What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[MotoBBQ]

I just can't help myself, I'm just a big kid in a sandbox. Moving dirt to adjust the landing of the jump. Making the natural hill into a tabletop. Don't let anyone fool you, these tractors can move dirt. Pictures never do it justice. I'll keep moving dirt uphill each maintenance session.

 

[forky]

There’s a 1960’s era neighborhood / development just east of our road frontage. Wife and I pretty routinely take walks through the neighborhood.

One of the houses we routinely walk by had some plumbing work done a couple months ago which required ripping out part of the concrete driveway. The contractor that tore it out used their mini-ex to stack it neatly by the road. The concrete has been sitting there going on three months.

We saw the homeowner out in his yard on one of our walks recently and said hello. Got to talking and eventually asked him what he planned to do with his little pile of scrap concrete. He said he hadn’t quite figured out how to get rid of it. He was kind of thinking he could just throw it all in his pickup and haul it to a dump somewhere but they just moved into the area from some city in New Jersey (he said, but I forgot) so he didn’t know where to take it and he has a bad back so he couldn’t quite pick up the bigger pieces. I didn’t know if he was kidding or planning to bust up the bigger pieces or if picking up slabs of concrete that weigh a few hundred pounds was the reason for his bad back. Never asked because I kind of wanted his concrete.

We have three creek crossings and a couple of mud holes we have to drive the Mule and tractor through. I like having some large “aggregate” on hand. Offered him the deal I wouldn’t charge him for hauling off his concrete if he didn’t charge me for taking it. He asked if I had a truck and was confident I was in good enough shape to pick up the bigger pieces to load them. Told him, yes I have a pickup truck. Yes, it’s ragged enough I could haul scrap concrete in it. No, I’m not strong enough to pick up the bigger pieces, not because I’m old and fat, but because I’ve never been able to pick up an odd shaped 400lb hunk of concrete and toss it in a pickup. However, I also have a little tractor with a grapple and it’s close enough to pick up the concrete and road it back to our place. He gladly accepted.

Two loads later, it was back at our place in a little separate pile of its own because it’s relatively flat. The other scrap concrete we have is more random.

After moving it, did some rough calculations figuring the weight of dry concrete at about 150lb/cf. The larger pieces ranged from about 300lb to near 500lb. Still don’t know if the guy really thought he could have single handedly loaded them onto a truck by himself before he messed up his back. If he could, he must have been a beast back in the day.

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SWEET! Nice score on the free stuff close to home.

 

[Killer Bee]

There’s a 1960’s era neighborhood / development just east of our road frontage. Wife and I pretty routinely take walks through the neighborhood.

One of the houses we routinely walk by had some plumbing work done a couple months ago which required ripping out part of the concrete driveway. The contractor that tore it out used their mini-ex to stack it neatly by the road. The concrete has been sitting there going on three months.

We saw the homeowner out in his yard on one of our walks recently and said hello. Got to talking and eventually asked him what he planned to do with his little pile of scrap concrete. He said he hadn’t quite figured out how to get rid of it. He was kind of thinking he could just throw it all in his pickup and haul it to a dump somewhere but they just moved into the area from some city in New Jersey (he said, but I forgot) so he didn’t know where to take it and he has a bad back so he couldn’t quite pick up the bigger pieces. I didn’t know if he was kidding or planning to bust up the bigger pieces or if picking up slabs of concrete that weigh a few hundred pounds was the reason for his bad back. Never asked because I kind of wanted his concrete.

We have three creek crossings and a couple of mud holes we have to drive the Mule and tractor through. I like having some large “aggregate” on hand. Offered him the deal I wouldn’t charge him for hauling off his concrete if he didn’t charge me for taking it. He asked if I had a truck and was confident I was in good enough shape to pick up the bigger pieces to load them. Told him, yes I have a pickup truck. Yes, it’s ragged enough I could haul scrap concrete in it. No, I’m not strong enough to pick up the bigger pieces, not because I’m old and fat, but because I’ve never been able to pick up an odd shaped 400lb hunk of concrete and toss it in a pickup. However, I also have a little tractor with a grapple and it’s close enough to pick up the concrete and road it back to our place. He gladly accepted.

Two loads later, it was back at our place in a little separate pile of its own because it’s relatively flat. The other scrap concrete we have is more random.

After moving it, did some rough calculations figuring the weight of dry concrete at about 150lb/cf. The larger pieces ranged from about 300lb to near 500lb. Still don’t know if the guy really thought he could have single handedly loaded them onto a truck by himself before he messed up his back. If he could, he must have been a beast back in the day.

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major score! I could use a few tons of that for some creek crossings. my current plan is to rent a breaker for the track loader and bust out some pieces from our local rock ledges. not looking forward to that.

