I have the 2584 on my L6060, it seems to be a good match. I like the little bit of extra width, so I don't have to get the tractor/cab as close to trees and things. Steel shoes and rubber edge. I also have the back drag, it's a great feature to have, well worth the little bit of extra money.
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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NCL4701
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Yesterday we were refreshing the trespassing signs and purple paint marks around the perimeter of the property. We found the beaver dam preventer my father fabricated many years ago when we were having beaver problems. Didn’t know where it had gotten to and hadn’t seen it for probably ten years. Saw it attached to a cedar tree near the creek by a 1/8” piece of wire rope. It had been there long enough the wire rope was starting to girdle the tree. With all the rain we’ve had recently it’s still pretty swampy in creek bottom so we figured we’d try to get it back with the lighter footprint of the Mule instead of skidding it back with the Kubota. We don’t have beaver problems now so we have no use for it but I can’t see scrapping it being it’s still in the excellent shape and it isn’t like you can run over to Tractor Supply or somewhere to pick one up if you need it. I’m pretty sure I can cobble something to hang it from the bottom chords of the rafters in the shed.
Then it was time for the shakedown run of the Farmi winch. No photos as I was pretty distracted trying to make sure I had it set up correctly, everything worked right, and I was operating it competently. That and the winching part of the job was pretty brief. Did take one pic on the way out the door.
This thing is obviously well thought out and appears refined by much practical user experience. First job was assisting with felling a lightning killed pine at the edge of the field adjacent to the public road. Only dead a couple months but it was a combination of two things I don’t much like; a dead pine (limbs tend to break out and fall on you as they come down, no telling when they’ll snap, and often there’s not enough flexibility left for a hinge to hang on long enough to ensure they fall as directed), and lightning struck hard enough to die in just a couple days (no telling if it’s still structurally sound or has a bunch of internal vertical splits until after you cut it). To add to that, being at the edge of a field, it was leaning a bit and all limbs on the field side so way off balance. Pretty short (about 80’) but pretty stout (had to cut from both sides with a 28” bar to get all the way through). It was aimed at one of the nicer cedars in the field and I just didn’t much like the whole situation so decided to be out of range when it fell.
Hooked a choker to it about 16’ up and then hooked winch to choker. Wrapped the trunk with a few rounds of 3/8” grade 70 chain snugged with a load binder to make sure its dead, unbalanced, lightning struck self didn’t try to splinter and kill me. Had about a 2.5” hinge left when it started to move. Cut it down to a 2” hinge and it was still moving a little but not falling, probably because it was hinged to fall about 30 degrees off its natural lean so it would land without collateral damage.
Maybe be I’m a big weenie, but that was ideal in my mind. Could have cut a little more and it probably would have fallen. Probably could have wedged it over without cutting any more. But I preferred to be nowhere near that thing when it fell. It didn’t take much from the Farmi to ease it over right where it was supposed to land.
So first time out, got to play with it a little but not much of a workout. Next job is more winch and less saw. Maybe I can remember to get some pics of that one.
Then it was time for the shakedown run of the Farmi winch. No photos as I was pretty distracted trying to make sure I had it set up correctly, everything worked right, and I was operating it competently. That and the winching part of the job was pretty brief. Did take one pic on the way out the door.
This thing is obviously well thought out and appears refined by much practical user experience. First job was assisting with felling a lightning killed pine at the edge of the field adjacent to the public road. Only dead a couple months but it was a combination of two things I don’t much like; a dead pine (limbs tend to break out and fall on you as they come down, no telling when they’ll snap, and often there’s not enough flexibility left for a hinge to hang on long enough to ensure they fall as directed), and lightning struck hard enough to die in just a couple days (no telling if it’s still structurally sound or has a bunch of internal vertical splits until after you cut it). To add to that, being at the edge of a field, it was leaning a bit and all limbs on the field side so way off balance. Pretty short (about 80’) but pretty stout (had to cut from both sides with a 28” bar to get all the way through). It was aimed at one of the nicer cedars in the field and I just didn’t much like the whole situation so decided to be out of range when it fell.
