Kubotas at play. Er, I mean work!

Yeah, I've broke a weld in my neighbor's landscape trailer loading a tractor. Learned my lesson there. Plus it's a lot more stable while loading. Kind of a pain to have to dig out the stands everytime and bring them along for the adventure but oh well.

 

carrying a nice hickory log to the dump trailer.

 

Thank for the details. I was trailer shopping recently, too. I wound up with a 6x12 single axle (3.5K) utility trailer, no brakes, no state inspection. I will not be trailering my tractor on that, obviously. I have an L3710 with LA681 FEL and filled tires. I don't know how much it weighs, but I asked at Messicks and they said "close to 6,000#" and recommended a 10K trailer. Personally, I've only needed to trailer my tractor once and that was just like 10 miles to Messicks for them to do some work on it. They just charged me an hourly rate for pick up/drop off. Also, I have at least two friends who each have 7-10K car haulers they are willing to loan me, and trucks capable of towing that kind of weight.

 

I'm sure you are pushing 6k. My L3560, loaded tires, and LA805 FEL weighed 5725 the day I picked it up. Just barely legal on my trailer. If I bought a new trailer, it definitely would be a 10k 20' unit.

Probably won't because I don't have to trailer the tractor very often.

 

Yeah thats why i picked up a equipment trailer with the fold down ramps. I transport my tractor every other weekend so it works well. If you are just moving around every now and then, jacks would be fine.

 

I picked up a weight distribution hitch for my equipment trailer. It helps a ton too. Different way around the same problem lol.

 

I replaced a couple of lines on my BX 2200. Flare nuts wrenches are nice if you have them, regular wrenches will work. Not much spillage-have a rag or two handy when you disconnect the hoses to plug the holes. I didn't have to bleed anything. Work your bucket cylinders a few times before turning your tractor off of lessen pressure. I would recommend replacing both hoses on the same circuit, just gives some peace of mind for a few more minutes and a few more dollars.

 

I would cycle the control AFTER shutting the tractor off to relieve any pressure before loosening any hydraulic fittings. You shouldn’t lose much more than what’s in the lines.

 

2x. Have to do it after to equalize pressure with no pump flow.

 

Different circuit, so shouldnt matter. I would probably go ahead and disconnect the loader before replacing the lines, just make everything easier to get to (if you have a quick attach loader).

 

If you want to cover more of the new hoses with wear sleeves your local NAPA store in Whitefield or Littleton would probably have it in stock. Longer sleeves and a few wire ties might prevent a reoccurrence.

 

I’ve had to replace two lines on my loader, and one was due to wear at this sleeve. I didn’t notice the wear progressing - the sleeve was slid down one day and one hose was worn down to the wires. The other blown line was due to digging out a big rock while bush hogging, with the tractor up at PTO speed.

I remove the bad line, cover the fittings on the tractor with rags to keep things clean, and take it to get a new line built at the local auto parts store. Cheaper and closer than the dealer. I didn’t know they make flare wrenches, and have been fine so far without one.

 

This afternoons hitch of Soft Maple that blew down last summer and was hung up at waist height about 50' out on the swamp. Made two cuts hooked the cable and hauled it home.





Had some visitors They were enjoying the sunshine as was I.

Nice day to be out in the woods! Suppose to get some snow tonight into tomorrow morning

 

Decided to dig out (of the snow) 2 loads of oak to hopefully have them dry/melt off so I can work them up without getting soaked. There's too much snow in my woods to do any cutting in the foreseeable future. I hate working a saw & tractor in snowshoes and won't do it, "the juice is not worth the squeezin", at least to me.

This was it looked like last May when I dumped them

Today


There was a good 3' of snow thats been rained & sleeted on along with a few 40* days and lots of sun. I would have had to dig them out without the V plow.



Found one


Did all the plowing I could with the tractor and got the SS with the bucket and grapple do dig them out and stack them as best as I could.


This was some oak from a friend that was cleaning up his landing after logging a neighboring property. I don't cut oak on my place, the last owner did that about 15 years ago.

You might be able to tell that I'm getting a "touch" of cabin fever and anxious to dig out the splitter.

Got 2 more loads up in my firewood area, but I've totally buried them by pushing this seasons snow on them.