230 hours on this B2650 in 10 months. This machine warms it's place in the garage 5 to 6 days a week most weeks. It's big, it's wide, it's heavy, it's got super power hydraulics and with all of that... it's kicking ass and taking names!
similar to the job I'm doing. I called around for a quote for a project that included about 1000 stump removal and underbrush clearing. After looking at all the quotes the wife said it would be cheaper to buy a tractor and do it myself. L2501 with backhoe, grapple, rotary cutter, box blade...and I saved over $5k. Jobs already half done and I love my Kubota.
There're great little tractors I have a B 2601 that I'm using to dig into the side of a hill to build my house in. Couldn't be happier with it. Good video. Later
Yikes! That is an awful lot of machine and in the $70,000 area once all optioned up.... For doing sidewalks? I would wonder if $25,000 on a Kubota RTV 1120C with power angle plow or a snow blower and a salt spreader on the rear would be a far more economical way to go, better at the job and much easier to transport from job to job.
@@LarryMusgrave yeah but we like have a tractor for the land scapeing and alot cheaper then a $140,000 holder c992 or $180,000 on a trackless tractors alone the rtv's acully be perfected for my town sidewalks and affordable too make easy on the budget
People would tell me when I was digging the fish pond with my kubota, why don't you hire a dozer. Heck with that, why do they think we bought these little tractors.
Thanks for the heads up on boosting the pressure to the recommended max. I have a b21 great tool. You guys are doing a great job, that is a lot of fill. Take care.
I traded it in on a Grand L3560 with full factory cab. Life changing, but almost $60,000 once fully outfitted with front 3rd function and rear top and tilt hydraulic system. I also optioned up for the larger LA805 loader for the higher lifting capacity.
I'm no expert but if I was filling a hole that big I would be filling it in from the bottom and work up in layers and packing it as I go.... you are asking for a major slip with a 30 foot practically vertical wall filled on top of a rotting forest floor, vegetation as well as the rotting trees and stumps your covering? You have 30 feet of loose fill with a packed surface, in a few years your going to have one heck of a unrepeatable problem.... good luck
Thing is a beast and being an owner of both kubota B series machine and skidsteers it’s a heck of a difference in fuel and maintenance costs. For what your doing that machine is matched perfectly. Sure skidsteer or CTL would push better BUT again twice the operating and upfront costs.
Adam, we had a warranted defect in the rear end, had the right side pinion and sun gear strip the teeth. I had fill coming daily and it was going to be down for about a month, so I traded it on a Grand L3560 cab model that's around 10K lbs fully dressed. Wow again! Huge step up!
its better to nibble at your material pile than back up aqnd try to get a full scoop, its way faster and less moves to do. push into the pile abour 3/4 of the way or less depending on if your tractor can push it or no and take bites out . much faster than loading and dumping
Larry you lucky to get the free fill, I'm jealous. I had a chance to get free fill but I am rebuilding my skid steer so I couldn't move it as it came in like you are doing so I will have to wait. No thought of taking down the trees and moving the wood out before you fill around them or over them? The woods just going to rot and then you're going to have to keep filling.
That little tractor is working it's ass off doing that job. I would put a 6way blade on it and push the mud and not be scooping with a bucket. Push it ALL down to a slope and give these trucks a downward fall
Do you find the 2650 tippy on hills? I am looking at a cab model and love it but it seems a little tippy to me. I had an old Ford 1710 that I sold so I could upgrade but I think it weighed more and it may have had a wider stance.
Wow, that's a whole lotta fill. You're probably talking $50,000 in material alone. That's an awfully big project, but if the tractor's up to it, all you need is lots of money and time.
We've taken over 100 triaxles over the past 2 weeks. Around here your looking at around $300 delivered for unscreened, so around $30,000 in clean dirt fill in the last 2 weeks. We are not connected to that neighbor. You can drive 2 trucks wide over to his driveway, around 30 get from that guardrail back.
I couldn't even start to guess how many 1 tons, 5 tons and 10 tons have dumped asphalt and concrete bust out jobs here, I'm talking thousands of loads. If you put a value on every load, I'm sure you'd be looking at a couple hundred thousand dollars in fill material to fill in this large of space.
Another angle is, all this time, energy, wear and tear ,life and limb building a flatland toxic dump landfill might increase your property value 1500$. The real math. Good luck, thanks for the entertainment.
KC2, I'm not sure what the phrase "toxic dump" is about? This is concrete, block, brick, asphalt, dirt, clay, sand and topsoil type dirt. There is no construction debris or any other undesirable material. We've been inspected by the PA state 2 times so far and we have letters stating that we are in compliance with the state rules.
Hello from Nova Scotia,nice work but the 2650 might be a little light even boosted and with more weight. I run an L39 commercial model. Ideal for a job like yours. For their size pretty much all Kubota models have more balls and better reliability than any of the competition. Keep on pushing dirt, bud !
Oh, trust me... I am fully aware that bigger and heavier machines can do this job faster. But as you said, these Kubota machines can work hard and they can keep working hard for years. Like a guy on the www.TractorByNet.com forum likes to say.... "How does a man eat an elephant? One bite at a time! The question is, how big of a bite can he take?" That pretty much sums it all up right there. My B2650 takes smaller bites, but eventually it eats that elephant!
Larry M Musgrave im very glad you are happy with that machine. I have the same tractor and love it as well. But geewezz, im a heavy equipment operator so i just feel bad for that machine watching this lol. Thats a hard life for that small tractor to be doing that full time. But im happy its working great for your needs! Good luck with your project!
I plan to do the job and be done in another year, so around 600 hours should be on the machine. After that I want to sell it or trade it and get a cab tractor with heat and AC. Buying an open station version was a mistake.
you understand that to hire somebody to bring in 500 tri axles of material at a cost that I've already verified at $300 per tri-axle for material, plus paying for the truck, will put you out at around $400 per load times 500 or so try axle loads. This cost me nothing. Material flows freely every day of the week.
@@LarryMusgrave yea but take that price for tractor and decide time etc. sometimes just better to have the heavier equipment. how often will u use tractor after all this is complete?
@@adamaustin3373 I wanted the tractor for my 15 acres. I have logging roads that were impassable that now I can maintain. I created a family camp fire area. I'll always have a tractor now.
Compared to what? A shovel... Or a skid steer? It's way the heck better than a shovel, and it's a fraction the machine if a large track skid steer. But it does the job and it does it every day and never breaks.
You say it's a tool and it is just incorrect tool that thing would never last 6000 hrs doing what your doing that's the point trying to make a horse do the work of an elephant and then thinking you're going to achieve longevity um no not by today's engineering standards maybe if built in the 60s look at your rear differential #1 its tiny #2 it's aluminum you do the math you can barely get 6to8 K hours out of a full sized backhoe which would be struggling a lot less than that you do the math over priced throw away modern junk!