 

[johnjk]

How’s that lift build quality? Quick search and found a video, looks very versatile and mobile.

I like it. Very solid when extended. Mobility is limited. Lots of weight to drag with a handle. I’m gonna anchor it in this week and make it permanent

 

[johnjk]

Removed the suspension seat off the B3200. It was too high and too little suspension. Back to the factory config and parts I will never use on the shelf

 

[MOOTS]

I like it. Very solid when extended. Mobility is limited. Lots of weight to drag with a handle. I’m gonna anchor it in this week and make it permanent

Very nice. Do you only lift your B with it? Car/truck?
Thinking of one for personal use as well as my new mechanic at work, would be a nice addition to his 2 post with turf kit.

 

[johnjk]

Very nice. Do you only lift your B with it? Car/truck?
Thinking of one for personal use as well as my new mechanic at work, would be a nice addition to his 2 post with turf kit.

I use it for our Ridgeline and Passport. My son brings his Tacoma over. No issues with any of them. Bonus is when I am working in the barn and need a work bench or some way to get things elevated. Just raise the lift and you’re in business.

 

[ken erickson]

Spent yesterday , perfect weather, working on my ice storm damage clean up and mowing the rifle range unit and some of my trails.

I think one more session should do it as far as grapple work and ice storm damage.

When I purchased the L2501 I was only intending on using it for mowing , and box blade work for trail maintenance. I did not think , being I use strictly hand controls that I could be proficient with adding a loader and joystick. Unless of course I could have grown a extra arm! lol.. A long time friend said it was a mistake to not get a loader. Boy was he spot on! The amount of tree clearing, pond digging and site preparations for tractor shed, campsite pad that I have preformed with the loader /bucket/grapple is crazy!

One view of the oak savanna that is coming along nicely. I will in the next year start thinning out oaks as they are too densely populated for that best mix of oaks and native prairie plants.

Can anyone quickly id the non-native species in this photograph? It is non native, but has been here long enough with a very large range and is now considered "naturalized" I am glad it is not an invasive species.

 

[dirtydeed]

some projects of late. Nothing terribly interesting but the Kubotas keep me busy...

Hay Bales






White Pine...



This is a pic I took of this same tree a few months ago while cleaning up another one this spring. I knew it wouldn't last long.



Cleanup started







Burnage...

 

[forky]

Spent yesterday , perfect weather, working on my ice storm damage clean up and mowing the rifle range unit and some of my trails.

I think one more session should do it as far as grapple work and ice storm damage.

When I purchased the L2501 I was only intending on using it for mowing , and box blade work for trail maintenance. I did not think , being I use strictly hand controls that I could be proficient with adding a loader and joystick. Unless of course I could have grown a extra arm! lol.. A long time friend said it was a mistake to not get a loader. Boy was he spot on! The amount of tree clearing, pond digging and site preparations for tractor shed, campsite pad that I have preformed with the loader /bucket/grapple is crazy!

One view of the oak savanna that is coming along nicely. I will in the next year start thinning out oaks as they are too densely populated for that best mix of oaks and native prairie plants.

Can anyone quickly id the non-native species in this photograph? It is non native, but has been here long enough with a very large range and is now considered "naturalized" I am glad it is not an invasive species.






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Not sure if you are talking about the common Mullen or the trees?
I can't make-out the leaves enough to identify them.

 

[ken erickson]

common Mullen

Yep, the common Mullien! Good eye.

 

[chim]

Well, Wifey wanted me to use the Kubota to mow but I declined. I didn't WANT to decline but there was an opportunity that comes so rarely I had to take it. Weedeating the banks of the creek was on the to-do list for a few weeks. My downstream BIL texted me this morning to tell me the creek went dry. That means it real easy to walk the dry creek bed.

Got' er done but it sure took its toll on me. It's a few hundred feet and the weeds were pretty tall. Had it not been for Sweet Pea bringing me 3 big bottles of water and my inner stubbornness it wouldn't have happened. My lack of stamina today is hopefully tied to donating pint of O+ Thursday. A few times I almost heard a voice say "chim would have been 77 next month". Here's a "before" shot.

 

[Chanceywd]

Well, Wifey wanted me to use the Kubota to mow but I declined. I didn't WANT to decline but there was an opportunity that comes so rarely I had to take it. Weedeating the banks of the creek was on the to-do list for a few weeks. My downstream BIL texted me this morning to tell me the creek went dry. That means it real easy to walk the dry creek bed.

