What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[S-G-R]

I could tell that the back end was light with loaded tires and the phd with this in the bucket. Flat ground, slow and steady.

 

[mcmxi]

The soil here is incredible for farming and landscaping. The downside is that the lack of real rock/bedrock is that our roads don't hold up very well.

I did come across 5 of these bad boys in the 8 holes I dug

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Whoa ... I bet you had to get a chain around that so that you could pull it out!

 

[S-G-R]

Whoa ... I bet you had to get a chain around that so that you could pull it out!

Actually, need to plant it. Picked up two Maple and a Lindon that size, a smaller Oak, Weeping Willow and two apple trees from a nursery. The bigger tree will be tomorrow's project.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Yeah, I'm not doing that! The berms in this case are 45 degrees at least and I offered to cut a 5ft swath around the base if I could get close enough but there's too much going on to be safe at that property. The owner will have to get a weed eater on those berms if it really bothers him. Personally, I'd leave them alone.

Yup, not worth risking equipment over a few hundred bucks.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Took Harold (The Laundry Fairy's, grandfathers 40+ year old L305DT tractor that I bought to keep in family) out. Shredded the sides of our road from the highway to the farm and then took it 11ft under water (imaginary water in our dry stock tank) and mowed 4ft tall weeds.

 

[WFM]

Still cleaning up storm damage from this springs 2' of snow and a week of no power.
No grapple here, just pallet forks spread wide and lots of hands on. Moved several pliles like this today. Cutting over the stone wall in a wet spot of course I slipped and down I went. Tylenol tonight for the shoulder.
And I still love my homemade step !!!

 

[S-G-R]

Took Harold (The Laundry Fairy's, grandfathers 40+ year old L305DT tractor that I bought to keep in family) out. Shredded the sides of our road from the highway to the farm and then took it 11ft under water (imaginary water in our dry stock tank) and mowed 4ft tall weeds.

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Liked for the 40 year old content. Hope you get some rain soon.

 

[KubotaHawg]

Trimmed limbs from the front of the house with my two other orange tools and carried them down to the burn pile with the big orange tool—8 buckets worth, heaped up where couldn’t see in front of the tractor. Had been awhile, lots to trim up.
Best wheelbarrow known to mankind, an orange one with hydraulics…

Need to bush hog badly out at the property but got another inch of rain here in NWA again last night.

 

[mcmxi]

Actually, need to plant it. Picked up two Maple and a Lindon that size, a smaller Oak, Weeping Willow and two apple trees from a nursery. The bigger tree will be tomorrow's project.

I was referring to the rock!

 

[beckmurph]

Bush hogged a customer’s 2 acres this afternoon.

 

[Gaspasser]

I have to ask for absolution for a deadly sin. I bought a Cat 1 carry all frame from TSC today. The sin. It's black and not Kubota orange. I know this is a serious breach of protocol and that I may be banned from the forum for this. I beg forgiveness but the price was right.

Spent a few hours trying to find bushings for my Cat2 3pt. My TSC stores were out of stock on the top link 1 inch to 3/4 reducer. Resigned myself to waiting for the dealer to open on Monday.

Got back to the machine and accidentally dropped my keys in the cab "toolkit" pocket. Fished them out and found a bag of bushings that dealer had apparently placed there. The 1 inch to 3/4 was sitting in the bag the whole time. Not a very productive day.

 

[dirtydeed]

A little landscaping job on Friday...took all day. I'm getting a little to old for these..

Start

done

Front

done

One down

 

[dirtydeed]

Saturday am job...little lipstick on a p-g.

Start

done

Starting another one tomorrow (Sunday). It's mini-ex time.

 

[DustyRusty]

Spent a little over 2 hours hooking up a 6' Howse landscape rake to the BX and then went out to the backyard and started raking the stones out of the dirt. Seems like the more I raked the more large rocks popped up. Then I took it off to the side yard where I store all the old iron. I had it listed for sale for $850 on Marketplace and was getting 4 & 5 hundred dollar offers. This rake is about 20 years old, has a wheel kit on it, and is very heavy steel. Now I remember why I sold my other Landpride landscape rake because it isn't quick hitch ready and neither is the Howse. I bought a used quick hitch-ready Landpride with wheels and will be finishing up with that one. I need to get some topsoil down on the rear "lawn" and plant some grass. I have been thinking that with the high cost of grass seed, sod might be the better choice.
I can barely move enough to go upstairs and take a shower, that is how tired I am. I can clearly remember 40 years ago when I did the same work with a 20 HP Bolens loader tractor. Seems as if it were a lot easier that time.

