What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[NCL4701]

flail mower today whacking some weeds. Managed to smoke the belts on the mower with all the stilt grass wrapping up. Ugh. Time to find some spare belts.

On the plus side, I sold one of my quads today. Now, I'll just have to be happy with the wife's grizzly.

So Japanese Stilt Grass causes problems for flail mowers?

I’m using a rotary cutter (aka bush hog) now that’s about the same age I am (not saying much for either of us). Had thought a flail might be a good option if/when it gives up, but not if flails can’t handle stilt grass. We have quite a bit of that.

 

[bmblank]

Saturday morning I tried to use the fourwheeler to pull the lawn sweeper around. Couldn't get it started in the 10 pulls or whatever I was willing to give it so I decided to use the 7100. Well, the pine straw rake was already on it, so I decided to run that over the lawn a bit before sweeping. It did a number on it. Then while I was at it, I thought maybe I should go over the (mostly sand) driveway and see what happens. It surely didn't hurt it. Then decided to clean up the back yard (all sand) since I've been working back there and it needed a cleanup. Did great there, too. After all that I swapped to the sweeper and cleaned up the yard.

Then I put the brush hog on the 3901 and ran it for a while before breaking the tail wheel off.

Yesterday I gave the 3901 a bath and a grease job. Gotta do 50hr service to it, too, but I don't have the supplies yet.

 

[dirtydeed]

So Japanese Stilt Grass causes problems for flail mowers?

I’m using a rotary cutter (aka bush hog) now that’s about the same age I am (not saying much for either of us). Had thought a flail might be a good option if/when it gives up, but not if flails can’t handle stilt grass. We have quite a bit of that.

I think if the flail had Y blade knives it'd work better for stilt grass. I have heavy hammers on mine and I think the slipping belts contributed.

 

[random]

I used a really cool attachment recently that formed/rolled out raised beds with drip tape. We did several thousand feet in an afternoon.

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Following up on this - what is this attachment? I'm not even sure what to search for to find it...

 

[ctfjr]

As a part of my lawn redo I decided to level off the north side lawn. It's not very large about 50X50 then it goes into the woods. Before an ice storm took it down I had a productive grape arbor there.
In the past I had installed a pvc pipe for my woods cameras and I know it was only down a couple of inches.
So I brought over about 20 buckets of top soil and was starting to spread them with the back blade - being VERY careful near that pipe. Then I hit an inground bee's nest. Without thinking (never a good idea) I hit the reverse pedal and the corner of the back blade took out the pipe

The black line was where the pipe was. I spent Sunday digging a real trench, fixing the pipe (no real damage to the 2 cat 5 cables or 40v 14ga power wires) and then bringing more topsoil in to fill it in.

Although I crowned the filled in trench, it's pretty puffy topsoil and I know I'm going to have to bring more in.

 

[BadAndy]

Today I picked it up!

Very nice... Congrats

 

[RichardAaronlx2610]

Installed a new phone holder on my lx2610. Fits nice and tight, and doesn’t get in the way of the loader controls. Gave me at least 10 horsepower I got it from my local Harley Davidson dealer today. It’s very nice, holds the phone super tight, and for some added piece of mind you can stick the rubber pieces on each corner. It was $32. Didn’t look online to see if it was cheaper anywhere.

 

[B737]

De-stickered the thing

last machine I installed 2 forward and 2 rearward lights, i feel like it was a bit much, this time just one forward and one rear, plus the beacon.

lastly, welded receiver to top of bucket

almost ready for work!

 

[leveraddict]

B737 I can hear the safety police coming your way!

 

[PaulL]

De-stickered the thing

How will you know all the dangers to which you're exposed? Especially the Californian dangers, things are much more dangerous in California.

 

[aaluck]

Worked on my never ending quest to fix my flow problem. Finished the front side but for the sod on the bare spots. The pipe was 3/4 plugged up so I have dug that out. No sure how it got this bad but I had to dig a good bit down the hill. Hoping for a big rain to get some flow to see what I have.

