What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[johnjk]

If you have forks, take one off, set the remaining one near the center of the frame and plow it out a couple inches per pass with the fork angled just slightly down past level. May have to use a sharp shooter spade or a grubbing hoe/mattock to scoop some of the loose dirt out of the resulting ditch which is pretty easy. Not ideal, but works well on our brick hard clay for an occasional narrow trench.

Limited on my B3200. Pin on bucket. Hope to convert to SSQA but that is waiting till the barn is finished

 

[ken erickson]

Spent 4 hours yesterday, started out by box blading my drive into the land. Then was able to get a few hours starting my pond dig. This one is going to be a long project with the L2501 due to the size(larger pond, small tractor). This pond is large enough that a small dozer would make short work of it but I enjoy the tractor seat time and the satisfaction of doing it myself.

I was happy to find a decent amount of clay present. My soil typically is loamy sand with very little clay content. I had to bring in sodium bentonite to seal my first and small wildlife pond and will have to do something similar with this one. I really like the location of this pond from a landscape perspective.

 

[aaluck]

Finished the drive. Well.... at least that part. Going to try and do all before I die thanks to my OCD.

 

[Old_Paint]

Finally got my Piranha tooth bar delivered on Friday and installed today. Put it to work clearing a 1/4 acre at the back of my home property that has been neglected for years. Very thick brush with lots of heavy stickers and several young trees 1-3" diameter and a few upwards of 5" diameter. Plan to scrape it all out with the piranha in sections and working great so far on the first section. Got about a tractor's length in on that first pass, approaching head-on each time. Uprooting those larger trees takes some bucket skills, and I'm starting to get the hang of that. Very impressed with the piranha.

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You’ll love the Piranha. It made a huge difference on my LX2610SU.

 

[Land Grader]

Installed the Reflectix liner while I had the roof off.

Why did you do the reflectix liner? Insulation? Any other benefits?
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[pokey1416]

The consensus is it cuts down on radiant heat transfer into the cab, helps AC in summer.

 

[Flintknapper]

Rebuilt (seals) both lift cylinders on my LB400 front loader.

One had started leaking pretty badly. No wonder since the main seal crumbled when I removed it.
Wiper as well.

The other cylinder was in better shape but might as well do them both at the same time. Will do the bucket curl cylinders later when I have time. I have the seal kits...but they aren't leaking (yet).

Have no idea why this pic posted upside down.....?

 

[johnjk]

Used the B1700 and the quick hitch to pull the old satellite dish pole and reuse it for my Starlink dish. Hydraulics make easy work. Now I just need a power PHD or pile driver to put it in place. Good thing my boy is home from school this weekend. I do believe I will be watching him work later. This time I’ll try that two part foam for setting the pole

 

[Mlarv]

Had the grandson loading the Sidekick. This is the first time for him running a loader. First scoop he had half a bucket of clay and sand. The second bucket was around a shovel full. He will learn as he practices.

 

[DustyRusty]

Rebuilt (seals) both lift cylinders on my LB400 front loader.

One had started leaking pretty badly. No wonder since the main seal crumbled when I removed it.
Wiper as well.

The other cylinder was in better shape but might as well do them both at the same time. Will do the bucket curl cylinders later when I have time. I have the seal kits...but they aren't leaking (yet).

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Have no idea why this pic posted upside down.....?

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How did you remove the gland nut? Spanner wrench of Monkey/Pipe wrench?

 

[Biker1mike]

Only mowed the hill and back 'play' field. BUT , like diving or gymnastics it is the difficulty level that required the Kubota 4wd and traction.

 

[Flintknapper]

How did you remove the gland nut? Spanner wrench of Monkey/Pipe wrench?

There are two configurations possible. One type has the two holes (for a spanner wrench) as in the pic below:

The other will have two holes 180° apart about the circumference of the gland boss and utilizes an adjustable 'Pin Spanner' to loosen the gland:

You can drill holes in the circumference of the gland boss (keeping them shallow) if want to use a pin type wrench rather than a face spanner. Or skip either method and just use a pipe wrench. The glands are not on the cylinder very tightly.