 

[NCL4701]

When the county cut in this sewer line along the north side of our creek about 20 years ago (eminent domain is such a lovely concept) they put a silt fence using T posts on the downslope side. The cloth part is long gone but the T posts remain. Wife had wanted them gone for years. I sort of agree most of them should go. Now that I’m retired, figured I should get to work on it, but it’s been too wet to do it without tearing up the ground until the past few days.

Pulled about 100 yesterday afternoon by myself. Adult son helped today and we got around 100 more in an hour and a half or so this afternoon. About half done now, but have all of them out of the areas where there’s a reasonable possibility of someone accidentally running the Mule or tractor into one of them.

The little T post puller plate thing isn’t exactly a miracle gadget, but it does beat wrapping a chain if you’re pulling hundreds of posts. We originally got it for pulling about 500 T posts and associated silt fence at our church a few years ago.

 

[Old_Paint]

I have to ask for absolution for a deadly sin. I bought a Cat 1 carry all frame from TSC today. The sin. It's black and not Kubota orange. I know this is a serious breach of protocol and that I may be banned from the forum for this. I beg forgiveness but the price was right.

Spent a few hours trying to find bushings for my Cat2 3pt. My TSC stores were out of stock on the top link 1 inch to 3/4 reducer. Resigned myself to waiting for the dealer to open on Monday.

Got back to the machine and accidentally dropped my keys in the cab "toolkit" pocket. Fished them out and found a bag of bushings that dealer had apparently placed there. The 1 inch to 3/4 was sitting in the bag the whole time. Not a very productive day.

At least it ain’t green.

 

[Old_Paint]

When the county cut in this sewer line along the north side of our creek about 20 years ago (eminent domain is such a lovely concept) they put a silt fence using T posts on the downslope side. The cloth part is long gone but the T posts remain. Wife had wanted them gone for years. I sort of agree most of them should go. Now that I’m retired, figured I should get to work on it, but it’s been too wet to do it without tearing up the ground until the past few days.

Pulled about 100 yesterday afternoon by myself. Adult son helped today and we got around 100 more in an hour and a half or so this afternoon. About half done now, but have all of them out of the areas where there’s a reasonable possibility of someone accidentally running the Mule or tractor into one of them.
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The little T post puller plate thing isn’t exactly a miracle gadget, but it does beat wrapping a chain if you’re pulling hundreds of posts. We originally got it for pulling about 500 T posts and associated silt fence at our church a few years ago. View attachment 129885

I like the puller. Simple, but should be very effective. If made from hard steel and sharp edges left on the cutouts, it should bite the posts pretty well. I take it you have some sort of SSQA adapter for the chain? Do you use the curl to pull, or just the lift?

 

[Old Machinist]

Did my first mowing with my Kubota LX3310/Swisher combo and it worked great.

I started the day tweaking the install on the Kubota's MMM. It wasn't adjusted properly when it was installed and had some parts left bouncing around under the right belt cover. I installed the left off parts and adjusted the lift rods per the manual. The book setting for blade height turned out to be dead on after it was adjusted correctly. The gauge wheel holes specified for a 3" blade height were 3" on one side and 2-7/8" on the other. You can't get much closer than that. (On second thought I guess I can tweak the lift rod on the low side and get it dead on.) I had put new blades on the MMM the day before. I used Oregon gator blades on it and had to go to the dealer for an extra set of Bellville washers. Kubota has a special shouldered bolt and stepped washer with two Bellville washers on each blade. The Oregon blades were 0.40" thinner than the stock blades and spun when the bolts were tightened so I stacked a third Bellville washer under them. While at the dealer I discovered they had Kubota branded gator style blades that were as thick or thicker than the blades I removed. I will price those for consideration next time.

Before starting with the Kubota/Swisher combo I mowed around the areas I wouldn't be able to get to with my John Deere F725. I had to wear a face mask and goggles and was in a cloud of dust. Made me really appreciate the cab and AC when I got to the tractoring part.

