^^^ Just add a coupling between the top QD and the RT angle. That's what I did. - but I''m pretty sure you knew that already.
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What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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a lot of fittings are available in -L long or -LL extra long, etc.
very common on crowded manifolds to get lines to run over the top of each other without adding additional connections.
and of course as stated above one short additional fitting (two joints) will get it done as well.
good luck!
for example -
90 degree Elbow Steel Male BOSS O-Ring Seal Thread to Female Pipe Thread Hydraulic Adapter
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A little more storm cleanup today. Had two large branches mostly down near the houses. Winch was already on the tractor, so used it to pull them out of the trees they were hung up in. Swapped out the winch for the chipper, cut out the parts too big to chip and grappled them off to work up for firewood. The stuff in the grapple pic is from one of the limbs.
The smaller remains of that same limb were fodder for the chipper. I’m still kind of amazed how much I like this tiny battery powered saw for stuff like this.
The other limb was bigger and more of a mess, but for some reason I didn’t take any pics until it was gone.
Did some chipping at the brush pile near our house after that. Not trying to get rid of the whole thing (probably some stuff living in there and that’s fine) but it was getting a bit larger than I prefer.
The smaller remains of that same limb were fodder for the chipper. I’m still kind of amazed how much I like this tiny battery powered saw for stuff like this.
The other limb was bigger and more of a mess, but for some reason I didn’t take any pics until it was gone.
Did some chipping at the brush pile near our house after that. Not trying to get rid of the whole thing (probably some stuff living in there and that’s fine) but it was getting a bit larger than I prefer.
Yes, I knew I could do that, thanks for pointing it out. I just don't know if it is really that big of a deal. If I think about it the next time I'm somewhere that has fittings I might pick one up.
I'm telling you, if you don't have a tractor with a loader, I don't know how you get anything done!Today after lifting out the engine with an engine crane we moved it into the shed (for temporary storage) with the tractor.
Then we lifted the back of the car to pull out the rear axle. And then the front to remove the wooden blocks under the wheels.
How can people live without a tractor? Best thing ever invented!
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More of my one-day-a-week part time job at Ms. Lucy’s yesterday. Fantastic weather with overcast skies and a steady breeze, but still pretty warm at 85F. I’m 68 years old and learned something new yesterday. The hard way.
When I was a kid, we had some pear trees on the farm that produced pears nearly as big as a football. No clue what kind of pear it was other than really big. I wish I could remember how many times I climbed those trees to shake them off. I currently have a Bartlett tree in my backyard and finally beat the squirrels to a few of them this year. They were quite yummy. I’ve seen Bradfords (ornamental) in just about every new subdivision built in the past 40 years. The point is Ive been around pear trees most of my life. What I have never seen up close before is a Callery wild pear (Pyrus calleryana). I don’t care if I never see another after yesterday.
We decided to clean up the feed lot on the west end of her barn. We did the other three sides last Monday, so decided to finish up around the barn. Of course we knew it wasn’t going to be easy but we are in no hurry. The first thing we attacked was an enormous overgrown wild rose bush. Give me black berry brambles any day over wild roses. I must have picked a hundred thorns out of my arms and legs, but we whipped it and got it cut down to the ground. The rose thorns hurt, but there was little risk of serious injury and for the most part, the leather gloves were sufficient for handling most of it.
The next tasks were removing two volunteer pear trees, a couple hackberry trees and several chinaberry trees from the fence. I figured that the pears were probably volunteers from the fruit bearing trees she had out in front of her house. I was WRONG, very wrong. The chinaberry was easily dispatched along with a bunch of privet and blackberry brambles (some of which had 1-inch canes and a zillion thorns). Some of the privet was easily clawed out with the grapple. The hackberry trees were a little more challenging because they were a bit larger and thicker growth, and have their signature rough bark. Nothing a sturdy pair of leather gloves wouldn’t deter. We kind of saved the ’pear’ trees for last since they were the largest and looked like “plain old pear trees”. Little did we know what lay in store……
And that’s when the bloodletting started. I was confused. I hadn’t really looked closely at the first one and the leaves did an excellent camouflage on the thorns. Since when do pear trees grow 4 inch long thorns? I found the first one when I was tying a rope to the tree to pull it off the fence while my buddy was cutting it with my chainsaw. The thorn went through the cuff of my glove and about an inch deep into my wrist. When I reacted to being impaled, the second one cut my arm like a razor blade, but not deep enough for stitches. In about 5 minutes I looked like I had been in a knife fight in a bar room brawl. I decided I should probably study my opponent a bit more and that’s when I spotted the magnitude and quantity of the thorns on them. I first thought briars had grown in the tree but that wasn’t the case.
