What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Old_Paint]

Maybe some grader (plow) bolts would work.

Amazon.com: 8 - Plow Bolts & Nuts for Blades/Cutting Edges, 5/8-11x2 1/4 - Grade 8, Dome Head : Industrial & Scientific

Amazon.com: 8 - Plow Bolts & Nuts for Blades/Cutting Edges, 5/8-11x2 1/4 - Grade 8, Dome Head : Industrial & Scientific

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That would be perfect, since the task is EXACTLY what that bolt was designed for. But, as I said, no square drills, LOL. Gonna have to use a taper head with hex socket. I'll get some grade 8's which will resist corrosion a little better and certainly stand up to anything I can do to them with the LX.

 

[Old_Paint]

I did some more clean-up, erosion control, and leveling yesterday. I managed to:

1. Find something that sneaked up over the FEL support and hit my fuel filter. Never saw it, and didn't really think I'd run over anything that would do that. Guess I was wrong. Started smelling fresh diesel and found the filter leaking. Weird, but simply removing the filter and putting it back on stopped the leak. My guess is it distored the clear housing and let the threads slip on one side. It didn't come off easy, but went back on very easily. Fortunately, I'd smelled it pretty quickly after the leak started and didn't lose much fuel. If I'd been in a cab, I don't think I'd have noticed until I'd covered the lot with diesel. Still gonna get a new filter base and filter. No apparent cracks, but it's leaked once now. It might now be time to consider a deflector plate under all the filters.

2. Lost both hair-pin keepers on the telescoping linkage pins (again). Gravity's still working, but gotta get some more keepers or replace the original pins with a push button release type. Something tells me this is gonna be a common problem in tall brush.

3. Lost my wallet. Didn't realize it until I went to take a shower after dinner. I normally take it out of my pocket and put it on my nightstand if I'm working outside but couldn't remember having done so yesterday, so that's probably why I didn't notice until I was emptying my pockets in the bathroom. I got that sinking feeling knowing I'd pushed several tons of dirt around and now have a pretty high pile of deadfall debris and stumps from all the scraping and cleaning. I was SICK. Had a quick look with flashlights around the work area, knowing there's no way I'm finding that wallet last night. Turns out, I'd taken a midday nap while it was too hot to do anything outside, and my wallet had come out of my pocket (leg pocket on cargo shorts) in the recliner. You have no idea how relieved I was when the missus said "FOUND IT!" Crisis averted, blood pressure back to normal.

 

[D2Cat]

O-P, you could drill the holes then dress them a bit with a carbide bit in a die grinder, and do the same a bit on the bolts. Then when the bolts are sucked in the hole they will still not turn so they get tight.

I always remove my wallet when working in hay field or digging! Don't like that feeling you had.

 

[Chanceywd]

I did some more clean-up, erosion control, and leveling yesterday. I managed to:

1. Find something that sneaked up over the FEL support and hit my fuel filter. Never saw it, and didn't really think I'd run over anything that would do that. Guess I was wrong. Started smelling fresh diesel and found the filter leaking. Weird, but simply removing the filter and putting it back on stopped the leak. My guess is it distored the clear housing and let the threads slip on one side. It didn't come off easy, but went back on very easily. Fortunately, I'd smelled it pretty quickly after the leak started and didn't lose much fuel. If I'd been in a cab, I don't think I'd have noticed until I'd covered the lot with diesel. Still gonna get a new filter base and filter. No apparent cracks, but it's leaked once now. It might now be time to consider a deflector plate under all the filters.

2. Lost both hair-pin keepers on the telescoping linkage pins (again). Gravity's still working, but gotta get some more keepers or replace the original pins with a push button release type. Something tells me this is gonna be a common problem in tall brush.

3. Lost my wallet. Didn't realize it until I went to take a shower after dinner. I normally take it out of my pocket and put it on my nightstand if I'm working outside but couldn't remember having done so yesterday, so that's probably why I didn't notice until I was emptying my pockets in the bathroom. I got that sinking feeling knowing I'd pushed several tons of dirt around and now have a pretty high pile of deadfall debris and stumps from all the scraping and cleaning. I was SICK. Had a quick look with flashlights around the work area, knowing there's no way I'm finding that wallet last night. Turns out, I'd taken a midday nap while it was too hot to do anything outside, and my wallet had come out of my pocket (leg pocket on cargo shorts) in the recliner. You have no idea how relieved I was when the missus said "FOUND IT!" Crisis averted, blood pressure back to normal.

