What did you do to or on your Kubota today?

[fruitcakesa]

10* f this morning, so I snuck the tractor out of the shed while the muddy drive was frozen.
Now I can take off the wheel chains and then use the loader to pull the 400 pound concrete pier traction "compound" from the bed of my pickup.
First cold start in weeks, so I plugged it in last night to ease her back into work mode

 

[jerseybud]

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like this idea. I am going to get one made for my B2650HSDC

heavy hitch and others make them for b series, not l series

 

[Deleted member 47704]

I bought a rifle scabbard for the tractor. Have to figure out how to mount it.

 

[Toyman]

The last few days I've updated the M4050:
- installed led headlights
- Buzzed out the rear wiring harness, rewired the flasher switch and installed new led marker lights
- cleaned up the wiring, soldered all the joints with shrink tubing
- Installed 2 led worklights and a switch on the rear of the tractor
- Adjusted the PTO clutch which was grinding

 

[fj40dave]

Just some pic's of a job I'm doing.....brush hoggin to start, then clearing out a spot to move the shed into.
Adding top soil and clearing out underbrush in the front.

After all that is done, I start thinning out the woods and removing all the dead/downfall stuff on the acreage behind the owners house.

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

F3680 in for service. Both oil plugs are stripped. 12mm no more, they are now 1/2x20.

And yes, the rattle gun was used to install.

 

[GeoHorn]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

 

[Mark_BX25D]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup

My dad had one of those. It was LOUD. The modern electronic versions don't even come close.

Put it on your pickup - it might save your life.

Or get you a ticket!


I moved some firewood around today. Found out a carry-all from Tractor Supply lets my little BX-25 lift and carry firewood quite nicely.

I got a bunch of used IBC totes for $20 a piece. Cut the bottle diagonally, and it makes a nice 'roof' for the tote full of firewood. The 3PH has enough grunt to lift the full tote. Makes heating with wood a lot less work! No more splitting onto the ground, then picking it up to haul to where it gets stacked, then loading it into the bucket to take to the house, and unloading it to stack by the door. I just split right into the tote, and park it in a good sunny spot until its needed. Then it gets hauled to a spot next to the door. Once the tote is empty, I haul it back to the splitting area, where it waits to get filled again.

Much less handling!

Yesterday I broke out the angle grinder and tapered the ends of the carry all a bit. Makes it much easier to get the arms into a pallet or tote. I just cut the bottom at an angle, then went to the flap grinder and rounded off all the edges. Works much better.

 

[NCL4701]

My dad had one of those. It was LOUD. The modern electronic versions don't even come close.

Put it on your pickup - it might save your life.

Or get you a ticket!


I moved some firewood around today. Found out a carry-all from Tractor Supply lets my little BX-25 lift and carry firewood quite nicely.

I got a bunch of used IBC totes for $20 a piece. Cut the bottle diagonally, and it makes a nice 'roof' for the tote full of firewood. The 3PH has enough grunt to lift the full tote. Makes heating with wood a lot less work! No more splitting onto the ground, then picking it up to haul to where it gets stacked, then loading it into the bucket to take to the house, and unloading it to stack by the door. I just split right into the tote, and park it in a good sunny spot until its needed. Then it gets hauled to a spot next to the door. Once the tote is empty, I haul it back to the splitting area, where it waits to get filled again.

Much less handling!

Yesterday I broke out the angle grinder and tapered the ends of the carry all a bit. Makes it much easier to get the arms into a pallet or tote. I just cut the bottom at an angle, then went to the flap grinder and rounded off all the edges. Works much better.

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Nice!

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling. Used to split, load into trailer, haul to wood yard, stack to dry, load to pickup, haul into house/shop, stack in house/shop. WAY too much handling.

Wife found a decommissioned 3,000lb platform truck on Craigslist for $25. The urethane tires on the casters were chunking out so I scraped them off and now it has steel casters. That allows easily rolling the wood stack around the shop as needed to keep it both handy and out of the way.

New system is haul logs to wood yard with grapple, finish cutting and splitting straight to stack, stack to platform truck, fork the platform truck back to house/shop. Not as efficient as your IBC tote system but much better than the pre-Kubota system as the Kubota does more lifting and I do leas

 

[Matt Ellerbee]

My dad had one of those. It was LOUD. The modern electronic versions don't even come close.

Put it on your pickup - it might save your life.

Or get you a ticket!


I moved some firewood around today. Found out a carry-all from Tractor Supply lets my little BX-25 lift and carry firewood quite nicely.

