What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[Paul Allwood]

During the summer if I get a hardwood blow down across a trail I just move it off and leave it trailside. I end up with bits of firewood spread all over. Then on a nice day like today when I am in the mood I go out and pick some of it up. This is my 4th stop. White Birch on top of some Red Maple and Yellow Birch

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and the 6th stop - Beech and more Yellow Birch

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Some of it isn't too pretty

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the 8th and last stop for today - some more Beech and Iron Wood (Hop Hornbeam)

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3/4 of a cord - should give me a good half cord when all worked up

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In the door yard ready to go.

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Makes for a good day for an old guy who likes to putter in the woods

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Great setup, first for collecting the logs, then for transferring to the bench. Do you use the timber bench to support the logs while you cut them into lengths ready for splitting ? I'd be interested to see your next steps too.

 

[g_man]

Great setup, first for collecting the logs, then for transferring to the bench. Do you use the timber bench to support the logs while you cut them into lengths ready for splitting ? I'd be interested to see your next steps too.

Yes, I block it up on the table with the splitter nearby. Some times I split it and stack it -




And some times I split it into the bucket and stack it in the shed -






gg

 

[Shawn T. W]

I finally pulled my battery out and got everything cleaned up ... When I bought it last July the dealer told be the battery ground to frame was corroded ...



I load tested the nearly 4 year old battery ...



And gave it about 45 mL of water in each vent ...



Then put it all back together with dielectric grease ...

Then I filled a tote and took it down to the creek to give the little fishies a drink ...



Another 250 gallons ... We only got 0.11" of rain on Thursday night ...

 

[S-G-R]

Used the forks to put my stairs back on the deck.

 

[Shawn T. W]

Took another tote of water down to the creek, we've only had 0.11" of rain in more than 6 weeks, then only a little over an inch the previous 6 weeks!

 

[netspyder]

well ... dried in the cabin this weekend, but not using my kubota. i did brush hog everything, drag the driveway with the box blade, and till and plant my food plot

next year the grass should fill out.

truckload of manure doesn't go as far as you hope it will

 

[ken erickson]

Spent a greet fall weekend tent camping in my wall tent.

Did a bit of grapple work and maintenance mowed about 3/4 acre of prairie. Hopefully I will be able to do a prescribed burn in the next year or so.
For now the maintenance mowing is knocking down the un-wanted woody species that are creeping in from the edges, aspens and scot pines.

This coming spring I am replacing the wall tent with a pre-built 14x24 structure that will include a 6 foot covered porch. This old man is getting to the point of wanting a hard shell for my stays at the land. I will be using the tractor to enlarge the tent pad and spread and level gravel.

 

[RCW]

No tractor in this one, but related.

Geddy agrees with my assessment.

When the leaves are (almost) down, the mower deck comes off the tractor.

Tire chains go on, loader if needed, then snowblower.

Looks like we’re about there for the seasonal transition.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

Spent a greet fall weekend tent camping in my wall tent.

Did a bit of grapple work and maintenance mowed about 3/4 acre of prairie. Hopefully I will be able to do a prescribed burn in the next year or so.
For now the maintenance mowing is knocking down the un-wanted woody species that are creeping in from the edges, aspens and scot pines.

This coming spring I am replacing the wall tent with a pre-built 14x24 structure that will include a 6 foot covered porch. This old man is getting to the point of wanting a hard shell for my stays at the land. I will be using the tractor to enlarge the tent pad and spread and level gravel.

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I bet tha cabin would be toasty warm with a small wood stove in it. (Do you / will you have a well at the cabin?)

Regarding your prairie lands: Do you spot spray, pull, or just knock down the invasive/unwanted species before they go to seed?

 

[ken erickson]

I bet tha cabin would be toasty warm with a small wood stove in it. (Do you / will you have a well at the cabin?)

Regarding your prairie lands: Do you spot spray, pull, or just knock down the invasive/unwanted species before they go to seed?

No well at the land. I bring in drinking water/cooking water and have a water guzzler that collects rain water for dish washing etc.

I do have a small hot tent wood stove but not sure if I will use it or look for something better suited.

