What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

GeoHorn

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Two-fer today...

Job 1 - regrade/repair from when I dug the line in April. This is the one where we had to call the municipality for a broken water service line before the curb stop. They dug up the street while we waited.

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Job 2. Grind a big 'ole pine stump:

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Ready:

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Done

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Thankful for the Kubota ... and that it wasn't oak or hard maple :)

Tired. Long day.
Some day…some poor soul is going to try to drill a post-hole there (where that stump once existed)….and hit the rest of that tree beneath the surface… 😅😂🤣🥳🥵
 
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Some day…some poor soul is going to try to drill a post-hole there (where that stump once existed)….and hit the rest of that tree beneath the surface… 😅😂🤣🥳🥵
Stump looks like Eastern White Pine (EWP). dirtydeed is in PA.

EWP is soft and very susceptible to rot in wet/damp conditions.

Betting within 5 years it’ll be pretty spongy, and gone in 10.
 

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Stump looks like Eastern White Pine (EWP). dirtydeed is in PA.

EWP is soft and very susceptible to rot in wet/damp conditions.

Betting within 5 years it’ll be pretty spongy, and gone in 10.
Perhaps…but doesn’ that make a “sink-hole”.?
 

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The easy way to plant shrubs. If it is nice tomorrow evening I'll give the 24" auger a try for some trees.

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The easy way to plant shrubs. If it is nice tomorrow evening I'll give the 24" auger a try for some trees.

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That’s how I planted deer-resistant pineapple guava bushes….evergreens that give an avocado-sized fruit that supposedly tastes like pineapple…. Ten of ‘em.…. but apparently the deer in central Texas don’t know about those things and ate every damn one of ‘em. 🤬
 
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More boring tornado tree cleanup today. This opened up another trail. I foolishly thought it was 4 or 5 trees blocking but it was more like a dozen. I am really only cutting the trees to open up the trail again and leaving the rest to rot for nature. It’s mostly pine so not much use for me.

This job was overwhelming without the tractor and it would still be a nightmare without the grapple. Hands down my best purchase for our property.
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In preparation for listing our house I need to clean up the brick face in the front as well as the walk. There is 32 years of accumulated dirt, mold and assorted grime that needs attention.
My son has a pretty hefty power washer and when we were at his house yesterday for a picnic one of my sons and grandsons loaded it in the Mazda.
It weighs about 180lbs - more than I want to test my aneurisms with :)
So. . .
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Everyone should have a tractor!
 
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Finally finished up the Sprayer cart and control. Wired in a socket for power with it's own fuse, then added the other plug to the control box. It is double fused built in fuse on the control box and large blade fuse holder to the socket, tapped into the 10 Gauge coming from the 30 amp slow blow directly from the battery that goes to the subwoofer. Plugged in the cable from the cart, filled the tank, and got it all running, found which switch controls which plug and got the valves properly configured and away I went. Huge difference over what I had originally built. Moving the axle back on the cart made it much more stable, no more teetertottering over bumps, the spray arm is more stable and at the right height, and what a pleasure it is to flip a switch and have the spray stop instantly over killing the PTO and waiting for pressure to drop and timing it just right to not over spray.

I also added a wand, but should have put a 25' hose on instead of 10'. It is basically a 60 gallon tank on a lawn cart, and added a 12' boom for an ATV sprayer to it and a 3 valve control system. Worked great! Got all the fields sprayed with 2,4D.
 
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Just finished watching the last of a 47 video series on youtube called "Hydraulics and Electrical Control of Hydraulic Systems". It's part of the "Big Bad Tech" channel.

I stumbled across one of the videos while researching something to do with hydraulics. It's all a blur now so I can't even remember what it was. Pilot-operated pressure relief valves? IDK, just gunning for hydraulic top-n-tilt and third function. The instructor is excellent so I committed myself to watching the entire playlist. Multiple videos per day for the last few weeks. He has all sorts of videos about industrial type electrical stuff. I'm exhausted mentally.
 
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Dragging a sweetgum trunk up creek bank. It fell a couple weeks ago in rain, it was on far side of creek bank and flowing creek washed away the base and it fell over. The stump of a previous tree I cut down on the near side of the bank kept it from crashing through my fence - dodged a bullet there. Took a few days to remove the poison oak (at the base the vine was thick as a shovel handle) and limb. Next up, cutting the very bottom of the trunk at the creek and dragging it up.

Dan
 

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finished dolly for tiller.

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I have to do something similar for mine. I also need to build up a couple pallets to put the mower decks on so I can put them on shelves. I could use something like that for my backhoe, once it is off the tractor it sits wherever I placed it and only way to move it if in the way is put it back on the tractor.
 
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dan_m

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Did you ever have one of those small tasks that somehow acquired 'project creep'?
I have a small area on the north side of our house that I wanted to replant grass in. It hasn't been touched in 30 years.
It's only about 40 x100 so I planned on ripping it with the box blade then use the tiller. Part A was no problem. The BB ripped up the ground nicely. I just wasn't prepared for all the potatoes is would bring up.

Using the tiller presented a problem. The space is small bordered by the house with AC units sitting there, a fence and a drop off into the woods (artificial wall I built when the grape arbor was there). There is only one 'open' end. Ok will only use tiller where I can reach without destroying anything.

Then I thought this is the time to replace my conduit line that goes from the house into the woods for my critter cameras and low voltage lighting. So... it may not be a backhoe but its a whole lot better than a shovel!

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The stump bucket has turned into a very used implement. Of course trenching / replacing the cables now has doubled the scope of the job.
that often happens to me, start doing a simple task that turns into a multi-day project. Need to stop creating work for myself.
 

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I bought shelving for the barn. Industrial grade, 2000# per shelf capacity. The parts are still stacked against a wall because of the work required to clear the area I plan to put the shelves.

WHERE DO I PUT THE STUFF!!! ARRGGHHH

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I bought shelving for the barn. Industrial grade, 2000# per shelf capacity. The parts are still stacked against a wall because of the work required to clear the area I plan to put the shelves.

WHERE DO I PUT THE STUFF!!! ARRGGHHH

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Well that’s obvious. On the shelves! 🤣
 
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I have the same stressful clutter problems here. If it's good, it needs to be kept out of the weather. That results in a tight pack! It's on my to do list before the snow flies again.
 

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I removed my bow stands today (about 4-5 months late). I’ve been busy with a project (govt agency involved) & have been pushing to get finished. The stands (3 of them) are fine & will be stored until Sept. 7B966FF8-AEA9-44F1-9CAF-78BF61140CA4.jpeg
 
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I have to do something similar for mine. I also need to build up a couple pallets to put the mower decks on so I can put them on shelves. I could use something like that for my backhoe, once it is off the tractor it sits wherever I placed it and only way to move it if in the way is put it back on the tractor.
pretty simple...heavy duty U-Haul dolly or harbor freight castors.

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