What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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dirtydeed
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Saturday - Unloaded and stacked some large 4x4x8 hay bales for the neighbor. I'm told those bales weigh in at about 800 lbs. B2650 and forks made them a non-issue. I was able to get them into her garage and had just enough ceiling height to stack them 2 high. Put 2 bales out for the horses. It will now be another service I provide for the neighbor. I've been picking up some landscaping work from her (clearing job last fall, fence installation and routine mowing starting this year). She has a boat load of trees that need to come down as well and I'm trying to convince her to put a stone driveway in so that she can access the large barn.
last fall:
Sunday - plowed about 6" snow here and at my other new neighbors. They are a young couple in their first home. They don't have the "tools" that I do so I just do it to be neighborly.
last fall:
Sunday - plowed about 6" snow here and at my other new neighbors. They are a young couple in their first home. They don't have the "tools" that I do so I just do it to be neighborly.
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It's really satisfying seeing stumps removed. I need to do that this year, I have these sapplings that are invasive and they turned into this huge cluster of stumps. You cut them, month later they are 7 feet tall again haha.
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Good day.
The cab looks toasty!
What are you using for tool holder in the QH? (Looks like you got something holder the scoop shovel?). What are the tools holders make / model? TYIA.
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It looks a lot warmer in PA than it does in AL. The grass is so green in your photos. Our lawn has been dead for weeks now (well, the parts that still have grass, anyway). We had about 5 inches of snow last week and the temperature is dropping like a stone tonight down to 11F. I think the Canucks left the back door open again. Sub freezing temperatures for 4 days in a row in AL is definitely a climate change, but it blows the global warming idea out of the water (or ice as the case may be). We’ve had a soggy few weeks and some hard freezing to go with it, so most of the yard is mud.
A neighbor had some very overcrowded conditions with a little chicken tractor that he bought for 8 chickens (too many) and he and his wife wound up doing too much chicken math which resulted in 12 birds in a coop that never should have had more than 4 in it. He has very limited carpentry skills and apparently little chicken expertise, so I volunteered to help solve the problem. Turns out his poor birds also had a mite infestation and are missing way too many feathers for our current weather situation. So I jumped through hoops while the weather was warm and built enough 4-foot wide panels for a 16x8 pen and relocated an old rabbit hutch he had to get his birds out of the tiny infested coop. We clad the rabbit hutch with OSB, and put a tin roof on it and then erected the pen around it so they now have at least 4x the space they had, both in the run and the coop.
In that project, I managed to make some serious ruts in his yard that was very soggy after last week’s snow and heavy rain on Friday night. Handling the rabbit hutch on my clamp on forks sunk the front wheels nearly halfway in the ground and the rear wheels were at least 10 inches deep in the mud I stirred up.
But, we managed to produce twelve wall panels and four roof panels that make up the 16x8 pen in 2 days and constructed the pen in about 4 hours, not including the time to modify the rabbit cage. The temperature was 28F last night by the time we finished treating the birds and transferred them to the new pen. They were pretty excited about having room to get away from each other after spending their entire lives in a tiny 4x8 enclosure. His birds are twice the age of mine, but less than half the size and body weight. He understands a lot more about chickens than he did before when we compared them to our own chickens and how they were raised and cared for. Ours get more attention than I do. We started with 6, lost one that decided to dehydrate itself and then got 3 more to make up for the loss, and 2 of 2 Rhode Island Red “pullets” had a gender crisis and started crowing, leaving us with 6 egg producers and 2 chronologically challenged noise makers as big as turkeys. Our (unplanned) roosters are big boys and get a little confused about pecking order thinking they can intimidate me. They get regular lessons about the advantages of opposing thumbs and higher intelligence, yet still haven’t figured out Darwinian theory. Kinda funny actually when they do their little sideways dance to give me attitude.
Very toasty!
I have our chainboxes on the quick hitch, then a a new set of tool mounts from PAC I am testing out holding my shovel. The Quick Fist clamps we currently sell work good, but these so far are working GREAT.
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I went out around 7:30 AM and started blowing snow. It was about 7 degrees outside and the Kubota started without any problems after being plugged in all night. When I got all the snow off the driveway it was 10:30 and I came back to the house to remove the blower and install the plow. Got the plow on without any problems but couldn't get the couplers to seat. I put them in front of the exhaust and it was enough to get them to seat. I ran the plow up one side of the driveway and back down the other to clear the snow that the snowblower didn't remove.
I checked the snowblower earlier this evening and it is a frozen block of ice. Should have removed all the snow from it before it froze. We aren't expecting more snow for a while so it will have some time to thaw.
I checked the snowblower earlier this evening and it is a frozen block of ice. Should have removed all the snow from it before it froze. We aren't expecting more snow for a while so it will have some time to thaw.
It was a little cold here this morning, i recorded -1F at 06:45. I waited till if got in the 20's before I went out to work on firewood. The L3901DT didn't want to trun over fast enough to start, so I took one of the batteries out of my Ram and jumped it. Got it running and worked on moving some logs. Fell a small Oak and got 3 80" logs out of it. Not a lot of firewood, but it was standing dead. Don't have any pictures.
Kudos for you helping out the neighbor and his flock! I've been raising chickens since 1973 and provide them with great housing, feed, treats, and attention. It really does make a difference in the flock's health. I enjoy hearing stories where the birds are given the respect they deserve.
That's a good idea. I like it. I don't have a quick hitch but been trying to find a way to easily carry shovels and rakes. So far it's just throwing them in the bucket haha
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South, Texas this morning, and this is utter Bull chit weather. 2 days ago it was in the 70's and peach trees were blooming.
With my approval I told the weather gods to bless those way up north with our 120+ degrees heat index days this upcoming summer.
With my approval I told the weather gods to bless those way up north with our 120+ degrees heat index days this upcoming summer.
Bahahaha. I'm sending you some long underwear. Don't worry about the stains.
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I turned off and drained the tank, lines on my back water well. The prior owner did not plumb things for this type of weather.
Anyways I have totes of water in the shop. Instead of fixing broken pipes etc, I opted to refill the water troughs manually. The heater in bottom has kept the water from freezing, the other troughs have a solid 2in layer of ice.
Dang, I forgot to add some fresh water to some the wildlife waterers, may do that later this afternoon.
Anyways I have totes of water in the shop. Instead of fixing broken pipes etc, I opted to refill the water troughs manually. The heater in bottom has kept the water from freezing, the other troughs have a solid 2in layer of ice.
Dang, I forgot to add some fresh water to some the wildlife waterers, may do that later this afternoon.