What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Trapper Bob]

(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.)

I use diesel fuel & Remedy mixed 3 to 1 with some blue dye for an indicator. Much cheaper then Tordon RTU & very effective. I put a lot of trees down this weekend & only treat the cambium layer. I have a 60 acre pasture that is overgrown with Hedge, Locust, & Cedar trees. However, it is looking a lot better. A couple more weeks & the cows will be happier.

 

[In Utopia]

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.

This is Blue Stem. It grows like a well planted hay except cows won't eat it. It was developed by the King Ranch, but turned out to be a bust since cows have to be starving before the'll eat it. There is also some thing called Little Blue Stem. Looks almost the same except it doesn't grow as tall, and when it goes to seed the seed looks purple in color.
Blue Stem has spread everywhere. At my other place in Pasadena it's in every vacant lot around, and that's 305 miles from my place in Utopia.

 

[fj40dave]

Ran power down to the chicken coop and Kubota Shed.
Finishing off the project compacting the 5/8- (wife wanted to try out the plate compactor! [she's 51% in charge around here ]

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Ran power down to the chicken coop and Kubota Shed.
Finishing off the project compacting the 5/8- (wife wanted to try out the plate compactor! [she's 51% in charge around here ]
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I put several hours on both tractors over the weekend. Split a few trailer loads of wood which need moving to the shed (with the little tractor). The driveway was chock full of pine needles and sticks, so I put the straw rake on the little tractor and drug that around for an hour or so. After that some random piles of pine needles and sticks seemed to materialize out of thin air, so I used the big tractor to move those.
Over the course of the weekend, while I wasn't moving other stuff around, I was taking down the piles of black dirt and spreading it into the yard that has been sand for about 11 years. It'll be nice to have a back yard at some point.

 

[North Texas Rich]

“… cows won't eat it.”

This contrary to what I’ve e been told about the Blue Stem we have here. One of the Blue Stems is listed as a native species in Texas. It is also great for cows.

https://www.farmprogress.com/forage/big-bluestem-low-cost-forage-option

 

[North Texas Rich]

More on nonnative Blue Stem varieties

http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/ERM036-Introduced-Bluestem-Grasses.pdf

KR Blue Stem is from China

 

[fj40dave]

Stuck-Unstuck.

 

[Russell King]

This contrary to what I’ve e been told about the Blue Stem we have here. One of the Blue Stems is listed as a native species in Texas. It is also great for cows.

https://www.farmprogress.com/forage/big-bluestem-low-cost-forage-option

There are old world (non native) bluestem that have low forage value.. KR Bluestem is one of them.

There are native Bluestem with high forage value. Little Bluestem is one of them. Some native Bluestem has low forage value like bushy Bluestem.

Forage value is usually for cattle consumption but sometimes is referred to wildlife.

 

[In Utopia]

More on nonnative Blue Stem varieties

http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/ERM036-Introduced-Bluestem-Grasses.pdf

KR Blue Stem is from China

Wow, thanks for the links, great info. Lots of misinformation given to me by locals.
Cattle around here still don't like it.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Wow, thanks for the links, great info. Lots of misinformation given to me by locals.
Cattle around here still don't like it.

If it's like 4ft tall, too much stems, cattle prefer it at 18" and below. I definitely wouldn't buy any bales of it because of that reason.

Too tall for sure.

 

[mcmxi]

I finished hauling the last of the wood to the splitter yesterday afternoon/evening. I got it all split, stacked and covered. I saved the biggest log for last. I could have rotated the beam and split the log on the ground but decided to wrestle it off the trailer and onto the splitter.

The 16ft dump trailer is full of my neighbor's tree that I cut up this past summer, so in a pinch I could cut and split some more pieces but it's not seasoned. None of this wood was dead standing so I should have split this stuff a year ago or more. Oh well. Hopefully I'm done messing with wood for the rest of the year.

 

[Flintknapper]

I finished hauling the last of the wood to the splitter yesterday afternoon/evening. I got it all split, stacked and covered. I saved the biggest log for last. I could have rotated the beam and split the log on the ground but decided to wrestle it off the trailer and onto the splitter.

The 16ft dump trailer is full of my neighbor's tree that I cut up this past summer, so in a pinch I could cut and split some more pieces but it's not seasoned. None of this wood was dead standing so I should have split this stuff a year ago or more. Oh well. Hopefully I'm done messing with wood for the rest of the year.

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Some pretty good sized 'rounds' there. What are you using for a saw?

 

[mcmxi]

Some pretty good sized 'rounds' there. What are you using for a saw?

I have a couple of Stihl saws that I bought new in late 2011. One is an MS 211 (16" bar) and the other an MS 290 (20" bar). I use the bigger saw way more than the smaller one. When I have a good experience with a product I tend to become brand loyal. When it's time to replace either of these saws I'll probably buy another Stihl, but the way they're going I'll be using them for another 10 years!

 

[KubotaBoy56]

I dug a stump for my neighbor I’m going go back and dig another one today

 

[mdhughes]

I a little problem with a tire last Saturday, so I replaced all four of them and used the tractor to move everything to the trailer. It is sitting on gravel and the floor jack doesn't roll very well on it.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

I dug a stump for my neighbor I’m going go back and dig another one today

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[NCL4701]

It’s time of year to clean the chimney flues that service the Lopi wood stoves at my house and Dad’s old house. Don’t have a personnel cage because I don’t have anyone to run it, but a pallet on the Kubota’s forks did serve as a freight elevator so I didn’t have to tote all the tools, rods, brushes, etc. up the ladder.

 

[DustyRusty]

I a little problem with a tire last Saturday, so I replaced all four of them and used the tractor to move everything to the trailer. It is sitting on gravel and the floor jack doesn't roll very well on it.

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Get a sheet of 1/2" plywood and slide the jack on top of the plywood. It is like having a portable concrete pad to work on.

 

[flyidaho]

Pulled the corner post/railroad tie plus a bunch of steel fence posts on the old property line, now it's all my property so no need for it. Attachments Unlimted grabber (I think...) works great, and with the FEL curled for it's jaws are vertical you can pick up a dime off the sidewalk. Will, a big chunk of firewood for sure, you get the idea, it's a hand

y all around grabber.