What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[River19]

I wanted to solve for bringing my sand/salt mixture up and down my driveway so I grabbed one of the simple carry all frames from TSC today along with some hardware and grabbed some leftover 2x PT wood that I had stacked out back and boom....simple sand bucket transport.

I looked into the fancy pants PTO sanders etc and for all their cost, storage space requirement, single use and finicky nature I felt that wasn't needed as the driveway, while longer than most is only 650'. The first pics are down by my house/garage looking up to the turn and the start of the hill up to the road.......I have buckets staged on the hill and have just walked up and scooped and sanded for the past couple years and that was "fine" but........tractor..... Plus I have to refill those buckets every few weeks depending on the icing conditions.

This past storm with 3" of rain after 21" of snow followed by a drop from 53 degrees to 4 degrees made a bit of a mess of my lower driveway.......

Either way, this thing will be useful. If I want to reconfigure it, just unbolt and adjust.......

Plus I can squeeze it into the Morton even with the travel trailer, the truck, the tractor with the blower.....

 

[DustyRusty]

Today I took off my snowblower (BX2822) and removed my K Connect (bx2816) and installed my loader (LA340) to lift a Kubota Snow Plow (B2775) that I sold on Facebook Marketplace. The fellow that bought the plow helped me to remove the K Connect and install the loader, then remove the loader and reinstall the K Connect and snowblower. It took longer to remove, install, remove, and reinstall everything than it took to lift the snowplow into his truck. The plow must weigh about 300+ pounds! From start to finish, it was about 40-45 minutes. On my old BX22, removing the snowblower hitch and installing the loader would take that much time. I am so happy that I sold that old dinosaur of a tractor and got a modern tractor that is state of art in the sub-compact tractor class.

 

[NCL4701]

Had about half a platform truck of firewood left over from last year and it hasn’t been very cold until now. The single digit temps got us to burning the wood stove and today was the first load from the wood yard this season.

It looks more impressive from this angle.

 

[Mountainhill]

No snow and the driveway needed a little tlc so I back dragged with the bucket to level it out.
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Looked at a new 20' K-Trail trailer. Looks like a new year purchase.
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Lot more snow then we have

 

[nbryan]

Found the snowblower had been pissing trails of hydraulic fluid for most of the last hour's work I did with it the other day. Dug out the #&$!%$&*!!! frozen-in hoses and found an inch long split in the chute rotation motor hose. Right in the middle of its 6 ft long run.

So off to the Kubota shop 90km away to get a new hose made up and a jug or 2 of Premuim UDT fluid. I had about 1 1/2 litres spare UDT top-up fluid left but it dissappeared into the reservior without registaring on the dipstick, though the tractor was operating fine it seemed after losing at least that much UDT fluid. No poor colors or smells from the fluid, clear and slightly yellowish color like new. Though noticeably quieter this morning when needed to move it after the 1 1/2 litres went in.

I think I'll get 2 x 5 litre jugs this time. It doesn't go bad, only gets higher in price, and eventually will be needed at least for the 1200 hour service plus some more jugs, prob next summer.

 

[S-G-R]

Lot more snow then we have

I would enjoy winter a lot more if I never saw a snowflake again.

 

[Old_Paint]

I would enjoy winter a lot more if I never saw a snowflake again.

That normally requires lowering the absolute value of your latitude.

 

[NorthwoodsLife]

Found the snowblower had been pissing trails of hydraulic fluid for most of the last hour's work I did with it the other day. Dug out the #&$!%$&*!!! frozen-in hoses and found an inch long split in the chute rotation motor hose. Right in the middle of its 6 ft long run.

So off to the Kubota shop 90km away to get a new hose made up and a jug or 2 of Premuim UDT fluid. I had about 1 1/2 litres spare UDT top-up fluid left but it dissappeared into the reservior without registaring on the dipstick, though the tractor was operating fine it seemed after losing at least that much UDT fluid. No poor colors or smells from the fluid, clear and slightly yellowish color like new. Though noticeably quieter this morning when needed to move it after the 1 1/2 litres went in.

I think I'll get 2 x 5 litre jugs this time. It doesn't go bad, only gets higher in price, and eventually will be needed at least for the 1200 hour service plus some more jugs, prob next summer.

Split in the hose, wow. I'm no expert but if of wasn't rubbing against something or cut somehow, that's a strange hose break.

 

[nbryan]

Split in the hose, wow. I'm no expert but if of wasn't rubbing against something or cut somehow, that's a strange hose break.

Indeed strange, but I found the place it caught on while removing the blower the other day. As usual, I f-ed it up by being impatient, and very cold conditions aggravated the problem. When these hoses warm up they melt the snow that settles on them and end up a stiff frozen mess to remove from those spiral hose stays. As well as the female quick connectors at the tractor end suffering the same fate - frozen solid full of ice from snow melting while in use. When it's -20C in the wind it takes minutes or less to solidify.

Where I stuff the first set of hoses into, the chute direction hose pair, has a metal clip holding the steel lines there that they end up sitting under and against.


