What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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My CRI stump bucket arrived almost simultaneously with the 1st partial shipment of trees to be planted. Of course its raining today and same forecast for tomorrow. So this weekend looks like the start of planting season
jyoutz
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MX6000 HST open station, FEL, 6’ cutter, forks, 8’ rear blade, 7’ cultivator
I attached my Fred Cain field cultivator plow to my MX6000. 9 18” shanks on a 85” tool bar. The shanks sank all the way and pulled effortlessly. Two passes and my garden was deep cultivated and ready for tilling. I love that implement.
Today, I looked at my tractor. Day before yesterday I used it (with the snowblower still on) to bring more feed to the deer feeder. This Sunday I will transform it to Spring/summer/fall mode and put the blower away.
Made an Equal Angle hitch for my John Deere 1209 MoCo to fit the drawbar on my L4060. Just need to drill two more holes, weld on the nuts and give it a coat of paint.
I still need some practice with the Flux Core wire, I may have used too thin a wire for the 1/4" plate, should have gone to .035" instead of the .030" I used, but the welds are nice and deep into the metal so should hold up to the abuse. Of course this is the first time I did welding for a good 10 years.
I still need some practice with the Flux Core wire, I may have used too thin a wire for the 1/4" plate, should have gone to .035" instead of the .030" I used, but the welds are nice and deep into the metal so should hold up to the abuse. Of course this is the first time I did welding for a good 10 years.
What is the purpose of this edge? My new bucket is drilled for one, but not sure what I would ever use it for.
Keeps factory cutting edge from wearing and sticks out a bit to help "get under"/cut material. I'm using it for scraping a pile of gravel off of my driveway currently. Think of it as a poor man's toothbar (with no teeth of course) that doesn't impede back dragging. Will post results after using it tomorrow.
EA was 5 weeks out and I got this thing next day. Will swap it for the EA depending on what I'm doing.
Hmm, I wonder if this is something I should add to my new bucket to help maintain the gravel drive. I will also be digging out a section between my newer drive and the barn, making it go all the way to the barn and widening it at the back. Does it also stiffen the edge? I would assume yes with the amount of bolts used.
Decided to help the “spring melt“ out a little by digging out my sawmill. Pretty much all sand in my mill yard, so it should dry up soon with the warmer weather.
Since your bucket is drilled, I think you can get a straight bolt-on edge from Kubota. EA or Piranha should be able to furnish a drilled one. Either way you'll need plow bolts, probably. That edge wears faster than you'd think, and yes it stiffens the bucket edge.
RCW
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BX2360, FEL, MMM, BX2750D snowblower. 1953 Minneapolis Moline ZAU
ACDII - - - A toothbar helps greatly for digging. Many use BxPanded bars, but there are many options. From the pictures a few posts ago, pretty sure ctfjr's bar is one, and Deepwoods has one also.
I think PoTreeBoy nailed it; for a lot of scraping, I wouldn't trust a stock bucket. It should have something for wear and stiffening.
Put my BX25D into Spring/Summer mode…took off the snowblower and serviced it…went around back to hook the FEL back up and ran into some trouble getting the left loader arm to stay put in the bottom “cup” where it sits to line up the pins. Must have been because it sat unattached for 4+ months…anyways, after four tries I finally sat on the loader arm while “dumping” the bucket to force the arms to line up with the pin holes. Bingo! That worked. Some different issue tries to confound you each time you do something you have never done before…I have taken off and put on the loader a hundred times for mowing but never had it sit for that long while off.
I opened up the control station on my BX23S backhoe to see exactly what was making one of the levers completely loose and find out what parts I would need to order. Saw that the bolt was backing out for the other control arm too. Was happy to find the bearing still in place, and that any parts falling off actually have nowhere to go anyway. Got everything put back together and operational.
The exploded parts diagrams at Messick's web site are really helpful.
The exploded parts diagrams at Messick's web site are really helpful.