The Swisher connected to the Kubota is a lot more controllable than it was connected to my finish mower. I can make clockwise turns around most of my trees and get right up against them where I can't with just the cab and MMM. I may still tweak the tongue one day. On sharp left turns it would get caught under the 3pt lift arm and I would have to raise the 3pt briefly to get it unstuck. It doesn't back up as predictably as it did connected to the finish mower but there isn't much reason to have to back up anyways. I'm getting a 10 foot wide cutting path and you can't tell the difference in cut quality between the two mowers.

Have I mentioned how well the AC works in this Kubota? It was mid 90s yesterday and I had to adjust the temp and fan speed because I was getting too cold.

I don't care much for the orange color and having to wear my 3M blue tooth hearing protection. The hydro whine isn't much louder than my JD and the engine is quieter but for some reason the ratcheting cruise control mechanism increases the hydro wine 10 fold. It's a common complaint on this model. I was having to use the hearing protection on my open station 4310 anyways. Life is full of compromise.

 

[Old_Paint]

Did my first mowing with my Kubota LX3310/Swisher combo and it worked great.

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I started the day tweaking the install on the Kubota's MMM. It wasn't adjusted properly when it was installed and had some parts left bouncing around under the right belt cover. I installed the left off parts and adjusted the lift rods per the manual. The book setting for blade height turned out to be dead on after it was adjusted correctly. The gauge wheel holes specified for a 3" blade height were 3" on one side and 2-7/8" on the other. You can't get much closer than that. (On second thought I guess I can tweak the lift rod on the low side and get it dead on.) I had put new blades on the MMM the day before. I used Oregon gator blades on it and had to go to the dealer for an extra set of Bellville washers. Kubota has a special shouldered bolt and stepped washer with two Bellville washers on each blade. The Oregon blades were 0.40" thinner than the stock blades and spun when the bolts were tightened so I stacked a third Bellville washer under them. While at the dealer I discovered they had Kubota branded gator style blades that were as thick or thicker than the blades I removed. I will price those for consideration next time.

Before starting with the Kubota/Swisher combo I mowed around the areas I wouldn't be able to get to with my John Deere F725. I had to wear a face mask and goggles and was in a cloud of dust. Made me really appreciate the cab and AC when I got to the tractoring part.

The Swisher connected to the Kubota is a lot more controllable than it was connected to my finish mower. I can make clockwise turns around most of my trees and get right up against them where I can't with just the cab and MMM. I may still tweak the tongue one day. On sharp left turns it would get caught under the 3pt lift arm and I would have to raise the 3pt briefly to get it unstuck. It doesn't back up as predictably as it did connected to the finish mower but there isn't much reason to have to back up anyways. I'm getting a 10 foot wide cutting path and you can't tell the difference in cut quality between the two mowers.

Have I mentioned how well the AC works in this Kubota? It was mid 90s yesterday and I had to adjust the temp and fan speed because I was getting too cold.

I don't care much for the orange color and having to wear my 3M blue tooth hearing protection. The hydro whine isn't much louder than my JD and the engine is quieter but for some reason the ratcheting cruise control mechanism increases the hydro wine 10 fold. It's a common complaint on this model. I was having to use the hearing protection on my open station 4310 anyways. Life is full of compromise.

The newest LX models are supposed to have addressed the hydrohowl with a new transmission design. I’ll agree, my 2019 LX2610SU has quite a howl, but it still beats hell out of my silent axe, shovel, pitchfork, bow saw, and wheel barrow. Only slightly more noisy than the little 6HP chipper/shredder with the WC68 on the back. I did as much deadfall and brush cleanup in an afternoon with the LX as what I did in the previous 5 years. As you say, compromise. Blown up rotator cuffs and old age are compensated for by listening to a bit of noise. That’s what hearing protection is for.

 

[mcmxi]

I wanted to provide some additional information re the 3-1/2 hours of work that I did this past Friday. I don't typically keep accurate records for fuel consumption, but since this was a paying job I paid attention. By my calculations the MX was using around 2.85 gallons/hour running wide open at 2,600 rpm on flat ground and pulling a flail. I built a lot more cushion into my pricing than that so this first test was successful in that I didn't lose my a$$ on fuel costs.

The M6060 sips fuel compared to the MX so I'm even more confident in my numbers for jobs using that tractor with a nice cushion for unexpected costs.