What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[mcmxi]

IMO the first picture belongs in a Kubota Catalog

Thanks! Wouldn't that be a great life. Getting paid to use Kubota products and take nice photos of those products. I'm sure someone has that life!

 

[BozenBota]

Used the grapple to turn the chicken waste compost. The pile is about 2/3 of what we and the flock (12 birds) generated this winter. I had been using a manure fork and bins, but this is just way better with the volume of material.

 

[ACDII]

Put it to work yesterday. Had a pine tree that needed trimming so that I could run the tractors close to it. One side is the road side and gets cut regularly, the other side is the hay field.

Thats the second load. Whe knew pallet forks would be so handy.

 

[ctfjr]

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Nice pic of a really nice machine Matt!

 

[Shekkie]

My neighbor had a tree cut down today and took me up on my offer to clean it up for him. Only took about 1/2 an hour and I have a few more logs for my 300 yard rifle range project along with some limbs for my tiny burn pile.

 

[NCL4701]

Was reminded again today why I didn’t buy a bigger tractor. Checking trails yesterday after a little storm ran across this. Yes, there’s a trail under there somewhere.

Dead old tree that pulled down several little trees and bushes with it. A few strategically placed cuts with the saw and the grapple pulled the mess out in chunks of trunk, brush, and whatever else was in the way.

Support vehicle and crew (wife) leading the way home.

Same trail minus the wad of trees. And yes, most of our numerous trails are more designed for walking and ATV’s than tractors. The L fits kind of the same way Shaquille O’Neal fits through a standard door.

 

[mcmxi]

This must be a tree day. My neighbor had a big fir tree blow over a couple of months ago. He told me that I could cut it up for firewood if I wanted. The photos are fairly self explanatory. The bigger of the two trunks is about 20"diameter at the base and the longer one is about 60 ft in length. After cleaning off the branches I cut the trunks into 11ft lengths and tossed them over the fence onto my property.

I could have used a saw with a longer bar to cut the bifurcated base which is probably 40" or so in diameter. I ended up using the grapple to give the stump a whack and was able to knock the base log off. I used the tractor to push the stump over when I was done.

 

[mcmxi]

Was reminded again today why I didn’t buy a bigger tractor.

I can see the logic there. I went the other way and was reminded yesterday and today why I did buy a bigger tractor. I don't see myself owning anything smaller than the MX6000 unless it's a collectible older tractor of some sort. A David Brown, Massey Ferguson or something. More for show than go.

 

[Quick]

Well, this turned into an all day adventure! Thought I'd tackle a little bigger stump today. This thing is heavier than the tractor! Rope and pulleys for the mechanical advantage for the most part after digging 5 feet down all the way around it. A bigger tractor would have saved me some time, but dang it, I got it out! (-;

 

[BetterThanAShovel]

I have a moment of smack-the-forehead "duh" BEFORE it was too late!

I was using the B77 backhoe on my B2650 and as I was setting down the outriggers, I noticed something. The footpegs you use to get up and down from the backhoe platform were bent towards the front, so that everytime the outrigger cylinder passed it, it was rubbing. It was like that on both sides of the tractor...nice shiny rub marks where the cylinders passed them. (I bought the tractor used). I decided this was bad, so set out to fix it. I was figuring I just needed to bend the footpegs back out. I went into the garage and got a logging chain and a large pipe for leverage. I was trying to figure out how I was going to attach the pipe to the footpeg with the chain so I could try to manually pull it back out....and that's when it came to me.

I'm standing right next to a machine that can exert way more force than I can, and exactly in the direction I need it.

So I looped the chain around the backhoe bucket (which was curled all the way in) and slipped the hook over the footpeg. I swung the backhoe over to the side so it would pull directly out, and then slowly extended it. Very easy, very precise, and no grunting and cursing on my part. Swung the backhoe over to the other side and did the same for that footpeg as well. Now they don't scrape against the cylinders and it was SO EASY.

I'm just kinda giddy that I figured that out BEFORE I had spent a lot of time and effort and cursing trying to manually bend those footpegs in the hot hot sun.

 

[dlsmith]

Had to take the right front tire off my BX today, just as I expected, I picked up something on Saturday when I was mowing and cleaning up my niece's front yard. Her JD LA125's mower deck succumbed to rust and the idler pulley ripped out of what little metal was left in that area. I love my niece dearly, but she doesn't take care of anything. The yars was an overgrown junk yard, trash everywhere. She and one of her sons filled my 14' trailer with junk and trash, which we filled my 5 yard dumpster with. I think the deck is a lost cause, the more rust I cut out to find good metal to weld to, the more rust I find.

 

[B737]

Spread 20 yards of fill, and 40 yards of topsoil today, for a friend nearby.

 

[doublebass73]

I moved a 500 gallon propane tank with the boom pole. The tank was empty.

 

[dirtydeed]

 

[PoTreeBoy]

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Who's got the ban hammer! Wolfman, you gonna let him get away with this?

 

[NCL4701]

I moved a 500 gallon propane tank with the boom pole. The tank was empty. View attachment 81101

That reminds me so much of the small tractors I put hundreds of hours on as a kid and young man. 2WD, R1’s, no loader, no backhoe, gear drive, work lights on the back. Just the 3 point and PTO to get work done (and you can get a LOT of work done with just those two). The ROPS throws it off a little but they definitely need to stay. Yours is a lot shinier and prettier, though.

Last year my father saw mine after I’d been mowing a flat field with a bunch of little trees in it. Loader removed, ROPS down. He said, “Wow. It actually looks like a tractor.” Kind of my reaction to seeing yours. Very nice.

 

[mcmxi]

I moved a 500 gallon propane tank with the boom pole. The tank was empty. View attachment 81101

That's awesome. I ordered a boom pole this week but it's a SSQA model. I was going to say that it'd be good to have a 3-point to SSQA adapter, but then it occurred to me that the boom pole is rated at 1,800lb so there really wouldn't be any benefit.

 

[ejb11235]

I got my new box blade unloaded. I don't intend to make my lifting technique a common practice, but I needed to get this thing out of my truck. With my truck empty I was able to move the wood pile that was blocking my access to a double-stump I've been trying to get out. Cut a couple of roots with the sawzall and eventually excavated enough that I could tow it out with my truck. First attempt with the truck failed, even with a couple of trial run-and-jerk attempts ... didn't have any wood to try running the rope over to give a lifting action, so I continued using my backhoe until it was fully loose then went back in with the truck.

Getting this stump out was a big deal because it's been blocking the end of my extension driveway where I'm planning on putting my "maintenance" area ... maybe a couple of 20' shipping containers with a roof over them so I have a covered place to park my tractor.

 

[Bugzilla46310]

Signed the paperwork for a BX2680. Should be delivered Monday or Tuesday. Bought the oil filter and hydraulic filter for the initial oil changes.
Sold my Bad Boy Maverick in 1 day on FB market place for what I was asking and the Simplicity in 3 days for a tad less than I was asking. That pays for half of the BX!

 

[mcmxi]

Getting this stump out was a big deal because it's been blocking the end of my extension driveway where I'm planning on putting my "maintenance" area ... maybe a couple of 20' shipping containers with a roof over them so I have a covered place to park my tractor.

Have you seen the price of shipping containers recently? Crazy prices at the moment. Hopefully you already have the containers. I like your thinking. I'm desperately in need of a place to put tractors. I despise seeing them sitting out in the sun.