What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Fastball714]

Poison Ivy is my #1 enemy!!!! I get a nasty rash whenever I come in contact with it- I love to be outside, and here in the N Y Hudson Valley there's plenty of it! I've gotten VERY GOOD at spotting and avoiding it, but each year I seem to brush against some somehow- This year (knock on wood) I haven't had any trouble. Hope I can get through the season w/o getting any!
Steve

I have the same reaction with poison ivy. I use a product called Zanfel. It's a little expensive, but worth it. It will take care of the rash and feels great as you apply it. I highly recommend it.

 

[sdodder]

I have the same reaction with poison ivy. I use a product called Zanfel. It's a little expensive, but worth it. It will take care of the rash and feels great as you apply it. I highly recommend it.

I'll have to try Zanfel - thanks for the tip

 

[Old_Paint]

That old tractor is in really nice shape from the looks !!

gg

I was admiring the tires on it. That's some serious ag tires.

 

[Old_Paint]

I had an interesting experience yesterday. About a week ago I saw my neighbor's Husqvarna riding mower stranded on his lawn with an obvious broken rear axle. In Friday's local Front Porch Forum I saw that he put in an ad to sell it for $300. Yesterday I was working in the door yard on my One-Ton fixing some rust spots like this


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Not great body work but good enough.

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Anyway as I was working a miniature truck pulled in - It looked like a Gator on steroids but with smaller tires. The guy asked if I was the one with a mower for sale. I said no and told where he went wrong. As he turned around and I looked at the truck I wondered if the mower would even fit in it and if it did how they were going to load it. Sure enough a little while later Joe, my neighbor, comes in and says he needs a favor. I went down with the M5640 and a couple 4' and 6' cargo straps along with one 9'er. Used all of them to make two slings. One under the transmission and one under the front frame. They looped onto the grapple tines. The side panel on the truck folded down and I loaded the mower from the side. The tires were on the bed, just barely, but he couldn't close the side panel because the deck stuck out. I asked about the thruck - A Honda Acty. Imported from Japan, 600 cc engine, 4WD. and not legal to import unless 25 or more years old beause of US emission laws. But once here about 25 states allow them to be registered and used on the road. Never saw one before - Photo I found on line

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gg

Back in the 70's, they were very popular in paper mills down here in the southeast because they can get in tight places and keep maintenance people mobile. Bicycles were completely banned because of the number of injuries, then the three wheelers. But these little guys were around right up to the 90's and a lot of them were converted to propane so they could be driven indoors. It was great for maintenance folks because one minute you're at the river intake pumps, next minute you're needed at the effluent ponds, and I've been in some mills where that distance might be nearly 10 miles. Not exactly a good motivator on a bicycle. Full size pickups have taken their place though, because as you say, emissions regulations. Imagine that, a tiny little go-kart with a bed on it polluting too much in a paper mill. There's your sign!

 

[PHPaul]

Mowed the fields for what is likely the last time (or at least next-to-last) for this year.

Today, the State is cleaning ditches and while they're working within a reasonable distance of my place, dumping the spoil on my patch. I'm sorting through it with my skeleton bucket (aka rock bucket) to get big rocks and sod/roots/brush out of it and then piling it up for future use. Most of it is pretty decent stuff, lot of sand but enough organic matter to make it useful.

Looks like 15-20 yards of pretty decent dirt once you screen out the sod, rocks and roots.

 

[PHPaul]

I was admiring the tires on it. That's some serious ag tires.

Rice and Cane tires. I have a set off a Shibaura I parted out.

 

[Old_Paint]

Kinda reminded me of the paddle treads on sand buggies, but I don’t think that tractor’s gonna be shootin’ any rooster tails with ‘em. I watched some off road stuff on Prime and they were running those on hopped up 4-wheeler rigs that probably were cranking out 500 HP or more.

 

[Old_Paint]

Started modding a new (to me) 60” box blade for the El Cheapo QH. Got some cutting and welding to do. There’s a piece of angle between the upright section that should be used to beat hell out of the idiot that decided welding it in place was a good idea. That’s gonna be the toughest part of the mod. The lift pins are a little close but I have some Cat 1-Cat 3 adapters that are gonna do the trick. Or, I can put spacers under the original pins and weld them in place to make it 1-1/4 inches wider. I have a couple options for the width problem but I don’t think I’m going have much fun cutting the welds out of the top where the top hook connects. Tight quarters and the welder approached it like killing a housefly with a locomotive. Gonna try my patience, I’m sure. Then I get to replace the diagonal with some 1-1/2 inch angle.

I’m still wondering why a Cat 1 Quick hitch has Cat 3 lift hooks on it. This is a Harbor Freight knockoff of the Speeco. Every single thing I have looked at suggests it’s identical other than price. The HF HaulMaster was $100 when I bought mine

 

[RMS]

I got to use the mulching head on my mini-ex yesterday. The hoses that came with it are 6' long and I had them bungied together and looped in a manner to try and keep them out of harms way. Try is the optimum word here. After 3 hours of work and constantly watching the hoses and being careful, I caught one of them under the mulcher and chewed it right apart. After getting the machine back to the barn and removing the hose, I measured and I am going to get 4' hoses made today at a local shop.

 

[RMS]

What a day yesterday. I got the new 4' hoses made on Thursday and installed them and routed them to keep out of harm's way. Along with other things going on, I didn't get back to the machine until yesterday. First thing I did was check the hydraulic fluid and found I lost more than I originally thought and used up what I had left and had to go out and buy more. I picked up a 5 gallon pail and was transferring it into the gallon jug for ease to fill the mini. Well.. I thought I had a good system going until I overfilled the gallon jug and made a good mess on the barn floor. No problem until I found my new bag of speedy dry in the corner had split and had made a mess there. Got that all picked up into buckets and ready to clean the barn floor.
Went out for my shake down cruise with the mulcher. Part way through I see a hydraulic leak at what appears to be the fittings connecting the hose to the mini. Tried tightening with the wrench I had with me, but no go. Walked back to the barn to get better wrenches. Got the fitting tightened and started up again. Low and behold, I must have loosened up another fitting when tightening the original one. Stopped the machine and tightened that one up. Ran for over an hour and all seemed well. Stopped at one point to un-jam the mulcher head ( stingy trees and shrubs can clog the unit) and looked things over. The fittings I worked on seemed good, but the other side looked like it might be leaking also. Couldn't find it so I finished up for the day.
Murphy was working overtime with me yesterday!
Today I'm going to mow the lawn and get other chores done and then take a good look at the mini for leaks, but first I have alot of residual fluid to clean off so I can really see what I got. I think I'll also do the service on the drives while I have it in the barn and get it ready for the next round.
All in all, I still really like having machines, I could spend my $$ on booze and women, but I'd rather go this way anytime.

 

[mdhughes]

I used the L3901DT and BH-77 to level an area. When it got close to 100°, I let the tractor idle a little and put it in the lean-to. The only thing that made the temperature not so bad, was the humidity was around 35%. I will be glad when it cools off a little bit.

I feel for anyone that has to work out in this heat and it doesn't look like it is going to cool off anytime soon.