I got a bunch of used IBC totes for $20 a piece. Cut the bottle diagonally, and it makes a nice 'roof' for the tote full of firewood. The 3PH has enough grunt to lift the full tote. Makes heating with wood a lot less work! No more splitting onto the ground, then picking it up to haul to where it gets stacked, then loading it into the bucket to take to the house, and unloading it to stack by the door. I just split right into the tote, and park it in a good sunny spot until its needed. Then it gets hauled to a spot next to the door. Once the tote is empty, I haul it back to the splitting area, where it waits to get filled again.

Much less handling!

Yesterday I broke out the angle grinder and tapered the ends of the carry all a bit. Makes it much easier to get the arms into a pallet or tote. I just cut the bottom at an angle, then went to the flap grinder and rounded off all the edges. Works much better.

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Pictures of totes?

 

[Mark_BX25D]

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling.

Sweet! My little beast can't quite lift that much. I wasn't even sure the 3PH would lift a full tote, but it didn't have any problem with it at all.

You can reduce your handling even more. Just do the drying in the totes. No need to stack. If you are short of space, and if your beast can lift a tote high enough to stack on top of another tote, you are good to go. (They are made to stack 5 high while full of liquid, so it will handle the weight of wet wood with no problem.) I did a test with a stacked cord of wood and found that I needed 5 totes per cord, tossed in. Saves a ton of work!

Pictures of totes?

Right there in my first post about it. Click on the sentence, "Cut the bottle diagonally..."

I put a link in there that will give you tons of info.

 

[NCL4701]

Next season I should put some effort into sourcing inexpensive totes. I suspect there’s a business somewhere around here scrapping them, just need to get on Craigslist, etc. and find some.

 

[dirtydeed]

Pictures of totes?

 

[fj40dave]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

We called 'em Bug Grinders....I have one just sitting on my shelf.....hummmmm.....

 

[GeoHorn]

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Nice!

My system is a bit different due to readily available items, but similarly designed to reduce handling. Used to split, load into trailer, haul to wood yard, stack to dry, load to pickup, haul into house/shop, stack in house/shop. WAY too much handling.

Wife found a decommissioned 3,000lb platform truck on Craigslist for $25. The urethane tires on the casters were chunking out so I scraped them off and now it has steel casters. That allows easily rolling the wood stack around the shop as needed to keep it both handy and out of the way.

New system is haul logs to wood yard with grapple, finish cutting and splitting straight to stack, stack to platform truck, fork the platform truck back to house/shop. Not as efficient as your IBC tote system but much better than the pre-Kubota system as the Kubota does more lifting and I do leas

 

[DustyRusty]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

I have one on my car. It is a Super Chief, the loudest siren known to man!

 

[In Utopia]

I’ve been thinking of installing an antique fire-engine siren on my tractor…. (the rising/falling kind that actually spins a rotor within a cage…not the modern electronic types)…. but can’t decide if I’d rather have it under the hood of the pickup truck ever since some self-important-road-warrior in a land-change-decision suddenly jammed himself between me and the car I was following by about 12-feet in traffic.

I could see him tailgate the guy in the right lane…and saw him check his side-mirror to decide whether or not he could suddenly shift lanes and fit between my P/U and the car ahead…

I had just enough time to realize what he was up-to for me to let up on the gas… (we were all traveling in rush-hour at 60 mph) … to allow paper-thin margin which barely prevented a multi-vehicle-wreck.

I think if I’d had the ability to hit a siren—button at the moment he glanced at his side-mirror…it would have at least startled him sufficiently for me to have had the satisfaction of giving him a one-fingered-Salute!

Sounds like a good way to get shot.
To many road rage shootings lately.

 

[Mark_BX25D]

Next season I should put some effort into sourcing inexpensive totes. I suspect there’s a business somewhere around here scrapping them, just need to get on Craigslist, etc. and find some.

I got mine from Craigslist. I had seen the ad some months before, and moved too slowly. They were gone the next day. This time I was the early bird. I got 16 of them for $20 each. They had anti-freeze in them, so not food grade. That makes them a lot cheaper. Food grade totes go for $100 and more around here.

Now I have to figure out what to do with the 50 gallons or so of Chevron yellow coolant that's left in one of them....

 

[fj40dave]

I need one of those grapple thingies!!!

 

[GeoHorn]

That looks Beautiful!

Here’s an original WW-II Carter Air Raid: