Kubotas at play. Er, I mean work!

Petrified Sassyfrass

 

That's a big'un.

 

Put the L4802 and Catawba grapple to work this morning on a few jobs around the place.
The riprap rock in the ditch had gotten filled in/blocked to where the water was over to the side next to lawn all the way up to the big oak, used the grapple to rake it back and make middle deeper
Then we went down to our daughter's place. She had a big Japanese magnolia that had gotten taken over by wisteria.
Used grapple to tear out the vines, roots and limbs..
Time to work on the stump...
Took a bit, but finally success...
Back to our yard, next to the camper shed. A big 2 stem holly was going to be in the way of a planned lean-to addition.
Had to break several big roots..
seeing movement
A big push A big rootball
This will become farwood soon.
That tree is close to 70 years old, I remember them being 4-5" dia when I was little.

 

When were you little??

 

Yep, believe it or not, I was little once...
Maybe 8 yrs old

 

Did some urban logging this morning.

 

That's some nice size logs

 

We had this big pine stump that was in the way while mowing grass above the woodyard. I decided to try it with the L4802 and grapples, did a little damage with the MTL grapple...it's better for brush and picking up logs. Swapped over to the Catawba grapple, got the rotten roots broke off...
And then the stump... Some of it had fatwood in it...maybe that will get our big burn pile going later...
Ready to move a 330-gal tote of red oak to storage...

 

Spent some time piling stumps and brush in the stump dump. It’s almost full, and looks deceiving as it’s much taller than the mini excavator. I’ve piled stumps in that hole for 3 years now, and most of our 10 acres of new field stumps are in there. I’ve got two more stump dumps that have barely anything in them yet, that will change this fall.

Side view, about 65’ long.


Back view, about 35’ wide.

 

Wow, that's a huge pile. What a bonfire that would be.

 

Living in a small town with a small volunteer fire dept, it’s hard to get burn permits. Even if the conditions are right, but there’s not enough volunteers in town, no permits. I tried a few times for brush piles, and then said the heck with it and started piling stumps and brush in the woods. Should make good soil in 20 years or so.

 

Picked this one up in May, what a game changer. Since I was about 14, I started mowing my neighbors three acres with his B8200. Well I finly got a kubota of my own. It's a LX2620. I thought about an L2502 but I think this fits my needs.

 

Please review it so far.............how many hours? It looks right at home between the wood piles!

I'm thinking the lx 2620 or the kioti ck 2620, Probably next year......

 

So far I'm quite happy with it. I've put a little over 25 hours on it, so half way to it's first initial break-in service at 50 hours.

The only mistake I made was getting the Swift-Tach system, don't! It's problematic and useless, mostly the legs on the loader. I removed all the overly complex crap and put the standard legs on. After doing a little more research that's what everyone's doing. The rest of the system is OK, I don't like the hydraulic lines being on the side of the loader instead of tucked away. So yeah don't get the Swift-Tach system.

Do get the tires fluid filled. Definitely get the third function valve. I also purchased a grapple with it and it's awesome.

I went with the smaller tire option to keep me a little lower to the ground and to give it a little more grunt. I went with R14s they're so much better than the R4s. They are a little harder on the turf, but I don't care. I basically can't get the damm thing stuck.

You really don't have to use the glow plugs at all and until you get probably around freezing, I haven't used the glow plugs once.

A full tank of Diesel got me around 20 hours of run time, though I was keeping the rpm down a lot of the time.

I love the smell of diesel exhaust in the morning!

 

Nice review Andyshine77 The bucket will push ya back it ya get stuck

 

Sharp looking tractor. Glad you're happy with it

 

Put the MTL grapple on to move some logs around. It didn't have a problem grabbing this 32"+ butt cut...

 

Ni

Nice, brother

 

Finally got around to getting a skidding winch for my little B2601. Of course the day I get it mounted (a sunday, no stores open) i break the feedback bolt that controls 3pt hitch height. Got that fixed, pto shaft cut, and I'm off to the races. We'll see how this works out or if this pushes me to a larger machine.