I like watching you and your father working together, its the kind of relationship I wish I had with mine, you two made a nice job of clearing that area and I don't know what Mtn Dew tastes like as we cant get it here in the UK.
Love the way you and your dad respect machinery, and use it with care, skill and knowledge. I guess when you repair your own stuff, abusing it just makes more work!
Clearing brush and trees isn't for the light hearted, but it sure feels good when you make some serious progress. Having that Kubota sure makes quick work of it, and at far less of a cost to the body. Nice work fellas!
Y'all make a good team working together and looks like room for a couple of rows of firewood. Guess spring planting in the garden will be next.👌👌 Stay safe.
If I may offer you a suggestion for your wood piles, stock up on plastic pallets. Keeps the wood off the ground and the clean up, so much easier plus, cuts down on rotted firewood. The good thing about cutting down those trees, you just got yourself more firewood, hahaha. When my grand father was still alive, enjoyed cutting wood with him as a kid, we'd have 4 -5 different "piles"/stacks of wood. They were in different drying stages, always burned the oldest first but, every yr, were moving them. Those compact utilities tractors are awesome to have, can do a lot more than people think they can. Great video, cheers :)
Even hardwood pallets would last for years. I recall reading that years ago,pallets were made from seconds,reject from the likes of Jim Beam,whisky barrel manufacters. So very good wood,oak does deteriorate steadily as it starts to rot,but shipping pallets from work would be free and useful. Last for years.
Thank you for your videos of the 4701. They were very helpful. Just purchased the exact setup you have. You sold us on the backhoe attachment with hydraulic thumb. Pricey but I think it's worth it with what you've been doing with it.
Nice relaxing day of doing something different. Love the sound of silence with only nature singing at the end. Done that a few times myself....until I get caught. I have a Massey 22 hp TLB and wouldn't go without a backhoe...just to handy to have around. Dug down for deck posts below frost line and it worked great. Had to dig 14 holes to construct the deck plus wrap around walkway. Mt. Dew a nice breakfast drink since it has orange juice in it too.
I see Kubotas still have slow hydraulics. About 15 years ago I was going land clearing for a man who also owned a Kubota dealership. As a farmer I had used small tractor mounted backhoes and John Deere and Ford loader backhoes. The Kubota was frustrating beyond belief. Not only was it slow it was weak. I had also used a Kubota mini excavator and it was great, a dream to operate. The owner came out and wondered why we hadn't got much done. He couldn't make it do much either and was puzzled.
Careful with that Mountain Dew are used to be my favorite drink until I found out it made my heart race and eventually lead to a pacemaker. But I’m still here pushing 81 inspired enough to work on my John Deere LUC rebuild job
Hmm. Your burn pile. Would it be worthwhile to you to pick up a wood chipper ? Run the chips into your compost pilings, they would bulk up the soil,add a carbon balance, and deteriorate slowly while aiding in water retention. A lot of road maintenance crews do this now instead of burning,just spit the chips into the trees. Seems to work. Just a thought. No farm ever has enough compost for soil improvement. Cheers.
Pleased to hear that you guys are still satisfied with that Kubota. It was a heck of an investment, would be a bummer if you werent pleased. Do you heat with a stove, forced air wood furnace, in home boiler, or a combination of all 3? For me it doesn't get any better than wood heat! Heating with wood keeps you warm multiple times too, once each (minimum) cutting, splitting, stacking, hauling, and finally burning. Hopefully you have an awesome weekend Squatch and Senior.
@@squatch253 growing up in Marquette we had a Fisher wood stove in the full basement of our house, natural circulation allowed it to keep the whole house warm just like yours, backup heat was an oil fired forced air furnace. Many many fond memories of helping dad cut, split, stack and haul wood.
Picked up 2017 L4701 Rental with 119 hours from dealer. Got 220 hrs now. Added Scrap Grapple, Third function, Tip/Tilt, three remotes, Canopy with led lights, Land Pride 6' box scraper with hyd teeth. A Kubota 2018 K008-3 mini excavator with 4 hrs. Back hoe, for me, to hard to get on and off.
Happy May Day! Looks like as good as any way to celebrate although one lone like one of those would make a good may pole. Wish I could clear out the trees I need to remove that fast. I've got near zero clearance to my neighbors driveway so no room to just drop it plus itone is now touching their power line (one good reason to remove it.)
Squatch, This is my 1st time commenting on anyone's channel. I love watching and learning from you with your D2 rebuild. I have a Kubota BX 22 that i got new in 2002 with the loader, backhoe and a 54"midmount mower. I'm surprised that you are using a strap to hold your stabilizers. I've never had to do that. Mine don't drift when on the machine. I have had to replace all of the hoses on the loader and the backhoe once since new, but that's something I expected. It is 18 years old and lives outside under a good tarp 365. It sounds like there might be a problem with the O rings in the valve distribution assembly. Keep doing what you're doing and stay safe. Traff1cman
@@squatch253 Kubota is being foolish in that regard. 18 years and my controls have never given me any problems. The hoses yes but that's expected. The hydrostatic cooling fan is a stoopid design, and replacement is a real pain to do. The service manual walks you through splitting the tractor in half to get to it. When it happens again ( & it will) I'll fabricate a guard for it.
You make great videos. I know it is going to be a good day when I see a new one posted. Have you thought about a wood chipper? It would be cool is you found one that could be powered from the pto of one of your dozers. Not sure they make those or how rare. Thanks again
I would love to know in depth your process for stacking firewood. From, how old the trees are, how you rotate so there is never ending supply as well as how you keep the growth organized from each age and location for ease of access. thanks!
So if you have a bunch of cords leftover why are you making more storage? I always kept enough on hand for half a year but after that I worried about rot.
Now that is my kind of music. :-) Love your uniform wood piles and it appears you cut all your firewood to a uniform length which I do also. I see no reason to make any more sawdust than absolutely necessary.
Thanks for info on bh92 I have one with 650 hrs and its out riggers have been sagging since day 2. Can't waite to get hydraulicly accuated on my thumb. Realy liked your assembly procedure on the bh92 and thumb install. I went with the MX5200 with 9.8 gal/min vs the L4701 with 7.8 gal/min unit. Wish it had 15.8 gal/min. I would like to use at least 3 functions at once instead of two- even sort of slow at that. I calculate it only uses 13.2 HP @ full reves to get any preformance at all. Maybe a 25 gal/min PTO pump with 1/2 the engine revs will do it right for the sloow motion "preformance matced Kubota Bh92 backhoe". You seem like the man for the job to show us how it's done. Your vidios are the absolute the best on instruction. Like them all, best wishes, keep up all the excelent work.
I winced in fear at 10 minutes and 42 seconds. There is a danger of destroying a hydraulic cylinder. When back dragging have the bottom of the bucket more horizontal, say 10 to 20 degrees from horizontal. With the bucket tipped down nearly vertically that means that when moving backward the edge of the bucket could catch and hang up on something in the dirt. This will put a compression load on the fully extended bucket tilt cylinders. They are most vulnerable to buckling from too much compression load when fully extended. If the bottom of the bucket is more horizontal then if it goes across something, instead of catching it will pop up and over without destroying a cylinder.
So.... the Kubota pretty much does the job of two other machines (Super M- loader) and D2 (light dozing, grading and backblading) PLUS its backhoe adds excavation capabilities. Yikes, will we see a shift in machine utilization here, Squatch?! 😊 Oh and almost forgot to ask, does Rick Bork have the same model of Kubota or is it not the L4701?
