What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[dirtydeed]

Last day.

Didn't want to bore you all with many more pics of a tree removal job.

Took a shower and started questioning why I even do this stuff anymore. Then I got angry. Wife told me that my accountant bill was $2K and my wife is the one that did all the work. I worked 2 days on this project and used 2 saws, a tractor, mini excavator, dump truck and 5 gallons of fuel... All to pay an accountant...who certainly didn't earn it.

Maybe I should just hang it up.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Don’t let a bean counter ruin your fun playing in the fresh air.

 

[NCL4701]

Last day.

Didn't want to bore you all with many more pics of a tree removal job.

Took a shower and started questioning why I even do this stuff anymore. Then I got angry. Wife told me that my accountant bill was $2K and my wife is the one that did all the work. I worked 2 days on this project and used 2 saws, a tractor, mini excavator, dump truck and 5 gallons of fuel... All to pay an accountant...who certainly didn't earn it.

Maybe I should just hang it up.



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I used to do my taxes myself with Intuit TurboTax Deluxe for personal plus a couple of Trusts, and used an accounting firm for the family owned commercial real estate LLC where judgement was involved in expense classification and amortization. Then life, including business life, following a series of family events and restructuring into a more defensive position against aggressive developers, got very complicated with a couple of LLCs and a half dozen trusts plus my individual stuff so an accounting firm and tax attorney came into play for all of it. As all that is settling out, I noted this year by the time I fill out the “tax organizer” and compile the documentation for my accountant, I can go back to Intuit, arrive at the same result, and save about $4500/year even adding the audit defense option with Intuit.

Ran both this year to make sure (of course only filing the accountant prepared returns.). They provided good value when we had the commercial real estate owner/landlord business, but that was sold off several years ago. This is my last year with the accountant. Still have the tax attorney for advice and the planning needs.

 

[NCL4701]

Got 2.5” of rain in 24 hours a little while back. Silted in one side of one of our creek crossings bad enough it was hard to distinguish it from the rest of the bank. Has to be good enough to cross with the L and a Kawasaki Mule so the bar is pretty low but it wasn’t meeting minimum expectations. Piranha bar is a major improvement for this type work. Easily cut through roots and vegetation to widen the crossing a bit and allowed recutting of the ramp in about 20 minutes. Would have been faster if I had a better operator (I don’t do a lot of real digging with it).

Still, 20 minutes to totally recut a ramp into a 5’ creek bank. I remember when my father and I cut crossings with a 9N and pond scoop. Pond scoop wasn’t as wide as the tractor and it wouldn’t cut a root bigger than about 1/2” so that was an adventure that took about half a day per side with some hand work.

As soon as that was finished, power company shut off our power to reconfigure some things to pull in a much more robust line to supply the several hundred houses being built beside us. They didn’t know how long it would be off other than they’d have it back before they left for the day. Wife wasn’t complaining but it was disrupting her day and the 16kW IMD wasn’t doing anything but gathering dust. Swapped the box blade for the generator and got her back to normal operations. Power was off about 5 hours. It was pretty nice to continue life as usual.

Intended to take pictures but didn’t.

 

[ajschnitzelbank]

Brought some firewood in to the house.

 

[Bmyers]

Brought some firewood in to the house.

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I don't know if that blue log is completely seasoned yet or not.

 

[nerwin]

So today I took the plow off the tractor to practice more with the bucket and spent like 10 minutes trying to get the damn bucket on to only realize there was a clear solid piece of ice that I didn't see preventing the bucket laying flat against the SSQA.

Me was getting angry.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Brought some firewood in to the house.

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You have some mighty odd looking cordwood in your neck of the woods!

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

So today I took the plow off the tractor to practice more with the bucket and spent like 10 minutes trying to get the damn bucket on to only realize there was a clear solid piece of ice that I didn't see preventing the bucket laying flat against the SSQA.

Me was getting angry.

BTDT!

 

[Moose7060]

You have some mighty odd looking cordwood in your neck of the woods!

Definitely not old growth either.

 

[nerwin]

Soooo I made another video just for fun really. It's gonna rain ALL week after today so I wanted scrape the driveway down because there was quite a few inches in the driveway from the wind and once it warms up, it's gonna make for a slushy mess. It's getting the time of the year where I don't care about about plowing anymore, it's all gonna melt very soon. But after a rough weekend, I just really needed to get outside and do something.

I wanted to see what the tractor would do with a snow pile that's frozen. I couldn't even break it apart with the shovel so that was kinda fun. The snow banks are completely frozen now after a couple days in the high 40s. The driveway was rough to drive on too, now it's nice and smooth for now anyways.

I've taken time off from making videos (2-3 years) so this has been getting me back into it. Even if you think I'm wasting my time doing what I'm doing. I'm just having fun and learning.

 

[NordTrac]

Cheating a bit to catch up...

Installed brand new chains (DuoGrip Tractor V-Bar Chains from CanadianChains.ca ) on rear tires on Saturday. Significant improvement in traction and brake steering. The 300 m driveway is already getting icy (before rain), so the difference is really noticeable.

The main purpose for the chains is to go out in the woods and haul logs out but there's already too much snow to try this now. Will have to wait next winter.

Also installed a larger toolbox to replace the tiny OEM one.

Removing snow with the FEL bucket really sucks. The dealer I got the MX5200 from had an ad for an inverted snow blower. When I reached out to him, he had sold it 2 days before... Can't wait to find a decent snow blower!

 

[dirtydeed]

Moved some horse hay early this am then dug a shallow ditch at the horse farm in anticipation of major rain coming tomorrow.

I know...bfd. But, I got outside for a little bit today, ran two Oranges for a bit and got paid for it...so, there's that.

going to have to get that "pasture" scraped off it will ever dry a bit. The wood line at the top of the pic is where I cleaned up all that brush and took trees down over the weekend. I suppose I cleaned it up a bit too much.

 

[chim]

Started cutting and moving a dead tree. Ground is a little soft so I'm trying to minimize trips on the grass. Felt good to get out in decent weather and do something.

 

[nerwin]

Started cutting and moving a dead tree. Ground is a little soft so I'm trying to minimize trips on the grass. Felt good to get out in decent weather and do something.

Nice to see grass...all I see is white.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Both Oranges were working most of the day. Bought a bunch of drill pipe and the 4 large metal stands were thrown into the deal. A few more loads of pipe was added after the ranch hand took a couple of pics of me dropping off this load.

 

[S-G-R]

Both Oranges were working most of the day. Bought a bunch of drill pipe and the 4 large metal stands were thrown into the deal. A few more loads of pipe was added after the ranch hand took a couple of pics of me dropping off this load.

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What's the plan for all that pipe?

 

[chim]

Nice to see grass...all I see is white.

We had almost no white this Winter. The yard is oddly fragile right now. There are places that are sort of muddy and others that are like a dried out piece of bread. The latter look like the frost expanded them, then they freeze dried. Driving or walking there presses down and makes tracks. Wondering how difficult it'd be to rig up a skyline to get them over to the driveway.

Three trees have been dying the last few years. One of them was pretty much hollowed out. I dropped one earlier in the week and another today. As weather permits at least one more will find itself in the brush pile.

 

[nerwin]

What's the plan for all that pipe?

My guess is he's going to repair the steam locomotive that exploded in 1948.

 

[Lil Foot]

What's the plan for all that pipe?

Maybe fence?