What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

johnjk · Oct 30, 2022

Power washed the B1700, checked and topped off fluids where needed, lubed and parked in the back for winter. I either need to develop welding skills or find a welder to strengthen up the deck

Siesta Sundance · Oct 30, 2022

S-G-R said:
Nice! Nothing is going through that.

I don't think so, it was some scrap pieces of 3/8" thick plate!

Tenalach Farms · Oct 30, 2022

Siesta Sundance said:
Consider welding some plate on the back of that grapple to provide your tractor some more protection from wood stabs pushing through. The front pieces on the tractor are not cheap, lesson learned. And when I was using grapple on the CTL, the wood stabs felt like they were trying to pierce me in the cab.
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Here is mine now with welded plate.
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Saw an example where someone had welded expanded metal inside their grapple, making it effective for picking up smaller debris, still allowing dirt or water to pass through and preventing the vast majority of rear penetrations. I believe it was daveknowshow on YouTube.

Tenalach Farms · Oct 30, 2022

Took the lid off the new to me L3010 and found the line from the coolant overflow was disconnected. Cleaned who knows how many years of crud from between the bucket and the pins. Cleaned more junk from behind the dash as I tried to figure out why the throttle would not move. The linkage was good at the bottom, but between the lever and that pivot that pushes into the engine, it was just stuck. Applied more force than I wanted to and the lever moved. Lubricated the daylights out of it. Hoping it will loosen up and move in a more reasonable manner. Found the headlights were disconnected and have been for who knows how long. Long enough I could not readily push the connectors back together. Ned to get coolant into the radiator before I run it again!

GeoHorn · Oct 30, 2022

GSD-Keegan said:
Very interesting DD. I am an old man, and yes I miss many dogs. And I presently have two elderly dogs. I no longer tell them quiet when they are excited and bark for supper or their twice daily walks through our property. I so wish I could hear some of my past dogs once again. ……

fried1765 said:
It is so horrible to think about.

It is so horrible to think about.
Our Lab boy (pure white) died just 5 days short of his 11th B-Day.
Wife did not want another one (I did), because she did not want to go through the horrible loss again.
(She is 76, I am 81)
I finally prevailed, and our Sadie is now three.
We are two old fogies, and we absolutely love our sweet Sadie (avatar) every minute of every day!

Just in-case one of us Dog-Lovers missed it, here is Ben Hur Lampmans poem about “Where to Bury a Dog”

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There are various places within which a dog may be buried. We are thinking now of a setter, whose coat was flame in the sunshine, and who, so far as we are aware, never entertained a mean or an unworthy thought. This setter is buried beneath a cherry tree, under four feet of garden loam, and at its proper season the cherry strews petals on the green lawn of his grave. Beneath a cherry tree, or an apple, or any flowering shrub of the garden, is an excellent place to bury a good dog. Beneath such trees, such shrubs, he slept in the drowsy summer, or gnawed at a flavorous bone, or lifted head to challenge some strange intruder. These are good places, in life or in death. Yet it is a small matter, and it touches sentiment more than anything else.

For if the dog be well remembered, if sometimes he leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, questing, asking, laughing, begging, it matters not at all where that dog sleeps at long and at last. On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, or beside a stream he knew in puppyhood, or somewhere in the flatness of a pasture land, where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is all one to the dog, and all one to you, and nothing is gained, and nothing lost -- if memory lives. But there is one best place to bury a dog. One place that is best of all.

If you bury him in this spot, the secret of which you must already have, he will come to you when you call -- come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path, and to your side again. And though you call a dozen living dogs to heel they should not growl at him, nor resent his coming, for he is yours and he belongs there.

People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by his footfall, who hear no whimper pitched too fine for mere audition, people who may never really have had a dog. Smile at them then, for you shall know something that is hidden from them, and which is well worth the knowing.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

by Ben Hur Lampman

Trapper Bob · Oct 30, 2022

Had my wife picking up & stacking my cut trees this weekend. She kept me hopping (trying to stay out of her way). Used 6 qts of stump juice to prevent regrowth.

mcmxi · Oct 30, 2022

More firewood cutting, hauling and splitting this weekend. I'm done with the five trees that came down in windstorms over the past couple of years. I'm not sure what I'll do with the five root balls that are out of the ground. Maybe drag them to one pile and hope that some critters decide to move in.

