What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[In Utopia]

Cut a 1’ section near the base. That will kill it. Whatever else you do won’t help or hurt, but removing the 1’ section as you are planning will kill it. Even if you’re allergic, that’s pretty easy with a bush axe. One hard hit high, another low, push the blade in sideways between the vine and tree, then twist to pop out the 1’ section. If you don’t remove the 1’ section, sometimes it will survive. You get to stay about 3’ away throughout the process.

Keep the bush axe head down in a bucket if you carry it in a vehicle. Wash the bush axe and bucket before putting them away. That method has worked for me for the last few decades.

Hate your wife is so bad off with it. Hopefully they’ll get her enough steroids to get her back to normal quickly.

Edit: Definitely don’t saw it if you’re allergic at all.

Don't have an ax, so I'll be using a saws all with a blade for limbs, wash it with alcohol and then soap and water. As I said the one that started this mess is about 5-6" in diameter, no way I could cut that with an ax, the Paul Bunyan left my body about 40 years ago.
Got any other tips I'd be glad to hear them.

 

[NCL4701]

Don't have an ax, so I'll be using a saws all with a blade for limbs, wash it with alcohol and then soap and water. As I said the one that started this mess is about 5-6" in diameter, no way I could cut that with an ax, the Paul Bunyan left my body about 40 years ago.
Got any other tips I'd be glad to hear them.

A saw will spray the oil so suit up really good. Chainsaw is the worst. Using sawzall, suit up as best you can (including eye protection), wash/dispose of whatever you’re wearing immediately after, and shower in as cold a water as you can stand as soon as possible. Hot shower opens pores, which isn’t good. That’s all I got.

 

[In Utopia]

Oh yeah, Tyvec disposable hazmat type suit, full face shield, rubble boots, nitrile gloves with heavy gloves over and a mask. I'm gonna look I'm ready for battle.
Planing on doing it early morning while it's still about 90 and no wind.

 

[Bmyers]

We setup the electric fence for the new chicken coop. Tractor got the job of hauling materials and then becoming a work table.

I asked my wife to check the fence to see if it was working. She had never setup an electric fence before. She reached over and grabbed the fence and based on the words that came out of her mouth, I would say the fence is working very well.

I then showed her the fence tester and how it worked. More choice words came out wanting to know why I didn't show that to her before I asked her to check the fence.

Oh well, no one is perfect, I will try better next time to get the proper order of training.

 

[lynnmor]

I use an ax or hatchet to cut the poison ivy vines, a chainsaw will throw some sap on my forearms and that will burn in. I don't have a problem with PI but the exception is the chainsaw sap. I cut a small section out of vines that grew too tall to reasonably spray with Roundup, then when the vine produces enough leaves to a height of about seven feet, I spray it heavily so that it kills roots and all.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

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We setup the electric fence for the new chicken coop. Tractor got the job of hauling materials and then becoming a work table.

I asked my wife to check the fence to see if it was working. She had never setup an electric fence before. She reached over and grabbed the fence and based on the words that came out of her mouth, I would say the fence is working very well.

I then showed her the fence tester and how it worked. More choice words came out wanting to know why I didn't show that to her before I asked her to check the fence.

Oh well, no one is perfect, I will try better next time to get the proper order of training.

Just so you know, I spilled/spit out some perfectly good bourbon on that one.

 

[trikepilot]

Finally put on the 1.5in wheel spacers I had been contemplating. I feel like I tempt fate too often on my hilly chunk of land. This should make things a bit more stable

 

[netspyder]

uncrated and test drove my 5' tiller today. bent both 3-point arm pins on the thing. was going slow but lots of rocks to dig up and shoot out the back. i'd have pictures except i also ran over my phone and had to quit to go to the mobile store. definitely has been a day

 

[MOOTS]

Nice looking Horse. I don’t think Ive ever seen one with that much shroud on the engine. Or is that larger fuel tanks? I think my ‘78 model might not be the one to compare to others though.

That’s my holy grail. Kohler magnum 8hp, electric start(have it removed at the moment), 4 speed and PTO. Will probably list it after this year.
That’s the bigger engine cage. There were 2 or 3 sizes over the years. Factory fuel tank, no longer available and pushing $200 used online.
This is how I brought it home.


After a good bath, wheels/tires and tines, she looks presentable. Not bad for $75.

 

[NCL4701]

Started assessing the drive belt failure on my T2290. I’ve changed drive belts at least a few dozen times on probably ten or so different MTD style riders. Usually, getting the deck off and back on is about half the job. Not this time. The guy in the below video is mostly just complaining, but starting at about 40 seconds it very clearly shows the issue.

It is physically impossible to access it from the bottom. It’s also impossible to slide it in and around the drive sheave on the engine because there’s an idler and tension sheave above a plate, where steering and the idler sheaves are mounted, and below the dash/console assembly. If you pull all the stuff off the plate, you just removed two of the sheaves in the drive belt routing, so accessing from the bottom doesn’t work. Currently pulling stuff off the top until I can access everything. After an hour, I got this far.
I’m not sure what all else has to come off. Depends on the exact routing of the belt, but pretty sure it goes around some stuff that will have to be removed. No reason to take the engine out, though. Maybe the steering column and HST pedal linkage, and park brake cable (if the dash has to come all the way off).

Many thanks to @edritchey, who is sending me the shop manual.

