What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Mak65]

I have two 50 gallon (plastic) troughs buried so that lip is about 2 in. above ground level. Each trough has a 275 gal IBC tote off to the side as a supply reservoir w/ small screened funnel (screen prevents mosquito breeding in tote) to capture rain. More for laughs, especially now, as the well is main water source. I put mosquito dunks in troughs to control that area (harmless to animals and birds).

I use forks on tractor to haul a 55 gal barrel of water to IBC. I lift it so spout is above funnel and dump it. The IBC rests on 8” cinder blocks and is tied to a float supply valve (metal) using washer hoses (metal flex hose). The metal keeps raccoons and other critters from destroying or gnawing on plastic ones. The water is gravity fed (hence the blocks).

The trough has a board with hardware cloth tacked to it that gently angles down into the water with rocks on each end to weight it down. If a small animal falls in they instinctively swim along the wall eventually encountering the board. The hardware cloth gives them footing and the “weight” rocks allow them to get back over the edge. I also have rocks at this area so animals can crawl over wall onto board to drink Along with several areas with rocks outside of trough for smaller animals to stand on and reach over to get a drink.

I keep game cams at each to capture game. The drought has allowed for several photos of various animals sharing the trough at once.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

I have two 50 gallon (plastic) troughs buried so that lip is about 2 in. above ground level. Each trough has a 275 gal IBC tote off to the side as a supply reservoir w/ small screened funnel (screen prevents mosquito breeding in tote) to capture rain. More for laughs, especially now, as the well is main water source. I put mosquito dunks in troughs to control that area (harmless to animals and birds).

I use forks on tractor to haul a 55 gal barrel of water to IBC. I lift it so spout is above funnel and dump it. The IBC rests on 8” cinder blocks and is tied to a float supply valve (metal) using washer hoses (metal flex hose). The metal keeps raccoons and other critters from destroying or gnawing on plastic ones. The water is gravity fed (hence the blocks).

The trough has a board with hardware cloth tacked to it that gently angles down into the water with rocks on each end to weight it down. If a small animal falls in they instinctively swim along the wall eventually encountering the board. The hardware cloth gives them footing and the “weight” rocks allow them to get back over the edge. I also have rocks at this area so animals can crawl over wall onto board to drink Along with several areas with rocks outside of trough for smaller animals to stand on and reach over to get a drink.

I keep game cams at each to capture game. The drought has allowed for several photos of various animals sharing the trough at once.

Great! So, where are these pictures?

 

[Mak65]

I’ll have to find some that show the whole rigging and a game shot or two - and figure out how to load them.

 

[bmblank]

I did 100hr service on my tractor. Still need to enter it into my records. I'm glad to have it done.

 

[radas]

I carry a pair of needlenose pliers in my toolbox to make quick work of the clips for when I’m wearing gloves. It’s a bit tight where they are. I don’t adjust them enough where the slight inconvenience bothers me at all. If I’m leveling a fresh area I’ll drop the tines to bust the ground up then put them back out of the way for leveling. The weight of the box blade is usually enough for my needs. View attachment 82804 View attachment 82807 View attachment 82809

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[In Utopia]

You might consider a stock tank set on a pallet. More volume of water and possible other uses.

But 2"-3" cracks in the ground !! Don't drop your keys.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/search/water%20tr/stock-tanks?&srch=water%20tr

I've got 3 totes 330 gallons each that feed into 2 old bathtubs with floats that furnish water to the deer on my property in Utopia. We are in a severe drought, only 3.30" rain this year. I fill them up every 2 weeks from my well using a garden hose. My well in only 196' deep and is a low producer, so I have 3 800 gallon holding tanks. There is a pump saver on my submersible pump. It pumps until it senses no water, then it shuts off for 30 minutes, then it comes back on.

 

[D2Cat]

If you have totes, tractor with forks, just load to totes to the limit of your tractor and you're in business. But you have to have water to put in them.

Can't imagine it being that dry. We have a lot of clay in our soil and have had 3/4"-1" surface cracks in the yard from time to time, but then we get rain. Just on 7/2 we got 2.5" overnight. I was grateful for some moisture to reduce the chance of fires from fire works.

