so.... if anyone asks if they can pay you to dig a trench and backfill it in fondulac wisconsin the correct answer is no....
What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Used the DR (and BX2380) today. First leaf vaccing this Fall. Filled the 330 gallon trailer twice.
Actually over-filled it on the first run. Had to stop and disconnect the hose to clean it out.
That seems to happen at least once every season...
Actually over-filled it on the first run. Had to stop and disconnect the hose to clean it out.
That seems to happen at least once every season...
Got the vac trailer hooked up to the Kubota again and cleaned up another batch of Fall leaves from the back yard. Filled the 330-gallon trailer twice more. Wind and rain overnight and now it looks like I didn't do anything out there.
Did a bit of PM on the tractor while I had it out - oil, grease, etc. - Nothing heavy. Oh yeah, took the loader off it for now. I'll put it back on when the snow starts to fly.
Did a bit of PM on the tractor while I had it out - oil, grease, etc. - Nothing heavy. Oh yeah, took the loader off it for now. I'll put it back on when the snow starts to fly.
ajschnitzelbank
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L4701, BH92, Frost Bite grapple, Logosol M8 mill, Stihl MS661
ajschnitzelbank
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Had a good sized maple fall a while back. Finally got to it for firewood. It was up a small embankment next to my driveway, so I threw a chain around a few sections and pulled then out with the hoe. Had to reposition the chain a several times. I was envious of y’all with winches! But then I thought about using a wheelbarrow and was grateful for what I do have.
I'm not sure this counts as I wasn't on the tractor. I was standing beside it and it only took a couple minutes. I had a leaky dump trailer tire that needed a inner tube to fix it. I used a grapple tine to break the bead. Worked very good. Pic is after the fact just to show how I set it up.
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My play toy, LOL
1980 L9000 with a 6V92TA Detroit and King aparatus.
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I don’t know what any of that means, but dang that’s a cool toy.
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Greased up the tractor and mower deck. Checked all the fluids and filters.
Headed out to the back pasture to do some mowing and fall cleaning. Spent a couple of hours mowing and now need to bring the chainsaw and the pole saw to do some more cleaning and opening up paths.
Headed out to the back pasture to do some mowing and fall cleaning. Spent a couple of hours mowing and now need to bring the chainsaw and the pole saw to do some more cleaning and opening up paths.
A week ago we got over 4" of rain Sunday into Monday, then another inch in the middle of the week, and .75 this past Friday night into Saturday; it's been very soggy. My driveway could really use some time pulling the land plane; hopefully today or tomorrow will be that time. Also...if the MIL could not drive through the grass, that would be very appreciated.
Just getting started. That was mostly maple leaves. Most of my trees are 80+ year old pin oaks, and they haven't even started turning color yet. Also have a few hickory and sycamore trees, plus I'm bordered on three sides by oak and maple forest so I get a lot of those leaves, too. Ladt year's count was something like 40 trailer loads.
Thank's. I saw it up for bid and I had to save it before it went to someone that would cut it up and make a farm beater.
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Hate to admit Geddy and I put the Snowblower on…chains are on already.
Don’t like Winter.
Winter was nice in Hawaii when I was there ... ! 
I've got a FEL snow blade coming ... Probably won't snow in Southwest Missouri now!
I've got a FEL snow blade coming ... Probably won't snow in Southwest Missouri now!
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Went out to check game cams this morning and found yet another dead Virginia pine precariously hanging over a trail.
Couldn’t see what exactly it was hung up in due to too much surrounding foliage.
Looked like it was almost totally in two pieces at the base: just kind of sitting on the stump but not really attached.
Already had the winch and grapple on the tractor. The winch has me really spoiled dealing with this sort of thing. Below is looking from the base of the tree where I just set a choker back to the tractor, which is well out of range of whatever is about to happen.
Original plan was pull it sideways to get it off the stump, then reset to pull it straight backward to get it down. Just as I engaged the PTO to start the initial pull, a friend called. 45 minutes later, got back to the tree job. A light pull got it off the stump and it immediately fell. One cut and then grappled the bottom 16’ off the trail. Due to the phone call interruption, wife thought this took an hour of work when it was actually 15 minutes of fiddling with equipment.
While I had the tractor out, reorganized the firewood log pile by the shed. Had four nicely straight sweet gum logs mixed in with some maple, all windfall from early summer and waiting for cooler weather to work up. Sweet gum is not nearly the best firewood species we have, but it was on the ground so I figured I could settle for it. Later in the summer, we had a storm that took out a couple dozen trees: oaks, beech, hickory, and maple. Decided to get up some of the better stuff and skip the gum. Wife wants the gum logs for some undisclosed landscaping project. Used the grapple to sort the gum out of the log pile and move them about 200 yards to the edge of a meadow where there’s a pile wife has been gathering for her project. I’m assuming someday she’ll either let me know what she wants done with the logs, or she’ll get ambitious and grapple them to their final location herself.
Couldn’t see what exactly it was hung up in due to too much surrounding foliage.
Looked like it was almost totally in two pieces at the base: just kind of sitting on the stump but not really attached.
Already had the winch and grapple on the tractor. The winch has me really spoiled dealing with this sort of thing. Below is looking from the base of the tree where I just set a choker back to the tractor, which is well out of range of whatever is about to happen.
Original plan was pull it sideways to get it off the stump, then reset to pull it straight backward to get it down. Just as I engaged the PTO to start the initial pull, a friend called. 45 minutes later, got back to the tree job. A light pull got it off the stump and it immediately fell. One cut and then grappled the bottom 16’ off the trail. Due to the phone call interruption, wife thought this took an hour of work when it was actually 15 minutes of fiddling with equipment.
While I had the tractor out, reorganized the firewood log pile by the shed. Had four nicely straight sweet gum logs mixed in with some maple, all windfall from early summer and waiting for cooler weather to work up. Sweet gum is not nearly the best firewood species we have, but it was on the ground so I figured I could settle for it. Later in the summer, we had a storm that took out a couple dozen trees: oaks, beech, hickory, and maple. Decided to get up some of the better stuff and skip the gum. Wife wants the gum logs for some undisclosed landscaping project. Used the grapple to sort the gum out of the log pile and move them about 200 yards to the edge of a meadow where there’s a pile wife has been gathering for her project. I’m assuming someday she’ll either let me know what she wants done with the logs, or she’ll get ambitious and grapple them to their final location herself.