My main tool has been selective spot spraying of invasive species including woody species. Spotted knapweed is my most prevalent invasive. I use Milestone and spot spray. I was told by a highly regarded local expert on spotted knapweed to stop hand pulling. He says it only disturbs the soil and will kick start 2 or 3 new plants by pulling one. Mowing only forces the plant to bud out at a lower height.

I use Garlon 4 for woody species such as unwanted oak sprouts and aspens.

I have used the girdling method for killing off black locust mother trees with
some success.

The unwanted scot pines just require cutting below the bottom branches and then will not resprout. My land at one time was a Christmas tree plantation , 50's to 80's, and has a ton of seed in the seed bank.

Even though common buckthorn is a issue in Central Wisconsin, as of now, its not a issue on my land.

 

[GrumpyFarmer]

No well at the land. I bring in drinking water/cooking water and have a water guzzler that collects rain water for dish washing etc.

I do have a small hot tent wood stove but not sure if I will use it or look for something better suited.

My main tool has been selective spot spraying of invasive species including woody species. Spotted knapweed is my most prevalent invasive. I use Milestone and spot spray. I was told by a highly regarded local expert on spotted knapweed to stop hand pulling. He says it only disturbs the soil and will kick start 2 or 3 new plants by pulling one. Mowing only forces the plant to bud out at a lower height.

I use Garlon 4 for woody species such as unwanted oak sprouts and aspens.

I have used the girdling method for killing off black locust mother trees with
some success.

The unwanted scot pines just require cutting below the bottom branches and then will not resprout. My land at one time was a Christmas tree plantation , 50's to 80's, and has a ton of seed in the seed bank.

Even though common buckthorn is a issue in Central Wisconsin, as of now, its not a issue on my land.

sounds like a great place for some R&R and light farming of sorts. I’d probably arrange the the porch so you have an area that can be used as a covered shooting range…that’s what I did with ours and I love it. Best cup of coffee I have ever had was sitting under the covered porch watch my bowling alley in the rain . Keep us posted on your cabin project.

Buckthorn is considered an invasive where I am at and we also have what locals call fragmites which is a really tall grass around wetlands. We also have a lot of wild grape vines….if those or poison ivy were a cash crop Buffett would have nothing on me. We’ve been at it for several years now (since ‘17).

the results are really remarkable. We planted a pollinator habitat last winter in the snow (just mowed it down last visit) and plan to plan another area this winter. Only troublespots were heavy drainage areas and I will replant those this winter. So far good results but I still have to spot spray and mow down. So far so good though.

 

[Shawn T. W]

I was out digging near my creek with My Little Baby Fergie today, and got too close and was sliding on the loose rocks that I had dug with the BH, and was trying to scoop up and remove . . .



I didn't want to dump the bucket of dirt and rocks in the creek, as there is very little water there, and I've been hauling water down to keep the fish alive, and didn't want to muddy it all up for them ... You can see I got the BH to push the back up about 16", but it wouldn't backup out of there ...

I tried to pull it straight back, the bucket wouldn't anchor in, it just wanted to scoop up the dirt ... And I'd spin the tires ...



So I did the walk of shame up the hill to get the Kubota's keys ...



It didn't even notice anything was hooked to the chain, just eased on up out of there!

Little Baby Fergie though wouldn't stay put, so ... I went down to back up a tad to unhook the chain ... It wouldn't back up! Locked in the rear axle, it would just spin the tires!

Then I remembered ... Earlier I had gone up to the house to get more water ... And had taken it out of 4X4 mode ... I looked down ... And felt like an idiot, as sure enough it was still in 2wd!

Probably wasted half an hour ... But it's always comforting to know if things go sideways ... Having two tractors make life easier!

 

[Paul Allwood]

I got the mower back together yesterday after the latest changes and started mowing. Finished mowing today and found something a bit longer to test it on. It doesn't set any speed records.

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[biketopia]

Not much tractor work. Picked up two dump trailers' worth of firewood over the past few days. Hate to pay for wood, but fell way behind for this year's season with the now 1-year-old and 4-year-old taking up most of our time. I have about 8 logs that are 20" around and 10 feet long that have been stacked for 2+ years. I'll cut and split them for a start to next year's stash. Also have a good lead on trees moving forward and with my brother now only 15 min away, we can more easily knock out a good wood-splitting session.

