What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[NCL4701]

Continued to work on a trail from my one driveway where my house is to another driveway that used to be (I think Based on the sketchy electric hookup when I moved) a camper parking area a long time ago well before I moved in or the house even being here. Cut down 4-5 trees a month ago and now pushed them out of the way with a bucket. I also tried to dig out a rotting Stump that’s right in the middle of the trail, but after 10 minutes I was already a foot deep on one side and it wasn’t moving, so I went around it for now.

For a tractor your size if you have numerous stumps or routine need for stump removal you might consider an economical stump grinder such as a a WC46. If it’s a one off project, renting a CTL with stump bucket or a mini-ex may be cheaper. Digging out a stump with a loader on a CUT isn’t always impossible, but sometimes is, and is usually asking a lot of a relatively small utility tractor.

 

[Walker111]

Finally got around to playing with a G3200 and G4200 I had laying around. The 4200 HST I bought years ago for the HST. Ended up swapping the HST into my G6200 because the original was having some issues. Everything else from that 4200 sat on the side of my shed for a few years untouched.

The 3200 I recently picked up for 100 bucks. Missing the cylinder head but everything else was there. It was used at a school to cut grass for its life. I’ve been looking for a manual trans G since buying my 5200 Over 10 years ago.

The original plan was to swap the manual into the 6200. Years ago, in preparation for that, I got my 6200 frame all ready for it…clutch pedal and all. Fast forward to now, I don’t think that what I want.

Current plan/project is taking the motor out of the 4200, and mating it to the manual of the 3200.

Pulled the engine the other day…

Had to swap crank pulleys and rubber insulators in order to make the driveshaft work. Engine is in and mated…

She cranks over nicely, had to order a fuel pump, so hopefully in the next few days I can get her up and running.

 

[DaveFromMi]

I borrowed a home made 3 point ripper and dug a 250' trench for an underground electric fence. The underground fence connects two separate gardens electric fences. I was getting tired of mowing around the above ground fence and keeping it clear.

 

[Lil Foot]

No action shots, but cleared the end of the county culvert (again) with the BH, trying to minimize more dirt washing into ny watercourse.

 

[Lil Foot]

Cleaned out the "water course" from the county culvert to my "pond".
This little depression allows the runoff to collect & lose velocity before spreading out across my 3rd acre and proceeding downhill across to my neighbors place.
Also shows the pile of dirt I now have for various uses around the place.

 

[Lil Foot]

We periodically have to clean up pine needles, leaves, sticks etc. from around the cabin & outbuildings, 30ft minimum distance, for fire danger. (we should clean the whole 3+ acres, but it just isn't possible with two old folks & limited time)
We spent 2 1/2 days hand raking up 58 piles of needles.
Then we used the B7100 with brush forks to scoop & load the piles in the dump trailer, compressing them with each fork full.
Then we drive them 3 1/2 miles north to "Little Bly Pit" where we can dump natural items. (needles, leaves, slash, logs)
Four loads, 10' x 6' x 2'.
This stuff is periodically bulldozed into a pile & burned by the Forest Service, and then the pit is reopened for more homeowner natural waste.
Last pic shows 2 of the 4 "loaves" of pine needles at the pit.

 

[Lil Foot]

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[Snowman7]

Meh 112*

Tell Greta that Death Valley needs to take its heat back.

10 days ago it was a feels like temperature of 127*! We had many days /weeks above 120* heat index.
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I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

 

[Old_Paint]

No action shots, but cleared the end of the county culvert (again) with the BH, trying to minimize more dirt washing into ny watercourse.
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One trick to keeping a culvert clean is to make sure the outlet end is above the level of the dirt/silt or the grade of the runoff ditch, if only slightly. Then anything that goes into the culvert won’t settle in it. Brush/trash are obvious exclusions. If you keep a piece of paracord pulled through and secured by stakes to keep it off the bottom, you can pull a chain or larger rope through and use that to pull an old tire through if brush or trash gets stuck.

I’ve become a fan of corrugated double wall plastic culvert that is smooth inside.

 

[MOOTS]

I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

All of us in the south can’t understand why all y’all up there, live with that white crap.

 

[Bmyers]

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Every time I see a dump trailer in use, makes me want one more. Just can't quite get the finance committee onboard, yet.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

I honestly do not know how you southerners live with those kind of numbers. Here in northern MI. we have had about 2 or 3 days of 90 or more and that is enough! We like our highs about 75-80 (most of us).

I guess we're used to it, similar to what y'all deal with in the cold winters. We get a lot of snow birds down in South Tx, cause Florida has become too expensive to escape the winters.
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@Lil Foot in AZ, are y'all busting heat records?

 

[lynnmor]

All of us in the south can’t understand why all y’all up there, live with that white crap.

We like to ride our snowmobiles on the white crap. Great season to be in the woods, no skeeters, ticks, bees, snakes, dust and excessive tourists.

 

[MOOTS]

We like to ride our snowmobiles on the white crap. Great season to be in the woods, no skeeters, ticks, bees, snakes, dust and excessive tourists.

Lol. I get it. It’s just so cold! Snow and the beach are about the same for me, 3-4 days of it and I’m ready to go home.

 

[Lil Foot]

One trick to keeping a culvert clean is to make sure the outlet end is above the level of the dirt/silt or the grade of the runoff ditch, if only slightly.

Not trying to keep the culvert clean, just trying to keep so much dirt, sediment, rocks, & gravel from coming through and filling up my water channel. County tells me constantly that they will keep the inlet end clear so that it will deliver only water, but they haven't cleared it once in 10+ years.
Gubmint employees.

 

[Lil Foot]

@Lil Foot in AZ, are y'all busting heat records?

Yup, pretty regularly.
Supposed to build from 109f today to 118f Saturday, then "cool off" to 114f next week.

 

[Lil Foot]

Every time I see a dump trailer in use, makes me want one more. Just can't quite get the finance committee onboard, yet.

I wish I would have bought one 20+ yrs ago.
My back would be in a lot better shape.

 

[Lil Foot]

Pretty much everyone knows the hottest temperature recorded in Phoenix was 122 degrees on June 26, 1990. But the hottest temperature in the state was recorded at Lake Havasu when the thermometer got to 128 degrees on June 29, 1994.

 

[Lil Foot]

In case you are wondering, there is a VERY noticeable difference between 118f and 122f.

But it's a dry heat.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Yup, pretty regularly.
Supposed to build from 109f today to 118f Saturday, then "cool off" to 114f next week.

Our news here has reported Phoenix's thirteen days straight of 110* +
I'm guessing to make us feel cooler, lol. I think we broke more heat records last summer, but we did hit some extreme highs a few days already this summer. Our heat index over the next week is expected 108 to 120*, with the day time temps ranging 102 to 107*.