What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[ItBmine]

In addition to moving trailers around and clearing up in preparation for winter, I've wanted to move a big boulder ever since I bought this place and finally got it to a better location yesterday. It was one heavy and awkward beast and I gave myself a Halloween scare yesterday afternoon as I came down the asphalt driveway with the rock in the jaws of the EA grapple. I started to slide (yaw) and began to wonder if this was it. You can see the skid marks on the asphalt in the photo below. The R4 tires have no traction on the asphalt and the smart move would have been to drop the grapple and boulder to the ground but I hung on in there and got the tractor back under control where the driveway levels off a bit.

I placed the rock in front of the sign I made about three years ago. I'm going to add a few more smaller rocks at some point but I'm glad that's over. The EA box blade weighs around 800lb and the rock must be twice that and it was too much. I have to say, I'm less than impressed with the traction from these R4 tires on my property, whether it's on dirt, grass or asphalt. The rear tires seem to break loose at the drop of a hat and end up digging up the grass and then the dirt. I guess the MX isn't lacking for torque.

I hope I didn't do any damage to the driveline as I was sliding down the driveway.

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From someone that moves rocks for a living, I'm impressed with what your Kubota managed to handle!

 

[Newaterman]

I checked the rear tire pressures yesterday afternoon. 18 psi left, 16 psi right ... and valve stem has to be very close to 12 o'clock to avoid getting a tire gauge full of ballast liquid. I dropped the air in both to around 13 psi.

I moved more rocks around last night. 90% of grapple use is/will be moving rocks. That's why I wanted a very strong grapple such as the Wicked 60 made by Everything attachments. This MX allows me to move rocks that I could never move with the BX. It's picked up everything so far but I really do need wheel weights. The weight of the FEL, grapple and rock need more than an 800 lb box blade in order to offset the weight. I've ordered wheel weights for the new MX but if I keep this one too I'll definitely be adding them although a ballast box might be a better solution since it would be easy on/off.

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Moving rocks I’ve found to be my top use for the grapple, certainly opens up a lot of jobs for these machines. Expanding my parking area wouldn’t have been possible with out building a retaining wall of sourced boulders & rocks.

 

[mcmxi]

From someone that moves rocks for a living, I'm impressed with what your Kubota managed to handle!

Yeah, the MX is a very capable tractor for sure. The bigger rock that I showed earlier is about 11 cu.ft so I looked up the weight of "rocks" and 170lb/cu.ft seems to be a reasonable value to use for the types or rocks up here. So the rock that had me sliding down the driveway could be somewhere in the vicinity of 1,750 to 1,900 lb. Add in the 400 lb of grapple weight and that's quite the load. No wonder the tractor felt that wheel weights or a serious ballast box would help.

 

[mcmxi]

Moving rocks I’ve found to be my top use for the grapple, certainly opens up a lot of jobs for these machines. Expanding my parking area wouldn’t have been possible with out building a retaining wall of sourced boulders & rocks.
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Nice job! I have numerous piles of similar rocks up here and admittedly quite a few that are way too big to move with the MX. I'd need to hire someone to move some of the bigger stuff. I have rocks the size of a VW bug and can only imagine what they weigh.

 

[Newaterman]

Nice job! I have numerous piles of similar rocks up here and admittedly quite a few that are way too big to move with the MX. I'd need to hire someone to move some of the bigger stuff. I have rocks the size of a VW bug and can only imagine what they weigh.

Isn’t funny how quickly you find out what’s too big for whatever machine you’ve got!? I’ve got a couple on the property I really wanted for corner stones of the new parking area that I just barely wouldn’t get off the ground.

 

[gmbc]

Used tractor to move boat in shop. Moved Xmas decoration then parked and patted her for job well done

 

[bird dogger]

A neighbor/friend that lives 2 miles from me is putting up a greenhouse for his vegetable business. He had a large (20"+) ash stump somewhat in the way that he wanted gone. Asked if I would mind using the Woodland Mills grinder on it.....I said sure! The stump was fairly fresh cut so was still very solid but the grinder took it well below ground level in short time. He also had a row of russian olive trees that were gone, but with partially decayed stumps still ruining his riding mower blades. There were 20 some of them. Now they're all gone too.

Since he was only two miles away, I drove the tractor over and back instead of loading it up. I was parked back in the shop afterwards in about exactly two hours. (It was too cold and windy to have a beer afterwards so drove straight back.) He was a happy camper. I'm betting we'll be getting some fresh vegetables next summer.