These were pear trees from hell. Just plain EVIL. They were probably 30 feet tall, about a foot in diameter at the stump, and obscenely covered with 4-inch thorns on the trunk and every branch. I just thought locust trees were bad. I had fond memories of collecting a couple of pears from our trees to take with me for a snack when I went fishing. These things almost turned me against pears completely. Never liked the Bradfords anyway because they get brittle and split when they’re about 20 years old. No usable fruit, just leaves and flowers. Little did I know they’re actually a cultivar of the Callery wild pear bred to be thornless and they are extremely invasive. I also learned that the Callery is often used for root stock for grafting a lot of european fruit pears, the seeds from which can actually revert to callery species and the shoots around the stump will crowd out the grafted sections. The Bradford will not reproduce unless there is another pyrus cultivar close enough to pollinate the flowers. If there’s a callery nearby, though, game on. This is how the bradfords become so invasive.
These two stumps have a date with some TVC. I put the cut trees on a huge burn pile (in one piece to avoid poking holes in expensive tires) that we intend to light as soon as it dries enough. I want revenge! I will thoroughly enjoy watching them burn.
When I was a kid, we had some pear trees on the farm that produced pears nearly as big as a football. No clue what kind of pear it was other than really big. I wish I could remember how many times I climbed those trees to shake them off. I currently have a Bartlett tree in my backyard and finally beat the squirrels to a few of them this year. They were quite yummy. I’ve seen Bradfords (ornamental) in just about every new subdivision built in the past 40 years. The point is Ive been around pear trees most of my life. What I have never seen up close before is a Callery wild pear (Pyrus calleryana). I don’t care if I never see another after yesterday.
We decided to clean up the feed lot on the west end of her barn. We did the other three sides last Monday, so decided to finish up around the barn. Of course we knew it wasn’t going to be easy but we are in no hurry. The first thing we attacked was an enormous overgrown wild rose bush. Give me black berry brambles any day over wild roses. I must have picked a hundred thorns out of my arms and legs, but we whipped it and got it cut down to the ground. The rose thorns hurt, but there was little risk of serious injury and for the most part, the leather gloves were sufficient for handling most of it.
The next tasks were removing two volunteer pear trees, a couple hackberry trees and several chinaberry trees from the fence. I figured that the pears were probably volunteers from the fruit bearing trees she had out in front of her house. I was WRONG, very wrong. The chinaberry was easily dispatched along with a bunch of privet and blackberry brambles (some of which had 1-inch canes and a zillion thorns). Some of the privet was easily clawed out with the grapple. The hackberry trees were a little more challenging because they were a bit larger and thicker growth, and have their signature rough bark. Nothing a sturdy pair of leather gloves wouldn’t deter. We kind of saved the ’pear’ trees for last since they were the largest and looked like “plain old pear trees”. Little did we know what lay in store……
And that’s when the bloodletting started. I was confused. I hadn’t really looked closely at the first one and the leaves did an excellent camouflage on the thorns. Since when do pear trees grow 4 inch long thorns? I found the first one when I was tying a rope to the tree to pull it off the fence while my buddy was cutting it with my chainsaw. The thorn went through the cuff of my glove and about an inch deep into my wrist. When I reacted to being impaled, the second one cut my arm like a razor blade, but not deep enough for stitches. In about 5 minutes I looked like I had been in a knife fight in a bar room brawl. I decided I should probably study my opponent a bit more and that’s when I spotted the magnitude and quantity of the thorns on them. I first thought briars had grown in the tree but that wasn’t the case.
