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That should be able to skid out some pretty large logs. Hope your have a good saw mill for lumber, or a way to process lots of firewood for home heating.

Drop branches, push to the fire, back up….. Repeat till done

I use my grapple all the time to feed the fire pit. I have 3 separate burn pit/pile areas depending on where I am on the property. There all dug out almost 2 feet deep about 10x10’ across. I burn huge piles of branches, brush and pine logs etc every year. Once the pile is going, I grapple a...

A little off topic, but I just got limited edition emblems for my Kubota……

Having a grapple of any sort, is something you will never regret. I prefer a stand alone grapple, bout I use mine more than any other implement I have. I spend may days clearing brush and limbs. I have an older BX (2014) so although it’s not SQQA, I got the early Kubota Quick connect front, so I...

I cut lots of logs for firewood every year, due to blowdown, I have to cut up 20+ ( last year 80) trees every year. I use a forestry helmet, with ear protection and face screen. I usually wear protective glasses also.( keeps dust out of your eyes) I’ve been whacked across the face with branches...

I posted building one about 5 years ago. I placed my Blades at 5/8” below the side rails

I installed a freeze plug block heater when I first had my Kubota delivered. My freeze plugs are pressed in. I used a 1/8” drill bit dipped in heavy red grease ( to collect metal shavings) drilled a hole in the freeze plug, after draining some antifreeze. Using a slide hammer, like you use to...

Need to see the consistency of the snow, then adjust accordingly. You adjust your forward speed according to depth and weight of snow as well. I go by “Feel” more than what a manual tells me

Nice canopy fir sun and rain. It might last a day here in the woods. I have WAY too many trees to enjoy a cover

I picked up my rear blade fir $300. Well worth the effort of blowing away light snow, then blading into frozen stuff, creating two rows down the road (4 passes) then go back and blow it off.

We tend to get this icing effect every 4-5 years. The freeze, thaw effect creates lots of ice, the ice balls and rain, freeze up quickly. Waiting for a couple days in the high 30’s, then I can scrape away with the angled back blade, and shave it off and away.

I have a front mounted blower and a rear blade. I keep the blower all the way up (skis all the way down) once the ground is frozen hard, I’ll blow off the snow the same, then run the rear blade at an angle and shave the snow/ice into rows. One down one up ( I have 1400’ of driveway) on each side...

I enjoy anything that makes me think. I try to actually read something interesting every day. Besides that, do I feel privileged? Not for the reasons stated, except my parents were together their whole lifetime, ( till death do they part) and that I was raised to be a free thinking, hard working...

Heck I’m grateful every day I wake up and don’t see dirt and worms!

When I light off a pile of slash, I always make a sawdust candle. Get a cardboard box about a case of beer size, fill halfway with sawdust, with a big mixer, start pouring in used motor oil, and keep mixing, ass a couple handfuls if sawdust, repeat till full. Put that in the middle of your...

Too bad your not closer…..

In better times, ( a few years ago) I called my local dealer (20 miles away) for pricing on a grapple and 3rd function set up, fully expecting to do the install myself. After looking up all the pricing, he quoted me $100 less with free installation, and everything is in stock. I loaded it on the...

I use 4 corner tie downs with 4 10K ratchet straps with axle wraps on each ( to the frame) then with the backhoe pinned and locked, I’ll run one strap across the back, around the backhoe bucket, to the other side. Did that for 30 years on equipment at the phone company too, but they had...

I had a really nice, driven, walk behind snow blower. Not only is it slow, it cuts a very narrow swath. Not very much fun on ice, trying to walk behind it. ( sold it, and so glad I did) On just a couple inches of snow, especially the stuff that turns into a slurpee, I’ll use the back blade...