What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Flintknapper]

Not much. Just added a fused 12v, weatherproof outlet. Can charge my phone from it if needed or run a spotlight, fan, other 12v plug in device. Probably won't see much use but I had it laying around my shop.

27 year old L2350DT didn't come with many amenities.

 

[S-G-R]

Time to clean up the leaves.
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That's a serious looking piece of equipment.

 

[mdhughes]

Did a little driveway work after the 1.75" of rain the other day.

Used the grapple to clean up some old wood so I could use the area for firewood stacking.

Made fast work of it, been wanting to clean this area up for a couple of years, but didn't really want to do it by hand. Need to get the rest of the wood off the trailer, had one of the tire come apart about 3 miles from home. Had to drive 10 MPH so the loose tread won't beat the fender to death. What's in the picture is about 1/3 of what was on the trailer.

 

[Trustable]

Used the LX3310 and HLA root rake grapple. Started with this

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And ended with this

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Easily my favorite attachment for the tractor. I left the crap on the other side of the property line back here but there is a bit of deadwood that I'll cut out. A large family corporation owns the land and I keep the line clean and mow the driveway so they don't seem to care what I do.

Do you know if that was the light duty one or do you happen to have a model number? Looking to add a 3rd function kit from summit this winter and really looking to get a grapple as my property is heavily wooded.

 

[S-G-R]

Do you know if that was the light duty one or do you happen to have a model number? Looking to add a 3rd function kit from summit this winter and really looking to get a grapple as my property is heavily wooded.

It is the light duty version but it isn't lighty built. HLA RRGLD60 Is the model number.

 

[North Texas Rich]

What type of "grass" was that?
Looks good. Everything I mow is KR bluestem and it always leaves stubble growth that makes it look like I didn't overlap. Shredder is set up correctly. Best I can guess is this is left when the blades blow it down so it doesn't get cut. I had to run over and re-cut that since the landowner is really picky.
Don't know if you can see it, since photo doesn't really show it.
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I was told by a local farmer is was “a lot of Blue Stem”. It was tall when I mowed it and yes in some places I did have to go over the tire tracks but the mower did a good job when the grass went under the cutter. I was no going very fast. That may have had something to do with it.

 

[North Texas Rich]

What type of "grass" was that?
Looks good. Everything I mow is KR bluestem and it always leaves stubble growth that makes it look like I didn't overlap. Shredder is set up correctly. Best I can guess is this is left when the blades blow it down so it doesn't get cut. I had to run over and re-cut that since the landowner is really picky.
Don't know if you can see it, since photo doesn't really show it.
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We may not have KR Blue Stem. I didn't see it growing in clumps like KR does where it was the only grass present.

 

[ctfjr]

Just sold my Army surplus diesel generator. Only 10kw but weighs over 1300lbs. I could only lift it by curling the forks. What a load on the front end!
With the buyer manually lifting while I raised the fel we were able to get it high enough for him to back his trailer under it.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Used the LX3310 and HLA root rake grapple. Started with this

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And ended with this

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Easily my favorite attachment for the tractor. I left the crap on the other side of the property line back here but there is a bit of deadwood that I'll cut out. A large family corporation owns the land and I keep the line clean and mow the driveway so they don't seem to care what I do.

Consider welding some plate on the back of that grapple to provide your tractor some more protection from wood stabs pushing through. The front pieces on the tractor are not cheap, lesson learned. And when I was using grapple on the CTL, the wood stabs felt like they were trying to pierce me in the cab.

Here is mine now with welded plate.

 

[S-G-R]

Consider welding some plate on the back of that grapple to provide your tractor some more protection from wood stabs pushing through. The front pieces on the tractor are not cheap, lesson learned. And when I was using grapple on the CTL, the wood stabs felt like they were trying to pierce me in the cab.
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Here is mine now with welded plate.
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Nice! Nothing is going through that.

 

[johnjk]

Power washed the B1700, checked and topped off fluids where needed, lubed and parked in the back for winter. I either need to develop welding skills or find a welder to strengthen up the deck

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Nice! Nothing is going through that.

I don't think so, it was some scrap pieces of 3/8" thick plate!

 

[Tenalach Farms]

Consider welding some plate on the back of that grapple to provide your tractor some more protection from wood stabs pushing through. The front pieces on the tractor are not cheap, lesson learned. And when I was using grapple on the CTL, the wood stabs felt like they were trying to pierce me in the cab.
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Here is mine now with welded plate.
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Saw an example where someone had welded expanded metal inside their grapple, making it effective for picking up smaller debris, still allowing dirt or water to pass through and preventing the vast majority of rear penetrations. I believe it was daveknowshow on YouTube.

 

[Tenalach Farms]

Took the lid off the new to me L3010 and found the line from the coolant overflow was disconnected. Cleaned who knows how many years of crud from between the bucket and the pins. Cleaned more junk from behind the dash as I tried to figure out why the throttle would not move. The linkage was good at the bottom, but between the lever and that pivot that pushes into the engine, it was just stuck. Applied more force than I wanted to and the lever moved. Lubricated the daylights out of it. Hoping it will loosen up and move in a more reasonable manner. Found the headlights were disconnected and have been for who knows how long. Long enough I could not readily push the connectors back together. Ned to get coolant into the radiator before I run it again!

 

[GeoHorn]

Very interesting DD. I am an old man, and yes I miss many dogs. And I presently have two elderly dogs. I no longer tell them quiet when they are excited and bark for supper or their twice daily walks through our property. I so wish I could hear some of my past dogs once again. ……

It is so horrible to think about.


It is so horrible to think about.
Our Lab boy (pure white) died just 5 days short of his 11th B-Day.
Wife did not want another one (I did), because she did not want to go through the horrible loss again.
(She is 76, I am 81)
I finally prevailed, and our Sadie is now three.
We are two old fogies, and we absolutely love our sweet Sadie (avatar) every minute of every day!

Just in-case one of us Dog-Lovers missed it, here is Ben Hur Lampmans poem about “Where to Bury a Dog”

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There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.

For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman

 

[Trapper Bob]

Had my wife picking up & stacking my cut trees this weekend. She kept me hopping (trying to stay out of her way). Used 6 qts of stump juice to prevent regrowth.

 

[McMXi]

More firewood cutting, hauling and splitting this weekend. I'm done with the five trees that came down in windstorms over the past couple of years. I'm not sure what I'll do with the five root balls that are out of the ground. Maybe drag them to one pile and hope that some critters decide to move in.

The 10'x5' aluminum trailer was full of maple that I split earlier in the year so I used the M to haul that up to the house and unload the wood onto pallets. Seemed like the perfect time to fill the trailer up with household trash, old tires, car batteries and engine oil in preparation for a trip to the local landfill.

 

[Flintknapper]

More firewood cutting, hauling and splitting this weekend. I'm done with the five trees that came down in windstorms over the past couple of years. I'm not sure what I'll do with the five root balls that are out of the ground. Maybe drag them to one pile and hope that some critters decide to move in.

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A lot of work there.

Very nice equipment!

 

[D2Cat]

Had my wife picking up & stacking my cut trees this weekend. She kept me hopping (trying to stay out of her way). Used 6 qts of stump juice to prevent regrowth. View attachment 89716

Nice work, but 6 quarts? Get ready to use (RTU) tordon at your local farm store and just spray the outer couple of inches on large trees. The purple color will tell you where you have coverage, and spray them immediately after cutting off.

 

[McMXi]

A lot of work there.

Very nice equipment!

Thanks! It's hard work as anyone who cuts and splits their own firewood knows, but it'd be a lot harder without the equipment I have.