 

[Tarmy]

How will you know all the dangers to which you're exposed? Especially the Californian dangers, things are much more dangerous in California.

I love this!

the entire damn world knows that our state is the most UNSAFE place on earth! We have warning labels on everything. Evidentially, everybody that lives here is so stupid they didn’t even know how little chance they have for survival if not for all the warning labels.

 

[RCW]

B737 I can hear the safety police coming your way!

Not today....Tuesdays and Thursdays are mattress tags.....

Stickers are M-W-F.....

 

[PaulL]

I love this!

the entire damn world knows that our state is the most UNSAFE place on earth! We have warning labels on everything. Evidentially, everybody that lives here is so stupid they didn’t even know how little chance they have for survival if not for all the warning labels.

I believe that regime was introduced by referendum. So yeah, at least half the voters in the state believe it's necessary. I'd recommend leaving the state before it rubs off on you.

 

[random]

How will you know all the dangers to which you're exposed? Especially the Californian dangers, things are much more dangerous in California.

Just assume that it's known to the State of California to cause cancer and you're good.

 

[Old_Paint]

Dug out a bunch of root bound iris’ for the missus.(She put ‘em there about 6 years ago and now wants them moved). No deep diggin, and the LX was done with its part of the job pretty quickly. Then I got to separate the flower rhizomes from the poison ivy, briars and Virginia creeper. By hand. Did I mention we dug up nearly a thousand bucks worth just a few days ago? More in this bed. She said moved, but neglected to say only a few inches after I pruned the fodder and got rid of all the stuff she’s allergic to, and behind the new landscape timbers I was also going to have to make raised beds with. Got a pretty good start on it today but the flowers won before my back let me finish. Got about 2/3 of the bed built. Most shoveling, sawing, driving rebar pins and backfilling the beds now. What’s there is mostly clay, so probably getting a yard or two of topsoil. Did more work with the Troybilt tiller my mom bought in 1983 than I did with the LX. Softened up the clay and made leveling the timbers a lot easier. Love my LX, but sometimes it’s like using a 20 lb sledgehammer for a fly swatter. Gotta get out the ‘hard way’ tools on occasion. Here’s the results so far:

This is on the west end of the back yard and gets lots of sun in the early spring when iris’ like to start blooming here. Did similar beds on the east end of my new shop building.

 

[Old_Paint]

Just assume that it's known to the State of California to cause cancer and you're good.

Hmm, I said exactly that too

 

[PaulL]

Just assume that it's known to the State of California to cause cancer and you're good.

Given they're putting cancer warnings on coffee, I interpret all those warnings as saying "this is roughly as dangerous as drinking coffee, take that into account when you decide whether you care."

 

[NCL4701]

For some time now, I’ve been looking forward with great anticipation to the ultimate warning label; a warning label warning of the danger of warning labels.

I have much confidence in The State of California to come up with a reason to mandate it on all products that have warning labels.

And I would really appreciate CARB getting out of my life. I don’t live in California yet I see numerous products here that are proudly labeled CARB compliant, like I give one crap about CARB.

And the warning labels that say everything under the sun is “Known to the State of California to cause cancer.” Again I don’t live in California. I don’t need that crap trashing up my stuff. I live in North Carolina with my neighbor’s tobacco field basically in my front yard. North Carolina is still debating whether cigarettes cause cancer. I sure ain’t worried whether my ball peen hammer causes cancer if I’m dumb enough to lick it clean.

Rant over. I feel better now. If anyone questions why this is in the What Did You Do on Your Kubota Today thread, I read a warning label on my Kubota today.

 

[twomany]

With the carry all on back of the B7200. (turf tires, TWD, No Loader)

Four full loads of firewood moved from the log pile to stack under cover

One over spilling load of chain saw chips from the log pile up to the raspberries for ground mulch (spread as well)

Three loads of stone down from the "dig" out back to the newly filled level spot adjacent to the house. Some as back fill, some as face stone.

And to think that tractor was included "free" in the deal when I bought a snow blower! ;-)