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I have the L2296 Bucket with bolt on edge, I believe it's a heavy duty bucket. I upgraded to it because I knew I'd be doing regular gravel work on my long driveway. I've since also learned the hard way that a heavy duty bucket with bolt on edge, is challenged by frozen gravel piles :) I've...

Lol, yes, I'm aware of that. I won't be digging or using heavy materials. Truly this capacity is for hauling compost and other things (some snow, some mulch maybe). More expensive than a tarp, less expensive than some carts, particularly if I needed an ATV to pull them (because my tractor...

The thread is old, the issue of quality is still relevant. I'm very interested the 84 inch high capacity bucket: 84-in High Capacity Skid Steer Bucket But confused by several things: The depth/height dimensions of 49 and 40 inches, and struck capacity of 35 cu ft sound great, I want as much...

Having spent my autumn picking rocks out of my field, if the rock is of medium/small size and visible, I can grapple it out. If it's a big/awkward/partially buried thing then my grapple does a terrible job, and I have to fetch the pallet forks to dig. I wonder of those stump buckets are good...

So I've been chasing this a bit, and the ship date has moved up as well, in time for spring cleaning :) I'm really curious if anybody in TBN has this model. 84-in High Capacity Skid Steer Bucket I had to call them (palletforks.com) to get the steel thickness, commonly provided for other...

Yeah, those are interesting. If I had it to do over again, I'd probably buy that instead of the bucket spade I bought. My bucket spade doesn't clamp to my bucket because of the bolt-on edge, and it's unwieldy on my pallet forks, though it gets the job done for digging holes for trees, which is...

In my dreams I'm operating an excavator that I own, with a thumb, heavy enough that I'm pulling and tossing trees with impunity. Suppose I'd have to adopt a new line of business to realize that particular dream.

Sounds like you're used to the issues with hills and stability then. My grapple is definitely my most used thing for tree cleanup. I both like that it's a pretty stout grapple (so I don't accidentally bend it when I'm doing foolish things with large pieces of wood), but it's also harder to...

You didn't mention whether you'd be cutting fields. Rolling hills could be dangerous, tractors can be unstable on hills, consider the kind of terrain you'll be driving on and buy a tractor to suit. If you're going to be hauling whole trees, you'll need a heavier tractor, so that the tractor is...

If only there were 10 ton excavators that could pull rotary cutters, tractor sales would plummet :-)

Curious if this is of any practical use at all if you don't have a hydraulic top link. I may end up with two buckets and I'm wondering if I can do anything other than static use of the rear bucket for carrying things if I have no rear hydraulics. All I can think is that I would put the toplink...

I bought into the Milwaukee electric tool ecosystem last year, including the string trimmer. I definitely bought it with my wife in mind, though she has yet to use it. Your wife may be content with a remote control string trimmer (i.e. YOU). Anyway, a thing about the electric tools, at least...

Other rotary cutter thoughts. I spent extra for the slip clutch. The guys who used to work the field would go through a LOT of sheer bolts, and I really deslike dealing with those. I'm happy with my decision, basically I never have to stop what I'm doing in the field. I'm also glad I bought...

My medium duty landpride rotary cutter does just fine on a field I cut only once a year. By the time I cut it late in the fall, it is filled with saplings 4-5' tall. As long as you have the minimum guidline of 5 PTO HP per foot of rotary cutter, you're probably fine. In my case I have...

I have two-ish acres of grass in a highly contoured property (stone walls, gardens, ornamental trees). I considered a 60" but there there are passages where it wouldn't fit nicely, where even the 54" is tight. I'm quite happy with the 54". If I'm on a clear flat piece of yard then I'm just...

You didn't say what kind of driveway maintenance you had in mind. If you are maintaining a gravel driveway that might wash out after heavy rains, you're going to want to haul gravel in your bucket and use a rear blade, box blade, or some other rear attachment to grade the driveway. Also if...

I considered building something to attach to my pallet forks based on things other people have posted here in the forums. Unfortunately I can easily envision the monstrosity I'd create, which also needs to survive the outdoor weather year after year, and so I'm looking at the buckets. Heck...

I am not unhappy with the stock seat in my MX5400. It's a nice tradeoff of comfort and ability to feel what the tractor is traversing on my awful hilly rock and depression pocked field (so that I proceed carefully). I did seek an upgraded seat on my zero turn mower though. On the tractor...

I'm looking at that one two. I like the depth, though for my primary purposes I'd be hauling leaves and other yard debris, though I'd like to use it with a bit of snow too. I'm wondering if it's worth the additional ($1699 shipped - $1139 shipped) = $569 compared to the Tomahawk...

My dealer pointed me at this 2019 HLA bucket: https://www.shfarmsupply.com/inventory/v1/Current/HLA-Attachments/Buckets/High-Volume-Front-End-Loader-Bucket-REGULAR-DUTY/MBHV84--Joplin-Missouri---11724921 But I note that the 2020 version has much more capacity for similar weight...