I lost some of my sense of smell with covid back in jan and it hasn't returned yet. I can smell things cooking and food, coffee, but not gas or diesel. I would have had a real mess if I had the filter leak you did. Can't smell my own or the dogs methane but wife lets me know if she detects the dogs or me!

Bill

 

[NCL4701]

2. Lost both hair-pin keepers on the telescoping linkage pins (again). Gravity's still working, but gotta get some more keepers or replace the original pins with a push button release type. Something tells me this is gonna be a common problem in tall brush.

First half dozen times I used mine with the telescoping sway control I lost at least one of those hairpins, sometimes both. Never had the actual linchpins back out, though. So I stopped using the hairpin keepers about 200 hours ago and still haven’t had a linchpin work it’s way out. Gravity seems to be sufficient. YMMV…

 

[rc51stierhoff]

First half dozen times I used mine with the telescoping sway control I lost at least one of those hairpins, sometimes both. Never had the actual linchpins back out, though. So I stopped using the hairpin keepers about 200 hours ago and still haven’t had a linchpin work it’s way out. Gravity seems to be sufficient. YMMV…

Take a measure of the diameter of the pin and when in hardware stores with nothing better to do look for the pins that have a button and little ball keeper in the end where you push the button up top and pull the pin and let off pin and the ball sticks out and will hold. They are not as cheap as a the hair pins but they are handy and harder to lose. Just a thought.

 

[BigG]

First half dozen times I used mine with the telescoping sway control I lost at least one of those hairpins, sometimes both. Never had the actual linchpins back out, though. So I stopped using the hairpin keepers about 200 hours ago and still haven’t had a linchpin work it’s way out. Gravity seems to be sufficient. YMMV…

Drill the hole out on the pins. Then you can push the hairpins past both humps so that they hang straight down and can swing in the breeze. The weed gnomes can no longer snag the hairpins.

 

[ctfjr]

Take a measure of the diameter of the pin and when in hardware stores with nothing better to do look for the pins that have a button and little ball keeper in the end where you push the button up top and pull the pin and let off pin and the ball sticks out and will hold. They are not as cheap as a the hair pins but they are handy and harder to lose. Just a thought.

Exactly what I ended up doing:

and clipped the end to the lift arm

 

[michigander]

stopped mowing to take a picture.

 

[mcmxi]

Success!

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It looked huge in your truck at the gas station! Bet you never heard that before! Looks a lot smaller from this angle. Very nice though.

 

[Magicman]

The customer's M6800 ready to go to work.

Bringing more logs to the sawmill today.

 

[mcmxi]

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The customer's M6800 ready to go to work.
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Bringing more logs to the sawmill today.

That's really cool. I just looked at your website and it's remarkable what you do. A traveling saw mill ... amazing!

 

[Kennyd4110]

Success!

Nice!
You need some of our hooks on your bucket, would have made it even easier

 

[PoTreeBoy]

I've had an eventful week. Went to the farm Wed with a list to do. Thur am saw a cousin I haven't seen in 30 years out bushhogging some of his sister's inheritance. He showed me his place and I was showing him mine. One of my main trees had a big tree down across it, so that was first task, not on the list. I sawed on it until a hummingbird came by check on me, so I quit and started bushhogging trail. About 6, the Ford's steering cylinder blew out, so that was the second unscheduled task.

Friday, I drove 30 miles to a hydraulic shop. Mr. Mapp overhauled my cylinder for half what the dealer wanted for the kit, which they didn't stock. When I walked in Mapp's, the counter was covered/stacked with carburetors. I found out later, he's a long-time circle track racer and locally known as a carburetor whiz.

Anyway, got the cylinder back on and mowed my sister's pasture.

