What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

Mowbizz

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Nothing earth shaking but got my battery back in the Z422 (battery was on a trickle all winter and Z was in a shed since Nov ‘22) rode it to the garage and raised it on my MO-jack and got the blades sharpened for the season and scraped under the deck (wasn’t too bad) Ready for summer.
Then I took the snowblower and rear chains off of my BX25D, went around back of the garage where my loader sat all winter and proceeded to put the loader back on…no go as the hydraulic connectors would not seat. Let it rest a couple hours and got 2 connected. Will attempt again after a nice cool night. Should go easy when cold.
 
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flyidaho

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Landing after a aborted breakfast flight to Afton WY, the light was so flat that on short final I had a hard time seeing where the surface was. I pulled off a good landing however, but having got distracted I too late found I had drifted off to the side on my mountain strip, and it slopes off downhill in that direction. An approaching snow squall gust front (I now realize...) was making even full rudder/full power ineffective for preventing the sideways motion. I got stuck, no damage, just stuck in rotten snow, at a bad angle. Long story short: once I rigged about 350' of misc. rope, binders, old crane rigging, to a bridle on the landing gear, the L3301 pulled it up the hill in 30' snatches. Earlier, a rope comalong, also called a pass thru comalong, proved it's worth once again, MUCH better than a regular type, strongly recommended. In fact, all of my equipment performed as hoped for, including a Warn electric handheld winch, it, the tractor of course, and the comalong kicked butt.
 

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Broken/back pitched sewer line repair (sheared off at the foundation) turned into a fiasco after I severed an unused cable.

Start (yuck). Note that only "orange" paint was used to mark the location of utilities near that white spot in the middle of the yard...that comes into play later. gas line crossed our pipe as well. :(

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broken cable. sad thing is I uncovered it in the morning and knew it was there. Then when digging the main trench, I used the bucket to sweep some shale that had landed on top of the cable and popped it. Called 1 call. they came out and said not to worry about it since it wasn't live. This was at 6:30 pm. Next day at 11 am, local cable company came out to make the repair as we were backfilling the trench? WTH???

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Now, I was pretty upset in that 1 call DID NOT MARK THE FREAKING MAIN ELECTRIC LINE BENEATH THE CABLES!!!! M'fer. Thank goodness I did not hit that or it may have been lights out fore me. :mad:

I learned a valuable lesson. I wont even try to undermine cables since apparently, 1 call seems to forget about main electric lines. Did I tell you that I was upset?

Here is a better shot of what we were dealing with. Yes, that is the sewer line that we needed to replace under everything else. That 3 cable twisted line is the main met ed power!

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Back to piping

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Yes, that is the gas line with tracer wire.

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Came back in the evening to haul out excess dirt after putting 3 yards of modified in the ditch. Done

On to the next one.

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S-G-R

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Landing after a aborted breakfast flight to Afton WY, the light was so flat that on short final I had a hard time seeing where the surface was. I pulled off a good landing however, but having got distracted I too late found I had drifted off to the side on my mountain strip, and it slopes off downhill in that direction. An approaching snow squall gust front (I now realize...) was making even full rudder/full power ineffective for preventing the sideways motion. I got stuck, no damage, just stuck in rotten snow, at a bad angle. Long story short: once I rigged about 350' of misc. rope, binders, old crane rigging, to a bridle on the landing gear, the L3301 pulled it up the hill in 30' snatches. Earlier, a rope comalong, also called a pass thru comalong, proved it's worth once again, MUCH better than a regular type, strongly recommended. In fact, all of my equipment performed as hoped for, including a Warn electric handheld winch, it, the tractor of course, and the comalong kicked butt.
Broken/back pitched sewer line repair (sheared off at the foundation) turned into a fiasco after I severed an unused cable.

Start (yuck). Note that only "orange" paint was used to mark the location of utilities near that white spot in the middle of the yard...that comes into play later. gas line crossed our pipe as well. :(

Now, I was pretty upset in that 1 call DID NOT MARK THE FREAKING MAIN ELECTRIC LINE BENEATH THE CABLES!!!! M'fer. Thank goodness I did not hit that or it may have been lights out fore me. :mad:

I learned a valuable lesson. I wont even try to undermine cables since apparently, 1 call seems to forget about main electric lines. Did I tell you that I was upset?

Here is a better shot of what we were dealing with. Yes, that is the sewer line that we needed to replace under everything else. That 3 cable twisted line is the main met ed power!

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Looks like each of you had had good fortune on your side today. Glad things worked out for both of you.
 
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6869704x4

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Apologies for this late reply... Neither the filters themselves nor the boxes they come in show any country of origin. They are original Kubota though: I got them from the dealer, and all filter openings are sealed with plastic foil, something I've never seen on cheap stuff.
Last batch of filters I got from the dealer were a mix of made in China, Indonesia and Mexico. It was printed on the filter itself.
 

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Removed snowblower and subframe, installed FEL. Pretty much cinched it to snow heavily in the next week or so.
 
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Mowed a little patch of grass in the back yard before it started rain, but finished it up since the downpour hadn't arrived yet.
 
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Siesta Sundance

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Started maintenance on the Old/New L305DT. Installed a new 3pt QH, changed filters and engine oil. The hydraulic fluid is less than 200hrs old and has very little color change from new. I will probably change it out later to be on the safer side.


