What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[NCL4701]

My dad had one of those. It was LOUD. The modern electronic versions don't even come close.

Put it on your pickup - it might save your life.

Or get you a ticket!


I moved some firewood around today. Found out a carry-all from Tractor Supply lets my little BX-25 lift and carry firewood quite nicely.

I got a bunch of used IBC totes for $20 a piece. Cut the bottle diagonally, and it makes a nice 'roof' for the tote full of firewood. The 3PH has enough grunt to lift the full tote. Makes heating with wood a lot less work! No more splitting onto the ground, then picking it up to haul to where it gets stacked, then loading it into the bucket to take to the house, and unloading it to stack by the door. I just split right into the tote, and park it in a good sunny spot until its needed. Then it gets hauled to a spot next to the door. Once the tote is empty, I haul it back to the splitting area, where it waits to get filled again.

Much less handling!

Yesterday I broke out the angle grinder and tapered the ends of the carry all a bit. Makes it much easier to get the arms into a pallet or tote. I just cut the bottom at an angle, then went to the flap grinder and rounded off all the edges. Works much better.

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Nice!

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling. Used to split, load into trailer, haul to wood yard, stack to dry, load to pickup, haul into house/shop, stack in house/shop. WAY too much handling.

Wife found a decommissioned 3,000lb platform truck on Craigslist for $25. The urethane tires on the casters were chunking out so I scraped them off and now it has steel casters. That allows easily rolling the wood stack around the shop as needed to keep it both handy and out of the way.

New system is haul logs to wood yard with grapple, finish cutting and splitting straight to stack, stack to platform truck, fork the platform truck back to house/shop. Not as efficient as your IBC tote system but much better than the pre-Kubota system as the Kubota does more lifting and I do leas

 

[MOOTS]

My dad had one of those. It was LOUD. The modern electronic versions don't even come close.

Put it on your pickup - it might save your life.

Or get you a ticket!


I moved some firewood around today. Found out a carry-all from Tractor Supply lets my little BX-25 lift and carry firewood quite nicely.

I got a bunch of used IBC totes for $20 a piece. Cut the bottle diagonally, and it makes a nice 'roof' for the tote full of firewood. The 3PH has enough grunt to lift the full tote. Makes heating with wood a lot less work! No more splitting onto the ground, then picking it up to haul to where it gets stacked, then loading it into the bucket to take to the house, and unloading it to stack by the door. I just split right into the tote, and park it in a good sunny spot until its needed. Then it gets hauled to a spot next to the door. Once the tote is empty, I haul it back to the splitting area, where it waits to get filled again.

Much less handling!

Yesterday I broke out the angle grinder and tapered the ends of the carry all a bit. Makes it much easier to get the arms into a pallet or tote. I just cut the bottom at an angle, then went to the flap grinder and rounded off all the edges. Works much better.

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Pictures of totes?

 

[Mark_BX25D]

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling.

Sweet! My little beast can't quite lift that much. I wasn't even sure the 3PH would lift a full tote, but it didn't have any problem with it at all.

You can reduce your handling even more. Just do the drying in the totes. No need to stack. If you are short of space, and if your beast can lift a tote high enough to stack on top of another tote, you are good to go. (They are made to stack 5 high while full of liquid, so it will handle the weight of wet wood with no problem.) I did a test with a stacked cord of wood and found that I needed 5 totes per cord, tossed in. Saves a ton of work!

Pictures of totes?

Right there in my first post about it. Click on the sentence, "Cut the bottle diagonally..."

I put a link in there that will give you tons of info.

 

[NCL4701]

Next season I should put some effort into sourcing inexpensive totes. I suspect there’s a business somewhere around here scrapping them, just need to get on Craigslist, etc. and find some.

 

[dirtydeed]

Pictures of totes?

 

[fj40dave]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

We called 'em Bug Grinders....I have one just sitting on my shelf.....hummmmm.....

 

[GeoHorn]

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Nice!

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling. Used to split, load into trailer, haul to wood yard, stack to dry, load to pickup, haul into house/shop, stack in house/shop. WAY too much handling.

Wife found a decommissioned 3,000lb platform truck on Craigslist for $25. The urethane tires on the casters were chunking out so I scraped them off and now it has steel casters. That allows easily rolling the wood stack around the shop as needed to keep it both handy and out of the way.

New system is haul logs to wood yard with grapple, finish cutting and splitting straight to stack, stack to platform truck, fork the platform truck back to house/shop. Not as efficient as your IBC tote system but much better than the pre-Kubota system as the Kubota does more lifting and I do leas

 

[DustyRusty]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

I have one on my car. It is a Super Chief, the loudest siren known to man!

 

[In Utopia]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

Sounds like a good way to get shot.
To many road rage shootings lately.

 

[Mark_BX25D]

Next season I should put some effort into sourcing inexpensive totes. I suspect there’s a business somewhere around here scrapping them, just need to get on Craigslist, etc. and find some.