A few weeks ago I went with my brother out to Wardensville WV to pick up an L3830 with only 300 hours on it. Been helping him get the fluids changed and some operator training for his new toy.

Then hopefully next week we get to take delivery of the cabbed grand L3970 I ordered for our easement crew at work, which should be a great upgrade over the tired and too-small B3200 it is replacing.

 

[Sidekick]

Not much tractor work. Picked up two dump trailers' worth of firewood over the past few days. Hate to pay for wood, but fell way behind for this year's season with the now 1-year-old and 4-year-old taking up most of our time. I have about 8 logs that are 20" around and 10 feet long that have been stacked for 2+ years. I'll cut and split them for a start to next year's stash. Also have a good lead on trees moving forward and with my brother now only 15 min away, we can more easily knock out a good wood-splitting session.

A few weeks ago I went with my brother out to Wardensville WV to pick up an L3830 with only 300 hours on it. Been helping him get the fluids changed and some operator training for his new toy.

Then hopefully next week we get to take delivery of the cabbed grand L3970 I ordered for our easement crew at work, which should be a great upgrade over the tired and too-small B3200 it is replacing.

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago as I am behind. With fuel oil over $6.00 a gallon it was definitely worth it

Finally ahead now after starting to clean up EAB killed ash. Nothing like wood heat.

 

[mdhughes]

I used the L3901DT and BH77 to grade a slope up to a lean-to. Also dug another trench for a dead-man for a retaining wall I'm building. Move 5 bucket load of dirt to back fill the retaining wall.

 

[RMS]

I had 6 big pines cut behind my house. I started moving the pieces that weren't chipped to an are that I am filling in. This was the first time I had to back down the hill to that area due to the weight on the grapple. Even with a boatload of ballast and 4wd, I was not going to tempt fate. I have some more left that a neighbor might want for milling, but if that doesn't pan I will have some more trips to make.
I also used the dethatcher to rake up a whole bunch of pine needles, sure beats raking.

 

[biketopia]

I did the same thing a couple weeks ago as I am behind. With fuel oil over $6.00 a gallon it was definitely worth it
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Finally ahead now after starting to clean up EAB killed ash. Nothing like wood heat.

Nice! The beetles killed a lot of our ash trees too. The neighbor had a bunch of standing dead ones taken down when he moved in 5 years ago, and I split and burned quite a few of those. I was lucky enough to find 2 different guys close by that had dropped trees last year and split all the wood, then decided there was no way they were burning all of it in their fireplaces; much cheaper than the guys who sell it around me as their business. Picked up a load of dried maple and dried red oak ready to go. Need to finish stacking the maple, though

 

[Sidekick]

Nice! The beetles killed a lot of our ash trees too. The neighbor had a bunch of standing dead ones taken down when he moved in 5 years ago, and I split and burned quite a few of those. I was lucky enough to find 2 different guys close by that had dropped trees last year and split all the wood, then decided there was no way they were burning all of it in their fireplaces; much cheaper than the guys who sell it around me as their business. Picked up a load of dried maple and dried red oak ready to go. Need to finish stacking the maple, though

I have the 2 cords I bought stacked on the south side of my garage in the sun and it's ready to burn now.

Moving another 2 cords I cut up on my porch now. Should be good until beginning of March with this. Have about 20 more face cords of ash in the woods I am cutting now. Just bought the bigger Milwaukee 20 inch battery saw to try and I love it. No more gas required.

 

[RCW]

No tractor in this one, but related.

Geddy agrees with my assessment.

When the leaves are (almost) down, the mower deck comes off the tractor.

Tire chains go on, loader if needed, then snowblower.

Looks like we’re about there for the seasonal transition.

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Yep, and today is the day. Snowblower won’t go on just yet. Chains will go on next week or two. Do some service, motor oil change, etc.

if you’ve ever put tire chains on in the snow or really cold weather, you know why I put them on early. Much easier when it’s 50-60 degrees F.