Recent content by Too many Kubotas

Had a hard time getting up some hills in the winter with my first car, so I got two much more snow oriented tires and put them on the rear. Learned real quick that while going up hills wasn't much of an issue, going around curves sure was. Predictably (in retrospect) now I couldn't just apply a...

Bought a Dodge Durango.

For this particular task there's not even a need for a press, just the bottle jack. Or a Hi-Lift. Most everybody has something heavy enough to put the jack under, and unless living on a boat there should be basic ground nearby to put the bent parts on.

Let's say that the blade is equal distances from the tractor's rear tires and the gauge wheel. If so, when the tractor goes over a 2" bump it'll lift the blade 1". Now if the gauge wheel is as close to the blade as possible instead, that 2" lift may only result in raising the blade a 1/4" to...

Went back and looked at the first photo again. Is it just me or could those flimsy brackets be bolted on farther back? It does look like that's where they should be, for several reasons.

I have smacked the (too heavy) 6' brush hog sideways into immovable objects lots of time, using the L3800. But that Rhino 172 is built differently. As in far stronger. Actually, not even the flimsy LandPride RCR1260 has taken offense to the same kind of treatment.

Something as simple as a cable could be used to prevent them from spreading again. Wouldn't be my first choice, but it wouldn't require cutting any metal to fit, and no need to weld anything.

There has to be a dozen simple ways to fix this issue. With the parts being bolted on and easily removable the choices are nearly unlimited. To make those parts not bend as readily in the future could require a little bit of thought. Very little, but still.

Ah, you're up a bit over Edgewood proper, which I'm sure helps. Anyway, "hot" is relative and to me 80 is about the max I want to be subjected to. The overnight lows of 30 lately has been delightful I think, and 65-70 for highs is quite nice. I haven't even left a single window open overnight...

It's probably a better setup overall, but with two Kubotas with the fore-aft pedal and not much time on the Kioti's 2-pedal I still screw it up and try using my heel. And it doesn't help that use the L3800 a lot more often.

Wow, that's nice! I looked it up on some sort of "average temp/rain/snow" site called Weather Spark. Lots of fancy charts and curves. If you check it out, maybe they're wrong about how hot it gets, too. That's what scared me away.

My landplane has angled blades, and when using a regular blade I run it at an angle. Creating a crown with a box blade sounds like work to me since it'll want to transport the material more so than moving it to one side.

And I suspect I know why. Looked at property near Edgewood last week, then checked the climate around there...you don't get any snow. Well, compared to here you don't. I even made a list of things I wouldn't need if moving there, most of it snow removal related.

That doesn't work all that well with the blades the OP and I have, at least not when the snow is wet. Then it often gets stuck on all the stuff on the back of the blade, clumps up, and can even make ruts into the gravel. For me that means lifting the blade to get past the pile, then back up and...

I'd gladly take the two year old fuel and gas. So far it seems like correctly treated diesel is still fully useable after 10 years, and Star Tron can keep gas good for more than two years. How much longer I don't know yet.