Hooked a choker to it about 16’ up and then hooked winch to choker. Wrapped the trunk with a few rounds of 3/8” grade 70 chain snugged with a load binder to make sure its dead, unbalanced, lightning struck self didn’t try to splinter and kill me. Had about a 2.5” hinge left when it started to move. Cut it down to a 2” hinge and it was still moving a little but not falling, probably because it was hinged to fall about 30 degrees off its natural lean so it would land without collateral damage.
Maybe be I’m a big weenie, but that was ideal in my mind. Could have cut a little more and it probably would have fallen. Probably could have wedged it over without cutting any more. But I preferred to be nowhere near that thing when it fell. It didn’t take much from the Farmi to ease it over right where it was supposed to land.
So first time out, got to play with it a little but not much of a workout. Next job is more winch and less saw. Maybe I can remember to get some pics of that one.
How does the dam preventer work?
Too bad the purple paint doesn't keep them out, they don't care. Here in Texas illegals are a problem everywhere.
Only thing it really does is give the tresspassing charge more effective.
Too bad the purple paint doesn't keep them out, they don't care. Here in Texas illegals are a problem everywhere.
Only thing it really does is give the tresspassing charge more effective.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Dam preventer instructions:
- Beavers build a dam.
- You don’t like the results.
- You tear out at least 6’ or so of the dam, ideally in the original creek channel if you know where that is.
- Set the dam preventer thing in the breach you just created. The pointy end is aimed upstream with the end of the point at least a little past the upstream edge of the dam.
- Beavers will repair the breach, but hard as they try, with that thing in midst of their dam, they’ve always got a sieve letting water through so their dam will never hold water.
- This frustrates the beavers and they move. If they move 20’, do it again as soon as they start.
- Keep screwing with them like this and it isn’t long before they give up and go elsewhere.
And yes, the signs and paint serve two purposes. First, they help decent folks know where the lines are in areas where it legitimately isn’t obvious otherwise. There are some places I’m not sure where exactly the borders are without looking at the signs and paint. Second, at least here, if you don’t have conspicuous signs, law enforcement isn’t going to do anything to assist with controlling trespassers so if you want the option to control your borders, you need the signs.
As we have more development crop up around us, at some point we may need fences. Crossing a fence here is viewed much more harshly than “not noticing” a sign or paint marker as the “I honestly didn’t see it” defense doesn’t work. We’re not to the point of needing fencing… yet. Of course here we just deal with poachers, random ATV riders, and hikers. We don’t have the type border control issues y’all have in Texas.
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Very minor compared with what most of you have done. Re-cut the grooves on the rear tires yesterday. The front tries had worn quite a bit since they were done close to 5 years ago. The outside edges of the tires were worn down so there was no groove there. The rears hadn't worn nearly as much, so it was just a re-fresh and I cut them a little deeper.
I first thought that was some sort of elaborate drowning trap. Where I grew up, the department of conservation labeled them pests/varmints because of the flooding and timber damage they cause. So there was no season nor bag limit on them. Dunno what the rules are now because I haven't been hunting in at least 40 years.
Our beaver control system was a 12 gauge shotgun with 3-inch 00 Magnum buckshot (fifteen .30 caliber pellets in each round), or 30-06 rifle. I wound up killing 5 to 10 of them every year when I still lived with my folks and never made a dent. More may move in, but they didn't just move up the creek when they made the mistake of putting a dam in the wrong place. The crawfish, which we'd likely wind up using for bait at another time ate very well when beavers decided to dam up the creek or the pond spill ways. North Carolina beavers must not be quite as stubborn and persistent as Alabama beavers. They won't give up here. I didn't mind removing the dams so much in summer, but I'm not fond of standing in waist deep cold water when the outside temperature is just above freezing. I learned to dislike beavers a lot because as long as I lived there, I was the official beaver eradication agent of the family (i.e. low guy on the totem pole).
NCL4701
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We did some trapping and shooting as well. This thing combined with trapping was most effective. I’m not up on the current law here. At the time if they were causing damage to your property you got some leeway to trap, shoot, and otherwise harrass as needed. Maybe you still can.
