BAP
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2012 Kubota 2920, 60MMM, FEL, BH65 48" Bush Hog, 60"Backblade, B2782B Snowblower
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Goz63
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Kubota L2501, LA525 loader, QH15,Land Pride RCR1860, BB2560, SGC0660, forks
How do you like that TerraForce tiller? I have forks by them and they work great. Long term we will be getting a tiller. There are a bunch in that range to choose from. Is that a chain or direct drive?
I would feel a little bit sorry for the loss, but I know what you have coming. SO the wait is actually appropriate!today, I sold it!
officially tractor-less for at least the next 14 hours
Back from sea just in time to clear the driveway of a old apple tree. Then of course a good mow with the Z422 all the rain while I was away had the grass shooting up.
I used a really cool attachment recently that formed/rolled out raised beds with drip tape. We did several thousand feet in an afternoon.
dirtydeed
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B2650 BH77, U27-4R2, BX23TLBM, box blade, rear blade, flail mower, Stump Grinder
That looks awesome. What is inside the fabric other than the drip line? Is that just the mounded dirt?
dirtydeed
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B2650 BH77, U27-4R2, BX23TLBM, box blade, rear blade, flail mower, Stump Grinder
I find this just a tad ironic that I received the newsletter in my email just now reminding me that Wednesday was national 8-11 day....the day I had a cable cutting frenzy. 
thanks…learned something today. Might new a new tool that I didn’t know I needed!
It is just the mount that is formed. The material is stretched over it and then the sides are covered over. It is a really slick system.
Sad and exciting at the same time. Open station or cab coming?today, I sold it!
officially tractor-less for at least the next 14 hours
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Either your trailer shrunk or your tractor grew. Congratulations!Today I picked it up!
Today I started my lawn project. I went to TSC and bought some Glyphosate concentrate.
This is what my 'lawn' is loaded with:
I had on hand some blue dye to help see where I sprayed. The Ag Station guy was right - even with the dye I'm sure I missed some spots.
The light color spots are due to sun light coming through the trees.
I had to wash the tractor off and take a shower to try and get rid of the dye/Glyphosate on us both.
This is what my 'lawn' is loaded with:
I had on hand some blue dye to help see where I sprayed. The Ag Station guy was right - even with the dye I'm sure I missed some spots.
The light color spots are due to sun light coming through the trees.
I had to wash the tractor off and take a shower to try and get rid of the dye/Glyphosate on us both.
Dump trailer is a great piece of equipment, no complaints, I filled it today several times with large rounds from a large fallen tree, I am in awe of what it will carry and love that I don’t have to empty the load other than pull the tilt leaver. I went back and forth on the 6’ or 8’ and on the 2 or 4 wheels, the 2 wheel 8’ was the right choice, also love that the wheels don’t stick out to catch on trees etc. build is very heavy it will still be in use long after I’m gone …lol.
The tiller is a YJR062 Heavy Duty Gear Drive from Everything Attachments, it's done 4 years of work with no issue whatsoever, It's a great match for my L3200 or L3901. I looked around at a number of models but am very happy that this was my final selection. It will be getting quite a bit of use in the next few weeks as I look to plant a few fields and many food plots.
It's not the cheapest but it comes very highly recommended. Good luck in your decision making for a tiller.
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The new pto buzz saw is a Balfor shark 700, they are made in Italy, many features over the old basic red Woodsman buzz saw, I transported it UpNorth today and unloaded it but did not get a chance to set it up and run it. I'll find time in the next few weeks and will do a full review for those that are interested.
Some of the features that made me upgrade to a new saw include:
- Rollers built into the feed table (horizontal and vertical).
- Drive engage lever, the saw has a lever which pivots the gearbox engagement with the 3 drive belts to the main blade axle, allows you to engage and disengage while at the saw instead of running to the tractor to turn off the PTO.
- 2 safety handles, one to hold the wood gripper in place and second to engage a lever to allow you to tilt the feed table into the blade, your hands have to be in these locations and are kept away from the blade to operate the saw, very good feature!
- Adjustable cutting length gauge, heavy rod with chain which can be set to achieve constant desired log length.
- 2 Fold up carry handles and 2 large wheels allow you to move the saw easyly to move it and store it. Easy movement to hook up to 3pt hitch.
Look out for my full review.
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It's a Berkelman's Welding & Mfg Inc of Canada trailer - 2 ton single axle farm dump trailer, 8' long fitted with industrial tires. It's a great trailer and so useful, I wish I had purchased one some years ago.
They were a great company to deal with, they are in Ontario Canada but will ship anywhere in the US direct.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
This started about three weeks ago when this perfectly healthy pine tree fell in the pond. Of course most of the limbs were on the pond side where the most light was so they’re underwater and jammed up in the muddy pond bottom.
Plan A was to cut the trunk at an angle near the water line, hope the stump fell back in the hole (it did about halfway), hook a chain to it, extend with a supposed 9K lb working strength bull rope, and pull it out. That got it about 6’ at which point it dug in, so did the tractor, and the made in China rope broke in the middle not near anything. Probably made out of recycled Ziplock bags and fly ash from trash incinerators but price was good at the time. Another reminder to me cheapest at the checkout isn’t always really cheapest.
