What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[S-G-R]

Finished up with the pulverizer. I have two piles of grass/soil to move. I'll drag the chain harrows over it this week and hopefully get some grass seed on it if what it warms up.

 

[flyidaho]

The tributary showing on a map reminded me of a situation I had ancillary involvement in a few years ago. Land owner contracted with a grading company to flatten out about 5 acres that was shaped like a bowl with one end open so he could put up a commercial building and parking lot. It was visible from a public road. They were about done when a NC DEQ inspector happened to drive by and thought he recalled the area being on their maps as an intermittent waterway. He checked their records, saw he was correct, and things went bad really quickly for the landowner and contractor as neither had checked the maps so no permits to disturb a waterway that was, according to government maps, part of a major river’s watershed. They had to return the land to original grade, grass to prevent erosion, $10K/day until complete, $100K one time fine on top of the $10K/day. After all that was done ($400K in fines later) DEQ issued a permit to flatten the land for the land owner’s intended use.

I was involved in the back end because of the dispute between the contractor and land owner regarding who was responsible for what portion of the fines and how much, if any, the land owner was paying over the original contract price for the additional grading. Fines were issued in name of land owner but indemnity language in the grading contract was favorable to the land owner shifting liability to the contractor. I was on the land owner side. Land owner paid $100K in total on top of original contracted price, Contractor paid the rest of the fine and whatever the additional grading cost was a loss for them. Interesting case…

Laws here on intermittent waterways vary even from one watershed to another. (Deep/Cape Fear rules aren’t exactly the same as Yadkin/Pee Dee, etc.) It was an interesting case due to the specificity of regulations and the fine print of the contract, which neither party considered when it was first executed. I suspect laws are quite different where you are.

I have a stream thru my property, and I know the county states a minimum of 100' away for any structure. So, I call my 8' square deck I built directly over the stream, a foot bridge!

 

[johnjk]

Hopped on the B1700 and mowed for a couple hours. Rain the next three days so might as well get it while I’m not air boating. After 4 hrs of tractor time the back feels great. Bring on the summer !

 

[dirtydeed]

Stump pile elimination day...

started some cleanup

good to go for another couple of loads...

 

[billrigsby]

Did a bit of excavating for a raised bed.
I received this in lieu of payment for a small job last year.
Finally decided to get it out of my way and put it to use.
Eventually to be covered with an 8 X 8 greenhouse.

 

[TwitchyMcJoe]

I finally fixed my L185DT, and I immediately put it to work mowing about an acre just to be sure nothing went wrong with the repair.

I also pulled around several logs that had fallen on our fence before we bought the place, and put them all in one spot.

 

[Xizervexius]

Hummed & hawed about pulling the trigger on the Bxpanded dolly for the backhoe on my BX23S, but at $200 USD plus exchange and shipping, seemed too much.
So $30 in a set of 3" casters (250lbs rating each) at Canadian Tire, some scrap 4x4 timbers, and voila!

 

[KubotaHawg]

I'm clearing the area where the new barn/shed will go and had a nice fire going today. I used the MX as an expensive wheel barrow to haul stuff to the burn pile. I had the M6060 bucket on and decided to do a bit more on the new driveway. The MX had no trouble climbing the hill with a full bucket of dirt.

I plan on putting up a 30ft x 60ft barn/shed where the fire is, with the option to extend to 70ft and covered storage on both long sides of the structure. I figure I have until November to get it done. I rented a 10ft x 30ft storage unit for the boat so I don't feel quite as stressed to get something up in record time. I'll be welding up all the trusses and using steel pipe set in the ground with the holes filled with concrete. I might add a concrete floor at a later date but it'll be gravel to start with. I'll have 10ft x 10ft and 12ft x 16ft doors on the front end wall, and a 10ft x 10ft door on the rear end wall. This is the general plan at the moment.

Talking of fires, the state of Montana has become far stricter about burning. Anything bigger than a camp fire requires a permit that is free and good for the year, and it's easy to get online. We have to activate the permit any time we want to burn, and we can only burn natural stuff such as brush, trees, grass etc. There are a lot of questions to answer in addition to agreeing to the terms of the permit with severe penalties for failure to comply including up to a $10k fine and 6 months in prison for each violation. No plywood, construction material, treated lumber, painted wood etc.