I've been thinking about this one, which sounds like yours: Tomahawk Attachments :: Tomahawk 84" Snow/Mulch Bucket I can't tell, is there any reinforcement along the bottom from back to front of the bucket? I like that it's light, but at the same time I'm concerned that unreinforced 1/8" steel...

You have to look at the grapple/rock thing situationaly. My grapple has pretty stout composition. I wouldn't worry about rocks if all I'm doing is using the forces the way it's designed to be used, i.e. close the grapple on the rock. I'd worry more if I was trying to put sideways forces on...

It's hard to tell how large those rocks are. Does your current tractor have 4WD? If not that'd be a thing to consider. I looked at the L3901, and ended up going for the MX5400 because I wanted wider wheel base and overall more weight and oompf. I'm pleased with it, but even with the MX5400...

Yeah, I guess I've concluded I'll do the little stuff and leave the dangerous stuff for the pros. Now if I can just find someone qualified, which is way harder than it should be in a state with many exports derived from trees.

A lot of people just associate their email account with a personal domain. So I could buy a domain like BullWinkle.org and associate it with my protonmail account, so even though I'm still using protonmail, you'd be sending mail to BullWinkle.org. Note, I haven't checked to see if there is...

That's why some of us use VPN vendors that aren't based in the US, so that logging, information requests, and other stuff are a bit more robust. That being said, the machines they use to provide VPN service to US customers are still located in the US where national agencies could set up man in...

For those of you who have accounts, like a Facebook account, and "never use it", don't think you're not being tracked. Facebook affiliates have browser tracking web page bugs everywhere. And unless you've "sandboxed" your browser, and perhaps more, they can figure out that the facebook account...

My own personal tips as a guy in the field for a long time: 1. If you're worried about being spied on, the first order of business is to stop using a cell phone. What they know about your travel/shopping/life habits is creepy, even without any data from your apps. Even without real or fictional...

I have this shed... Scenic, no? I've always enjoyed the way it's nestled into the trees. Or I did until trees started falling on it. Time to clear them. There is a hill behind the shed. Most of the trees that grow there lean a bit toward the shed. To the left of the shed just behind...

If your grass is like ... lawn ... and you care how it looks, don't use 4WD on it, or at least try not to be turning. When I'm driving on the lawn is about the only time I bother to take it out of 4WD.

That's more than the 2wd MX5400 for $23,571 from the Kubota site, FYI, not including discounts. But perhaps the discounts are better for the MX5200 than the MX5400.

My Kubota MX5400 is always finicky about switching out of 4WD. Eventually the lever will move if I roll far enough, but it's always a bit stiff on the switch.

From the Build Your Kubota site, speccing only the base MX5400, Foldable rops, and transmission/4wd options, 2WD DT TRACTOR W/FOLDABLE ROPS - $23,571.00, not including a $1000 cash incentive. 4WD TRACTOR W/FOLDABLE ROPS - $29,008, not including a $1000 cash incentive. So I learned somethiung...

If the OP is, as he said, just doing a large scale lawn mowing, and the ground is flat and generally dry, then 2WD would be fine. If he's skipping the FEL then that suggests, again, that 2WD might be fine. So perhaps we have the rare application here where the tractor really is just a one...

$6k for 4wd doesn't sound right to me. I thought the major cost difference was HST ($2-3K more) vs non-HST. I never heard of a $6k price difference for having 4WD. Got any Kubota calculator links on this? I'm not arguing against it, but it just doesn't sound right. Anybody got some hard...

Unfortunately I don't have a link for you, but somewhere in this forum is a long thread on issues, or lack thereof, of using 4WD all the time.

Good to know. The only hard surface my tractor sees is pulling straight in/out of the garage.

About the only time I'm _not_ using my 4WD is when I'm driving on the lawn. Hills, snow, mud, you name, it, I rarely bother to turn off the 4wd now. Also hopefully reduces rutting by decreasing the amount of rear wheel spinning when I'm pushing the bucket into gravel or ditches.

I have the MX5400 HST and love it. I pull a 6' rotary cutter but in my case it's difficult hilly terrain and it's only annually, at which point the field is full of 4-6' saplings that take hold every year. Sometimes it's slow going but not for any lack of power. There's only so much you can...

I also see the profile snippets on the left no longer include my equipment summary.

From a user experience standpoint, I like the amount of information they've crammed into the new UI, but if it looked like rScotty's it would drive me nuts (images clipping data). I also miss more than 20 replies per page.

Btw, my screen looks a bit better, I'm guessing I use a wider screen than you do (though it's only a 15" laptop). Image attached.

