What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

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NCL4701 said:
About a year ago my wife bought this thing for the cat so he can sit outside without getting gone or getting eaten by the wild things in the world beyond. It was cheap (I think about $40 on clearance) and decently made except it had this stupid flat roof made out of MDF wrapped in roll roofing face screwed onto the top rails and nowhere for the water to go. She wanted it put up as is so whatever, and the cat loves it. Surprised it lasted as long as it did. After a year the top was near collapse, so time for a re-roof. View attachment 107513
One problem I have currently is stuff scattered across various buildings. The lumber is split between three buildings and the woodworking stuff is mostly at my house with a little bit at the common shop.

I used to do some furniture building but quit because I pretty much built everything we wanted, built for customers for long enough to pay for all the equipment a couple of times over, and quit after deciding customers in general are irritating to the point of sucking the joy out of a hobby sideline, turning it into just another job. So a lot of the woodworking stuff is crammed in one corner of my shop area. The lumber I needed for this project was at the common shop area. For this little roof deal I had to rip a 74” long 1” wide strip at a 4/12 angle to match the roof pitch so I rooted out the tablesaw and forked it to the common shop. View attachment 107514
It isn’t a fancy cabinet saw. It’s what I’d consider a two man contractor saw. As in you can pop the motor off in about 5 seconds and two reasonably fit guys can set it in the back of a pickup being it’s only about 275lb with the motor and somewhat less without.

It got me to thinking as I was driving away with the saw, why loader forks are better than friends:
  1. My forks don’t have chronic orthopedic problems that restrict their weight lifting to 50lb without complaining; 75lb with grumbling; 100lb intermittent with full on bitching. At my age, most of my friends do.
  2. My forks don’t have to ask their wife before coming over.
  3. If I want my forks to shut up, I can turn off the engine.
  4. My forks don’t expect return favors.
  5. If my forks don’t like the way I’m doing something, they mind their own business and don’t say anything about it.
  6. My forks don’t hang around forever after I’m ready for them to leave.
  7. My wife gets along great with my forks. She’s never accused them of being a bad influence; never asked where we’re going, what we’re doing, or when we’ll be back.
  8. Yes, I spent a few hundred dollars on my forks the first time I met them. Haven’t spent a dime on them since. They haven’t even asked to borrow money.
  9. They’ve been around me long enough now they have to have picked up on some of my more obvious faults but they never give me any crap about them.
  10. Forks can hand stuff from the ground straight to the roof on a one story.
View attachment 107515 New roof. I’ll put the trim back on to cover the very effective, yet aesthetically unacceptable, Great Stuff after the paint on the new part is thoroughly dry. Yes, it slopes downhill. That was an unsuccessful attempt to maybe get the flat roof to shed water enough to not fall apart immediately.
View attachment 107516 Then continued the almost done project of thinning out some of the overgrown landscaping at my father’s old house. 3 of the 4 people who live on the property disliked this bush. The fourth (me) didn’t care. Wonderful as the forks are, this was a job for the grapple. Took a short trip to the junk heap, then used the boxblade to fix up the hole left by the root ball. After that pulled a few T posts that were part of the electric fence around the beehives. Gave the bees away so don’t need the fence.

Edit: Maybe someday I’ll list off 10 reasons friends are better than forks. If I can come up with 10.
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I think you should start a separate thread on reasons why forks better than friends…I’d like to add that forks don’t waste good bourbon…forks do not ask for good bourbon to be watered down with soda.
 
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Big tooth said:
Not from today but another use for our tractors 👊
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Who ever thought that deer were that strong to be able to pull a tractor when your engine conks out?

Not me !
 
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Big tooth said:
Not from today but another use for our tractors 👊
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Most definitely. Only way I’ve picked up deer since getting the loader. Up until a couple months before his demise, my father loved deer hunting but was too worn out to get them up or dress them. So our SOP was he called whenever he got one. First time he got one down and realized he couldn’t get it on his 4 wheeler he called for help and I told him I’d be there in about 15 minutes. Showed up with the loader. He asked why I didn’t bring the Mule. Told him I ain’t struggling with a 180lb deer carcass to get it in the back of the Mule. Rolled it into the bucket and off we went. Dressed it out and dumped the washtub full of undesirable stuff in the bucket. Back to the woods to dump in a hole for the coyotes to feast on away from the houses. Hose out the bucket and done. I didn’t buy a loader to keep messing with lifting heavy objects.
 
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Sewer line repair to retrieve a stupid cap that plugged the line. I was told that we'd be down 11 plus feet, so we went with a rented orange mule and some trench boxes. Turned out to be only 9 feet down, but it still made for an impressive mound of dirt. Oh, and the rented mule came with an 18" bucket! Not what was ordered. Oh well.

Ready:
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Oh, here it is...

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Re-plumb

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ready for backfill

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done

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on to the next one.
 
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dirtydeed said:
Sewer line repair to retrieve a stupid cap that plugged the line. I was told that we'd be down 11 plus feet, so we went with a rented orange mule and some trench boxes. Turned out to be only 9 feet down, but it still made for an impressive mound of dirt. Oh, and the rented mule came with an 18" bucket! Not what was ordered. Oh well.

Ready:
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Oh, here it is...

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Re-plumb

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ready for backfill

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done

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on to the next one.
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How did that cap ever get IN the line?
 
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The Evil Twin said:
This is true. If something needed to be done, I wouldn't have a problem doing it outside. Fortunately, today, I can choose.
Interestingly enough, out heat index is not forecasted to be much different from yours. You probably lack the wafting scent of Canadian fires though.
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Flintknapper said:
^^^^^^

Yep, not much chance it will make it this far South.

We have a different problem coming across our border, I'd prefer the smoke.

Hope they get the fires under control. Got to be rough on the those Canucks....EH?
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Title:
Saharan Dust: What is the latest outlook and how does it get to San Antonio?

Link:
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Saharan Dust arrives in San Antonio on Tuesday

Dust is typically stirred up over the Sahara Desert, especially in the summer months.
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(Sent from KSAT 12 News)



Open borders continue too cause problems.
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Swapped on new rear (ballasted) tires from a fellow OTT'er. Also swapped fronts from foam filled to solid rubber. Let me tell you, it took a while to get the solid tires with the correct bolt pattern! :p

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Siesta Sundance said:
Our well is about 300ft away, I have the water heater set one knoch above the pilot light, no joke, lol.

If you want a cold shower, that will have to happen in the early morning.
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How deep is your pipe from the well? In the northeast we run it 3 to 4 feet deep and the water temperature stays approximately the same all year. Of course you are saving on water heating.
 
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lynnmor said:
How deep is your pipe from the well? In the northeast we run it 3 to 4 feet deep and the water temperature stays approximately the same all year. Of course you are saving on water heating.
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~2 to 3ft

The bays/gulf water temperatures near the coast is 87 to 90*

I have measured the water temperature in the water trough about a month ago for the cattle at 97*. I have been running a 20min run time at 5pm to flush out the hot water, so the cows will intake adequate amount of water in the evenings.
 
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