Recent content by newtarheel

I run a Woods BH70-X backhoe on my B7800. The Woods manual specifically states that I ought not to use the implement as a crane, that is, simply to lift dead weight. Yesterday I had to remove an old post that had been post-holed down two feet in some hard red clay. I didn't have the brawn to do...

The following is purely hypothetical. Let's say a may tries to drive his Kubota into his garage while the ROPS is fully extended. (As I say, this is purely hypothetical. This would never happen to me. And, furthermore, would never happen to me TWICE.) Now the ROPS top is jammed into the...

This city boy is learning, but the more I learn the more I find out how ignorant I am. I sometimes use my B7800 to pull down a damaged tree that is hung up on another tree. What I do is cut the tree off near the base (if it's connected), wrap one end of a chain or cable around it and the other...

I've put about 30 hours on my new Kubota B7800 since I last reported on the joyous day of its arrival. So far I've used it to till under about 4,000 square feet of sod (with a Woods tiller) to make way for a vegetable garden (and was pleased not to have to use herbicides); used the FEL to...

I'm about to take delivery on a B7800 with backhoe, FEL, and tiller. Part of my plan is to replace about a half acre of lawn with a vegetable garden. Can I use the FEL to scrape the green stuff away? Is tilling a possibility? Or does the grass just grow back after tilling? By the way, I'm tapped...

I have just bought an 8+ acre parcel in North Carolina. About an acre is lawn and the rest is woods with thick undergrowth. I have plans to landscape – including digging a pond, building berms, tilling vegetable gardens, clearing underbrush, pulling stumps, moving rocks, etc. My question: Is the...