What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[JonM]

make sure you have more than one 5 gallon bucket ready and are paying attention when your doing the 400 hour service and start draining the main hydro fluid tank.....

 

[Bmyers]

Changed the oil and filter. Then changed the radiator fluid.

Was going to change the hts filter, but the heat got the better of me. So that filter will wait for a cooler day.

 

[Quick]

Dug a grave for my neighbors horse (old age) with the backhoe on my little B last week. A first for me. No pics... )-:

 

[D2Cat]

make sure you have more than one 5 gallon bucket ready and are paying attention when your doing the 400 hour service and start draining the main hydro fluid tank.....

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A simple solution to having enough volume when draining fluid from tractor. Check with farmer neighbors and ask for a "protein tub". They get these through the winter for their cattle and end up with them everywhere. Cut off the top so the height fits under your tractor. I can drain all the fluid out of my L4240 ( 4 drain plugs) and may slide the tub a few inches to get the back two. No mess, and makes it simple.

 

[Killer Bee]

14yo mowed about 5-6 acres around the farm today while I worked on equipment maintenance.

air washed and getting fueled for next time.

1331 hrs on the zd21
513 hrs on the zd331

 

[Bmyers]

Tractor got to move another load of containers for us. Having the tractor and forks has helped out dramatically with the move.

 

[NCL4701]

Mowed the little field with trees by the public road. Left a little patch of milkweed, which is in bad need of some rain. The next door neighbors are maybe 100’ behind where I’m standing taking that picture, and they like seeing the Monarch caterpillars and adult Monarch butterflies that it attracts. We have a good bit more milkweed elsewhere, but that’s the only patch close enough for them to visit.

Our property goes down to about even with the blue and white sign for the development that’s barely visible on the other side of the road. This field only goes to about 100’ past the mailboxes and gravel road on this side of the paved road. We like the trees but it’s not exactly relaxing steering wheel holding in cruise control bush hogging in between all those trees. Have to lower the ROPs and remove loader to get it done. HST and independent PTO really shine with this job. The last little bit of bush hogging for a while was immediately adjacent to the road from the little field above down to the end of our road frontage and a couple short sections of our trails where Japanese stilt grass and smart weed grow thick and high enough to make walking unadvisable. Put the loader back on to get the front weight needed to keep the front end firmly on the ground when crossing the creeks. Put on the SMV triangle so I could road down to the development, turn around, and mow the road frontage facing traffic. ROPs back to normal position.

The public road was a rarely travelled, narrow dirt road when we moved here. DOT ran a paving machine over it several years ago and turned it into a narrow, light duty asphalt road. With two new developments on that road and several others in the area, there are several hundred vehicles a day on it and with a 55mph speed limit, I don’t much like mowing immediately adjacent to the road. Most folks don’t move over at all for the T2290 so they pass within a few inches at 60 mph. I won’t mow beside the road with the little mower. More move over for the L when approaching from the rear, but I still don’t much like it. Best for me is with the loader on, facing traffic, with the bucket or grapple about windshield height for a small pickup. For whatever reason no one passes close to that. Still, always wear the seatbelt when roading or adjacent to the road and don’t like it much. Much prefer to be down in the woods where any dangers don’t involve distracted drivers and only rarely involve other people.

 

[ken erickson]

Mowed the little field with trees by the public road. Left a little patch of milkweed, which is in bad need of some rain. The next door neighbors are maybe 100’ behind where I’m standing taking that picture, and they like seeing the Monarch caterpillars and adult Monarch butterflies that it attracts. We have a good bit more milkweed elsewhere, but that’s the only patch close enough for them to visit.

Our property goes down to about even with the blue and white sign for the development that’s barely visible on the other side of the road. This field only goes to about 100’ past the mailboxes and gravel road on this side of the paved road. We like the trees but it’s not exactly relaxing steering wheel holding in cruise control bush hogging in between all those trees. Have to lower the ROPs and remove loader to get it done. HST and independent PTO really shine with this job. View attachment 175824 The last little bit of bush hogging for a while was immediately adjacent to the road from the little field above down to the end of our road frontage and a couple short sections of our trails where Japanese stilt grass and smart weed grow thick and high enough to make walking unadvisable. Put the loader back on to get the front weight needed to keep the front end firmly on the ground when crossing the creeks. Put on the SMV triangle so I could road down to the development, turn around, and mow the road frontage facing traffic. ROPs back to normal position.

