What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[GrizBota]

Looks like y'all have a bit more moisture there. The dirt around my pit is like flour.

Well you and Matt clearly live in a wetter local than I. Here in the PNW it’s drier than a popcorn fart with wildfire being a very real concern. Six days ago the smoke was so dense, visibility was less than 1 mile and the AQI was approaching 500. We did get some rain the end of the week so that helped temporarily. It won’t be until the rains start in October that we’ll be able declare fire season over. Usually we burn in the November though April timeframe. Which is when it’s as likely as not to rain any given day.

Both of you have some nice looking places. I know that is a result of hard work. Nice job.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Well you and Matt clearly live in a wetter local than I. Here in the PNW it’s drier than a popcorn fart with wildfire being a very real concern. Six days ago the smoke was so dense, visibility was less than 1 mile and the AQI was approaching 500. We did get some rain the end of the week so that helped temporarily. It won’t be until the rains start in October that we’ll be able declare fire season over. Usually we burn in the November though April timeframe. Which is when it’s as likely as not to rain any given day.

Both of you have some nice looking places. I know that is a result of hard work. Nice job.

Thank you, sir.
It is not normally this dry. Relative to where we are. Some surrounding counties are under a drought advisory. We are in drought watch. A lot of ponds are feet below full pond. Our creek has not had running water in a month. Hopefully we get it all back as snow!

 

[skeets]

I aint doin nuttin, it is already hot with high stupidity, sat on the porch watching the sun come up with a cup of coffee. And I was sweating my ,,,,,,, off already. SO in the house AC on for the next several days, but I may go to the cassino after the CT cause it is going to be 90+ tomorrow,, ssooo nuttin on the toys,,,errrrr tools

 

[hoot owl]

I picked up my new trailer on Aug. 20th. I used it the next day to mow around bee hives in several of my out yards.

The trailer in the background is my sons 12' er. My new one is a 24' deck.

The tractor fills the entire trailer when the bushhog is on. If I have the forks on the loader the points stick through the front roll off gard.

 

[fried1765]

I picked up my new trailer on Aug. 20th. I used it the next day to mow around bee hives in several of my out yards. View attachment 110756
The trailer in the background is my sons 12' er. My new one is a 24' deck. View attachment 110755
The tractor fills the entire trailer when the bushhog is on. If I have the forks on the loader the points stick through the front roll off gard.

That trailer looks like it could carry the weight of two Kubota 2501s.
Deep supers filled with honey are very heavy though.

 

[hoot owl]

You can't see them but there are D ring's every 2' down both sides just for tying down hive equipment.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Moving hay further from the house in case there are any brush fires.

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My son and I made the rounds to fill/top off the wildlife water buckets and tubs today.

Hay bales cover with the used billboard vinyl.

Spend all that time wrapping and protecting the hay?!? only because it doesn't rain here anymore. Less than 2in of rain since June.

 

[06B3030]

Had to strip and put down a new roof...let the tractor do the heavy lifting!!!
As you get older, you work smarted!

 

[2001TLB]

Well you and Matt clearly live in a wetter local than I. Here in the PNW it’s drier than a popcorn fart with wildfire being a very real concern. Six days ago the smoke was so dense, visibility was less than 1 mile and the AQI was approaching 500. We did get some rain the end of the week so that helped temporarily. It won’t be until the rains start in October that we’ll be able declare fire season over. Usually we burn in the November though April timeframe. Which is when it’s as likely as not to rain any given day.

Both of you have some nice looking places. I know that is a result of hard work. Nice job.

Yep, pretty dry around PNW. I have a pile ready to burn and at least as much as ready to add to it as it burns down...once we get some rain. What I have done for the past couple of days:

Stay safe when burning everyone!

Doug

 

[aaluck]

Built (mostly) a new, additional coop for the newest chickens. Ill say it again, those forks are the BEST thing I ever purchased.

 

[dirtydeed]

small sewer line repair required a "micro" mini. It was freaking hot today but we got it done by 2pm (sidewalk left in place...Score!).

Start: note white line in the stones to the right of the walkway. That's where the waste line is located.

dig: micro mini bucking bronco...but, it dug it! I was able to collapse the tracks to fit through the gate.

I was able to squeeze the bucket in between the fence and the sidewalk. We were supposed to rip out his sidewalk to do the job but I think he'll be pleased when he gets home and see's that he wont have to pour a new walkway.

done:

check please...