I was going to take Katy (Kubota) out this morning early to finish clearing the tree fall. Katy decided that she needed a new battery (it looked like crap 3 years ago when I bought it, so no real surprise), so it was off to NAPA we go. I did get the tree cleared and my trails cut, but it was in the hot part of the day. Actually, for this area, it was as nice a day as we get in August, low humidity. A doe snuck up behind me and snorted, scaring the bejeepers out of me. And I heard the hummingbird, but never got more than a glance.

Overall, it's been interesting. As usual, lots of unplanned stuff, but I got some useful work done. I've seen deer (including one smart doe leading her fawn around the field I was cutting), a hummingbird without a blooming plant around, a juvenile praying mantis, and more turkeys than I've seen before at one time, four hens and at least 20 chicks.

BTW, is this ash tree leaves? They're narrower than what I usually see on what I think are ash trees

 

[woodman55]

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The customer's M6800 ready to go to work.
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Bringing more logs to the sawmill today.

That's a mighty fine log hanging on the bucket.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

I've had an eventful week. Went to the farm Wed with a list to do. Thur am saw a cousin I haven't seen in 30 years out bushhogging some of his sister's inheritance. He showed me his place and I was showing him mine. One of my main trees had a big tree down across it, so that was first task, not on the list. I sawed on it until a hummingbird came by check on me, so I quit and started bushhogging trail. About 6, the Ford's steering cylinder blew out, so that was the second unscheduled task.

Friday, I drove 30 miles to a hydraulic shop. Mr. Mapp overhauled my cylinder for half what the dealer wanted for the kit, which they didn't stock. When I walked in Mapp's, the counter was covered/stacked with carburetors. I found out later, he's a long-time circle track racer and locally known as a carburetor whiz.

Anyway, got the cylinder back on and mowed my sister's pasture.

I was going to take Katy (Kubota) out this morning early to finish clearing the tree fall. Katy decided that she needed a new battery (it looked like crap 3 years ago when I bought it, so no real surprise), so it was off to NAPA we go. I did get the tree cleared and my trails cut, but it was in the hot part of the day. Actually, for this area, it was as nice a day as we get in August, low humidity. A doe snuck up behind me and snorted, scaring the bejeepers out of me. And I heard the hummingbird, but never got more than a glance.

Overall, it's been interesting. As usual, lots of unplanned stuff, but I got some useful work done. I've seen deer (including one smart doe leading her fawn around the field I was cutting), a hummingbird without a blooming plant around, a juvenile praying mantis, and more turkeys than I've seen before at one time, four hens and at least 20 chicks.

BTW, is this ash tree leaves? They're narrower than what I usually see on what I think are ash trees
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Good morning…that’s a hell of a week for sure that you shared with us…regarding your question on the tree leaves there, I am not for sure from the pic. I’d recommend you get the free app called ‘seek’ (I believe it is from inaturalist) It will identify just about any plant or animal…it’s free so not out much. It’s a little more difficult to get a good pic/scan on moving animals and or be close enough but for trees and leaves it’s pretty simple. For leaves sometimes you just have to get the light just right or the distance.

 

[mdhughes]

Ran the chipper for 1.4 hours yesterday cleaning up a top that got blown out of a tree the other day in a wind storm. When it gets colder I will buck and split the logs for firewood. At least I got the paths cleared of all the limbs.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Good morning…that’s a hell of a week for sure that you shared with us…regarding your question on the tree leaves there, I am not for sure from the pic. I’d recommend you get the free app called ‘seek’ (I believe it is from inaturalist) It will identify just about any plant or animal…it’s free so not out much. It’s a little more difficult to get a good pic/scan on moving animals and or be close enough but for trees and leaves it’s pretty simple. For leaves sometimes you just have to get the light just right or the distance.

I'll try that. I had downloaded LeafSnap. It worked great on a couple of plants in my sister's house where I had wifi, but out in the woods it didn't work, even though I had a data connection.

 

[Shekkie]

It looked huge in your truck at the gas station! Bet you never heard that before! Looks a lot smaller from this angle. Very nice though.

Ha!

I had to remove the in/out chutes to sling it out of the truck without damaging it or the truck so that’s about 1/2 the height. Should have time to cut the PTO shaft and test it out today.

 

[D2Cat]

The easiest and safest way to unload something like that is to raise it a couple of inches and drive the truck out from under neath it.