What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[g_man]

Today is a beautiful day although a bit windy here.

Before weather gets bad I did final clean up in yard and brought the waste to the compost station. The we cleaned out the chicken run, and then I made the last batch of lasagna for the year.

Looks like rain this week so will toss it a few times this week and next and call it good for the season if it cooks up nice.

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I like your compost se-up Grumpy !

 

[g_man]

Finished the final mowing of the season, I stepped over into my neighbor's field to take a wider view picture, mines a bit greener!
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Between yours and @beckmurpf's pictures I wish I had more open land and less woods. Very nice places - both.

gg

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

I like your compost se-up Grumpy !

LOL…Thanks…the price was right but it’s just about shot…the thermometer is the only thing that was bought new…everything else was repurposed, including the fasteners, the grass, leaves, wood chips, and chicken poop .

I have been putting off a couple deck projects, and I plan to repurpose the current decking to innovate the deteriorating pallets and have much fewer open slats.

 

[dirtydeed]

This weekend I attacked the neighbors overgrown wood line to get access to the back of the pasture fence. Wow. What a mess. Dead trees, wrapped up in vines, multiflora rose, autumn olive, poison ivy etc etc. Nasty stuff. I don't know how many dump truck loads I hauled off but it had to have been at least a dozen.

I got most of it done with only about 30' feet of really nasty stuff left to do. Access was granted by the neighboring property, thankfully.

I didn't get an actual start photo...just use your imagination.

Shot from the other side of the pasture looking towards the rehabbed tree line.

 

[Trustable]

Well with winter coming up I figured I’d oil up my bucket to keep the snow from sticking and rust from forming

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Don’t get distracted while filling fluids, always be sure to put the bar oil cap back on before righting your saw….

Did that same exact thing a few weeks ago. Also, Nothing like swinging the backpack blower on your back without the gas cap on. 5 minutes later “why are my pants wet and why does it smell like gas”

 

[Paul Allwood]

Bonehead

Ever looked at alternatives for digging a couple of shallow parallel trenches ? I stopped for a break from moving bricks. When I took off again I left the ballast box on the 3 point hitch down - oops. I even thought "it's struggling up this slope a bit more than usual, better engage 4WD"....idiot.

....should I build a box blade, a grader blade or a land plane to fix it ?

 

[NCL4701]

Bonehead

Ever looked at alternatives for digging a couple of shallow parallel trenches ? I stopped for a break from moving bricks. When I took off again I left the ballast box on the 3 point hitch down - oops. I even thought "it's struggling up this slope a bit more than usual, better engage 4WD"....idiot.

....should I build a box blade, a grader blade or a land plane to fix it ?

If I didn’t have something to fix that with, I’d take a pallet that isn’t exactly pristine, chain it up behind the tractor with some weight on it, and use it as a wooden land plane. Wouldn’t last long term, but it would fix that with a pass or two.

 

[Paul Allwood]

If I didn’t have something to fix that with, I’d take a pallet that isn’t exactly pristine, chain it up behind the tractor with some weight on it, and use it as a wooden land plane. Wouldn’t last long term, but it would fix that with a pass or two.

Thanks - I was sort of joking. I might make these one day, but for now, I have some steel mesh with a lump of railway iron tied to it. I'll drag it over a few times.

 

[Shawn T. W]

Some of my ground is uneven ... Depending on the job, it's nice to have two different sizes tractors ...

The usual complaint of the little SCUT of not being able to lift very high ... Means it can drop quite a ways into the creek!

 

[g_man]

Bonehead

Ever looked at alternatives for digging a couple of shallow parallel trenches ? I stopped for a break from moving bricks. When I took off again I left the ballast box on the 3 point hitch down - oops. I even thought "it's struggling up this slope a bit more than usual, better engage 4WD"....idiot.

....should I build a box blade, a grader blade or a land plane to fix it ?

You could load a pallet up with some of your bricks and drag it around. Should work fine.

gg

 

[mdhughes]

Bonehead

Ever looked at alternatives for digging a couple of shallow parallel trenches ? I stopped for a break from moving bricks. When I took off again I left the ballast box on the 3 point hitch down - oops. I even thought "it's struggling up this slope a bit more than usual, better engage 4WD"....idiot.

....should I build a box blade, a grader blade or a land plane to fix it ?

None of the above, I think you need make some kind of warning light to tell you the 3pt is down

 

[WI_Hedgehog]

I flushed and changed the coolant in my L3940. The drain plug is plastic and I was afraid it would snap off. I noticed during the flushes that it leaked a little around the drain plug. When I went back with the drain plug for the final time, I put several wraps of teflon tape and some sealant on it. That seemed to take care of the leak. C'mon Kubota....a plastic drain plug?

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[BT3101]

Pushed some leaves and then brush piles (no pics) still left from an ice storm last February. I've been ignoring the brush piles because they were not really in the way of anything but headed into Winter, I thought no way do I want this cleanup to not be finished after a year has passed.

For the leaves, I use a Scag 48" paired with an older Agri-Fab vac and chop buggy. It had an old Briggs on it when I bought it used. It was using oil so I replaced it with a Predator 312 and it does a great job. The RPMs and chute discharge volume synch really well between the Scag and the Predator engine.

I previously tried using the Agri-Fab with a John Deere LT and the mower RPMs (or chute discharge volume) were mismatched resulting in leaves blowing out from under the mower deck. This combo works great. Amazing how many leaves can be packed into one load in that buggy.