What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[fj40dave]

Same customer as the previous what did I do with my Kubota post...
This project was to create a parking area for the customer so he can park up to 4 vehicles or his motor home on a level surface.

 

[S-G-R]

Spreading lime

 

[S-G-R]

Same customer as the previous what did I do with my Kubota post...
This project was to create a parking area for the customer so he can park up to 4 vehicles or his motor home on a level surface.

Nice, clean job!

 

[mdhughes]

Used the Homestead grapple to unload logs from my trailer. Man does a grapple make this a lot easier. I used to have to put a chain around the logs, pull them off the trailer and then be able to pick them up with the pallet forks. With the grapple, just reach over the side of the trailer and pick them up.

 

[fj40dave]

Nice, clean job!

Thank You Sir!

 

[S-G-R]

Using the CA1564 for the first time. 264lbs of weight in the tray and getting 2" cores.

 

[D2Cat]

Used the Homestead grapple to unload logs from my trailer. Man does a grapple make this a lot easier. I used to have to put a chain around the logs, pull them off the trailer and then be able to pick them up with the pallet forks. With the grapple, just reach over the side of the trailer and pick them up.

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MD, you know you should not be giving any comments or evidence of the effectiveness of a grapple. You will surely offend those who think pallet forks are the answer to all brush/tree moving needs!

 

[dirtydeed]

Prepping for my driveway extension. I had to transplant 2 trees that would just be in the way.

Norway spruce needed to be moved 4-5 feet to the right of its current position.

Orange paint is where my dog fence is located. If anyone needs to find theirs, you can use an AM radio and headset to locate the wire. It works quite well. I've used the same set up to locate underground electric service as well. It works in a pinch as long as the line isn't too deep.

Serbian Spruce re-installed

 

[johnjk]

Mowed with the 1700 and brought up a couple buckets of firewood with the 3200. Went out later and cut some new trails in the woods. Forgot the phone so no pictures.

 

[Trapper Bob]

Now you see the trees,

& now you don’t. Making room for more cows.

 

[articcs22]

Prepping for my driveway extension. I had to transplant 2 trees that would just be in the way.

Norway spruce needed to be moved 4-5 feet to the right of its current position.

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Orange paint is where my dog fence is located. If anyone needs to find theirs, you can use an AM radio and headset to locate the wire. It works quite well. I've used the same set up to locate underground electric service as well. It works in a pinch as long as the line isn't too deep.

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Serbian Spruce re-installed

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How do you use AM radio to trace the wire?

 

[GeoHorn]

Neighbors cows got loose onto my runway so I herded them into some old cattle pens on my place. But the water-line to the trough there is blocked for some reason…so I transported water to them using the FEL and a 2x2x6 foot tank (about 150 gals). They drank it all within 4 minutes… so I did it again.
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[Bri-Guy-GA]

Got to experience my first flat tire. Found an old rusty nail sticking out of the front tire. Took it to Kubota this morning and they fixed it in 15 minutes. Didn't have patches in stock so filled it with leak seal and shes good as new. Will look into foam filling the fronts this winter.

 

[dirtydeed]

How do you use AM radio to trace the wire?

Here's what I use.

In a nutshell, I tune the radio to somewhere around 6.0 KHZ and pass it over the wire in a known location (I know exactly where the wire is where it crosses my driveway). Once I get the frequency correct (loud static sound as the radio gets close to the wire, then there is a null, no static when the radio is directly over the wire). Passing the radio over the wire back and forth will produce loud static, null, then loud static. The location where the "null" is observed is where the wire is.

Here's a youtube video (there are many more) where they are using a locator, but its the same idea

 

[dirtydeed]

No pics from yesterday cutting a maple that was in the way of the driveway extension. I made a real bonehead move in felling the tree with winds gusting. I had purposely parked the tractor behind some trees in the opposite direction of where I wanted the tree to land. Ok, all good there. However, after I cut the notch and made fairly deep back cut the tree was starting to go. At that second, a strong gust of wind blew the top of tree and it sat back entirely on the back cut! It was ready to break and I thought the tractor would be done for.

The wind gust stopped which opened the back cut and I pushed a wedge into it by hand. The momentum of the tree springing back when the wind died was enough to break the holding wood and the tree dropped right where I wanted it to go. Yeesh.

I got extremely lucky and learned a valuable lesson. Pick a better day with calm winds when monkeying around with trees.

 

[aaluck]

My neighbor's husband died unexpectedly a few weeks ago. She asked me to fix her non-functioning gate to feel safer. The post is about 5-6 inches from plumb. Anyone with tips tricks on how to get it straight please go to "projects" and help me out.

 

[D2Cat]

I can't tell much by your picture, but I'm guessing the black post is what the gate was hung off of and it's leaning towards the gate on the ground?

You could remove the post and reset it, and set it deeper with more concrete. You could dig down on the side you need to push the post towards to get it straight, then push it back with your loader. Then fill and tamp the void where the post was.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Little bit of clean up after Ian. The ground is pretty darn soft so I stuck to the front yard which drains pretty good. Didn't lose any live trees but a lot of dead standing wood came down.

 

[DustyRusty]

Dragged a Cadillac parts car into the woods with my BX23S. Pulled it uphill about 20 yards and then dropped it behind some pine trees to keep the wife happy.

 

[NCL4701]

Minor storm cleanup today. Had the generator on the back and pulled it off because we didn’t need it and I don’t much like tooling around the woods grappling stuff with a generator hanging off the back for no good reason. Just moving brush and one rotten log so no actual need for counterweight. I never really work it without something on the back so, even though it worked fine and all four wheels maintained continuous ground contact, it felt weird. Felt a little front heavy and Donald Duckish; loader covered the front but it’s rear was hanging out there totally uncovered. When it gets cold this winter we’ll feed this bus sized brush pile to the chipper.

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