 

[mdhughes]

Installed a Summit 3rd function kit on my L3901DT. I don't have the wiring done, still thinking about how I want to connect it. Would like to have it on a switched power line, but I don't want to use a vampire tap. Anyone that has installed one of these kit have any insight on where to connect it?

 

[Jsjac]

I worked on cutting the tree line back near the house with our new Woodmax chipper.

My body says I am not thirty anymore

 

[lerxstland]

Moved some wood down to be split... was a bit crazy going down hill but I made it.

 

[johnjk]

Mover the 1700 out of the way to set the satellite post. Went down 3’ and used Sika Post Fix from Home Depot. 15 seconds to mix and 3-5 min to fully set. They claim the same strength as 2-50# bags of concrete. I’ll be building a raised bed around the pole to cut down on maintenance

 

[The Evil Twin]

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Installed a Summit 3rd function kit on my L3901DT. I don't have the wiring done, still thinking about how I want to connect it. Would like to have it on a switched power line, but I don't want to use a vampire tap. Anyone that has installed one of these kit have any insight on where to connect it?

I can't speak to your model specifically, but I ran it through a water tight automotive relay to the battery. The relay coil is picked by the work light circuit. Even when I add lights, they will be LED so the total current draw will be way under the circuit capacity.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Yesterday, a neighbor and I popped stumps along his property and my driveway. He plucked them and set them in my bucket. I took them to the burn pit while he pulled the next one. Pretty efficient process.

 

[Fladogman]

After much thought on it I finally did it, I built a linkage to the rear of my tractor to operate the rear remote from the back of the tractor. Its in the test phase for a bit before I clean it up and paint it.

 

[GeoHorn]

$16.07 / ton
delivery was $109.12

and then I see they added a $47 fuel surcharge. they never mentioned that on the phone It's just a bs way to make more $$$. I'm abt 15 miles from the plant (Meriden). 30 miles roundtrip, one empty. If the damn truck gets an average of 5mpg then they burn 6 gallons of diesel. At $5.00 / gal that's $30.00, total. Assuming they were paying $3.00 / gal before it got crazy they are charging an additional $35.00 over their actual increase.

When I wanted some equipment delivered from San Antonio I walked into the hauling service office and asked the charges and they quoted me $640. When the equipment was delivered a few days later the driver off-loaded it and then filled-out the delivery invoice for $640 plus $77 “fuel surcharge”…. which I promptly told him he could remove that charge because it wasn’t what I was quoted and I wasn’t going to pay it.
He scratched it off…and I wrote a ck for the $640 as quoted.

When my propane delivery invoices arrive my wife pays the bill and files away the invoices. One day I noticed that I was being charged “fuel surcharge” and “hazardous mat’l fee”. They amounted to $24 and $11 each…totally $35. I checked the files and see they had been doing that for the past Year! (I have been doing business with this company for 30 years and about three years ago it came under new ownership.)
I called the office, told them I was a 30+ year customer of monthly-service calls and had never been charged those fees and never agreed to them and wanted the ENTIRE YEARS SURCHARGES REFUNDED.
They did.
The following month the fees/surcharges appeared again on my invoice….so I called their competitor …who charges 5-cents more per gallon ….but laughed when I asked about “fuel surcharges and hazardous mat’ls fees”.
”NO!…. we don’t play those silly games.”

I switched propane dealers. That was 3 years ago and every few months I get a post card from the original dealer inviting me to “Come Try” their full service “with no delivery fees”.

I posted this entire explanation in our local paper classifieds. and I NAMED NAMES! Fugg ‘em!

(ps: the original dealer with whom I did business for 30+ years was Bill Smith Butane (no problems) who was bought out by Pinnacle (the greedy). I now get my propane from a small Mom&Pop outfit known as “4-T”.