What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[dirtydeed]

Have thought about retiring my old lever binders in favor of ratchet binders (only every time I load the tractor which is infrequent). Those EZ binders looked really sweet until I looked at the price. I know you’re loading and unloading constantly so I’m sure they make sense but for my infrequent use I got some bad sticker shock on those things. I’m up off the floor now but still recovering.

I would agree. They weren't inexpensive at $118. I have other types of binders (lever and ratchet binders) and find that I typically overtighten the ratchet type. If you like the ratchet style, I'd recommend the "peerless ratchet" with folding handle. They are reasonably built and priced.

 

[Jill Daley]

If you did something to or on you're tractor today and you don't want to start a new thread then post it here

I installed a horn I took from a tiny Toyota and then installed a decompression cable on mine today. Was going to do a little grading on the drive but got tired
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I tried to install a steel discharge chute on my zero turn rider but couldn’t figure out how the spring works…if you or anyone knows how please explain…I see no grooves or anything to keep tension on the spring.

 

[flyidaho]

I 've been real concerned about the 30 to 50% higher home heating costs for this winter I've been hearing about, until I remembered I heat for free, and have for 40 years! I dragged this deadfall quaky about 1/4 mile from where I dragged it out across the creek, then the tractor's FEL was handy for holding it while I cut it into shorter lengths, and for moving the finished product into the shop near the wood boiler. The snowblower provided some extra rear counterweight, and it may be needed any day.

 

[Rzims]

I 've been real concerned about the 30 to 50% higher home heating costs for this winter I've been hearing about, until I remembered I heat for free, and have for 40 years! I dragged this deadfall quaky about 1/4 mile from where I dragged it out across the creek, then the tractor's FEL was handy for holding it while I cut it into shorter lengths, and for moving the finished product into the shop near the wood boiler. The snowblower provided some extra rear counterweight, and it may be needed any day. View attachment 70017 View attachment 70016 View attachment 70015

beautiful country you live in!

 

[Thunder Fish]

Bit the bullet and replaced the clutch on my ZL2202DT aka L275,went really easy surprisingly

 

[NCL4701]

This spring we had a little straight line wind one night that took down an apparently healthy white oak about 30” or so at the base. It took down and/or busted up a bunch of little stuff when it came down so it was a pretty good tangle from top to bottom. Tried taking a before picture and never could get anything that looked like much more than a brush pile. Access is creek bottom so dry ground is somewhat rare, but necessary. Been putting off getting it up waiting on the tree to dry, ground to dry, and enough chill to stop the chiggers in the beech trees that surround the downed tree.

Son is visiting this weekend and, apparently tired of apartment life in the city, wanted to do something involving physical labor. Definitely not passing up that offer. I ran the saw while he untangled the mess to get down to the firewood worthy stuff. Cut it into 7’ sections since that’s the max width for the trails.

Decision time. I can get to the wood lot the shorter way by taking the left fork through the permanent mud hole created by the spring at the bottom of the hill, or take the longer route to the right headed up the hill which gets a good bit steeper than that lower section a little further up. Up the hill we go. Would have a pic of the steep part but at that point I’m driving, not taking pics.

We left off working on the tree in favor of deer hunting now that it’s down to just spending a couple hours to drive back and forth to bring in the rest of the tree. I’m sure there are more efficient means to get the tree back to the wood lot but this one tree is enough for a year for us. Not like we’re a high volume operation.

 

[ItBmine]

Hauled some firewood to the house and hoped it would snow enough to try my new plow, but it didn't.

Not cold enough yet anyway. I wait until the ground is froze so I don't plow all kinds of dirt into my lawns.

 

[flyidaho]

Hauled some firewood to the house and hoped it would snow enough to try my new plow, but it didn't.

Not cold enough yet anyway. I wait until the ground is froze so I don't plow all kinds of dirt into my lawns.

"A man who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed" Ben Franklin I believe said that, true story. I can actually heat for free using just my electric boiler, which ties in with the wood boiler system, because I have a large surplus of KWH's with my utility thanks to my grid tied wind, solar, and hydro electric systems. But I like keeping my little stretch of "forest" looking tidy, and a half tipped over deadfall (on new trees especially) offends me, so I may as well burn them for heat, and the L3301 is an invaluable helper.

 

[ItBmine]

"A man who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed" Ben Franklin I believe said that, true story. I can actually heat for free using just my electric boiler, which ties in with the wood boiler system, because I have a large surplus of KWH's with my utility thanks to my grid tied wind, solar, and hydro electric systems. But I like keeping my little stretch of "forest" looking tidy, and a half tipped over deadfall (on new trees especially) offends me, so I may as well burn them for heat, and the L3301 is an invaluable helper.