The 10'x5' aluminum trailer was full of maple that I split earlier in the year so I used the M to haul that up to the house and unload the wood onto pallets. Seemed like the perfect time to fill the trailer up with household trash, old tires, car batteries and engine oil in preparation for a trip to the local landfill.

Flintknapper · Oct 30, 2022

mcmxi said:
More firewood cutting, hauling and splitting this weekend. I'm done with the five trees that came down in windstorms over the past couple of years. I'm not sure what I'll do with the five root balls that are out of the ground. Maybe drag them to one pile and hope that some critters decide to move in.

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A lot of work there.

Very nice equipment!

D2Cat · Oct 30, 2022

Trapper Bob said:
Had my wife picking up & stacking my cut trees this weekend. She kept me hopping (trying to stay out of her way). Used 6 qts of stump juice to prevent regrowth. View attachment 89716

Nice work, but 6 quarts? Get ready to use (RTU) tordon at your local farm store and just spray the outer couple of inches on large trees. The purple color will tell you where you have coverage, and spray them immediately after cutting off.

mcmxi · Oct 30, 2022

Flintknapper said:
A lot of work there.

Very nice equipment!

Thanks! It's hard work as anyone who cuts and splits their own firewood knows, but it'd be a lot harder without the equipment I have.

Trapper Bob · Oct 30, 2022

(Nice work, but 6 quarts? Get ready to use (RTU) tordon at your local farm store and just spray the outer couple of inches on large trees. The purple color will tell you where you have coverage, and spray them immediately after cutting off.)

I use diesel fuel & Remedy mixed 3 to 1 with some blue dye for an indicator. Much cheaper then Tordon RTU & very effective. I put a lot of trees down this weekend & only treat the cambium layer. I have a 60 acre pasture that is overgrown with Hedge, Locust, & Cedar trees. However, it is looking a lot better. A couple more weeks & the cows will be happier.

In Utopia · Oct 31, 2022

North Texas Rich said:
We may not have KR Blue Stem. I didn't see it growing in clumps like KR does where it was the only grass present.

This is Blue Stem. It grows like a well planted hay except cows won't eat it. It was developed by the King Ranch, but turned out to be a bust since cows have to be starving before the'll eat it. There is also some thing called Little Blue Stem. Looks almost the same except it doesn't grow as tall, and when it goes to seed the seed looks purple in color.
Blue Stem has spread everywhere. At my other place in Pasadena it's in every vacant lot around, and that's 305 miles from my place in Utopia.

fj40dave · Oct 31, 2022

Ran power down to the chicken coop and Kubota Shed.
Finishing off the project compacting the 5/8- (wife wanted to try out the plate compactor! [she's 51% in charge around here

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Siesta Sundance · Oct 31, 2022

fj40dave said:
Ran power down to the chicken coop and Kubota Shed.
Finishing off the project compacting the 5/8- (wife wanted to try out the plate compactor! [she's 51% in charge around here ]
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bmblank · Oct 31, 2022

I put several hours on both tractors over the weekend. Split a few trailer loads of wood which need moving to the shed (with the little tractor). The driveway was chock full of pine needles and sticks, so I put the straw rake on the little tractor and drug that around for an hour or so. After that some random piles of pine needles and sticks seemed to materialize out of thin air, so I used the big tractor to move those.
Over the course of the weekend, while I wasn't moving other stuff around, I was taking down the piles of black dirt and spreading it into the yard that has been sand for about 11 years. It'll be nice to have a back yard at some point.

North Texas Rich · Oct 31, 2022

In Utopia said:
“… cows won't eat it.”

This contrary to what I’ve e been told about the Blue Stem we have here. One of the Blue Stems is listed as a native species in Texas. It is also great for cows.

https://www.farmprogress.com/forage/big-bluestem-low-cost-forage-option

North Texas Rich · Oct 31, 2022

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