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ken erickson
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B7100 hst, 2650 front mount snowblower, L2501 hst qa loader
An absolutely beautiful day to get some Kubota seat time here in central Wisconsin. I have my 2400 lbs of sodium bentonite in the tractor shed ready to line my small wildlife watering hole. Today spent a couple of hours continuing my dead scot pine removal with the grapple.
Yesterday there was a break in the weather and I exercised my new stump bucket to dig 7 holes for trees / bushes. Extremely satisfied. It cut thru some 2" roots like nothing.
I originally thought the holes would be too rectangular and would require a lot of backfilling. Not so. With a little practice even I was able to make holes pretty close to what I needed - 2' deep and about 2' sq.
Still a fair amount of backfilling with topsoil I brought in and tomorrow I deal with getting rid of the spoils. A productive day with the tractor.
I originally thought the holes would be too rectangular and would require a lot of backfilling. Not so. With a little practice even I was able to make holes pretty close to what I needed - 2' deep and about 2' sq.
Still a fair amount of backfilling with topsoil I brought in and tomorrow I deal with getting rid of the spoils. A productive day with the tractor.
Well, 48* and sunny. What a Beautiful day it was. I got the tractor out with the pallet forks, pulled out the round pen panels that were stuck behind the hay barn for who knows how many years, and build a paddck for my horse so I can tear out the fencing and reconfigure his pasture area. My son and I got to work moving a round hay bale feeder out and taking it apart to sell, then took down a good portion of fencing.
That tractor is ficking awesome, love it. Now to teach my kids how to use the B2410 fo they can assist when we need both units in operation. Going to have him split some logs tomorrow, and the two of them can stack while I take down more fences and start cleaning up the barn to make room for a new shelf to store equipment on now that I have forks.
That tractor is ficking awesome, love it. Now to teach my kids how to use the B2410 fo they can assist when we need both units in operation. Going to have him split some logs tomorrow, and the two of them can stack while I take down more fences and start cleaning up the barn to make room for a new shelf to store equipment on now that I have forks.
NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572, Farmi W50R, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Had a couple of snags hanging over one of the trails. This one was actually a medium pine and a couple of small hardwoods that went over together. The other one (not pictured) is dead as a hammer and more of a fall risk but had to move this one to get to the dead one. Cut it about 90% off the stump at which point it was moving a lot in a variety of directions so I was done cutting. Tried single line pulling and it moved but wouldn’t break loose. Applied a snatch block and that worked… until it hung up on an old stump. Cut it shorter and pulled some more until it slid backwards and hung on another tree. Cut it shorter and pull some more. Finally came down.
Wife and I always work on stuff like this together. Anything dangerous we’ve agreed we don’t do alone. So she was there through all that rigging, cutting, grappling stuff out of the path. Then she got ill, both physically and with me, so she left. In the Mule. With all the rigging and tools. I was left with the saw and tractor. So I tidied up the area a bit with the saw and grapple but left the second snag for another day. Put up the tractor and saw, retrieved the Mule and put up everything else. Then checked to see if the cat was pissed with me too. He wouldn’t speak to me either but at least he wasn’t pissed with me so I hung out with him for a while.
Wife got to feeling a bit better physically and got over whatever she was ill with me about (I’m still a little fuzzy on the origin of that) but by that time we didn’t have enough time to take out the second snag.
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Did some work moving a gravel pile today. First time operating a FEL, what a great experience. Watched a few videos first to prep and read the loader manual last week.
Set up my generator pad base in preparation for install next week. Roughly 6-8" of 6A limestone tamped in 2" lifts. The R14s did pretty good on the lawn and didn't tear up the turf. My bucket finally has some scars and now I'm not afraid to take the paint off anymore
Set up my generator pad base in preparation for install next week. Roughly 6-8" of 6A limestone tamped in 2" lifts. The R14s did pretty good on the lawn and didn't tear up the turf. My bucket finally has some scars and now I'm not afraid to take the paint off anymore