You got it made it sounds like. I once looked into solar power here but in my area all the research I did came back saying I would not break even on investment for 30 years.
People I know here that did go solar told me the only way it works out is if you had to install poles and line to get electricity. Then the cost evens out.
For me I have oil forced air and my wood stove. And I do like you. I have yet to cut a good tree down on my property. Except for ones my retired forester friend tells me I need to cut, such as diseased ones. I just clean up the dead fall. I'm fortunate to have a lot of hardwood maple.

 

[ItBmine]

"A man who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed"

The first time is when you are sweating cutting and splitting it! LOL

 

[mdhughes]

"A man who cuts his own firewood is twice warmed"

The first time is when you are sweating cutting and splitting it! LOL

That is why I only cut wood if it is in the 30's or below.

 

[S-G-R]

We're supposed to get high winds and a lot of rain so I put the forks on moved some lumber odds and ends on a pallet. Loaded up some patio stones on another pallet and put the out of the way for the winter. Next up is my 200 hour service that's two hours late.

 

[Bmyers]

We continued to work on cleaning up. Had several old barrels to move out of the way.

As we were cleaning up, I slid grapple first into a tree and the tree went right over. So I pushed it around a little so we could cut it up and hall it to the pile.

Smoothed out part of the drainage ditch and we planted more grass.

We cleared out more old fencing. We have a pile of concrete bricks that need to be disposed of and some more trees that have been damaged from storms and split.

Here are some old before pictures of the area

 

[SteveBX23]

Knocked an old lean to/chicken coop/barn down months ago. Have finally picked back up on getting it cleaned up using the Kubota and dump trailer

 

[MOOTS]

No pictures, cause it’s boring.

Finished up my Summit 3rd function install, electrical is my nemesis. No idea why, just don’t like doing it. Tapped in to keyed hot, will add a switch later on.
And started on the Lown performance grill guard/chain bucket install.

 

[pokey1416]

As others have said - get the pallet forks!

Made a couple trips to Baileys Discount http://www.baileysdiscountcenter.com/ last week and picked up 12 Trinity SS rolling work cabinets. They’re new but damaged units but for $399 each I’m ok with that (both 72” and 66”). Hell of a load for my 10’ trailer! Wife wanted a couple of stand up desks too. Anyways, I offloaded last week and stuffed them in garage - stacked them better today.



Took a pic of wife with Mr. Bailey too

 

[jyoutz]

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Here in NJ

The same thing here in Santa Fe county, NM. At 7000’ elevation.

 

[memtb]

Actually started last fall, returned 4 days ago to attempt to finish the job before the ground freezes.

We had a jungle of Russian Olive and Salt Cedar along about 150 yards of our river frontage. Last fall, I pushed down a lot of the Russians and the Salt Cedar getting a flat rear, a bent hood and grill, and a punctured radiator. An expensive and difficult undertaking. Spent the past week dragging trees and pulling stumps, aquiring another rear flat....then crushing into a large piles (one pictured) for burning. Spent all afternoon using the blade to somewhat level some of the area. Still have a lot of limbs and small pieces of broken tree trunks. Here’s a few pictures of the project.....however, like a dummy, I failed to take photos before I started! memtb

 

[NCL4701]

As others have said - get the pallet forks!

Made a couple trips to Baileys Discount http://www.baileysdiscountcenter.com/ last week and picked up 12 Trinity SS rolling work cabinets. They’re new but damaged units but for $399 each I’m ok with that (both 72” and 66”). Hell of a load for my 10’ trailer! Wife wanted a couple of stand up desks too. Anyways, I offloaded last week and stuffed them in garage - stacked them better today.

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Took a pic of wife with Mr. Bailey too
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Looks like you got a great deal!

I don’t use my forks much but for some jobs (like that one) they’re priceless.

 

[NCL4701]

My son’s visit continued and he wanted to keep working wood so he and my wife/his mom split wood while I hauled logs from the windfall in the creek bottom back to the wood lot and kept enough cut into blocks to keep them busy. Still work to do before we’re done for the year, but decent progress for only about 4 hours over 2 days. Having the grapple to shove brush out of the way and knock down little scrubby junk for access sped things up a good bit.

Bringing it back in 7’ sections takes multiple trips but I lift it a grand total of 2 times; once to put it on the splitter and again to stack it. It’s all grapple work before that. I don’t know if that’s the most efficient way. Sure is the easiest with our layout.