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I get it, in a state like Montana with all the fuel on the ground, but that sucks. I burn my 7 wooded acres every spring—in Arkansas the local fire department thanks you for doing it. Planning on prescribed burning my 65 acres out in the mountains soon if weather will cooperate and when the PBA can.

 

[ctfjr]

The tributary showing on a map reminded me of a situation I had ancillary involvement in a few years ago. . . . .

I'd bet the CT DEEP (Dept energy Environment Protection) has about the toughest regs anywhere. I checked out that town map and it appears that, on their map, the tributary starts just after those 2 trees where I moved the rock. The grade drops about 2 feet and from there is pretty much wet year round.

 

[ctfjr]

I have a stream thru my property, and I know the county states a minimum of 100' away for any structure. So, I call my 8' square deck I built directly over the stream, a foot bridge!

lol, I am planning a new tower for my amateur radio station. Don't you know that on the town zoning application (yes I need a variance because its going to be 60' high) they ask if its <50' from a waterway or wetlands. I had to set my location to avoid that tributary water head.

 

[In Utopia]

The deep winter frost here pushes up rocks into the road surface. Every spring there is a new crop. Any that will stop my grader blade or snow plow I pull out. This one only had a knub showing but felt solid. You never know what lies unseen underneath.

My M5640 and FrostBite Grapple at work.


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I took a video just for fun - 5 minutes.

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Wow, that's like an iceberg, more below than on top.

 

[flyidaho]

After picking up rocks for 30 years on my first mountain property, I finally realized that for every one I picked up, there were at least two underneath! Now, a mile away and 500' lower on the mountain side on different property, I have zero rocks and any digging is enjoyable, in comparison. One good thing from before though, I learned how to lay rock, to work with it, my entry gate wall on the old property still looks pretty darn cool.

 

[Old_Paint]

Man

Wood burning stoves, boilers and fireplaces aren't regulated here as far as I know. There is a definition of a camp fire which is something like a fire of less than 3ft diameter, less than 3ft high and with wood that has a cross-section of 4" or less ... or something like that. Camp fires don't need permits but they are subject to burn bans.

The burn permit points to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s air quality
regulations found at ARM 17.8.604 which lists numerous prohibited materials.

17.8.604 : MATERIALS PROHIBITED FROM OPEN BURNING - Administrative Rules of the State of Montana

rules.mt.gov

Here's a screenshot of my permit with the # redacted. #1 specifically states "natural vegetation" only. I'm surprised that paper products and cardboard are on the list of prohibited materials, but I suppose they can be treated with fire-retardant chemicals.

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A lot of additives go into making paper, and not all of them are environmentally friendly. The biggest problem with paper products is the fly ash which might start an unwanted conflagration in unexpected places. .

 

[Jka1880]

Leveled the driveway that was full of pot holes and then gave it a good bath. Pretty boring day for my little tractor.

 

[Old_Paint]

I hope I didn’t hurt my little LX’s feelings too much. It was relegated to trailer pulling duty all last weekend. The Missus decided to do some decluttering and have a yard sale. I figured the smartest thing to do was load everything except the most valuable items on the trailer and then I could move all of it at once for morning setup and evening tear down. We set up near the end of the driveway in the best shade so we wouldn’t get cooked by infrared and UV radiation, and in the evening I put the trailer behind the house to get our stuff outta sight and outta mind. Nothing to worry about losing, but thieves are sorta like roaches. Once they start, hard to stop ‘em. I think the cute little orange tractor might have drawn a few customers. Lots of little kids wanted to climb on it and if I had the bandwidth and their folks didn’t mind, I let ‘em.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

I thought it was dry enough yesterday and would sneak a mow before rain (rain in FC daily for next week), but I was wrooooong…so I stopped at first pass

 

[RMS]

More winter storm damage cleanup.

 

[KubotaHawg]

Graded my steep mile long driveway that is shared by 4 other neighbors. My little L2800 and box blade even with a 100 lb log strapped on top barely makes a dent usually but with all the rain we’ve had recently it graded out perfectly even on the big hill. Happy neighbors and I like to do it.

 

[mdhughes]

I would have to put Skat Trak paddle tires on the tractor to get around in the mud. And they are calling for more rain tonight and tomorrow.

 

[S-G-R]

Used the land plane to give the driveway a touch up and then put the spreader on to broadcast pelletized lime.