What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[g_man]

I'm cutting Spruce/Fir stud wood

Went down to get one more that was uprooted. It came down with the wet snow on Thanksgiving.

Got it limb out - ugly tree.

After that I had enough for the day and left it propped up off the ground to pull out later. Maybe today.

gg

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Unloading/Loading The Kubota SVL From Equipment Trailer

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I forgot to take before pics. Anyways, I exceeded the customers expectations, which I always try and do anyways. She sent me the pictures she had. I basically cleared an acre of really thick South Texas Trees/Brush, everything I cleared off was invasive species, to include the mesquites. The mesquite tree is one of the toughest, most invasive species of brush in the world.

The area on the other side the fence, or behind that trailer. I probably moved 10 tons of prickly pear to the burn piles, I ran out of trees and brush to move even more Cactus. I drop the trees and brush on the prickly pear and use that as a means to grab all the pads. A few of the Cactuses were the size of small cars.

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Once I figure out how to fly this drone...
I will grab better shots. I'm waiting on a different micro USB cable for the controller. My phone is in a case.

She plans on me coming back out for another day to expand the area. This will greatly improve a fire break near her barn and corral area.

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

Yes the pads are adjustable but they are already set where I'd normally put them. I usually take them off when the ground freezes. They are like 3 times the size of the ones there were on my side by side plow but as low as they are, they just prevent the plow from really scraping.

It's inevitable. Even when I had the side by side, I always had significant amount of stones in the lawn after plowing season. I'm limited to where I can put the snow so I spend every spring getting blisters raking my 500ft drive way up and down. Good exercise I guess lol. But in a way I think the tractor may actually be better because I don't need to push the snow further. I can just make one big snow bank and dump it over. The side by side just builds up and by the end of the season there less room in the drive way.

Yes I'm gonna have work to do this spring. I'm a new tractor operator so I'm gonna make mistakes and rest things up a little but that's ok.

You should see other people's drive ways who get plowed out with a pick up. Nothing like seeing mounds of sod piled up. I am not where close to that level of damage!!!!

The damage I caused is minor in comparison and plus it's another excuse to use the tractor

A power broom would be awesome to own. I might have to look into that.

Finally found a more reasonable solution to the stone-in-the-lawn problem: Wide skid shoes on a snow blower. Personally I'd use steel bar so the shoes last longer, but plastic can be a quick and cheap way to see what works. I made "wide" (though not wide enough for a gravel drive) steel skid shoes for the rather large hydrostatic walk-behind blower I modified in several unconventional ways and they work great with barely any wear after years of use and do not damage the concrete drive I use it on. The idea should work even better on a gravel drive.

 

[WFM]

55* here today. Brought up 4 tractor buckets of firewood to replenish what I've used. Unbelievable weather. I looked on Reynolds Motorsports website today.
ALL snowmobiles are on sale, imagine that...lol. In the past week here in Maine four people have fallen thru thin ice in different areas of the state.(stupid). None drown , all were pull out. As the water was shallow.
The wood is brought up today is a mix of
red oak, beech and maple all three yrs split and stacked.

 

[SAR Tracker]

So after putting on the snowblower exactly a month ago, finally used it today to blow the driveway and road to the mailboxes.

 

[nerwin]

55* here today. Brought up 4 tractor buckets of firewood to replenish what I've used. Unbelievable weather. I looked on Reynolds Motorsports website today.
ALL snowmobiles are on sale, imagine that...lol. In the past week here in Maine four people have fallen thru thin ice in different areas of the state.(stupid). None drown , all were pull out. As the water was shallow.
The wood is brought up today is a mix of
red oak, beech and maple all three yrs split and stacked.

Impressive! That's a lot of stacking.

 

[Magicman]

I went out to plow my snow and not finding any.....

I just mowed the lawn.

 

[S-G-R]

I went out to plow my snow and not finding any.....
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I just mowed the lawn.

I'd sooner mow then blow snow. We've missed most of the snow so far but my luck will run out eventually.

 

[Mitjam]

I'd sooner mow then blow snow. We've missed most of the snow so far but my luck will run out eventually.

No shortage of cold and snow here if you want some. Was -43c with the windchill last night.

 

[S-G-R]

No shortage of cold and snow here if you want some. Was -43c with the windchill last night.

We were a balmy +6C on PEI today.

 

[Mitjam]

We were a balmy +6C on PEI today.

Farmers almanac for what it is worth, is calling for a mild dry winter for Atlantic Canada

 

[nerwin]

It's been in the 40s here, yesterday was almost 50f and heavy rain. Pretty much all the snow melted so I can see what damage I did with the tractor. Just took off the high spots

But....it's now snowing again. Don't think it will accumulate much. I don't mind it snowing because tractor time is always a good time.

My driveway is not fairing well with the freezing and melting constantly. It's pretty soft right now, I thought about putting the bucket on today and smoothing out some of it before it freezes again but I fear I would have just made a mess considering how muddy the driveway is currently.

It's a good thing I have a tractor now because my driveway is going to need some serious work done spring!

Hey...I don't mind. More seat time the better I get!!!

 

[EC135P3H]

Got my ratcheting leveling link upgrade, anti scalp roller, and Messick‘s suicide steering

knob installed today.

 

[Mitjam]

Did some plowing. White Christmas here for sure

 

[g_man]

A couple pics from last Wednesday. After a big rain and a couple 40* days most of our snow is gone.

I cut a pretty good fir, for around here anyway, that didn't have any well developed stump rot. One of very few I have found in a couple decades of cutting them. I don't know why I get excited about this stuff. Anyway, it had a good lean to the the left but there was good holding wood anchored in the root buttress on the right.

The hold wood did it's job and the tree fell per plan.

Got it limbed out.

I decided to pull it out in two pieces. Cut it where the crook was and above the usable wood (6" dia).

When I got up to the road I considered using the power pole for a bumper and skidding the logs down the road side 200' to the left to my log pile. But good judgement got the best of me and I made up the saw logs (a 14' and two 12's) right there.

Then grappled them down to the pile.

gg

 

[mdhughes]

g_man, I have logging winch envy. I have a tree down now that I am having fun getting out of the woods. A winch sure would be helpful. Just can't justify one.

I was able to get the finance committee to agree on the grapple, that really made things a lot easier.

 

[RCW]

Just a little snow removal.

Before I started, noticed the chute was hanging in a particular spot and wouldn’t rotate fully. A little investigation found one of the holder brackets was a little loose but didn’t cause it. Moved the chute by hand and found a small stone had gotten wedged between the chute and that keeper….problem solved. Tightened all the keepers just in case….

 

[trevoroni]

Plowed some snow for the first time with the B6000.
It worked great even plowing up some steep hills.
Just got a picture from the security camera.

 

[mdhughes]

Did some firewood today and the tractor turned over to 600 hours.

 

[g_man]

Plowed some snow for the first time with the B6000.
It worked great even plowing up some steep hills.
Just got a picture from the security camera.
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I love the looks of those B6000 tractors. They can do a lot of work too. A neighbor has one. No loader on his though.

gg