Ever since I bought the Kubota, my father and I have been having problems busting ropes, chains, and various pieces of tree rigging stuff we’ve used with his older, smaller tractors for years. It’s a HST with R4’s so according to a lot of stuff I’ve read it shouldn’t be able to pull an empty Radio Flyer wagon downhill on asphalt, however on dry ground in a max pull scenario (like this one), we keep breaking things. The “oh, there’s no way it could break that” method was not working.
I really have no idea what the max drawbar force on a L4701 is but with it weighing about 6,000 lb or a bit less (by the time everything on it is added up) and some of the things we’ve broken, we figured absolute maximum under ideal conditions couldn’t be over about 4,000lb and usually probably not that much. So we finally decided to go through every piece of rigging we use and make sure we know the working loads and that they’re all within the forces that could be applied using a 6,000lb drawbar assumption, which should be well above reality, to provide a safety factor.
That exercise resulted in an 11,500lb rated 150’ synthetic winch line extension with steel eyelets on both ends, an additional 10,000KG snatch block, a pair of 7500lb tree saver anchor straps, and a short length of 1/2” grade 70 chain to link the snatch block to the tree. Of course some of our existing rigging was fine. Some is now relegated to lighter use with the lighter tractors.
The fixed snatch block is attached to a big gum tree. Not really room for a tractor even if the L would pull it straight out, which I’m sure it wouldn’t. Of course the snatch block down by the butt of the tree trunk is doubling whatever force the L is putting on the rope, thus the need for the 1/2” chain.
Like everything else, the L pulls better downhill than uphill and the nearby dam made a swell downhill run for the pull. Just needed Dad to sit well out of the way on the dam to watch the tree and rigging so he could signal me to start and stop as I couldn’t see the tree at all with it on the opposite side of the dam. It, and a bunch of stinking blue mud, pulled right out easy peasy. Of course moving 25’ x 8” limbs, chunks of tree trunk, etc. covered in blue mud that smells like a combination of rotten grass, goose crap, and a dead rotten turtle was much more pleasant with the grapple.
BTW I do know a skidding winch would be ideal for this sort of thing. Problem is I just can’t convince myself to spend that much for what use I’d get out of it. Maybe someday…
Plan A was to cut the trunk at an angle near the water line, hope the stump fell back in the hole (it did about halfway), hook a chain to it, extend with a supposed 9K lb working strength bull rope, and pull it out. That got it about 6’ at which point it dug in, so did the tractor, and the made in China rope broke in the middle not near anything. Probably made out of recycled Ziplock bags and fly ash from trash incinerators but price was good at the time. Another reminder to me cheapest at the checkout isn’t always really cheapest.
Ever since I bought the Kubota, my father and I have been having problems busting ropes, chains, and various pieces of tree rigging stuff we’ve used with his older, smaller tractors for years. It’s a HST with R4’s so according to a lot of stuff I’ve read it shouldn’t be able to pull an empty Radio Flyer wagon downhill on asphalt, however on dry ground in a max pull scenario (like this one), we keep breaking things. The “oh, there’s no way it could break that” method was not working.
I really have no idea what the max drawbar force on a L4701 is but with it weighing about 6,000 lb or a bit less (by the time everything on it is added up) and some of the things we’ve broken, we figured absolute maximum under ideal conditions couldn’t be over about 4,000lb and usually probably not that much. So we finally decided to go through every piece of rigging we use and make sure we know the working loads and that they’re all within the forces that could be applied using a 6,000lb drawbar assumption, which should be well above reality, to provide a safety factor.
That exercise resulted in an 11,500lb rated 150’ synthetic winch line extension with steel eyelets on both ends, an additional 10,000KG snatch block, a pair of 7500lb tree saver anchor straps, and a short length of 1/2” grade 70 chain to link the snatch block to the tree. Of course some of our existing rigging was fine. Some is now relegated to lighter use with the lighter tractors.
The fixed snatch block is attached to a big gum tree. Not really room for a tractor even if the L would pull it straight out, which I’m sure it wouldn’t. Of course the snatch block down by the butt of the tree trunk is doubling whatever force the L is putting on the rope, thus the need for the 1/2” chain.
Like everything else, the L pulls better downhill than uphill and the nearby dam made a swell downhill run for the pull. Just needed Dad to sit well out of the way on the dam to watch the tree and rigging so he could signal me to start and stop as I couldn’t see the tree at all with it on the opposite side of the dam. It, and a bunch of stinking blue mud, pulled right out easy peasy. Of course moving 25’ x 8” limbs, chunks of tree trunk, etc. covered in blue mud that smells like a combination of rotten grass, goose crap, and a dead rotten turtle was much more pleasant with the grapple.
BTW I do know a skidding winch would be ideal for this sort of thing. Problem is I just can’t convince myself to spend that much for what use I’d get out of it. Maybe someday…