What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[McMXi]

that looks like an awesome snow setup for sure !
We also do snow removal for 4-5 months/year (NB, Canada on a high ridgetop) but my toy is much, MUCH smaller.
Certainly could use something like that - very nice !

Thanks! This is my second winter using this setup. I used a BX25D for five winters running a front snow blower and I hated using it on the gravel driveway. Nothing but frustration. I was ok without a cab, although it was miserable if the "cold smoke" hit me in the face which it often did, but I'm never going back to an open station for snow removal, and most definitely not for pulling the flail or rotary cutter around. Basically I'm not going back to an open station!

I ran the MX6000HST for one winter with the blade and blower shown and it was ok. Obviously not as comfortable as a heated cab with decent exterior lights. A lot of people talk about the discomfort that comes with a rear facing snow blower. I get it that for some it's uncomfortable, but there are ways to make make it less painful. I turn my body in the seat so that I'm facing the right side of the tractor and I find that to be just fine. If I ran a snowblower all day I'd buy a front facing model, or a front facing pull behind model, but for my needs this SB1574 is just fine and it does a great job.

There's a Kubota front facing snow blower and sub-frame for L6060/MX6000 tractors on Craigslist. I bought a disc harrow and welding table from the individual selling the blower. He's asking $7k but it's just not worth it to me.

 

[aaluck]

I was up early this morning and figured I'd get a start on snow removal before it got any warmer.

Okay... a dumb question. In seeing photos on here over the years I've often wondered, do you have to drive in reverse to use the snow blower? Seems obvious since its on the back, but also seems very inconvenient to have to try and look backward the entire time your removing snow. Especially 9,000 sqft and 200 yards of drive.

 

[mdhughes]

Okay... a dumb question. In seeing photos on here over the years I've often wondered, do you have to drive in reverse to use the snow blower? Seems obvious since its on the back, but also seems very inconvenient to have to try and look backward the entire time your removing snow. Especially 9,000 sqft and 200 yards of drive.

If the snow blower is on the 3pt, yes you have to backup. I have seen one 3pt mounted blower that you can drive forward.

 

[bmblank]

Okay... a dumb question. In seeing photos on here over the years I've often wondered, do you have to drive in reverse to use the snow blower? Seems obvious since its on the back, but also seems very inconvenient to have to try and look backward the entire time your removing snow. Especially 9,000 sqft and 200 yards of drive.

There are 3pt blowers and then there are pull type 3pt blowers. Pros and cons to each. I like a 3 point blower cause I can still use forks to move firewood. I got a pull type so I don't have to crank my neck for an hour and a half while doing the driveway and quarter mile or so of private road.

 

[dirtydeed]

water service replacement yesterday turned into jackhammering a driveway and all the rest of the festivities well until dark. I didn't get a lot of pics this time, but one features the two "oranges" on the job.

Saved the walkway here...

Hammer, dig. Repeat.

done...cleanup the next day. driveway needs to be pressure washed.

 

[McMXi]

Okay... a dumb question. In seeing photos on here over the years I've often wondered, do you have to drive in reverse to use the snow blower? Seems obvious since its on the back, but also seems very inconvenient to have to try and look backward the entire time your removing snow. Especially 9,000 sqft and 200 yards of drive.

I use the plow on the 200 yard gravel driveway and the snow blower on the asphalt. I can do the asphalt in 15 minutes or less so it's not a big deal to look out the back window. As I said in my earlier post, I turn in the seat so that I'm facing to the right.

I don't like driving over snow and compacting it before trying to remove it so that's one of the things I like about the rear facing snow blower. A front mounted snow blower would be the best solution, but I'm not spending $7k or more on one of those, and in addition, I would need to put the snow blade on the other tractor. As it is, I'm very pleased with the setup I have.

 

[Old_Paint]

Swapped out the bucket and BB for the stump bucket and subsoiler. Dug up a dozen small stumps with the subsoiler. Only had one that made me use the stump bucket. I prefer ripping them out rather than digging them up. Smaller craters to deal with later. Swapped the stump bucket and subsoiler the grapple and BB. Will drop the scarifiers to the lowest detent and use it to drag surface roots into a pile, then grab them with the grapple and pile them on the biopile. It’s getting huge and the little critters are lovin it.
Learned (the hard way) not to leave the grapple fully open when I store it. Had to bleed the pressure off the rod side hose to reconnect it today. Oops! It must not have any air at all in it because less than a teaspoon of oil oozed out when I loosened the JIC Tee. Pretty sure I cycled the valve to prevent this when I took it off last week. I turn on the ignition but don’t start the tractor and then cycle the 3FV a couple times to bleed the lines. I could push the poppet in on the tractor side, so knew what the problem was pretty quick.

 

[edritchey]

I use the plow on the 200 yard gravel driveway and the snow blower on the asphalt. I can do the asphalt in 15 minutes or less so it's not a big deal to look out the back window. As I said in my earlier post, I turn in the seat so that I'm facing to the right.

I don't like driving over snow and compacting it before trying to remove it so that's one of the things I like about the rear facing snow blower. A front mounted snow blower would be the best solution, but I'm not spending $7k or more on one of those, and in addition, I would need to put the snow blade on the other tractor. As it is, I'm very pleased with the setup I have.

