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Since buying a 12' dump bed trailer in conjunction with my also recent purchase of the L 3301, a box blade, and the forklift attachment, I needed to rethink how I was storing my unused implements. In the previous 12 years I had my earlier Kubota, and no dump bed trailer, I had enough room in an...

That's my shop on the pictures, and it and my home are 120% powered by solar, wind, and hydro, all grid tied. Been doing it for decades and it's morphed into a little part time biz. I fabricate the mounting racks, mount the panels, deliver them (hundreds of miles away sometimes) and then set...

One more, I seem to be able to only post one pic at a time.....

Finished up a big project involving 1200 lb pallets of solar panels and lots of steel. The L3301, with filled rear tires and the box scraper as counter weight, could handle the pallets but just barely. It was maxed out hydraulic power wise but the amount of counterweight was adequate, good to...

My crane yard in town that I spray with soil sterilizer every spring to eliminate the need to mow (it's gravel, and I want to keep it that way) has a guy right next door with a couple big greenhouses who is an organic farmer, selling at the local farmers market every weekend. The ground is...

When I got my new Titan box blade a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see how well it was crated up for shipment via motor freight. I expected to see a shipping tag on a bare implement, and that would have been fine with me. Hard to imagine something I'm going to drag through rocks and dirt ON...

I have two ways to move trailers around now, just did a lot of it on a big welding project. My fork lift attachment for the L3301 came with a 2" receiver build right into the QA frame, but to properly use it you need to remove the forks first. This got old quick, as what I was doing needed...

We are all big boys, and if some want to disable the safety switch under the seat, it only takes a second and a zip tie to do so. I did, it was driving me crazy! Maybe we should wear helmets also? Paying attention and working within the limitations of the equipment is the key. For the tractor...

The first day I brought my new L3301 home I was a moving a trailer around with the front end loader, no rear implement. At one point as I was backing up my sloped driveway in front of the shop, I thought I had backed over something as the tractor started to tilt. Then I thought that maybe my...

Around here I go to a real farm supply outfit for advice, not a big box store or a residential lawn and garden type of greenhouse. Find a place that services real live farmers, they will be a great source of info. I have a crane yard in town I spray once a year (spring) with a mix of weed...

I put the landscape rake on the L 3301 and ran it up and down my 400' runway, (I fly out of my property, a RANS S7-S kitplane) plus a few trails I use to get around the 40 acre property. I do this every spring while the ground is still somewhat soft. It evens things out a bit and just seems...

Yeah, that looks like Idaho! Yard work, with snow still on the ground, some years I have to take off the mower deck and put the snow blower back on........, I'm at a bit less then 6,000' elevation.

Spread 9 tons of road base/gravel around my crane yard, the first real work with the new L3301 and it's new box scraper. It's still pretty surprising how fast the work goes with the larger tractor, it really kicks butt, plus it's significantly quieter also. BUT, the safety cutoff that shuts...

My Titan 5' box blade for my new L3301 showed up yesterday. They ship it in a 2" angle iron frame, ridiculously over protected for an item that's going to be dragged in the dirt and rocks! But it was impressive...., that they bothered, and the angle iron will be reincarnated as a frame for a...

I moved an antique safe from a outside stairwell last week. I was doing a crane job across the street and the owners hit me up, thinking the crane could stick it's boom down in there, easy. Wrong piece of equipment, what we need is my new tractor I told them. That little sucker ended up weighing...

Moved some road base at my crane yard for the first time with the new dump bed trailer, which has a 6600 lb payload. I told the lady at the gravel yard to give me a couple yards, that would be a bit less then 6K more or less. She radios the info outside, and after the guy in the yard in the...

You want the 540 PTO RPM for the brush hog. It will turn noticeably slower, DO NOT use the higher range! Then just set the engine RPM to the mark indicated on the tach, my 3301 and 2105 both have marks on the tach, when the engine is at that RPM, the PTO will be spinning at 540. I usually run a...

Like I said earlier, I'm still not real sure it was needed, but it was so easy to do, why not?

I backed down my new trailer's ramps for the first time with the L 3301. It was a bit more demanding then I'd like, OK if you go painfully slow, but not ideal. After looking underneath, it will be pretty easy to cut out half of the ramps underbed storage rack, and then utilize an existing part...

Another grid tied renewable energy user Kubota driver here! 40 years ago I bought (barely, no extra money at all) some raw rural property, and the 10 K the utility wanted to hook me to the grid was an unfathomable number. So the first night on the property I ran the lights in the fifth wheel...