These were pear trees from hell. Just plain EVIL. They were probably 30 feet tall, about a foot in diameter at the stump, and obscenely covered with 4-inch thorns on the trunk and every branch. I just thought locust trees were bad. I had fond memories of collecting a couple of pears from our trees to take with me for a snack when I went fishing. These things almost turned me against pears completely. Never liked the Bradfords anyway because they get brittle and split when they’re about 20 years old. No usable fruit, just leaves and flowers. Little did I know they’re actually a cultivar of the Callery wild pear bred to be thornless and they are extremely invasive. I also learned that the Callery is often used for root stock for grafting a lot of european fruit pears, the seeds from which can actually revert to callery species and the shoots around the stump will crowd out the grafted sections. The Bradford will not reproduce unless there is another pyrus cultivar close enough to pollinate the flowers. If there’s a callery nearby, though, game on. This is how the bradfords become so invasive.
These two stumps have a date with some TVC. I put the cut trees on a huge burn pile (in one piece to avoid poking holes in expensive tires) that we intend to light as soon as it dries enough. I want revenge! I will thoroughly enjoy watching them burn.
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Paint,
I can certainly relate. While doing a water service dig in Allentown pa, the client asked if I could cut and dispose of a small tree for him. He pointed to a roughly 12 foot tall tree near a city sidewalk. I didn't bother to inspect it while sitting on the backhoe since it looked like a little "dink" of a tree. I nodded and said "yeah, sure. No problem".
At the end of the day, I pulled out the chainsaw and began cutting that &^%$#@! tree. I hadn't noticed the &*%$% thing had armor piercing thorns all over it. When loading it into my dump truck, I could only get about half of it in there since the branches were very tough and you couldn't simply step on them to mash them down for fear of an ambulance trip to the hospital to replenish the ensuing blood loss.
here's what the thorns look like...."citrus trifoliata"
I only got half of the tree in my truck, I left the other half for the owner to deal with. I can't imagine how many people have been impaled by that Bast!@#$%^ tree for simply walking along a public sidewalk.
I can certainly relate. While doing a water service dig in Allentown pa, the client asked if I could cut and dispose of a small tree for him. He pointed to a roughly 12 foot tall tree near a city sidewalk. I didn't bother to inspect it while sitting on the backhoe since it looked like a little "dink" of a tree. I nodded and said "yeah, sure. No problem".
At the end of the day, I pulled out the chainsaw and began cutting that &^%$#@! tree. I hadn't noticed the &*%$% thing had armor piercing thorns all over it. When loading it into my dump truck, I could only get about half of it in there since the branches were very tough and you couldn't simply step on them to mash them down for fear of an ambulance trip to the hospital to replenish the ensuing blood loss.
here's what the thorns look like...."citrus trifoliata"
I only got half of the tree in my truck, I left the other half for the owner to deal with. I can't imagine how many people have been impaled by that Bast!@#$%^ tree for simply walking along a public sidewalk.
I am working on eradicating this tree from the property. My kid fabricated steel slip on shoes to get the firewood on some trees he cut.
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I hear ya. Those thorns will easily pass thru any boot sole without a steel shank. Just putting its branches in my truck took quite a while. The thorns would catch on other branches, grass and anything else that wasn't made of metal. Used lots of disinfectant wipes to wash off our hands that suffered many piercings.
What gets me is while we were working there, many people were walking their dogs past that godforsaken tree. Why would the City allow it to be there?
The plan is to kill the trees (what's left of them) this fall and the kid will get the firewood in a couple of years.Have to kill the roots. It's about the best all nighter fire wood you can get.
hah! i literally just planted 30 of these along my property line to create a boundary hedge - to keep the deer out. i plan to keep them trimmed down to 6 or 8 feet
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I mowed my 20 acres today. First time this year because we didn't get any rain until the last month.
While do so, I had two of these watching over me. Two separate occasions, one of them swooped in and grabbed a mouse within 15 yards of the tractor.
Snapped this pic after I was done.
While do so, I had two of these watching over me. Two separate occasions, one of them swooped in and grabbed a mouse within 15 yards of the tractor.
Snapped this pic after I was done.