JJOConnor
New member
Well I DID it! It was delivered this morning!
I have a new (to me) 2004 Kubota L5030, HST, cab with 155 hours. It has a brand new Woods loader, QA bucket, and new 7 ft box blade. I'lll take some better pictures, but a few below taken by the wifely unit, not much for camera backlight skills, but still shows the real machine. I have just pulled out a tree stump that my previous BX2200 could only dream about.
So now I hunt for the flail mower. New Caroni TM1900 is a possibility, but I have to make a few passes at CraigsList and of course eBay first. BTW; subject of Flail mowers has stimulated lots of traffic, and I read most of it but I am still confused. So for you flail mower operators, especially the Caroni crowd, which set of knives did you go with? The finish cut inverted Ys, or the stouter hammers? My particular interest is mostly for finish cut, but I do have some rocks that seem to grow out every spring and I leave a lot of pruning branches for the mower to mulch. Had a mid-mount 3-blade rotary on the BX, not going to do that again as I nearly blasted a dog with hurled rock and did break a tail light on my truck from a launched stone.
Anyway, glad to be back in the membership ! My first few moments on the L5030 tonight were really amazing! More Power! Have to get used to that brake pedal right over the toe pedal for forward HST - why did they put it there?
I'll be posting as my long list of projects commences.
I have a new (to me) 2004 Kubota L5030, HST, cab with 155 hours. It has a brand new Woods loader, QA bucket, and new 7 ft box blade. I'lll take some better pictures, but a few below taken by the wifely unit, not much for camera backlight skills, but still shows the real machine. I have just pulled out a tree stump that my previous BX2200 could only dream about.
So now I hunt for the flail mower. New Caroni TM1900 is a possibility, but I have to make a few passes at CraigsList and of course eBay first. BTW; subject of Flail mowers has stimulated lots of traffic, and I read most of it but I am still confused. So for you flail mower operators, especially the Caroni crowd, which set of knives did you go with? The finish cut inverted Ys, or the stouter hammers? My particular interest is mostly for finish cut, but I do have some rocks that seem to grow out every spring and I leave a lot of pruning branches for the mower to mulch. Had a mid-mount 3-blade rotary on the BX, not going to do that again as I nearly blasted a dog with hurled rock and did break a tail light on my truck from a launched stone.
Anyway, glad to be back in the membership ! My first few moments on the L5030 tonight were really amazing! More Power! Have to get used to that brake pedal right over the toe pedal for forward HST - why did they put it there?
I'll be posting as my long list of projects commences.