Our downstream neighbor was a local municipality and it was vacant land they bought outside city limits for what reason they never explained. So if we could keep the beaver pond on their place we didn’t care and they didn’t seem to either for many years.
Probably ten to fifteen years ago a large trackhoe and very large dozer came up the creek right up to our property line, destroyed everything beaver, drained the beaver pond, and re-established the creek channel. There were some gov’t grunt types messing around down there for a couple weeks. Magically, all the beavers disappeared. Don’t know if they were relocated to some swamp down east or if they took a dirt nap, but they were gone for good. Have seen a smattering of beavers once in a while in the spring times since but nothing some buckshot couldn’t solve.
About a year after the heavy equipment incident, the city sold their land to a local developer. Not long after that, the city annexed the land so now it’s in the city and if things go according to the developer’s map, in a few more years there will be houses adjacent to the creek on top of what used to be a 10 acre beaver pond. There’s only a handful of people that noticed, most of them are so old they’re either dead or don’t care any more.
I don’t much care for the destruction caused by beavers, but I do feel a little sympathy for that particular lot of them. They were in a fight with politicians and developers. They didn’t know what they were up against and never had a chance. Even a beaver is no match for big money folks to whom hunting and trapping laws don’t apply.
Took the little girl for a walk in the woods until the sun thawed the trail out and had stop…hauled some small logs out and then checked the buckets. Should have enough to boil soon. 
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Right now there is no border control, and trespassing isn't new around here.
There used to be a "highway" about a mile down the road. They would follow the highline that heads east.
Don't know if they knew purple, or just din't care and breaking into homes especially trailers was common, so much in fact that people used to put out clothes and food in the hopes they wouldn't get broken into. They now station 6-7 agents at a RR crossing just west of Uvalde where they stop east bound trains and search them. This is a major east/west line, so it must really upset schedules.
Back to tractor talk.
There used to be a "highway" about a mile down the road. They would follow the highline that heads east.
Don't know if they knew purple, or just din't care and breaking into homes especially trailers was common, so much in fact that people used to put out clothes and food in the hopes they wouldn't get broken into. They now station 6-7 agents at a RR crossing just west of Uvalde where they stop east bound trains and search them. This is a major east/west line, so it must really upset schedules.
Back to tractor talk.
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mcmxi
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Moved some nasty, heavy, wet snow this afternoon. I need to remember to not float the snow blade when the ground is so soft. 
We finally got a taste of winter. Wet, heavy snow with some top soil mixed in and high winds made for a three hour cleanup.
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"Snow with some topsoil mixed in" = SNIRT!
In just a very few weeks, Cavendish will be planting spuds!
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I'll take our 3 hot summer months vs. the 6 months of winter any day/year.
Purchased a T2290 - my first Kubota. Was new November 2022, 26 hours on the clockIf you did something to or on you're tractor today and you don't want to start a new thread then post it here
I installed a horn I took from a tiny Toyota and then installed a decompression cable on mine today. Was going to do a little grading on the drive but got tired
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Thank you Sir,
Used to live in NYC,semi-retired up here. Small property (.4 acre) and was debating walk behind, but with a bum hip, I said why not. Stopped at the local Kubota dealer, he had the tractor on the lot.
We are right on the edge of farm country (1/2 mile to the nearest corn field), and as you go west from there, some real sized farms . I was pointing at a M8 (I said K8 oops)
on the lot, and said "You think it is too big for my lawn?"
They will deliver sometime Friday - thinking of adding a bagger kit
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I understand now why you folks have no open station tractors !!!!!
I put my time in years ago without a cab.
Drifting and freezing rain last night required more cleanup.
One cut the plow made on the road above us.
F350 4x4 and the snow was above my roofline.
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Whoa! I was out this morning moving a couple of inches off the driveways and parking areas. Wish I had that much snow to move.
Me too! Five years of moving snow around in 0F to -30F temperatures and getting powder blown in my face with a wind change. Been there, done that! But in all honesty, it was the dust and bugs when running the rotary cutter that made me realize a cab was the only way to go. Dressing for cold is a lot easier than dressing for dust, bugs, heat and noise.