Edit: This is as far as I got today. A handful of keepers still need removing and some of the brake and HST linkage may need disassembling and reassembling to get the new belt on, but it’s far enough to know it just needs a belt.

No obvious reason for it to come off. All the sheaves turn feely and all keepers still in place. Hadn’t depressed the brake to disengage the belt in probably the last two hours of mowing. Guessing some debris somehow knocked it off.

Messick’s diagrams were helpful in figuring out routing.
Don’t much like the attitude of the guy in the above video, but I do agree with him having to tear the mower down to this degree to replace a wear item is kind of nuts. This is definitely the first time I’ve had to pull the steering column to replace a belt on anything.
And to give credit where it’s due, I couldn’t have gotten this far without help from shop cat.

 

[Old_Paint]

Take some before/after pictures. We would like to see the progress.

Here’s one that’s where I stopped last Monday, and approximately where I’ll be starting tomorrow. I think I got a few more laps in after I took the photo. Got about 25-30% left on this field and maybe 50% left for the fence clearing. Should finish up tomorrow, assuming the weather cooperates. Got a Tropical Storm in the Gulf of America (tongue firmly in cheek) and that makes weather in the southeast about as predictable as a pair of dice on a crapshoot, perhaps even less.

The brush pile on the right is from clearing the fence line from the barn around the right to just behind where I was sitting. The guy that used to cut for her never got off the tractor I don’t think. I have my grapple on, so moving cut or fallen brush is a lot easier. I had stopped for a drink of water when I took this with the temperature at 94 and heat index at 108. It was HOT out there. This field is the big one at about 16 acres. I need a much bigger tractor and mower, but I’ll get it done.

 

[Anil8tor]

If you did something to or on you're tractor today and you don't want to start a new thread then post it here

Finally got my orange tractor, its a BX2660 with the loader and 60 inch belly mower. The previous owner took very good care of it. It looks and functions like new. it is replacing a 1979 Satoh that i built the loader on and added power steering. It has been a good friend, but lately every time i needed to use it, i had to fix something first. So I'm going to sell the old Satoh 550G and enjoy my "new to me" BX2660. I love the hydro-static transmission and 4 wheel drive. I've spent a lot of hours on the BX2660 catching up on clean up and mowing of my property. My wife calls it "my emotional support tractor". Happy to be here on this great site, Thanks for allowing me to join.

 

[S-G-R]

Welcome to OTT!

 

[JimDeL]

Welcome! We're a (generally) friendly bunch. Jump in anywhere.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Don't have an ax, so I'll be using a saws all with a blade for limbs, wash it with alcohol and then soap and water. As I said the one that started this mess is about 5-6" in diameter, no way I could cut that with an ax, the Paul Bunyan left my body about 40 years ago.
Got any other tips I'd be glad to hear them.

1. Apply technu or skin moisturizer before you go out. This helps keep the oil from penetrating dry skin, so it will wash off better.
2. Use a brush killer with triclopyr, Crossbow or similar, on the cut stump to keep it from coming back.
3. Stay out from under the tree for a week or two after cutting the vine. I think sap rain is what sent my then-wife and me to urgent care when we first moved in our house. The builder had just cut the vines on the trees in the back yard.

 

[PoTreeBoy]

Saturday was brush burning day. Got a good burn, except I didn't plan on a generally north wind, so my neighbor across the road got smoked. I cut and burned a big cedar limb for her to atone. I didn't realize it wasn't dead until I got to it, so it added to the smoke, oh well.

Friday, I put the 2-bottom plow on Katy and plowed a fire lane around the pile. We had rain last week, so it was a good time to burn, except for the north wind. Once I got it started, it burned all day. I stopped adding fuel around 3:30, and at 9 it was down to campfire size.

The grapple once again paid for itself. Not only for adding brush, but for keeping it pushed up. Then today I used it to rake out the ashes and dirt, and pick up the unburnt chunks. There were quite a few smallish pine stumps and they burned better than I expected. There was one with quite a bit of dirt on it that didn't burn. The heat dried the dirt so the grapple could knock it out. It should burn next time.

 

[biketopia]

1. Apply technu or skin moisturizer before you go out. This helps keep the oil from penetrating dry skin, so it will wash off better.

+ 1 on Technu! I get PI pretty bad and would get it at the most random times messing around the property. Now, after I've been messing around in an area with it, I wash real good with Technu, and then when I shower I do it two or three more times, has done a really good job of keeping me from having to go get steroids.

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[Anil8tor]

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If you did something to or on you're tractor today and you don't want to start a new thread then post it here

I thought I'd Put A pic of my BX2660 as my avatar. I'll bet nobody else thought of that!

 

[dirtydeed]

Did some mowing at the horse farm with the flail mower. No drama other than having to dump out my fuel filter 3x while I was out near the road ditch. I was on a pretty good side angle so I suppose I have some water in the fuel and it conked out 3 times. Fired back up each time after dumping fuel from the filter.

I'm always careful about my fuel (I even use a mr. funnel). I think I'll let the level drop then drain the tank.

Start:






Road ditch...leading to fuel issues







done

 

[Anil8tor]

If you did something to or on you're tractor today and you don't want to start a new thread then post it here

I got the front half of the 2 acre field in front of my house mowed this morning. Came back up for a second cup of coffee, now back to do the other half. My house sits on a hill behind some woods. This field sets by the road and my driveway runs through it. It looked like a jungle a month ago