Got' er done but it sure took its toll on me. It's a few hundred feet and the weeds were pretty tall. Had it not been for Sweet Pea bringing me 3 big bottles of water and my inner stubbornness it wouldn't have happened. My lack of stamina today is hopefully tied to donating pint of O+ Thursday. A few times I almost heard a voice say "chim would have been 77 next month". Here's a "before" shot.

I will be 73 next month and I wouldn't have wanted that chore, not fond of heavy weed trimmer work!
I started a 40 x 12 lean-to woodshed addition on my garage about a month ago and I have been thinking all the while this will be my last big job.
But I love to keep busy!

Bill

 

[g_man]

Spent yesterday , perfect weather, working on my ice storm damage clean up and mowing the rifle range unit and some of my trails.

I think one more session should do it as far as grapple work and ice storm damage.

When I purchased the L2501 I was only intending on using it for mowing , and box blade work for trail maintenance. I did not think , being I use strictly hand controls that I could be proficient with adding a loader and joystick. Unless of course I could have grown a extra arm! lol.. A long time friend said it was a mistake to not get a loader. Boy was he spot on! The amount of tree clearing, pond digging and site preparations for tractor shed, campsite pad that I have preformed with the loader /bucket/grapple is crazy!

One view of the oak savanna that is coming along nicely. I will in the next year start thinning out oaks as they are too densely populated for that best mix of oaks and native prairie plants.

Can anyone quickly id the non-native species in this photograph? It is non native, but has been here long enough with a very large range and is now considered "naturalized" I am glad it is not an invasive species.






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I think that is Common Mullein if you mean the tall plant. We have them in wild fields - yellow flowers. They can have white flowers too.

EDIT: You got your answer way before I got here - I should have read the rest of the thread first I guess.

gg

 

[NCL4701]

Wind blew a little last night so of course our power went out. At 1:41am I woke to a text from our power company saying our power was out, they knew it, and they’d be working on figuring out why, then fix it. Went back to sleep.

1:50am woke to a text from our alarm company saying the alarm lost power. Went back to sleep.

2:01am woke to a text from the alarm company saying the built in battery for the control panel was very low. It’s about 15 years old, so not surprising. Took a little longer to go back to sleep after that one.

3:10am wife woke me up to advise the power was out, wanting to make sure I reported it to the power company, asking why it was out and when it would be back on, and wanting to discuss strategy for dealing with this mini-crisis which was compounded by a noon appointment for the tri-annual routine visit from the exterminator. After about 15 minutes convinced her if the power was still out in the morning, I’d hook up the generator. She remembered we had a generator that plugs into the house wiring, but we use it so rarely she’d forgotten how much it would run, so we discussed that for another 10 minutes and agreed to disagree whether it would run the air conditioning, well pump, electric water heater, and all the refrigerators simultaneously.

Got back to sleep about 5:00am, woke up at 6:30 to feed the cat and quietly walk to the shop to swap the chipper for the generator. Wife woke up about 7:30 and noted the only modification to her routine was she couldn’t use the clothes dryer immediately because we already had the air conditioning, water heater, three refrigerators, and a large chest freezer all trying to catch up at the same time she was running the well pump for a shower, thus I refused to turn on the breaker for the dryer. Grid power came back a bit after 1:00pm.

I’m sure an automatic start and switch dedicated generator would be nicer. Going from a 7500W contractor style to the 16kW plug into the service panel style we have now sure is sweet on the rare occasions when we need it, though.

 

[In Utopia]

Spent yesterday , perfect weather, working on my ice storm damage clean up and mowing the rifle range unit and some of my trails.

I think one more session should do it as far as grapple work and ice storm damage.

When I purchased the L2501 I was only intending on using it for mowing , and box blade work for trail maintenance. I did not think , being I use strictly hand controls that I could be proficient with adding a loader and joystick. Unless of course I could have grown a extra arm! lol.. A long time friend said it was a mistake to not get a loader. Boy was he spot on! The amount of tree clearing, pond digging and site preparations for tractor shed, campsite pad that I have preformed with the loader /bucket/grapple is crazy!

One view of the oak savanna that is coming along nicely. I will in the next year start thinning out oaks as they are too densely populated for that best mix of oaks and native prairie plants.

Can anyone quickly id the non-native species in this photograph? It is non native, but has been here long enough with a very large range and is now considered "naturalized" I am glad it is not an invasive species.






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Maybe this.

 

[Old_Paint]

Well, Wifey wanted me to use the Kubota to mow but I declined. I didn't WANT to decline but there was an opportunity that comes so rarely I had to take it. Weedeating the banks of the creek was on the to-do list for a few weeks. My downstream BIL texted me this morning to tell me the creek went dry. That means it real easy to walk the dry creek bed.

