What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[D2Cat]

Ray, there are other methods to "That's another $700 off the purchase price of my Kubota." rationalize tractor purchases.

One is to take the going hourly rate for psychiatrist in your area and multiply that times the number on your hour meter! Also, when you don't have to drive to their office you save additional time and fuel, if you want to factor that in.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

D2,

Amen to that!

It will all be worth the look on the faces of my welders when they show up. They are really great guys and this will still be a tough job but at least the material is next to the work site for them.

Now, if I can just help assemble this thing without dropping another piece of steel on my poor tractor. I could tell it shivered a few times moving this stuff.

Ray

 

[D2Cat]

Well Ray, be careful for your tractor, but not so careful you or someone else gets hurt!

 

[bearbait]

Wolfman, thanks for the suggestions. I had taken that pic partway through the project. I have at least 4 bolts per side, with two of them close to the "leading edge" of the blower , top and bottom, and two further back. I was actually considering welding some reinforcement angle inside the blower to make the sides stronger, but for now I'm going to test and see how it works out.

I also use the tractor weekly to restock the firewood that I keep under cover on my front porch...

What did we ever do without our tractor? We use ours for everything including restocking firewood on the deck. Been a great winter so far, haven't gone through very much.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

BB,

I am like you. I could not get half of what I do done without the tractor.

My first old tractor was like a super-duper wheelbarrow. I could haul and dump and move material during landscaping. Doing this house I have used the Kubota in removing remodeling trash, lumber, tile, vanities, bathtubs, as well as moving items between the barn and the house. I have spread 100 tons of granite on my driveway (try that with a rake!!!) and moved tons of boulders.

I laugh every time I drive by the sad little BX on the trailer at Home Depot. They ask $360 a day to rent that little guy. In the 120 hours I have used mine in the last two and a half years, that is about 40 days of rental: over $14,000!

And I am nowhere near done with it.

 

[billrigsby]

Finished my steering wheel restoration.

May seem like a long drawn out process, but so much time is
spent waiting for epoxy to cure or paint to dry.

I we had a magical shop like the kitchens on the TV cooking shows,
the whole process could have been done in a day rather than two weeks.

A couple of pictures below, including the "bible" to wheel restoration...........
The whole process can be seen here...........
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1685250821743725.1073741852.1667881666813974&type=3

 

[Tooljunkie]

Used kubota to move pellet mill out of cold storage into shop. Going to try a gearbox/electric setup.
Ran great even after sitting for a month.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Today we started hanging steel...

 

[DThrash]

Spent 322.00 dollars on 11 gal. hyd. fluid, 2 hyd. filters and fuel filter. They are proud of that HST filter.

 

[kenmac]

Re-plumbed hydraulic lines to match tractor 3rd function on a used grapple I bought Saturday.Grapple is Blue Diamond and very heavy for a B26!

 

[Merlinhomeauto]

Pulled some stumps for a local campground, their big Case could not get into the space. This machine amazes me more and more every time I use it. Stumps were so heavy that when I got them out to were the Case could get them lifted its front wheels off the ground.

 

[zload]

Valentines Day is "tater" planting time in the deep south so I planted 30# of Red Pontiacs and 10# of White Kennebecs. I also added another 150 onion sets to my onion crop. First time Ive used my bedder/fertilize distributor that I cobbled together and it worked really well on the potato row. I mounted a Cole gravity feed distributor on the bedder frame so it puts the fertilzer down and then covers it so as to not burn the seed up. Once planted I switch the Cole over to the cultivator to side dress as needed.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

First time Ive used my bedder/fertilize distributor that I cobbled together and it worked really well on the potato row. I mounted a Cole gravity feed distributor on the bedder frame so it puts the fertilzer down and then covers it so as to not burn the seed up. Once planted I switch the Cole over to the cultivator to side dress as needed.

Picture of your Unit would be great!

 

[zload]

I'll be planting again soon and will try to remember to take the pic as I'm using it (tractor is an hour away from me)but for the interim its a Keulavator multi-purpose frame:

and a Cole McNifty distributor which will work on any tool bar if you make a bracket to fit it. Basically has a gate operated by 3 pt level and the fertilizer feeds by gravity out the bottom and down the tube:

 

[kenmac]

I dug up a few privet hedges and piled them with my much too heavy grapple.

 

[Lennyzx11]

Got up on the roof and replaced the shingles blown off by last night's 30+ mph winds.
Lot easier this way than carrying everything up the ladder!



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[MizzouTiger]

Spread 60,000 pounds of 3/4" rock with the FEL and box blade. Drive is 500' from end to end with a small off shoot for a turn around and the area in front of the 40x60 pole barn. Took about 6 hours.

Asked the driver if he'd tailgate the first load and declined. Drive goes down and around a small curve before you get to the creek before it straight back out. I can see why with that much weight up in the air and going around that corner. Wasn't exactly smooth prior to laying rock down(bumpy).

Looks much better now.[emoji4] Used the box blade on it in September but didn't help too much. People we bought the place didn't do too much if anything to maintain it for the 7 years they live here.[emoji53]

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[Burtonbr]

Made an old rotary mower quick hitch friendly

Picked up this older bush hog, and just like all the other used implements I have they need modification to use them with the quick hitch, which for me is a must, I hate wrestling with them to get them attached.

 

[Green Acres]

Used FEL to move some of the wood pile from around the old Oak tree. It was a monster tree, over 11' circumference and just 10 feet from house.

 

[aeblank]

Someone needs a GRAPPLE!

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