What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[johnjk]

Planned on trying to get the first mow completed but Mother Nature had other plans. Second day of snow cover here. Not a lot but enough.

 

[radas]

Planned on trying to get the first mow completed but Mother Nature had other plans. Second day of snow cover here. Not a lot but enough.

I got lucky on Sunday and snuck in a dethatching and mow and it snowed over it all yesterday. Back to having a white lawn until the end of the week.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Welded a new eye on the broken eyed tilt cylinder that has been kicking around the shop for years.
It is a mismatch of cat sizes to hook it on but I managed to get it installed and now just have to wait till the current crop of mud dries out to give it a test run.
I also have a top cylinder but only one set of rear remotes so it will sit for a while longer.

 

[Magicman]

Just curious, did you disassemble the cylinder before welding the rod end?

 

[fruitcakesa]

Just curious, did you disassemble the cylinder before welding the rod end?

I did not, though I considered it, but it seems to function properly in a no load test post welding

 

[dlsmith]

Used the BX to move a mower deck I repaired for a friend off my bench and outside.

 

[bmblank]

Last night I used my tractor to delicately remove the shore power outlet from the side of my camper.
I had the damn cord in my hand and I told myself, I gotta go get the tractor warming up and I'll come back out and get the trailer ready to move.
Well, in the time it took me to start up the tractor and change it from the forks to the bucket (with the hitch receiver in it), I forgot all about the cord.

 

[ctfjr]

Yesterday I finally got to wash most of the mud off the tractor and a couple of implements. After it dried I greased it - again using my sheetrock taping approach, put on 5lbs, sand off 5.5lbs. Only in this case it was put a 1/2 tube of grease on and wipe 1 tube's worth off. . .

Today I used my new stump bucket to plant 4 more Boxwoods. The wife doesn't care for the look of the ramp I made from the driveway into the woods. These kind of hide it.

btw Costco was selling decent sized Boxwoods for $23. I picked up 12 yesterday. The other 8 are going to fill in on one side of the top of the driveway. They also had Arborvitae's that were 3-1/2 to 4' tall. I really like them but the deer like them more. They seemed to totally ignore the Boxwoods this winter.

 

[Bri-Guy-GA]

Picked up a 3 point trailer hitch. So nice to be able to back up the horse trailer and lift it without even getting off the tractor.

 

[michigander]

Used the BX to move a mower deck I repaired for a friend off my bench and outside.

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Its honestly hard to see anything past the bucket extension on top

 

[nbryan]

With pallet forks and hitch on, I pulled the 5x10 dumper trailer into the back 80 to collect more woodchips to haul home and cleanup firewood site. It's likely the last haul as the road is turning to mush!

Forked the spread-out tamarack branches and tops together into a centralized pile near the chipping spot. Installed the WC68 then refilled the trailer again with chips from tamarack tops and branches. Those piles are really knarly to pull apart to feed the chipper.

Grabbed my BB1560 boxblade which I'd left in the woods, and strapped it to the forks with the 3-point trailer hitch on top of it. Headed back home to drop the chipper and boxblade off, then re-connected the trailer hitch to the 3-point and went back out to grab the trailer load of chips.

Forked my collection of long skinny straight tamarack rails that I couldn't bring myself to chip up, and loaded them on top of the trailer. Probably 20 - 1" to 3", 12ft to 16ft rails there!

That was a heavy trailer load to squirm homeward with through the muddy sections of trail, but the 'bota had no problem. Enough momentum is key, so goosed that hst pedal BEFORE hitting the mud ruts.
Now I'm done with firewood felling and hauling, and 2 1/2 loads of wood chips are in. There's more tops needing chipping back there but the sphagnum bog is filling with meltwater so prob won't get to cleaning up the rest of the tops and branches until either there's a long dry spell, or after freeze-up next winter.

Then a neighbor 4 miles down our gravel road called and asked if I could clear her driveway entrance of snow as she just returned home after working away for months and the plow had left a mountainous ridge at her driveway.

So grabbed the car hauler trailer, mounted the boxblade and loader bucket, and trailered the tractor over and cleared it for her. The snow blower stayed home - no way this wet heavy snow is going to cooperate with the blower - been there done that! The boxblade backing up is a fantastic "bulldozer" snow pile pusher, and also for scooping piles up behind to move to where it can be pushed into the ditch.
Got home around 9pm, still had to walk the doggy. I just left the truck/trailer/tractor parked where it arrived and getting to unloading it now, the next day.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Gave the tilt cylinder its first real test and used it to cut and fill the bottom of my Mother's driveway that often washes out during hard rain.
It worked great and is so precise especially when working on an irregular and bumpy gravel surface.
Once the rough fill and grade was done I used the bucket in reverse to pack and smooth.
This really revolutionizes my road building capabilities and now I am seriously considering some hydraulic adaption to get me a second or 3rd set of remotes so I can use the top cylinder that I also had kicking around in the drive shed.

 

[Belmoresr]

Picked up a 3 point trailer hitch. So nice to be able to back up the horse trailer and lift it without even getting off the tractor.

Which one did you get? I have been thinking about doing same.

 

[NCL4701]

Gave the tilt cylinder its first real test and used it to cut and fill the bottom of my Mother's driveway that often washes out during hard rain.
It worked great and is so precise especially when working on an irregular and bumpy gravel surface.
Once the rough fill and grade was done I used the bucket in reverse to pack and smooth.
This really revolutionizes my road building capabilities and now I am seriously considering some hydraulic adaption to get me a second or 3rd set of remotes so I can use the top cylinder that I also had kicking around in the drive shed.

Do the toplink. It’s worth the time, effort, and money.

 

[dirtydeed]

Implement swap and got locked n loaded for tomorrow's festivities... Tractor gets the call for tomorrow.

Well, there's your problem!

 

[ken erickson]

Started my day about 3:30 am, got down to my land for opening of spring turkey season. The weather was cold, 33 degrees F when I left the house, windy, overcast and not a good day for gobbling. Did hear some off in the distance, but also heard woodcocks early and ruffed grouse steady, saw 7 deer walk out, so a good day. But then the fun started around noon as I prepped my little wildlife watering hole to spread 2400 lbs of sodium bentonite. Interesting stuff.

A short video when I first started raking last years vegetation out and my hunting buddy opened and spread the 48 bags. I then worked it as evenly as I could into the soil. Now I wait and see.

 

[dlsmith]

Its honestly hard to see anything past the bucket extension on top

Check it out now.

 

[ejb11235]

I spend a couple of hours spreading out gravel in my neighbor's parking area. Second time I've helped a neighbor out, and my first paid gig! She was very happy and gave me a more money than what I charged her.

 

[Bri-Guy-GA]

Which one did you get? I have been thinking about doing same.

No name off off of ebay, was $70. I couldn't justify spending $250 or more for a name brand when I don't use it very often. Its a T shape with braces connecting each corner so should be sturdy enough.

 

[lynnmor]

No name off off of ebay, was $70. I couldn't justify spending $250 or more for a name brand when I don't use it very often. Its a T shape with braces connecting each corner so should be sturdy enough.

My Cluttered Garage did a YouTube video comparing the hitches. The $70 one had a considerably larger opening for the ball mount. Do you have the excessive slop?