 

[Bee-Positive]

Leveled a spot to put up a tractor shed. Then the wife says "hey, put up a smaller shed, move all the crap out of the garage and put the tractor in the garage". Lights, power, tools, already there and done. That why we've been together 40 years and counting!!! (between you and me I'm getting the biggest shed I can get away with anyways).

Took three weeks working by myself but it's done, just needs a shed. No backhoe on the 1880, could not have done it without the tooth bar - from striping the sod to digging the trench - priceless.

190 blocks, 60 caps, 59 tons of material (Sandy loam fill, paver stone, clean stone for drainage, crushed #2 for the driveway and shed area). The Little BX is a champ.

Here's some pics.

Sod stripped - what a PITA from all the crap left over when they built the house and garage.

Sand loam fill packed down like concrete, nice stuff. Dug the trench with the bucket and shovel.

In progress, compacted paver stove under the first course of block, fabric, drainpipe, clean stone.

Top course is done. PL500 works great, get the 28 oz. tubes, cost less per oz. than the smaller tubes and they go further.

Dry stacking the caps to see how they fit around the curve. Lots of fussing, cutting with a concrete blade in my circular saw. HF comes through again with the least expensive blade and man it cut well. Can't see it here but I went right to the top of the wall with clean #2.

Done. I laid landscape fabric over the sandy loam and under the 6" crushed stone right up to the garage. Shouldn't settle too much, if at all.

Another picture of the final product.

You can see in the last picture I over estimated (BY A LOT!!) how much paver stone I needed. Major senior moment there. 30 years as an energy engineer and I still have trouble with math. If anyone has any suggestions what to do with it - maybe Craig's list, FBMP, spread it in the driveway?

With all the seat time the BX turned 200 - WHOO-HOO! Time for a well-deserved maintenance interval.

 

[Bee-Positive]

small sewer line repair required a "micro" mini. It was freaking hot today but we got it done by 2pm (sidewalk left in place...Score!).

Start: note white line in the stones to the right of the walkway. That's where the waste line is located.

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dig: micro mini bucking bronco...but, it dug it! I was able to collapse the tracks to fit through the gate.

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I was able to squeeze the bucket in between the fence and the sidewalk. We were supposed to rip out his sidewalk to do the job but I think he'll be pleased when he gets home and see's that he wont have to pour a new walkway.

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done:

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check please...

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Thats awesome, you saved a lot of work by not having to pour a new walkway. Great job.

 

[Trustable]

Leveled a spot to put up a tractor shed. Then the wife says "hey, put up a smaller shed, move all the crap out of the garage and put the tractor in the garage". Lights, power, tools, already there and done. That why we've been together 40 years and counting!!! (between you and me I'm getting the biggest shed I can get away with anyways).

Took three weeks working by myself but it's done, just needs a shed. No backhoe on the 1880, could not have done it without the tooth bar - from striping the sod to digging the trench - priceless.

190 blocks, 60 caps, 59 tons of material (Sandy loam fill, paver stone, clean stone for drainage, crushed #2 for the driveway and shed area). The Little BX is a champ.

Here's some pics.

Sod stripped - what a PITA from all the crap left over when they built the house and garage.
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Sand loam fill packed down like concrete, nice stuff. Dug the trench with the bucket and shovel.
View attachment 110835

In progress, compacted paver stove under the first course of block, fabric, drainpipe, clean stone.
View attachment 110836

Top course is done. PL500 works great, get the 28 oz. tubes, cost less per oz. than the smaller tubes and they go further.
View attachment 110837

Dry stacking the caps to see how they fit around the curve. Lots of fussing, cutting with a concrete blade in my circular saw. HF comes through again with the least expensive blade and man it cut well. Can't see it here but I went right to the top of the wall with clean #2.
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Done. I laid landscape fabric over the sandy loam and under the 6" crushed stone right up to the garage. Shouldn't settle too much, if at all.
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Another picture of the final product.
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You can see in the last picture I over estimated (BY A LOT!!) how much paver stone I needed. Major senior moment there. 30 years as an energy engineer and I still have trouble with math. If anyone has any suggestions what to do with it - maybe Craig's list, FBMP, spread it in the driveway?

With all the seat time the BX turned 200 - WHOO-HOO! Time for a well-deserved maintenance interval.