Without them in there the second set ends up sticking out so much the right tire can rub against them at full turn angle. Those 4 hoses have to be snug!

I'm going to bend open the 2 spiral hose guides a bit, and work on taking my time and not yank on stiff frozen hydraulic hoses like that.

Ya I know, get a heated garage. but that's not in the cards right now.

 

[NorthwoodsLife]

I'm waiting for Milwaukee or Makita or similar to come out with a cordless heatgun for such icing issues.

Edit.. never-mind, I see that they have them now.

 

[Snowman7]

More snow removal this morning in 5F weather. There was close to 6" on the ground and we've already had more snow this winter than we had the entire winter last year. It's days like this when the comfort of a cab is really appreciated, particularly when the snow is very light and powdery such that it blows all over the place. A rear windshield wiper is a must have.

Getting started.

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Plowing the lower driveway.

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Upper driveway and parking areas done.

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Short video of the snow blower in action, and clearly my struggle trying to back up the tractor while taking video footage out of the rear window! I really like the sound of the tractor and blower working together.

Looks like you are moving fast.

 

[Snowman7]

Note to the boo-birds: This post is much more a statement about my OCD and sense of aesthetics than it is about safety. If you were to take everything I read / watch / have experienced / have prepared for / and the mental checklists I run through every time I (frequently) embark on something with the potential for harm and turn that in to stickers there wouldn’t be any orange paint left to see. This type of thinking includes recognizing the dual folly of rendering opinions when they weren’t asked for and the choice to insult as a first response when you don’t agree. If stickers are part of your safety routine great, by all means do whatever works for you. Tractor-on folks…

Love it

 

[Mountainhill]

Tried putting on my new chains!! They appear to be to long, overlap by 12”. They came from Walco , Twinway 6. Got my salesman on it. Anyone out there have an L Seriers (R-1 tires) with Walco’s chains?

 

[gssixgun]

Worst day of snow removal in the 10 years I have owned this Kubota

We have had about 4-5 feet since November, that was pretty easy until last week when the temps dipped below zero..
The snow removal was easy just cold..

Yesterday we shifted hard with a Bi-Polar Mother Nature, last Wed was -5°f by my thermometer -13° by the WeatherBug on my phone
Yesterday we went to 40-42°f depending on who you believe, and rain..

This melted the snow pack on the road, I spent 6 hours working first with my Back Blade then with the SnowBlower to get it cleared off.

The Tractor did her work admirably, what truly was amazing was watching the Farm King Blower throw slushy watery "Snow" piles off the road.
Maybe because it is a 60" blower on a tractor that is rated to take a 72" but this blower has never let me down, and I abuse it..

 

[Flintknapper]

Worst day of snow removal in the 10 years I have owned this Kubota

We have had about 4-5 feet since November, that was pretty easy until last week when the temps dipped below zero..
The snow removal was easy just cold..

Yesterday we shifted hard with a Bi-Polar Mother Nature, last Wed was -5°f by my thermometer -13° by the WeatherBug on my phone
Yesterday we went to 40-42°f depending on who you believe, and rain..

This melted the snow pack on the road, I spent 6 hours working first with my Back Blade then with the SnowBlower to get it cleared off.

The Tractor did her work admirably, what truly was amazing was watching the Farm King Blower throw slushy watery "Snow" piles off the road.
Maybe because it is a 60" blower on a tractor that is rated to take a 72" but this blower has never let me down, and I abuse it..

I have great respect for all who live in the Snow Belt and battle the winter weather. It can't be easy.

 

[mdhughes]

Monday I blocked up some logs and split them. Used the grapple again to move the logs from my banking area to where I split and stack my firewood. This is one of the longer logs I cut up.

 

[je1279]

I have great respect for all who live in the Snow Belt and battle the winter weather. It can't be easy.

Owning a tractor makes it significantly easier (and more enjoyable) than managing without one. If you do not have a cab though, it still sucks on the negative and single digit days where the wind is whipping.

 

[RCW]

Not much. Just ran it for a while after topping off the fuel tank.

I had some summer diesel in the tractor, and have since filled cans with winter variety. All has been treated with winter additive and biocide, but conscious of diluting that summer diesel as much as possible.

 

[beelzebubba]

Started clearing a path in the snow around the house to the bulkhead entrance to the basement. Sump pump installation coming up and they're going to need to get all that jack-hammered concrete out to a trailer or dumpster.

 

[fried1765]

Note to the boo-birds: This post is much more a statement about my OCD and sense of aesthetics than it is about safety. If you were to take everything I read / watch / have experienced / have prepared for / and the mental checklists I run through every time I (frequently) embark on something with the potential for harm and turn that in to stickers there wouldn’t be any orange paint left to see. This type of thinking includes recognizing the dual folly of rendering opinions when they weren’t asked for and the choice to insult as a first response when you don’t agree. If stickers are part of your safety routine great, by all means do whatever works for you. Tractor-on folks…

I have what is likely to be perceived as a MUCH more serious problem !'
I removed my ROPS !