The public road was a rarely travelled, narrow dirt road when we moved here. DOT ran a paving machine over it several years ago and turned it into a narrow, light duty asphalt road. With two new developments on that road and several others in the area, there are several hundred vehicles a day on it and with a 55mph speed limit, I don’t much like mowing immediately adjacent to the road. Most folks don’t move over at all for the T2290 so they pass within a few inches at 60 mph. I won’t mow beside the road with the little mower. More move over for the L when approaching from the rear, but I still don’t much like it. Best for me is with the loader on, facing traffic, with the bucket or grapple about windshield height for a small pickup. For whatever reason no one passes close to that. Still, always wear the seatbelt when roading or adjacent to the road and don’t like it much. View attachment 175825 Much prefer to be down in the woods where any dangers don’t involve distracted drivers and only rarely involve other people. View attachment 175826 View attachment 175827 View attachment 175828

Looks like you had a great day outdoors mowing also!

Even though central Wisconsin is still very dry we did have some rain the last 4 or so days. The major storms have skirted either to the north or to the south.

I spent 3 1/2 hours mowing the remaining trails on my property but then also the foot and half tall wet cool season grasses along the easement road.

I also mowed down some thick wild raspberry brambles choking out light to the native species in a sizable area. I am going to face the fact that my oak savanna is at the state where a prescribed fire will really be beneficial. Still scares the dickens out of me!

 

[NCL4701]

Looks like you had a great day outdoors mowing also!

Even though central Wisconsin is still very dry we did have some rain the last 4 or so days. The major storms have skirted either to the north or to the south.

I spent 3 1/2 hours mowing the remaining trails on my property but then also the foot and half tall wet cool season grasses along the easement road.

I also mowed down some thick wild raspberry brambles choking out light to the native species in a sizable area. I am going to face the fact that my oak savanna is at the state where a prescribed fire will really be beneficial. Still scares the dickens out of me!

Nice!

While I understand the benefits of prescribed burns, they scare me, too.

When I was a kid, one of our neighbors had a burn get out of control, burning his house, barns, fences, equipment, and everything else at his place. Somehow I’ve had a hard time forgetting that.

 

[ken erickson]

Nice!

While I understand the benefits of prescribed burns, they scare me, too.

When I was a kid, one of our neighbors had a burn get out of control, burning his house, barns, fences, equipment, and everything else at his place. Somehow I’ve had a hard time forgetting that.

Wow! Something like that would be my worst nightmare. Even though I only have a tractor shed on the 57 acres I do not want to burn down any of my neighbors places!

A very good friend that comes up and helps me at times is deeply involved in central Wisconsin working in the habitat/conservation field. He has been on many many prescribed burns, and has fire training including being the burn boss. A burn boss is the person responsible for permits, writing the burn plan, assembling the burn crew and making sure it is carried out safely.

He has been suggesting a burn for the last 4 years now and when I admitted to him today that I am getting on board with a burn, he said "about time" ! We shall see .

 

[#40Fan]

Moved a little dirt. ~320 yards.

 

[NCL4701]

Moved a little dirt. ~320 yards.

Watcha doin with all that dirt?

 

[Bmyers]

Woke up to a couple of friends out the kitchen window.

We all finished breakfast and then I went over and checked the fluids from the change the other day. Topped off the radiator fluid.

Went to fix the mower deck wheel only to find out that Kubota uses the same part number for two a frame brackets. Went back to the dealer showed them the old one, showed them the new one, they checked the order, correct part number, but obviously wasn't the right length. After about 15 minutes of research by the parts guys, they finally realized that the mower has the same part number for that a frame put when you look into the notes it covers a short frame and a long frame. So they got the correct one ordered and now I watch my grass grow till it gets here.

 

[#40Fan]

Watcha doin with all that dirt?

It is topsoil that I removed for a building pad. Not sure where all of it will go when I'm done.

 

[S-G-R]

Hoping the rain stops long enough for me to mow grass before it turns into hay. It was sunny when I took the picture but was raining

 

[Paul Allwood]

We've had a lot of wet days since I made the bits to mount the spray tank on the 3 point. I finally got out to use it today to spray weeds. It worked well, just needs the wiring done.