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I would call the place you got the stone from and ask first if it’s a significant amount, it may be a long shot but you never know. Otherwise throw it on Facebook market place and I bet you’ll get some offers.

 

[GrizBota]

Leveled a spot to put up a tractor shed. Then the wife says "hey, put up a smaller shed, move all the crap out of the garage and put the tractor in the garage". Lights, power, tools, already there and done. That why we've been together 40 years and counting!!! (between you and me I'm getting the biggest shed I can get away with anyways).

Took three weeks working by myself but it's done, just needs a shed. No backhoe on the 1880, could not have done it without the tooth bar - from striping the sod to digging the trench - priceless.

190 blocks, 60 caps, 59 tons of material (Sandy loam fill, paver stone, clean stone for drainage, crushed #2 for the driveway and shed area). The Little BX is a champ.

Here's some pics.

Sod stripped - what a PITA from all the crap left over when they built the house and garage.
View attachment 110834

Sand loam fill packed down like concrete, nice stuff. Dug the trench with the bucket and shovel.
View attachment 110835

In progress, compacted paver stove under the first course of block, fabric, drainpipe, clean stone.
View attachment 110836

Top course is done. PL500 works great, get the 28 oz. tubes, cost less per oz. than the smaller tubes and they go further.
View attachment 110837

Dry stacking the caps to see how they fit around the curve. Lots of fussing, cutting with a concrete blade in my circular saw. HF comes through again with the least expensive blade and man it cut well. Can't see it here but I went right to the top of the wall with clean #2.
View attachment 110838

Done. I laid landscape fabric over the sandy loam and under the 6" crushed stone right up to the garage. Shouldn't settle too much, if at all.
View attachment 110840

Another picture of the final product.
View attachment 110841

You can see in the last picture I over estimated (BY A LOT!!) how much paver stone I needed. Major senior moment there. 30 years as an energy engineer and I still have trouble with math. If anyone has any suggestions what to do with it - maybe Craig's list, FBMP, spread it in the driveway?

With all the seat time the BX turned 200 - WHOO-HOO! Time for a well-deserved maintenance interval.

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Nice looking work!

As to the extra gravel, I’d make a wide spot in the driveway adjacent to the paved parking pad. Or push it the back side of the area you just built up.

Good job on going with as big a shed as you can talk folks into (or get away with). No need to have to add on later.

 

[Old_Paint]

This was a short retaining wall at my father’s old house where my son and his fiancé live. It’s about 35 years old, constructed of used railroad ties, and getting pretty punky so it was time to remove and replace. Grapple made disassembly and removal easy. View attachment 110644
First one we removed had a yellow jacket nest in it. Part of the nest that was in the rotted out hollow of the timber was quite visible while it was elevated in the grapple. View attachment 110645
After the initial battle with the tiny hellions was over, we had the field workers continuing to look for the nest throughout the day. Apparently some of the nest extended past the wall into the dirt behind as they dug out the hole in the dirt bank and continued business as usual. A second battle with the survivors appears to have concluded the war. If not, we shall continue until victory is ours! View attachment 110646
Had a pile of punky old Timbers to dump in the random log hole. View attachment 110647
Son was helping. He helped quite a lot. I’ll have to admit it was really nice to have a reasonably fit adult man to share the physical requirements of the job. Of course we had the L for most of the heavy lifting. View attachment 110648 View attachment 110649 A little backfill and all done. View attachment 110650
Did this little one on the other side of the house today as well. View attachment 110651

I'll say again, yellow jackets live/nest in the ground to get that little bit closer to Hell where they came from. That's a big nest. I found one nearly that big digging out a stump last year. It was early spring, so they were a little slow yet. and I managed to get away with only a couple stings. A couple was all I needed though to justify murdering that nest and every one I could find in the neighborhood. There's something about the sting that sets me off. They hurt, sure, but not very long. It's my temper they trigger more than the pain, and I don't just get mad, nor do I get EVEN. I get ahead. Glad no one was allergic and no one got hurt (running from them). Wall looks good.

Can I ask, what did you cut those with? Ties will DESTROY a chain because they're usually full of gravel chips.