In Texas you guys have "tanks" (which we call ponds). Are they dried up like Lake Mead? If you had a cattle herd how would you keep them in water?

 

[Old_Paint]

Shoes off and feet up at the moment but I’ll get some photos soon. Been redirecting some runoff from the neighboring property that has to cross mine. This project really let me know how badly undersized my box blade is behind the LX. But I have put in a second culvert and can now access the property all the way to the back line. Let the clean up operation continue. I see a grapple in my future.

 

[dan_m]

I carry a pair of needlenose pliers in my toolbox to make quick work of the clips for when I’m wearing gloves. It’s a bit tight where they are. I don’t adjust them enough where the slight inconvenience bothers me at all. If I’m leveling a fresh area I’ll drop the tines to bust the ground up then put them back out of the way for leveling. The weight of the box blade is usually enough for my needs.

Can you use lynch pins instead of clips?

Dan

 

[DeepWoods]

Yeah the tine pins. I haven't picked up my unit yet (picking it up in a couple weeks when I pick up my truck from the dealer). I'm sure there's a better alternative out there.

Here is what I did to make it easy to remove the pins. Cheap Fix. Easy to grab.

 

[radas]

Here is what I did to make it easy to remove the pins. Cheap Fix. Easy to grab. View attachment 83160

That'll do!

 

[lakehouse_dreaming]

Graded off an area where the in laws will be putting a pool. My buddy brought up his mini ex to do the digging and breaking up the ground. I used the L3901 with the loader and box blade to move and level the dirt. We had to cut it down around 20" on the high side and build up the low side.

Also we found the gas line by accident which caused a delay until the gas authority could come out and cap it off. We had the locator come out and mark everything but he missed this line. After he capped it off we came back and dug up the old steel gas line so they can replace it with plastic.

 

[Biker1mike]

Did what I bought the tractor for. Mowed the 'play' field and the SNOW SLEDDING hill.
I did stop to get off the tractor and used the plow blade as a parking brake. Left a big patch of ripped up lawn when I forgot raise the blade and started mowing again. Good news is that after many years all I had to tell the wife is that I am an idiot and she walked away laughing. If it does not recover I can seed in the fall.

 

[S-G-R]

Mowing with the LX3310 with FD2584 and had a mini roadeo beside me

 

[D2Cat]

Looks like a recently purchased animal. Might be the sticker from the sale barn still on it's side. Probably didn't put it in an area to get it use to the new place, spooked and went for a tour!

 

[radas]

Picked up my forks and BB today. My buddy came over and wanted all 20 or so of my dead/crowded red cedar trees so we cut them down, cut them to 13' lengths, and I used the forks to load them into the dump trailer. I also borrowed his woodland Mills stump grinder and ground about 7 stumps. I have a bunch of buckthorn and cedar stumps left to grind in my woods. I can't get to them until I clear the cedar branches that I used the forks to move into the woods temporarily until I can get access to the dump trailer again.

I have spent about 40 hours cleaning up our small area of woods, it's finally starting to look good and is accessible to walk/drive through and eventually flatten out with the BB.

Once those cedar stumps are gone, I'm going to get some fill, flatten out that area on the side of the house with the BB, and then build a 12'x16.5' shed there. I think I'll throw some seed down in the areas grass wouldn't grow until I'm ready to add more fill.

The LX hit 11 hours today, I need to pressure wash it and grease the FEL for the first time.

 

[S-G-R]

They were having a roping demonstration about a 1/2 mile from me and this one went right through the fence.

 

[radas]

Great shadow in the second pic!

Hahaha unintented shadow! I swear my legs are not 12' long

 

[Lil Foot]

Great shadow in the second pic!

Hahaha unintented shadow! I swear my legs are not 12' long

I thought you had gotten a pic of SlenderMan!

 

[RCW]

The little Kubota with carry-all served as service tractor to the old ‘Moline.

Moline is running great. Did notice a new noise in the front of the engine. Could be belt or alternator noise, stopped after a short minute’s run time.

The difference in technologies of the two are amazing.

That old Moline will hurt or kill you in many ways. Always have to be on your game. If not, bad things can and will happen.

The safety features of a modern tractor take a lot, but not all, of it away.

Not an editorial either way, just stating a fact. I know I’m much more attentive to detail when operating the old timer.