What did you do to or on your Kubota today?
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Sounds like a lot of work went into that, the hard work definitely paid off. Do you have any old photos of what the road used to look like?
I decided to go back outside again a few hours after setting all my smaller wood branches on fire and threw a giant buckthorn stump the previous owner decided to bury on the property in a terrible location. Used the FEL to scoop it up and eased it into the fire pit being careful to keep the hydraulic lines and anything flammable away from the short flames. The stump is starting to catch as the 5' pile I had is turning to ash.
Nice looking fire pit, but I wonder if those landscape stones will be able to take the heat?
I'm thinking they are going to crumble from the extreme heat. Time will tell.
I'm thinking they are going to crumble from the extreme heat. Time will tell.
Thanks! I've used it regularly for 2 years now with no issue. The retaining wall blocks sit on an 8" bed of clean limestone with geotextile fabric underneath to prevent them from heaving in the winter. There is a 10 gauge steel ring inside the pit with about a 1" air gap between the blocks and the ring that I've filled with slag sand to insulate the blocks from heat. Hopefully they don't fail but you're right, time will tell..
Excellent prep job. I'm sure those precautions will make a heck of difference in regard to the longevity of the stones. Just stacking them up without the prep could cause problems...way to go!
Much appreciated! Yeah I always laugh when I see folks in Michigan stack block over dirt without any prep or fire ring (unless you're building a quick campfire)... Those blocks end up wavy after one season and fall apart from the heat. I figure if I go overkill, this thing may last a while as I'd hate to have to build another one
Sorry couldn't find any 'before I started' shots. Actually only have a few from that project.
This one is using the back blade to move the material from the edge of the low side back toward the center. The box blade was used first to soften up the really packed ground.
The process was run through a section with the box blade then use the back blade to create the pitch and move the excess to the high side.
The driveway is constructed on fill, some of it 10' deep. Without the offset I never could have gotten to the edge.
an near the end of the job
It is a WoodMax WM-8m.
It has done everything I have asked it to do. We had 16 trees pushed out to build our garage and I chipped all the tops up with it. I have a post with some pictures of the piles of chips I had. I'm very happy with it.
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My neighbor next to me at my home has about 3.8 acres which he built a rustic cabin. He has a part time firewood processing business along with sawing/drying rough lumber.
Over the weekend we swapped materials and labor. He supplied the materials and labor to build a stout workbench in my tractor shed and also to block in the rafters on my deer hunting box blind. In exchange I used my L2501 to pull about 17 or 18 stumps and then move and level dirt. He will be putting firewood drying racks in this area. I spent as much time pulling one relatively large elm stump (12 diameter) as I did the remaining smaller stumps. The elm was a job for a backhoe etc but I took my time and was able to get it out.
The picture is a screen shot from my action cam when I first arrived.
Over the weekend we swapped materials and labor. He supplied the materials and labor to build a stout workbench in my tractor shed and also to block in the rafters on my deer hunting box blind. In exchange I used my L2501 to pull about 17 or 18 stumps and then move and level dirt. He will be putting firewood drying racks in this area. I spent as much time pulling one relatively large elm stump (12 diameter) as I did the remaining smaller stumps. The elm was a job for a backhoe etc but I took my time and was able to get it out.
The picture is a screen shot from my action cam when I first arrived.
You aren't kidding, I can see the slope change significantly by the trees in the first photo. Great work man.
Who makes that blade? It looks real stout.
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Added a Fire Extinguisher. After having had my Scag Zero Turn burn to the ground recently....I thought it well to have an extinguisher on board. I Have one in each of our vehicles, in the house, shop, etc...so makes sense to have one here too.
Actually had one on the Scag ....but the plastic pull pin broke when I pulled it, jamming the trigger.
All have metal pins now.
Anyway, mounted it in a Quick Detach mount as much out of the way of things as you can achieve on a Compact Tractor.
Hope to never have to use it.
Actually had one on the Scag ....but the plastic pull pin broke when I pulled it, jamming the trigger.
All have metal pins now.
Anyway, mounted it in a Quick Detach mount as much out of the way of things as you can achieve on a Compact Tractor.
Hope to never have to use it.
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Looks good! I have a few mature lilacs in my yard. For a few short weeks, the smell is incredible!
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Southern Yellow Pine (SYP). The trees were felled about 4 months ago so the bark is easily removed which makes for clean logs.
There were over 50 logs and I have sawn about half of them.
Here is 6348 board feet of framing lumber stickered and drying. I am now sawing 1X10's, etc. for Board & Batten siding.
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Knocking the loose bark off of the logs is a simple matter.
Here is 3091 bf of 1"X10", etc. that I sawed today. Two stacks seen to the left of the framing lumber that pictured yesterday It will be used for Board & Batten siding.