 

[NCL4701]

I'll say again, yellow jackets live/nest in the ground to get that little bit closer to Hell where they came from. That's a big nest. I found one nearly that big digging out a stump last year. It was early spring, so they were a little slow yet. and I managed to get away with only a couple stings. A couple was all I needed though to justify murdering that nest and every one I could find in the neighborhood. There's something about the sting that sets me off. They hurt, sure, but not very long. It's my temper they trigger more than the pain, and I don't just get mad, nor do I get EVEN. I get ahead. Glad no one was allergic and no one got hurt (running from them). Wall looks good.

Can I ask, what did you cut those with? Ties will DESTROY a chain because they're usually full of gravel chips.

Milwaukee Super Sawzall set on full orbital with a 14” wood blade.

Have used a chainsaw on RR ties and creosote phone poles in the way back past, but my experience matches yours. Frequent sharpening and kills the chain way too fast.

Sawzall cuts a little slower than chainsaw but I can get through a 7”x9” tie in about 15 to 20 seconds so not bad. There’s the option for carbide teeth if you want longer life per blade, they’re cheaper than a chain, and really easy to swap out when needed. I toasted one carbide blade on the bigger wall we did three years ago. Good bit of life left in the blade after this smaller one.

 

[06B3030]

Leveled a spot to put up a tractor shed. Then the wife says "hey, put up a smaller shed, move all the crap out of the garage and put the tractor in the garage". Lights, power, tools, already there and done. That why we've been together 40 years and counting!!! (between you and me I'm getting the biggest shed I can get away with anyways).

Took three weeks working by myself but it's done, just needs a shed. No backhoe on the 1880, could not have done it without the tooth bar - from striping the sod to digging the trench - priceless.

190 blocks, 60 caps, 59 tons of material (Sandy loam fill, paver stone, clean stone for drainage, crushed #2 for the driveway and shed area). The Little BX is a champ.

Here's some pics.

Sod stripped - what a PITA from all the crap left over when they built the house and garage.
View attachment 110834

Sand loam fill packed down like concrete, nice stuff. Dug the trench with the bucket and shovel.
View attachment 110835

In progress, compacted paver stove under the first course of block, fabric, drainpipe, clean stone.
View attachment 110836

Top course is done. PL500 works great, get the 28 oz. tubes, cost less per oz. than the smaller tubes and they go further.
View attachment 110837

Dry stacking the caps to see how they fit around the curve. Lots of fussing, cutting with a concrete blade in my circular saw. HF comes through again with the least expensive blade and man it cut well. Can't see it here but I went right to the top of the wall with clean #2.
View attachment 110838

Done. I laid landscape fabric over the sandy loam and under the 6" crushed stone right up to the garage. Shouldn't settle too much, if at all.
View attachment 110840

Another picture of the final product.
View attachment 110841

You can see in the last picture I over estimated (BY A LOT!!) how much paver stone I needed. Major senior moment there. 30 years as an energy engineer and I still have trouble with math. If anyone has any suggestions what to do with it - maybe Craig's list, FBMP, spread it in the driveway?

With all the seat time the BX turned 200 - WHOO-HOO! Time for a well-deserved maintenance interval.

View attachment 110845

Really nice job!!!!! Came out beautiful!

 

[fj40dave]

Dug out the foundation for my neighbor over the last couple day's.

Darndest thing: Tractor started running like used dog food and then died.....fire it up and it would do it again.
So I say's to myself: "self....if someone posted on the forum that this was happenin, what would you suggest they consider the issue to be?"
Well.....I figured it must be fuel related, and starting with the easiest thing first (I considered the degree of difficulty in getting the fuel tank off first actually)....I started with the fuel filter.
Presto-whammo.....out comes a piece of rust or junk of some sort when I shake it. Reinstall and the B2650 runs like it only has 1000 hours on it again (because it does )

Ok....that's yesterdays adventure.

 

[D2Cat]

Dug out the foundation for my neighbor over the last couple day's.

Darndest thing: Tractor started running like used dog food and then died.....fire it up and it would do it again.
So I say's to myself: "self....if someone posted on the forum that this was happenin, what would you suggest they consider the issue to be?"
Well.....I figured it must be fuel related, and starting with the easiest thing first (I considered the degree of difficulty in getting the fuel tank off first actually)....I started with the fuel filter.
Presto-whammo.....out comes a piece of rust or junk of some sort when I shake it. Reinstall and the B2650 runs like it only has 1000 hours on it again (because it does )

Ok....that's yesterdays adventure.

Isn't it rewarding when you solve a problem like that using your own mental capacities! Good job. What you digging, sand?