling goes.
They were easy to cut, for the most part. an only one gave me trouble. Was the smallest one, and had a bit of back lean. My wedges were just too long. I lifted it a bit, but it was hung up in the top of a nearby tree. So I gave it a little push.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Had a few people staying in the guest house for a couple nights for a funeral. Pulled the trailers out of the carport and set them out of sight in the edge of the woods by the west end of the dam.
Guests are gone. One of the last steps in cleanup is putting the trailers back in the carport. I’ve done it with the Tundra, but it’s much easier with the Kubota.
Hello there @Vincecj and @McMXi
Seems like a very friendly bunch on here.
That looks like a decent piece of kit you've got there.
Whilst idly watching Youtube a while ago I came across this video featuring Rory Sampson from Scotland with a truly enviable fencing machine:
Having spent a good deal of my early life painstakingly loosening and levering large stones out of post holes with a crowbar, his ability to drill and hammer through the stony subsoil of the British Isles was mesmerising.
Seems like a very friendly bunch on here.
That looks like a decent piece of kit you've got there.
Whilst idly watching Youtube a while ago I came across this video featuring Rory Sampson from Scotland with a truly enviable fencing machine:
Chanceywd
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Kubota L2501DT BH77 VIRNIG URG60-CT 1950 8N WC-68
Sorry if I am off topic here,
But I would like to say,
I am amazed how much a wedge or 2 can do. I didn't even use them until a few years ago I started watching Bucking Billy Ray on you tube. He can drop trees with crazy lean in tight places.
A great tool for my personal yearly fire wood to drop a tree just a little better saving work and a lot of hangups.
Bill
Did some firewood yesterday. Used the L3901DT and grapple to move logs to the bucking and splitting area.
My brother in England sent me this photo yesterday. Looking at Kubota tractors never gets old, whether they're mine or someone else's.
I'm kind of hoping that this is my Christmas present from my brother and he's trying to lure me back for Christmas.
I'm kind of hoping that this is my Christmas present from my brother and he's trying to lure me back for Christmas.
Chanceywd
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Kubota L2501DT BH77 VIRNIG URG60-CT 1950 8N WC-68
None of my 3 brothers would own a Kubota, they all live in cities with minimum land.My brother in England sent me this photo yesterday. Looking at Kubota tractors never gets old, whether they're mine or someone else's.
I'm kind of hoping that this is my Christmas present from my brother and he's trying to lure me back for Christmas.
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I'm the rural different one , no one burns wood like we did as kids either except me.
2 of them do have little lap dogs where I have 2 medium size crazy ones!
Bill
About 3 years ago I made a video while I worked in a fir stand that required some wedging. It shows a method I like to use on small trees called the tongue and groove cut - starts at about 11:20 in the video. You guys might want to try this. In the winter I like to use at least 2 wedges because they are easier to break. The second one is just a 6" wedge and not enough to tip the tree before it bottoms out but will hold the tree if the main wedge breaks or spits out.
This is the video blurb:
Cutting a fir stand, back to front and left to right. I want to fell everything to the back so I'm not working in the slash. Requires some wedging. First tree, a back leaner, wedges over nicely. Second tree had a right lean. It's butt was quite rotten. The rotted hinge couldn't take the jacking pressure of the wedges. When the hinge broke the tree went where it wanted - to the right and leaned up against adjacent trees. I pulled it off the stump with the winch then cut the rot off the butt until I found good wood. Third and fourth trees are back leaners, especially the fourth. They are too small to get a wedge in behind the bar before it gets pinched. In those cases I like to use the "tongue and groove" cut.
gg
As a note, that can be dangerous with a top-heavy leaner. This year I had one pop as I walked 10' away to put the saw down after step (5). Thankfully I was 10' away, but it did damage.