I got mine from Craigslist. I had seen the ad some months before, and moved too slowly. They were gone the next day. This time I was the early bird. I got 16 of them for $20 each. They had anti-freeze in them, so not food grade. That makes them a lot cheaper. Food grade totes go for $100 and more around here.

Now I have to figure out what to do with the 50 gallons or so of Chevron yellow coolant that's left in one of them....

 

[fj40dave]

I need one of those grapple thingies!!!

 

[GeoHorn]

That looks Beautiful!

Here’s an original WW-II Carter Air Raid:

 

[GeoHorn]

Sounds like a good way to get shot.
To many road rage shootings lately.

I was only about 14 when a neighbor kid (our formerly all-white neighborhood was becoming mixed race in the mid-‘60’s) pulled a .22 rifle on me. He had been outside shooting at birds on an overhead wire and I went over and told him to put it back into his house. He pointed it at my stomach and told the gathering crowd of kids (we’d been playing ball in the street) “tell him how crazy I am! Tell him! Tell him I’ll shoot him! Tell him!”
I was truly intimidated, I admit it.
So I turned my back on him as if to walk away and he turned to grin at his bro’ ….. and I spun around, grabbed that .22 and stuck the barrel down into the man-hole-cover and placed my right foot on the butt-stock and BENT that barrel 90-degrees. (the cast iron man hole cover had about a 1” hole cast in it)

It couldn’t be withdrawn from the man-hole and he had a job to get it out of the street before his father came home. I don’t know how he and his bro’ did it…but I expected his Dad to talk to my Dad about it that evening…. Nope. Nothing ever came of it.

 

[ctfjr]

I was only about 14 when a neighbor kid (our formerly all-white neighborhood was becoming mixed race in the mid-‘60’s) pulled a .22 rifle on me. He had been outside shooting at birds on an overhead wire and I went over and told him to put it back into his house. He pointed it at my stomach and told the gathering crowd of kids (we’d been playing ball in the street) “tell him how crazy I am! Tell him! Tell him I’ll shoot him! Tell him!”
I was truly intimidated, I admit it.
So I turned my back on him as if to walk away and he turned to grin at his bro’ ….. and I spun around, grabbed that .22 and stuck the barrel down into the man-hole-cover and placed my right foot on the butt-stock and BENT that barrel 90-degrees. (the cast iron man hole cover had about a 1” hole cast in it)

It couldn’t be withdrawn from the man-hole and he had a job to get it out of the street before his father came home. I don’t know how he and his bro’ did it…but I expected his Dad to talk to my Dad about it that evening…. Nope. Nothing ever came of it.

And the fact that he was black is of what importance? Oh, he was black. . .

 

[GeoHorn]

And the fact that he was black is of what importance? Oh, he was black. . .

(BTW….I never said he was black. You made that assumption….)

I don’t know. Maybe he felt intimidated being surrounded by white kids. Maybe he felt he needed to establish he couldn’t be told what to do. (put the gun back into the house where it belonged)
His brother was older than me but didn’t do anything…just stood there.

In any case, his behavior was shocking to me as I had recently finished my marksmanship merit badge and took firearms safety seriously… so thought I should tell him to put it away. It wasn’t a “race thang”. Really wasn’t…at least not for me.

But it left a persistent impression on me …and it really raised my ire that someone who didn’t really know me would threaten me with a gun. Our parents never knew about the incident as far as I know, and we lived only two houses down on a dead-end street in south/central Houston.

I just wanted that gun destroyed and hoped he’d be in trouble with his parents when they found out about it…. Don’t know if that ever happened…but I doubt it. He probably hid it from them.

We moved about a year later as our family was still growing and needed another bedroom.

 

[nbryan]

Ok, backing away from bending neighbor's guns in manhole covers...

So (yesterday) made what could be my last tamarack log run out of the forest before the trail becomes too soft, but we'll see if there's more frosty days ahead to keep the mud firm. Sunny days really soften things up fast, too!




Tried taking phone vids of my tractor travels too, near the trail exit about 1/4 mile from these photos where the ground most quickly deteriorates in spring.
The ground is thankfully still frozen below the tire rutting and surface mud softening. But the frost's days are numbered.

Part 1 video shows what a second too long of paying attention to filming whilst tractoring can cause. Not a big deal, an old worn out strap snapped when that bundle nudged a tree on the right.
Reloaded and onward home in Part 2 video.

 

[Quick]

I need one of those grapple thingies!!!

Haha! Yes, you do.

 

[MOOTS]

Apparently I have been slacking on the FEL grease. Found a missing pin keeper bolt. Turned out to be a stuck/seized pin. Mapp gas torch, penetrating oil and a BFH wouldn’t move it. Round 2 tomorrow, maybe.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

Took the little girl for a walk in the woods…did a little shed hunting and wood hauling.

 

[DustyRusty]

Took the snowblower/snowplow off the BX23S, and moved it out back for the warm months till next fall. Putting the loader back on took a bit of thinking about it since I rarely take it off except for the snow season.