Bought this from the outlaws/N laws.
He was going to give it to me, but he is a control freak. So I declined and said it can sit at thier house. Plus I didn't want him to have open access to my farm or him thinking he has hunting rights etc. .. I made a solid offer with no strings attached, and a couple days later he reached out to me after I said the tractor can stay put at their house.
Trust me, he is a butthole!
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I bought this farm 3 years ago, I didn't inherit nothing. I bought it because I got tired of all the family drama from the previous family homestead farm and ranch(numerous other family elders thar have divided intrest in).

This tractor was my wife's grandfathers tractor, it's been sitting for almost 3 years with no use. And apparently my FNL didn't bother to clean the air filter when he was using at the ranch and prior to it being parked. The oil was very dirty and many years old. Gonna run a cleaner through the radiator and flush and replace the coolant.

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L305DT compared to the Mx5200HST
I love the amount of steel on the older Kubota's. The tire size is only 3in small compared to the MX. The size of front loaders are very comparable in size.
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S-G-R

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The weight tray material on my CA1564 was pretty flimsy so I cut 1/2" plywood for the bottom.

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Added 732 pounds of weight and gave it a test run. Nothing moved but the ground is still too wet. I'll try again in a few days.

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Tore up the pot holes in the drive today. Three hours of seat time and I still suck at the box blade. Did ok tearing it up but leveling the material, not so much. I resorted to back dragging with the FEL and that got it satisfactory. Need to order up rock in the next couple weeks
 

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Tore up the pot holes in the drive today. Three hours of seat time and I still suck at the box blade. Did ok tearing it up but leveling the material, not so much. I resorted to back dragging with the FEL and that got it satisfactory. Need to order up rock in the next couple weeks
It's a fine art to learn.

There is no reason why Kubota can't design/engineer to make that 3pt with a float option, there is no down pressure anyways.
 
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fried1765

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Landing after a aborted breakfast flight to Afton WY, the light was so flat that on short final I had a hard time seeing where the surface was. I pulled off a good landing however, but having got distracted I too late found I had drifted off to the side on my mountain strip, and it slopes off downhill in that direction. An approaching snow squall gust front (I now realize...) was making even full rudder/full power ineffective for preventing the sideways motion. I got stuck, no damage, just stuck in rotten snow, at a bad angle. Long story short: once I rigged about 350' of misc. rope, binders, old crane rigging, to a bridle on the landing gear, the L3301 pulled it up the hill in 30' snatches. Earlier, a rope comalong, also called a pass thru comalong, proved it's worth once again, MUCH better than a regular type, strongly recommended. In fact, all of my equipment performed as hoped for, including a Warn electric handheld winch, it, the tractor of course, and the comalong kicked butt.
Stress on the lndg. gear from pulling with the L3301?
 

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Last batch of filters I got from the dealer were a mix of made in China, Indonesia and Mexico. It was printed on the filter itself.
Nah.....simply can't be....
OEM Kubota filters are all made by Kubota!:ROFLMAO:
 

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A small creature obviously went through seasonal moulting in the yard.

Lost it’s tracks in the driveway.

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This morning I replaced the cheap non-liquid filled pressure gauge on the sprayer with a cheap liquid filled 2-1/2" gauge. :ROFLMAO: The pressure gauge needle is almost stationary when the pump is running.

I also ran a 3/4" return hose from the manifold to the bottom of the tank. I'm chasing a couple of small leaks at various fittings but did do a 2-minute test of one nozzle at 30psi and I'm getting a rate of 1.1 gpm from all seven nozzles.

I'm basically ready for spraying now! I'm spraying 12 acres with a weak Roundup solution tomorrow. My first paid job using a tractor! (y)

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This morning I replaced the cheap non-liquid filled pressure gauge on the sprayer with a cheap liquid filled 2-1/2" gauge. :ROFLMAO: The pressure gauge needle is almost stationary when the pump is running.

I also ran a 3/4" return hose from the manifold to the bottom of the tank. I'm chasing a couple of small leaks at various fittings but did do a 2-minute test of one nozzle at 30psi and I'm getting a rate of 1.1 gpm from all seven nozzles.

I'm basically ready for spraying now!

View attachment 100324 :ROFLMAO:
It must be annoying to have to put in the extra time and dollars to fix something that should of been set up properly from the factory.
 
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Siesta Sundance

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This morning I replaced the cheap non-liquid filled pressure gauge on the sprayer with a cheap liquid filled 2-1/2" gauge. :ROFLMAO: The pressure gauge needle is almost stationary when the pump is running.

I also ran a 3/4" return hose from the manifold to the bottom of the tank. I'm chasing a couple of small leaks at various fittings but did do a 2-minute test of one nozzle at 30psi and I'm getting a rate of 1.1 gpm from all seven nozzles.

I'm basically ready for spraying now! I'm spraying 12 acres with a weak Roundup solution tomorrow. My first paid job using a tractor! (y)

View attachment 100324 :ROFLMAO:
I'm trying to locate that vavle below the gauge.

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Siesta Sundance

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This morning I replaced the cheap non-liquid filled pressure gauge on the sprayer with a cheap liquid filled 2-1/2" gauge. :ROFLMAO: The pressure gauge needle is almost stationary when the pump is running.

I also ran a 3/4" return hose from the manifold to the bottom of the tank. I'm chasing a couple of small leaks at various fittings but did do a 2-minute test of one nozzle at 30psi and I'm getting a rate of 1.1 gpm from all seven nozzles.

I'm basically ready for spraying now! I'm spraying 12 acres with a weak Roundup solution tomorrow. My first paid job using a tractor! (y)

View attachment 100324 :ROFLMAO:
Would you send a closer picture of that label/part number that is on your valve.
Much appreciated.
 
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