 

[BAP]

In addition to moving trailers around and clearing up in preparation for winter, I've wanted to move a big boulder ever since I bought this place and finally got it to a better location yesterday. It was one heavy and awkward beast and I gave myself a Halloween scare yesterday afternoon as I came down the asphalt driveway with the rock in the jaws of the EA grapple. I started to slide (yaw) and began to wonder if this was it. You can see the skid marks on the asphalt in the photo below. The R4 tires have no traction on the asphalt and the smart move would have been to drop the grapple and boulder to the ground but I hung on in there and got the tractor back under control where the driveway levels off a bit.

I placed the rock in front of the sign I made about three years ago. I'm going to add a few more smaller rocks at some point but I'm glad that's over. The EA box blade weighs around 800lb and the rock must be twice that and it was too much. I have to say, I'm less than impressed with the traction from these R4 tires on my property, whether it's on dirt, grass or asphalt. The rear tires seem to break loose at the drop of a hat and end up digging up the grass and then the dirt. I guess the MX isn't lacking for torque.

I hope I didn't do any damage to the driveline as I was sliding down the driveway.

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Another time you move something heavy like that downhill, back down the hill to keep better control of the tractor.

 

[B737]

Since he was only two miles away, I drove the tractor over and back instead of loading it up.

"ahh the open road"

 

[pokey1416]

Moved the 2-3” limestone to the back and added the field stones to the pile. Sure was nice having a cab in the chilly air.

 

[Jared 756]

Dug a hole - then went down into the hole and dug even deeper.

 

[SteveBX23]

This week, back filled washed out stone from a bulkhead down the Jersey shore

 

[AGMartin]

Fall is quickly closing the weather window to move firewood so I made the most of a classic “partly whatever” PNW day. The rain started while I was wrapping up my day having a cold malt beverage with my tractor coach, 92 year old Neighbor Bob. Bob’s got his own Kubota (L245DT) that he’s been very generous with, helping me on my property for the last 8 years. His Vermeer backhoe blocks use of the PTO so I gave him a key to my new L2501 today so he can use it anytime he wants. He’s excited about power steering and HST plus using the box scraper and pallet forks on his ranch. He gave me his 3 point post hole auger and tiller so perhaps after not being able to mount them on his tractor for over 20 years, he‘ll use those too.

 

[L35]

Yep, cold weather moving on in, firewood moving on out towards the house. No sweating while working today that for sure... a nice mix of red and white oak for stove chow.

 

[Bmyers]

The corn is out, so it was time to start the clean up along the fence line.

Opened up a path along the fence line that went to the top of the hill.

Had several large limbs to move. Unfortunately I left the chainsaw at home, so i had to take it as a whole piece.

It was a nice day and get lots of work accomplished. Yet as always, there is more work to do.

 

[SAR Tracker]

My 6' Pine Needle Rake from Titan Attachments came in last night. Sure am glad it's all made out of steel, cause the cardboard box looked like it came thru WW 3! No packing slip, no instructions, no paperwork of any kind. Good thing there's U-Tube and got the manual off the mfr's website. Got a text from FedEx that the package was delayed in Troutdale (near Portland, OR) because the barcode was not legible, so they put a new one on. Not sure who banded and wrapped the entire box in shrinkwrap plastic, but it was nice of them.

 

[RichardAaronlx2610]

Moving rocks I’ve found to be my top use for the grapple, certainly opens up a lot of jobs for these machines. Expanding my parking area wouldn’t have been possible with out building a retaining wall of sourced boulders & rocks.
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my favorite thing to do with the grapple, aside from crush my kids old power wheels haha

 

[B737]

No action shots, but I moved a little Rockwell knee mill for my Dad today. I think it weighed about 8-900 pounds. Used a strap and the forks to lift it from its head. For ballast I had the box blade and weights on the back. The machine made short work of unloading it, and moving it into its new home. Such a beautiful autumn day.

 

[Outnumbered]

Changed the blades on my zero-turn with the help of Miss K and then hit a regen at 549 hours while moving firewood from the barn to the rack. Chilly but good day to work outside,

 

[mdhughes]

Went to move the log splitter to split some wood and found a flat tire. So I had to "move" it up to the garage to put some air in the tire. After that my wife and I split 6 or 7 bucket loads.