What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Mowed 7 acres of dandelions and some grass. Took the mower off to clean the bottom of the deck but it was too windy to use the pressure washer. Tomorrow's project.
Where'd you get that seat cover??
Edit* NVM, thanks for sharing the link a few posts ago.
Magicman
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After a month of rain and ZT mowing, I was able to get some tractor work in. Dug a dozen holes with the auger and planted a hillside to stop erosion.
But of course the most important hole was for the wife's bird house.
But of course the most important hole was for the wife's bird house.
We are paying more than $1 more per gallon for diesel here, you should be elated.Filled the Kubota with fuel today. 4 gallons @ $4.699 was $18.80.
Here's one on Ebay. Must check for fitment! https://www.ebay.com/itm/363643124305?hash=item54aad1ba51:g:K6sAAOSwJRhhqYNh
This is the one I have. Been on for 3 years with no complaints. https://www.ebay.com/itm/184196225295https://www.ebay.com/itm/184196225295
Looks like the last link will fit the LX2610/B2650 based on the description on the Amazon links shared. Thanks for the links! If those covers have lasted 3 years for you, they should last forever based on my limited seat time.
They are well made. I don't use the arm rest on mine because it's too much grief, but I leave the left arm rest up all the time, never putting it down. I didn't like the way they fit, I think?
Stopped by the Kubota dealer and purchased New Holland 80/90 gear oil for the kubota MMM gear box oil change.
ve9aa
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TG1860, BX2380 -backblade, bx2830 snowblower, fel, weight box,pallet forks,etc
Used my new pallet forks to move my mower deck from behind the shed out onto the driveway, so I could mount to the BX2380 and mow today. This would normally be done by pushing, shoving, dragging and likely some mild curse words or at least frowny faces.
Pallet forks made this super easy !
My TG1860 is temp out-of-service, so did the mowing with the BX instead.
Pallet forks made this super easy !
My TG1860 is temp out-of-service, so did the mowing with the BX instead.
RCW
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Not worthy of a new thread. But for a couple exceptions, I’ve been at the controls of my trimmer for 30-plus years.
Have gotten too old to do it anymore. Complained about it on other threads.
A high school freshman that lives within walking distance did a fantastic job doing it today! He admitted it challenged him as well. Gave me some confirmation that it wasn’t just me at almost 60 years old.
The young fellow did a great job, and worked very hard for 2 hours.
He said his GPA is close to 100%, and his Mom is very much on board with him having a paying job.
While I just met him this morning, my intuition says we need more kids like this…...
Have gotten too old to do it anymore. Complained about it on other threads.
A high school freshman that lives within walking distance did a fantastic job doing it today! He admitted it challenged him as well. Gave me some confirmation that it wasn’t just me at almost 60 years old.
The young fellow did a great job, and worked very hard for 2 hours.
He said his GPA is close to 100%, and his Mom is very much on board with him having a paying job.
While I just met him this morning, my intuition says we need more kids like this…...
Used my BX as a wheelbarrow/transport to clean out one shed and move stuff to another shed. The cleaned out shed is the new home for my Z422 mower. Thankfully I made the doors open to 76” on this one…she fits nicely!
The Zero turn has been living in my truck’s spot in the 2.5 stall garage while I have been setting up and modding it.
The Zero turn has been living in my truck’s spot in the 2.5 stall garage while I have been setting up and modding it.
dirtydeed
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50 feet of 12" culvert drain pipe installed and gave the client a blank slate.
Before:
The "green" area is where there was an existing drainage ditch that ran to 14" pipe under his driveway. I feel like the rear spacer I added last week really helped on this job.
Orange to the rescue:
Home owner was a nice guy with a JD 2025 and loader. He helped loading rocks/concrete and junk into the 30 yard roll off.
I didn't realize how much smaller the JD 2 series tractors are than the large B series kubota. He had a lot of difficulty reaching over the sides of the roll off and the lift capacity was limited, granted, he had turf tires and nothing on the back end for ballast. I did teach him how to use "float" on his loader. Also, the two speed rear sucked. He was in low when hauling loads of topsoil and I could've likely moved two larger loads to his single load in less time.
I wished that I had remembered to snag a picture with Orange and green side by side.
Great people though and I enjoyed working with him.
Before:
The "green" area is where there was an existing drainage ditch that ran to 14" pipe under his driveway. I feel like the rear spacer I added last week really helped on this job.
Orange to the rescue:
Home owner was a nice guy with a JD 2025 and loader. He helped loading rocks/concrete and junk into the 30 yard roll off.
I didn't realize how much smaller the JD 2 series tractors are than the large B series kubota. He had a lot of difficulty reaching over the sides of the roll off and the lift capacity was limited, granted, he had turf tires and nothing on the back end for ballast. I did teach him how to use "float" on his loader. Also, the two speed rear sucked. He was in low when hauling loads of topsoil and I could've likely moved two larger loads to his single load in less time.
I wished that I had remembered to snag a picture with Orange and green side by side.
Great people though and I enjoyed working with him.
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RCW
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I paid him $50 for the 2 plus hours today. He worked hard.
Had no idea for rate, but a couple people I’d spoken to before said that was about their rate for a couple hours now and then.
Guessing we’d need him a couple times a month for a couple hours.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Pruned a bunch of dead limbs out of the Golden Rain trees in the field of trees Thursday. Ran out of time Thursday so there were a bunch of them still laying in the field. Many were way too long to fit down the trails to the brush piles without being cut down further and I was wanting to come up with an option to further reduce handling. So instead of piling them up and grappling to brush piles for later chipping, we brought the chipper to the field and chipped into the dump bed on the Mule, moving the pair around to various areas to keep limb dragging reasonable. Wife was working dragging limbs 90% of the time. Caught her sitting in the Mule waiting for the chipping to be done right at the end of the job when there were no more limbs to drag.
I was pretty pleased with the amount of brush it took to make a full load for the Mule and the speed it will run keeps cycle times reasonable. We have a 4’ x 8’ off-road trailer that would hold a lot more and could be towed by the Mule or one of the older tractors but it’s not a dump.
We did a bit more trimming in other areas and grappled that brush to one of the brush piles for chipping this fall. I suspect we’ll use the chip on site method again depending on the circumstances.
PortTackFarm
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L3560 LE (ROP's) w/ LA805 FEL, LP RCF 2072, BB2572 and WoodMaxx WM-8H
Great idea with the Mule. I am planning to order a chipper, still deciding but leaning toward the WoodMaxx WM-8H. I hadn't thought about discharging into the dump bed of our Polaris Ranger, but that sounds like a good way to go.