Bill, i`m not sure where you are in NY, but its going down to 22 degrees tonight, i don`t think it will freeze with all the snow you got there. I wish it WOULD freeze, as that would slow the drifting down, too.
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Well, that’s one way to keep out unwanted visitors. For any with 2WD and many with 4WD with street tires that looks like flypaper for vehicles.
I'm in cortland county up on a hill so we have been getting some wind today. I have the TV antenna on about a 30' ft tower and if it blows a lot it must ratchet the rotor so signals get bad. I have to do do an "initialize" which takes it back to start and the presets work again. Nights like this I might have to do it again during the evening depending on what wife is watching. No cable on my spot on the road and never felt the need for a dish. Over the air tv or OTT for me!
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We’re on vacation this week so haven’t seen the L in a few days but we’re on a second close to home trip with our new camper to fine tune a few procedures and processes. Close enough to home it was practical to visit a nearby Kubota dealer and make a purchase, so that’s what we spent much of the day doing.
We were looking for a lawn mower but something better quality than the various color MTD’s at the big box stores. We have a 15 year old Cub zero turn which looks like crap and has about 1000 hours on it, but runs fine. Wife drives it but HATES zero turns so she’s wanted another mid mount mower on a conventional tractor for a few years. Our adult son and his girlfriend recently moved to one of the other houses on the property and he loves the Cub zero turn so we gave that to them.
Test drove a BX1880, GR2120, and a T2290. Neither of us had ever driven any of those models. Had months of discussion with the wife about what she really wanted and what uses she had for it where a small machine would fit better than the L4701. At the end of all that, what she really, really wanted was a nice lawn tractor type lawn mower.
The GR was the only one I didn’t much care for. The only ones the dealer had were diesels so they were nice and expensive. Only a couple grand less than the BX (without loader). I didn’t like treadle layout or responsiveness. A bit jerky compared to my L. Wife couldn’t quite figure out a comfortable way to use it with her relatively small foot.
The BX felt like driving a tractor. A very small tractor, but a tractor. The treadle is different than the GR and different than our L but it was quite intuitive and silky smooth. Very nice machine.
The T came across as designed similar to lower cost machines, all belt drive, no PTO, no 4WD, Kawasaki gas engine… but done right with the quality I expect in a Kubota product.
One thing we like about both the GR and T was the reverse cut out override has to be pushed once per session to allow mowing in reverse (not every time you back up). That’s important on our property.
The BX is a sweet little machine but too much for what we need to compliment the L we already have. The GR just isn’t it for us. So this is being delivered Thursday when we get back home. Will post a photo or two when it shows up.
Only problem spending so much time at the dealership with the wife. Now, she wants one of these and I’m having a hard time figuring out why not other than she already has a two seater Mule.
We were looking for a lawn mower but something better quality than the various color MTD’s at the big box stores. We have a 15 year old Cub zero turn which looks like crap and has about 1000 hours on it, but runs fine. Wife drives it but HATES zero turns so she’s wanted another mid mount mower on a conventional tractor for a few years. Our adult son and his girlfriend recently moved to one of the other houses on the property and he loves the Cub zero turn so we gave that to them.
Test drove a BX1880, GR2120, and a T2290. Neither of us had ever driven any of those models. Had months of discussion with the wife about what she really wanted and what uses she had for it where a small machine would fit better than the L4701. At the end of all that, what she really, really wanted was a nice lawn tractor type lawn mower.
The GR was the only one I didn’t much care for. The only ones the dealer had were diesels so they were nice and expensive. Only a couple grand less than the BX (without loader). I didn’t like treadle layout or responsiveness. A bit jerky compared to my L. Wife couldn’t quite figure out a comfortable way to use it with her relatively small foot.
The BX felt like driving a tractor. A very small tractor, but a tractor. The treadle is different than the GR and different than our L but it was quite intuitive and silky smooth. Very nice machine.
The T came across as designed similar to lower cost machines, all belt drive, no PTO, no 4WD, Kawasaki gas engine… but done right with the quality I expect in a Kubota product.
One thing we like about both the GR and T was the reverse cut out override has to be pushed once per session to allow mowing in reverse (not every time you back up). That’s important on our property.
The BX is a sweet little machine but too much for what we need to compliment the L we already have. The GR just isn’t it for us. So this is being delivered Thursday when we get back home. Will post a photo or two when it shows up.
Only problem spending so much time at the dealership with the wife. Now, she wants one of these and I’m having a hard time figuring out why not other than she already has a two seater Mule.
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We got about 8" of wet snow with soft gravel under it. Due to get cold with dry snow tonight and tomorrow. So I did a rough job getting the wet stuff off w/o digging the gravel hoping it might freeze up a little before we get the rest.
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Yea we've been doing this for quite a few years, so were well accustomed to spring breakup season!
I will be so happy if we can finally get some rock put down this year.
We cleared the driveway twice yesterday.
We got around 20" of snow.
The driveway is not frozen so I made a mess.
Keep digging in to the gravel and putting it on the lawn for safe storage.
The snow was very heavy and wet. Sometimes the snowblower acted like a plow and pushed the pile along. Had to speed up a bit to get it to dig in.
We got around 20" of snow.
The driveway is not frozen so I made a mess.
Keep digging in to the gravel and putting it on the lawn for safe storage.
The snow was very heavy and wet. Sometimes the snowblower acted like a plow and pushed the pile along. Had to speed up a bit to get it to dig in.
Same here but I stop between my paved driveway and recycled asphalt driveway and lower my skids so I don’t scrape the loose stuff.
Biker1mike
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20 inches. Doing the wash, rinse, repeat with the plow. Third plow in a hour or so when the sun rises. Got up at 4 AM to feed the generator. No estimate from power company when they will get to this area.
Moved tractor from shed to driveway the other day. Good thing as when I went to plow back to the shed the heavy snow and mud had the tires spinning and making a mess.
I have snowblowers and plows on both the tractors I have here at my house and so far this year I haven't had to get either of them out to plow snow. I don't want to jinx myself but since it's the middle of March it looks like we might have tweaked by this year without any snow to deal with.
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You WIN !
But, man, would I have loved to see that when I was just a lad with my dirt bike. Rooster tails and big slides right up to the point where the owner would find us.
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Oh heck yea, But I do that in the truck when I have to get out! Just as much fun!
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Yep - - I like your neck of the woods. Finger Lakes is a nice area.
Bill A/K/A Chanceywd is between us, as he mentioned. I got about the same snow yesterday that he did.
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Cleaned up from the storm with the rear blade. We only got around 6 inches of wet snow. Parts of the driveway were clear others not so much. All considered we got lucky on this one. Lights flickered a few times but we never lost power.
I am partial to these "push to release" pins because they don't come loose unless you want them to by pushing the center pin. I know that they are available from Zoro and other sources.
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Finally had the air ride seat installed and picked up the rear blade for light ditching, driveway stone work and snow removal. I have the camo seat cover for the factory suspension seat - I’ll give it to anyone that can use it.
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Push a bit of snow from another "Storm of the century" that didn't amount to much of anything. No frost so I had to skim the driveway so all of my gravel didn't end up on my lawn.
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RBT3584. Oh how I wish I had more remotes installed when I bought the tractor.