What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[chim]

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.

 

[Old_Paint]

Dam preventer instructions:

1. Beavers build a dam.
2. You don’t like the results.
3. You tear out at least 6’ or so of the dam, ideally in the original creek channel if you know where that is.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. This frustrates the beavers and they move. If they move 20’, do it again as soon as they start.
7. Keep screwing with them like this and it isn’t long before they give up and go elsewhere.

It was part of the beaver control plan, and quite effective.

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.

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]

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).

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.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

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.

 

[In Utopia]

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.

 

[mcmxi]

Moved some nasty, heavy, wet snow this afternoon. I need to remember to not float the snow blade when the ground is so soft.

 

[S-G-R]

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.

 

[fried1765]

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!

 

[In Utopia]

That's some nasty looking stuff.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

That's some nasty looking stuff.

I'll take our 3 hot summer months vs. the 6 months of winter any day/year.

 

[kg2v]

If 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
Gurn

Purchased a T2290 - my first Kubota. Was new November 2022, 26 hours on the clock

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Purchased a T2290 - my first Kubota. Was new November 2022, 26 hours on the clock

Welcome Sir to OTT! Great little tractor you got there.

From the Sunny South Texas.

 

[kg2v]

Welcome Sir to OTT! Great little tractor you got there.

From the Sunny South Texas.

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

 

[D2Cat]

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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I understand now why you folks have no open station tractors !!!!!

 

[S-G-R]

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.

 

[mcmxi]

I put my time in years ago without a cab.

Drifting and freezing rain last night required more cleanup.

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One cut the plow made on the road above us.

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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.

I put my time in years ago without a cab.

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.

 

[NCL4701]

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 K8 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

Welcome!

I have a T2290 also. Have had a couple of box store MTD riders and a Cub zero turn previously. Wife hated the zero turn so we gave it to our son and bought the T2290, which she loves. Best riding mower I’ve ever owned. Cut quality is noticeably better than the Cub, too. It’s a nice little yard machine.

 

[woodman55]

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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I put two hrs on the tractor today, to open the lane. Will finish it tomorrow. I am glad I bought the snow pusher. This is really snow blower snow, but I don't feel like swapping the winch for the blower, then back again.

 

[mcmxi]

I finished up something on the M6060 this afternoon that I should have done almost two years ago. The Grammer seat in that tractor came with plastic wrap over all the cushions. Oddly enough, the Grammer seat in the MX didn't have plastic on it unless the dealership removed it all for me.

I can see the appeal of how Grammer builds the seats by placing each cushion inside a plastic bag, but it makes it a pain for the owner to get the plastic off. The screws holding the cushions to the seat frame are screwed through the plastic. Before installing the seat cover I wanted to get the plastic off, so I had to unscrew each cushion, including the headrest cushion to accomplish that. The screws are a T25 torx head.

Anyway, here's the finished product prior to putting the seat cover on. I've seen seats on this forum in tractors that are older and with many, many hours and bits of tatty plastic are visible between the cushion and frame. Urghhh!

 

[g_man]

Shipped some Spruce/Fir stud-wood to the log yard today.

This load is 565 BF by my measure.

gg