FLORIDA: Planting Sand Pears With Kubota B3300SU FEL + BUCKET SPADE

[jeff9366]

I had to pull 7" tree, suspended in the air, out of the elevated crotch of a larger tree, with 5/16" chain. Chain was attached maybe 54" up the 7" tree base, where I had cut it with my Stihl. Tree rotated up after I cut it.

Somehow, in an unduplicatible way, the 7" tree trunck got under the bucket and wedged under the tractor frame, so somehow, as I backed up, tractor power and leverage were both applied to the bucket lip through chain and 5/16" Ken's Bolt On Grab Hook. Maybe I pushed down with the bucket too.

Note bucket lip bent, Ken's grab hook unfazed.

I'm still not clear exactly how it happened. I was watching the action higher up.

Kubota dealer offered to put some heat on lip and straighten it during 350 hour service. I told them to leave it as is......as a reminder not to be complacent about planning/safety.

Bent lip has no impact on bucket function, just impairs symmetry.

My new camera is a pocket size, point-and-shoot, Sony Cybershot DSC-TX20, Zeiss lens, waterproof, shockproof, 16.2 Mega Pixels, $200 on Amazon. Phenomenal resolution, as you noticed when you zoomed in. However, where I live in rural Florida we have primitive internet speed. It takes 8-10 minutes per photo to upload to T-B-N because each picture file is over a meg, ten times the file size of my earlier Olympus.

 

[Larro Darro]

When I Googled sand pear Florida, this thread was the fourth one down. {It's a small world after all} Judging from the picture they showed, I have been growing sand pears all my life. The cows always got more of them than we ever ate. If there isn't a late frost to kill some of the blooms, the fruit is so heavy it breaks the limbs.

The shovel on that bucket works pretty good. Looks like a real back saver.

And if any of you want to move to Calhoun County Florida, let me tell you, the people are rude, the river is always muddy, the deer all have bad looking racks, the fish don't bite, but the mosquitoes do. {just joking} But we do have enough folks already. When I was a kid, we were the only house on our two mile road. Now there are nearly ten.

 

[jeff9366]

If you give those deer some home-grown vegetables, along with the pears, the racks will grow straight.

 

[Larro Darro]

If you give those deer some home-grown vegetables, along with the pears, the racks will grow straight.

I wish they just ate my pears. I had a few cucumber vines that had grown out of the garden fence. In one night they had all been cropped right up to the fence. And if rosebushes produce nice horns, our deer should have great racks. Sweet smelling too.

 

[ddb123]

Thanks. I was curious. I actually noticed it in the "Do I need a tractor" thread in which you posted a bunch of pictures, but I didn't want to hijack that thread. Nice tractor. I nearly bought one myself, but narrowly wound up with an L3540 instead. Your collection of implements makes me jealous.

I had to pull 7" tree, suspended in the air, out of the elevated crotch of a larger tree, with 5/16" chain. Chain was attached maybe 54" up the 7" tree base, where I had cut it with my Stihl. Tree rotated up after I cut it.

Somehow, in an unduplicatible way, the 7" tree trunck got under the bucket and wedged under the tractor frame, so somehow, as I backed up, tractor power and leverage were both applied to the bucket lip through chain and 5/16" Ken's Bolt On Grab Hook. Maybe I pushed down with the bucket too.

Note bucket lip bent, Ken's grab hook unfazed.

I'm still not clear exactly how it happened. I was watching the action higher up.

Kubota dealer offered to put some heat on lip and straighten it during 350 hours service. I told them to leave it as is......as a reminder not to be complacent about planning/safety.

Bent lip has no impact on bucket function, just impairs symmetry.

My new camera is a pocket size, point-and-shoot, Sony Cybershot DSC-TX20, waterproof, shockproof, 16.2 Mega Pixels, $200 on Amazon. Phenomenal resolution, as you noticed when you zoomed in. However, where I live in rural Florida we have primitive internet speed. It takes 8-10 minutes per photo to upload to T-B-N because each picture file is over a meg, ten times the file size of my earlier Olympus.

 

[jeff9366]

Nice tractor. I nearly bought one myself, but narrowly wound up with an L3540 instead.

I learned to operate a tractor on a used John Deere 750, which my neighbor let me use at will for a year. B3300SU was my first tractor purchase and I have no regrets.

After perhaps 100 hours on the John Deere plus 400 hours on the B3300SU I aspire to a "Grand L", mainly for greater FEL lift, also for a little more oomph with plow and disc harrow. I discussed an L3540 HST with my excellent, close-by Kubota dealer earlier this year, but had an unplanned expense come up. Now the Tier 4 qualified L3560 is a lot more money.....and I am always leery of buying a new design the first year, even an evolved design, as in this case. Maybe, probably, next year.

When I buy, my Grand L will have the narrow, heavy, round-backed bucket.

You like my implement collection, I like your L3540.

 

[jeff9366]

When I Googled sand pear Florida, this thread was the fourth one down. {It's a small world after all} Judging from the picture they showed, I have been growing sand pears all my life. The cows always got more of them than we ever ate.

A good friend has been giving me farmette eggs for five years, in appreciation for the tractor scut work I do for him. Well, the hens are getting older and nearly quit producing eggs during Summer. The local wild Sand Pears came in and he fed the hens a considerable amount of fallen, ripe Sand Pears during late summer. The hens produced eggs like youngsters, as long as the fresh pears lasted. Now production has petered out again, and I have to BUY eggs.

I am expecting herbed, four-hour oven-braised hen soon.

 

[Larro Darro]

A good friend has been giving me farmette eggs for five years, in appreciation for the tractor scut work I do for him. Well, the hens are getting older and nearly quit producing eggs during Summer. The local wild Sand Pears came in and he fed the hens a considerable amount of fallen, ripe Sand Pears during late summer. The hens produced eggs like youngsters, as long as the fresh pears lasted. Now production has petered out again, and I have to BUY eggs.

I am expecting herbed, four-hour oven-braised hen soon.

If he has room in the freezer, he could keep a few gallons of pears, doling them out a few a day. It might keep you and him in eggs longer. Not to mention prolonging the hen's life.

Larro

 

[George2615]

My new camera is a pocket size, point-and-shoot, Sony Cybershot DSC-TX20, Zeiss lens, waterproof, shockproof, 16.2 Mega Pixels, $200 on Amazon. Phenomenal resolution, as you noticed when you zoomed in. However, where I live in rural Florida we have primitive internet speed. It takes 8-10 minutes per photo to upload to T-B-N because each picture file is over a meg, ten times the file size of my earlier Olympus.

Jeff,
I see this thread got revived. Just wanted to say you can download a free pic resizer program to resize your over a meg pics smaller to make uploads quicker. All of my pics are the same 1.5 to over 2meg. I resize them to 100-500kb and they up load much quicker. Just save your pics on the computer then use resizer to make them smaller before uploading.

 

[jeff9366]

This resizer is news to me. Can you provide a LINK?

THANKS!