Got' er done but it sure took its toll on me. It's a few hundred feet and the weeds were pretty tall. Had it not been for Sweet Pea bringing me 3 big bottles of water and my inner stubbornness it wouldn't have happened. My lack of stamina today is hopefully tied to donating pint of O+ Thursday. A few times I almost heard a voice say "chim would have been 77 next month". Here's a "before" shot.

Dunno if you used a regular string trimmer for that or what, but something I've found works very nicely is a hedge trimmer. I have several washes about that size going across my property in a wooded area that are full of briars, poison ivy, huckleberry, blackberry, and whatever else you can think of that grows indigenously in Alabama. I can walk along the top edge of those ditches and just use the hedge trimmer to lop it all off and let it lay in the ditch to rot. The hedge trimmer is a bit heavier than the string trimmer head, but it will take woody weeds down better than the string head will and I don't have to re-string it constantly because the string breaks off on heavier brush. I just tried it out of curiosity one day and found it to be a lot faster than string trimming. Just keeping it out of the dirt and watching out for wayward wire is the hardest part. It has an 18 inch bar, so quite a cutting swath for places I can't go with my Swisher Predator brush mower or the flail on the LX. I don't have many hedges (some boxwoods in a front flower bed), so it doesn't get much use. The best part is that I don't have to wait for the ditches to dry up, and better yet, I don't have to get down in the ditches where Mr. Noshoulders likes to hide. I've killed 4 copperheads in the past two years back there and low-lying places like that are their favorite hangouts. I have an abundance of chipmunks (which are probably the primary reason for all the washes over a 50+ year period) which easily explains the presence of the nope-ropes. Don't mind the ones that eat the munks, leave my chickens alone, and behave themselves around me. If one gets aggressive with me or my girls, they don't get a second chance to just be somewhere else. A string trimmer is probably a better defense than a hedge trimmer in that case, but still a lot less efficient with woody stuff like briars and volunteer seedlings in a wooded area.

 

[Old_Paint]

Wind blew a little last night so of course our power went out. At 1:41am I woke to a text from our power company saying our power was out, they knew it, and they’d be working on figuring out why, then fix it. Went back to sleep.

1:50am woke to a text from our alarm company saying the alarm lost power. Went back to sleep.

2:01am woke to a text from the alarm company saying the built in battery for the control panel was very low. It’s about 15 years old, so not surprising. Took a little longer to go back to sleep after that one.

3:10am wife woke me up to advise the power was out, wanting to make sure I reported it to the power company, asking why it was out and when it would be back on, and wanting to discuss strategy for dealing with this mini-crisis which was compounded by a noon appointment for the tri-annual routine visit from the exterminator. After about 15 minutes convinced her if the power was still out in the morning, I’d hook up the generator. She remembered we had a generator that plugs into the house wiring, but we use it so rarely she’d forgotten how much it would run, so we discussed that for another 10 minutes and agreed to disagree whether it would run the air conditioning, well pump, electric water heater, and all the refrigerators simultaneously.

Got back to sleep about 5:00am, woke up at 6:30 to feed the cat and quietly walk to the shop to swap the chipper for the generator. Wife woke up about 7:30 and noted the only modification to her routine was she couldn’t use the clothes dryer immediately because we already had the air conditioning, water heater, three refrigerators, and a large chest freezer all trying to catch up at the same time she was running the well pump for a shower, thus I refused to turn on the breaker for the dryer. Grid power came back a bit after 1:00pm.

I’m sure an automatic start and switch dedicated generator would be nicer. Going from a 7500W contractor style to the 16kW plug into the service panel style we have now sure is sweet on the rare occasions when we need it, though. View attachment 176221

Never mind that you don't have another engine to maintain. So many buy gas powered generators because they MIGHT need it a couple times a year, yet forget that thing ain't gonna run if it hasn't been cranked in 6 months. I'd MUCH rather have one I could hang behind my little LX for lights and fridges. Do you have an automatic or manual transfer switch inside to switch over? Or do you use a manual breaker interlock to isolate the utility power? We have to have a mechanical isolation between any generator and the utility here. Get caught without one and a generator hooked up, there's possible jail time.

 

[chim]

I have various tools and the one that gets the nod at the time depends on the "weeds" encountered. That was done with a (gas) Stihl Kombi with the string trimmer attachment. It also has a hedge trimmer and a blade that I've used. I do like using the hedge trimmer when I can, just so I don't look like I was in a brawl with a salad shooter. There's also DeWalt 20V string trimmer and a pole type hedge trimmer that see some use. The hedge type trimmers work best on heavy woody stuff. Trimmings don't get picked up. The normal MO is to trim before mowing and trimming in a direction that puts the clipping where the mower will chop it finer.