What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[RCW]

I used a mixture of 10 different grasses.

• 30% Timothee: Phleum pratense
• 10% Veldbeemdgras: Poa pratensis
• 15% Beemdlangbloem: Festuca pratensis
• 10% Engels raaigras: Lolium perenne
• 15% Roodzwenkgras: Festuca rubra
• 10% Kropaar: Dactylis glomerata
• 10% Rietzwenkgras: Festuca arundinacea

Bold is the percentage and dutch name.
This is a special mixture for horses. The grasses produce less fructane.
Usually a meadow used for grazing is sown with a mixture of different rye grasses.

Timothy grass was always my favorite to pull the tops out and chew on....

Made great hay.

You might have been a farm boy if......

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Another day in the woods…doing some seasonal observation lane trimming’. Even brought the old Ford along to run some fuel thru her.

Also see that a few of my young pear trees finally have a couple to eat if they make it until ripe.

 

[S-G-R]

Clean up time. Used the loader to pick up the Cub Cadet and scraped off the deck then pressure washed it.

The FDR2584 is next.

 

[The dutch guy]

Timothy grass was always my favorite to pull the tops out and chew on....

Made great hay.

You might have been a farm boy if......

Timothy grass and chamomille gives a lovely smell to the hay…

 

[Old_Paint]

Jockeyed trailers around my yard a bit today. Turns out it was free dump day for county residents and I needed to get rid off all the cutoffs and drops from my deck and chicken coop projects. Had enough stuff to nearly fill my 14’ tandem axle scattered and stockpiled about the property. I thought about burning it when the burn ban lifts next month, but most of it was pressure treated and not the best stuff to be burning, especially some that im pretty sure is pre-2003 material. Anything pre-2003 has arsenic in the treatment solution which is released when the wood is burned. The post-2003 stuff aint so great for the same reason less the arsenic, and the only reason I have to burn anything is because I need some ashes for the girls’ dust bath. The last thing I want to do is poison them while I’m trying to pamper them. So I loaded everything that I didn’t think I could repurpose and hauled it out to the landfill. Loaded everything I think I can repurpose on the 10 footer and towed it out to the storage rack. Got home from the landfill and put the 14 footer in it’s spot.

Been so dry here there’s not much to do with the tractor lately. I haven’t cranked the riding mower in 6 weeks. I’m thinking I may try to redirect some runoff from the neighbors property into a drainage ditch that comes from hos side and crosses my property and get some erosion under control. I reckon dry weather might be a good time to do that. The developers didn’t spend much time nor effort on storm water management so approximately 35 surrounding acres drain across my lot. Had I known that when I was buying the property in 2004……Im the only one who has cleared the wooded part of our lots of the scrub and poison ivy, privet hedge and thorny olive. PI doesn’t bother me so I waded in with a machete and axe the first year I lived here. All that backbreaking work is why I own the LX. Next month is the last payment that makes it officially mine.

 

[S-G-R]

Pressure washed tbe FDR2584 and greased it. Ran it for 15 mins to work the grease in and water out. Backed the tensioner off and now i need to figure out where I'm going to store it..

 

[McMXi]

Last week I did a coolant exchange on the M6060 replacing the factory stuff with ELC from NAPA. Today I decided to repeat the process for the MX even though I did it 18 months ago. The coolant I used for the MX last year is not ELC but it's what the local Kubota dealer sells. I also cleaned the screens, the air filters, and used the garden hose to wash a bunch of dirt out of the fins of the various coolers.

Then I got the PHD installed on the MX along with the new rock auger and started to make a hole. I'm thinking that the M6060 will be better suited to the job.

The first photo shows the Schwaben vacuum gauge and line disconnected from the EWK oil extractor once a vacuum has been created in the cooling system. The second photo shows the extension connected and ready to suck coolant out of a container and into the radiator. The third photo shows nice, clean ELC in the expansion tank.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

It’s that time of year…Spousal unit says it’s game time, so using the mobile communication platform functionality of the MX this evening….

 

[dirtydeed]

Garden and landscape bed removal at the horse farm...

Start

Finish

 

[S-G-R]

Time to put the outdoor furniture away before everything turns white.