What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[JimL126]

Over the last couple of weeks did the following to the new-to-me L2501…

Performed initial 50 hour service.
Added Ken’s bolt on hooks to FEL.
Added JU Fabworks tiedown points.
Added eBay magnetic mirrors.

ready to get to work.
Jim

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Carried totes of water for the wildlife waterers.

Drip waterer, 330gallon tote.

This is connected to another tote, gravity waterer.

 

[fried1765]

Honestly this summer in Texas has not been terrible. Just a few days over 100F so far and now just 4 to 6 in a row (I hope!)

There have been some summers with over 30 days in a row over 100 and last year Austin had 45 in a row over 100.

What kills me is when the nights stay above 80 so there is really no cool down in the 24 hours. It just gets oppressive.

And then the utilities start start to limit electricity. I doesn’t take long to get a hot temperature inside if there isn’t electricity to run any air conditioning. But I recall growing up in a house with no AC at all so we spent a lot of time down at the creek swimming ( but riding a bike a few miles round trip was required )

Maybe time for a suitably sized standby generator?

 

[L35]

My friend did me a “favor” and dropped off some red oak firewood rounds. Even though I have a log lift a few were too big for it to lift them to quarter them, I thought I’d try something different.

 

[NCL4701]

Rowed up field to flat field, part two. This is what today started with. Dried out decently yesterday. Pretty lumpy. Not bush hog friendly quite yet.

Dad used to have a home made drag that went with the disc harrow. It was a pair of 6x6’s in a V with a piece of angle iron at the back, a couple dozen worn out rototiller tines lagged screwed to it, and a big eyebolt at the point of the V to hook to the chain that’s permanently attached to the harrow. No clue what happened to it but no way to overlook it and haven’t seen it it many years. This being a one off job, didn’t see any point in buying or trying to borrow a drag. Lag bolted a couple pieces of sweet gum to a rather long 1/4” chain and left the loop of left over chain to drag behind.

Set the disc angle a couple notches shallower and cut at 90 degrees to first cut. Made progress; not all the way there yet. Adjusted disc angle less than the second cut, but not completely straight, and cut a third time at 45 degrees to the first two cuts.

It isn’t rototiller perfect, but it’s plenty good enough it can now be bush hogged to a reasonably even cut and without getting beat to death by the tractor’s lack of suspension.

The discs hadn’t lost a lot of diameter but they were getting VERY thin. As I was putting it up, noticed this one broke. Probably hit a rock and fractured. Thought I did it today but looking back at the second picture above I can see it was broken before I started today; I just hadn’t seen it previously. Not much surprised. Done with it, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

Edit: In the 500 hours on the L I’ve never used the cruise control before this job. It sure was nice for running around a field for a while at a constant speed.

 

[DaveFromMi]

Dug the potatoes today. The crop was short due to weeds and bugs.

 

[mikejr]

Wrapped up a large walnut that fell a couple weeks back.

 

[Snowman7]

I been moving wood into the shed between rain events lately. It wasn't a very good summer here for drying wood with all the rain and high humidity. But still, I am amazed at how dry it actually is compared to last April and early May when I split it. Not ready to burn but another summer in the shed will fix that.
Have to use the L3010 with the 5' bucket to get through the opening and reach into the rear of the shed.


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gg

Beautiful wood shed

 

[fried1765]

My friend did me a “favor” and dropped off some red oak firewood rounds. Even though I have a log lift a few were too big for it to lift them to quarter them, I thought I’d try something different.

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A BH with hydraulic thumb, is difficult to appreciate, for those who do not have them.

 

[rc51stierhoff]

This afternoon put the pallet forks on the little one and we are taking the observation towers for a drive.

 

[DaveFromMi]

Today, I cut and pulverized some narly weeds next to a cornfield. I had to get into first gear to cut the worst areas.

 

[L35]

A BH with hydraulic thumb, is difficult to appreciate, for those who do not have them.

It’s a new addition this year, I installed it late winter. I always wanted a SSQA and a thumb, now the tractor is complete! Wait, I do need a cup holder.

 

[NCL4701]

Put the disc harrow back in the shed, got the bush hog out of the shed, dropped the loader, put the ROPs down to fit under the trees, and mowed.

And mowed.

And mowed some more.

 

[Siesta Sundance]

Mas hay.

 

[fc1]

Improvised trenching...

My neighbor's ditch needs deepened but neither of us have a good tool and it's pretty soft. Several passes with a big poplar log seems to have helped.

 

[Old_Paint]

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A BH with hydraulic thumb, is difficult to appreciate, for those who do not have them.

Oh no it ain’t. I’ve kicked myself more than once about not buying the hoe, let alone a thumb. I don’t have a huge long term need, but every time I find myself trying to cut enough roots off a stump with a subsoiler and then beating my poor FEL to death with a stumps bucket, I keep thinking that even if I resold the hoe , I’d have risked my tractor a lot less often.

 

[Old_Paint]

Improvised trenching...
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My neighbor's ditch needs deepened but neither of us have a good tool and it's pretty soft. Several passes with a big poplar log seems to have helped.

Redneck engineering at its best. Well done!

 

[g_man]

Improvised trenching...
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My neighbor's ditch needs deepened but neither of us have a good tool and it's pretty soft. Several passes with a big poplar log seems to have helped.

That is an idea I need to try. I have 4 culverts that go under the road. On the outlet side is a flat shelf before it drops off into the woods. The ditch across the flat gets clogged with clay/silt and the only tool I have used is a spade. Hard work for me. Maybe I can make your idea work. Thanks for posting it !!

gg

 

[Old_Paint]

Didn’t take any photos because I was working by myself. Took down what I thought was a skinny little pine behind the shed for some upcoming removals scheduled with a tree service closer to the shed. Bucked five 10’+ logs 6”+ diameter from the “little skinny pine”. Used a 200’ 3/4” sisal rope that I’ve had for 40+ years and 3 snatch blocks to make it understand who was actually in charge, and the LX was more than happy to pull it taught. Face cut was spot on, but somehow I managed to hose up the back cut which let the tree fall about 6’ to the left of where it was supposed to go, but still escaped with only minor damage to a dogwood I’ve been nursing for 20 years. Stacked all the bucked logs and moved all the brush with the grapple. I figured out how to use the QH and a piece of tubing to hold the wire reel I’ve stored the rope on all these years. Two sweet gums on the agenda for tomorrow so I can barter with the tree service to remove two more larger pines that might be interfering with my shed expansion plans.

 

[fried1765]

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Oh no it ain’t. I’ve kicked myself more than once about not buying the hoe, let alone a thumb. I don’t have a huge long term need, but every time I find myself trying to cut enough roots off a stump with a subsoiler and then beating my poor FEL to death with a stumps bucket, I keep thinking that even if I resold the hoe , I’d have risked my tractor a lot less often.

I do not use my hoe often, but I do have a very beefy 28" root ripper for it, as well as the hydraulic thumb.