I don't look back much I use the mirrors I have the lane marked well with reflective markers and I put a big display wireless camera to help see what's back there but like you my lane is only 1500ft so it don't take long and out at the road I use my front plow to open it up and push everything back. I like the MX a lot better than the skid steer I can see a lot better out of the MX cab.

 

[MountainMeadows]

Swapped out the bucket and BB for the stump bucket and subsoiler. Dug up a dozen small stumps with the subsoiler. Only had one that made me use the stump bucket. I prefer ripping them out rather than digging them up. Smaller craters to deal with later. Swapped the stump bucket and subsoiler the grapple and BB. Will drop the scarifiers to the lowest detent and use it to drag surface roots into a pile, then grab them with the grapple and pile them on the biopile. It’s getting huge and the little critters are lovin it.
Learned (the hard way) not to leave the grapple fully open when I store it. Had to bleed the pressure off the rod side hose to reconnect it today. Oops! It must not have any air at all in it because less than a teaspoon of oil oozed out when I loosened the JIC Tee. Pretty sure I cycled the valve to prevent this when I took it off last week. I turn on the ignition but don’t start the tractor and then cycle the 3FV a couple times to bleed the lines. I could push the poppet in on the tractor side, so knew what the problem was pretty quick.

What brand grapple do you have? When it's in the open position are the cylinders extended or retracted?

 

[Old_Paint]

What brand grapple do you have? When it's in the open position are the cylinders extended or retracted?

Retracted. That gives a little more grip when closing.
It’s made by LS Tractors. There’s a photo of it in this thread somewhere that shows the model number. Fairly light duty, but all I need is something to pick up deadfall, rotted leaf mass, and brush. I don’t plan to use it as a root rake. I do that with the scarifiers on the box blade. I may move a few small logs with it, but nothing of significant size. My LX is traction limited when pushing, and the grapple would probably bend if I get too rough with it. I wanted something for the lifting, and didn’t want to chew up all my loader capacity with the weight of the grapple It does what I need, though.

 

[MountainMeadows]

Retracted. That gives a little more grip when closing.
It’s made by LS Tractors. There’s a photo of it in this thread somewhere that shows the model number. Fairly light duty, but all I need is something to pick up deadfall, rotted leaf mass, and brush. I don’t plan to use it as a root rake. I do that with the scarifiers on the box blade. I may move a few small logs with it, but nothing of significant size. My LX is traction limited when pushing, and the grapple would probably bend if I get too rough with it. I wanted something for the lifting, and didn’t want to chew up all my loader capacity with the weight of the grapple It does what I need, though.

Thanks for the info. I'm curious because I'm new to owning an EA Wicked 55 grapple and after it's last use have it stored in the open position, face down, cylinders retracted, on a pallet just as it was shipped.

Why would storing the grapple open with the cylinders retracted create more pressure in the cylinders then storing it closed with the cylinders extended?

 

[Bmyers]

We took advantage of the warm weather and finished mowing waterways. The picture below is at the for west end of the waterway and it runs over to the tree line. We didn't get it mowed last year, weather never cooperated. So, it was in need of a good mowing. Of course I forgot to take a picture when the whole thing was mowed, but then again nothing exciting about a ditch.

 

[McMXi]

I don't look back much I use the mirrors I have the lane marked well with reflective markers and I put a big display wireless camera to help see what's back there but like you my lane is only 1500ft so it don't take long and out at the road I use my front plow to open it up and push everything back. I like the MX a lot better than the skid steer I can see a lot better out of the MX cab.

I want to add a rear view mirror in the cab of the M. I find myself using the mirror in the MX cab a lot.

 

[Flintknapper]

I want to add a rear view mirror in the cab of the M. I find myself using the mirror in the MX cab a lot.

I use my rear-view a lot for non-critical backing where I just want to be sure nothing is behind me or backing up long distances where I don't want to crane my neck around for that long.

But mostly to let me know when traffic is approaching from behind when mowing road frontage (with the traffic).

 

[JimDeL]

Did the 50 hour service on my BX2380 yesterday. Took about an hour - including several breaks to read the manual. Turned out to be easier than I'd anticipated.

 

[RCW]

Not much. I’ve been set up for winter operations for quite a while, but have summer diesel (with winter additive) in the tractor.

Got winter diesel (I hope) last weekend. Topped off tractor and let it run for a while to mix fuels.

I’ve never gelled, but my neighbor has. Not a fun experience…..

 

[dieselbob69]

Last week before the anticipated lake effect event, got my fel attachments placed on my newly built stone pad, filled up with powerservice treated diesel, swapped over to the R14T tires, and put the 5' Land Pride snow pusher on(have the poly scraper and back drag option on it). We only got just over a foot over 2 days here, but the snow pusher is nice option imo. Made clearing snow way faster than with the bucket. If snow gets too deep I do have a Honda HS1132 snowblower to help out. Still need to get my 3rd function installed...

 

[edritchey]

I want to add a rear view mirror in the cab of the M. I find myself using the mirror in the MX cab a lot.

Get as big a display as you can stand in your cab it helps the skid steer came with a 7" display and it's really small but it does help a lot too.

 

[Jsjac]

We used the tractor to help put up the Christmas lights today.
I know that this is not OSHA approved, but it is much easier that a latter.

 

[McMXi]

We used the tractor to help put up the Christmas lights today.
I know that this is not OSHA approved, but it is much easier that a latter. View attachment 91160

You know the safety police will be along shortly to inform you of all the OSHA regulations you violated!

By the way, that's on my bucket list!