Well, to be fair, they have to make money somehow, as the network traffic and data storage, at a minimum, use a fair bit of computing resources (storing all those pictures, for example). Here in 2021 it's time for everybody to get used to the notion that if you're getting anything free, it...

It's been my experience that some of the ads come if you are not logged in. And in one of your pics it looked like you weren't logged in. Log in and see if it looks better.

Oy, that's pretty horrible, haven't seen that. Though that bottom overlay is probably what it used to try to show me (and failed) for a year.

No extensions, just a pretty vanilla firefox (on Linux). If you're having some exotic bad ads, I would suspect your mobile phone (if you're using it there), or perhaps something Windows (or Mac in your case, re: safari) specific. The ads I've seen are tastefully placed in the margins and such...

Strange. I'm seeing very few ads, and the site is behaving after years of all kinds of flaky artifacts. To me it appears to be a major cleanup! (Firefox browser). The only thing I'm missing is more replies per page in my viewing.

And today they're working, the one that led me here not being flagged as spam.

I've read the threads where people constructed various things to haul light materials in bulk. For example, what is essentially a plywood box that sits on the loader. And I'm considering the same thing. However I'd really prefer something off the shelf and robust, as opposed to a...

So I had a big driveway washout. Ordered a truck of 1.5" crushed with fines. Not high quality stuff, the fines were more like moist dirt. Anyway, it was warm enough when delivered but I knew cold weather (as in, in the teens) was coming the next night. Did what I could. Two days later I...

Here's some poor pics I took when the rotary cutter was almost new. Other than a big divot in one blade, they seem reasonable to me.

I've read the various threads. I know we don't want them too sharp, that dull blades are arguably fine. After my first field clearing I thought I'd just touch up some rough spots with a file, but man, these look more like they need to be put on the anvil and hammered out. Normal? Just leave...

I want to get under my rotary cutter and file/shape my blades a bit after some heavy work cutting rocks (apparently). So here I am faced with this 700+ lb 6' cutter. What's a *safe* way to get at those blades? As I see it I have these options: 1. Hoist it up and rest it on <how many?> jack...

Actually, I missed this bit. Yes, there are no identifying markings on the photos I posted (and to a blog years, ago, when it happened). Or perhaps there are, what you see is that you get. Once you strip off the labels and _use_ the product, identifying markings may be hard to come by, and so...

Lol, pictures or it didn't happen eh? It was tragic, I blogged about it at the time. Here are the pics: The handle after it fell out of the axe: The fluff which was in the handle (fluff?): And the handle, which had many flaws which were filled with some kind of putty: Not knowing how...

Head-shaking videos of how things sometimes get built, and some interesting specialized tractors doing some of the work. The Pylon Men (1966) - YouTube

[I looked at a number of already-existing posts to see if they might be used for this, didn't see any that were quite right for this] I'm a newbie, I only have one entry to start with. Perhaps others will add their own. No matter how much you drive around, when you pull into the garage the...

I recently acquired a zero turn mower, and it is the loudest piece of equipment I have ever operated. My traditional el-cheapo hearing protectors are not up to the task, so I've obtained some fancy new Peltor protectors. However ... I also need protective eyewear, the mower throws up a lot of...

So I have the Landpride RB3784 6-way blade, 7 feet wide, and no rear hydraulics. When researching my buy, naturally the popular concensus on TBN was that you want the top-n-tilt, the more hydraulics for road maintenance tools the better, basically. However I'd reached my limit, and had to rule...

So I was recently shopping for a new zero turn mower, mostly looking at eXmark Radius and Kubota Z400 series. I ended up buying a Z700. I was in a bit of a hurry and didn't have my customary time to do research, and there's something I still want to understand. The Z400 and the eXmark units...

Got about 2 acres, lots of contoured mowing (flower beds, ornamental trees, stone walls, buildings) as well as open yard. Based on dealer availability I'm probably going for either eXMark or Kubota, so looking or factors to consider in choosing. No prior ZTR experience except paying through...

So a while back I bought a tractor, one specifically NOT intended to mow my lawn. Too big, too heavy, the R4 tires will tear it up the lawn if used too much, and it compresses the soil. I try to keep it off the lawn except for occasional things like distributing mulch, raking garden plots, that...

Looking for Southern Vermont specific suggestions. Yard is probably under 2 acres, a fair bit of ... contour ... to ride along, buildings, stone walls, mulched gardens, the occasional tree. Terrain is somewhat uneven but otherwise ... domestic ... and not too sloped, though there are some 3'...

Ah, the sort of post that has it all. Dirty photos (well, okay, photos of slightly dirty things). Movies. Parts diagrams. Mystery. Unless you own an RB3784 blade or one from that family, it probably isn't remotely worth your time to read (unless you're some kind of engineering nerd, then read...

See photos: If I recall correctly (don't have the book in front of me right now), the Land Pride owner manual says that I should rake roots with the heel spurs on this grapple (backing up), and not necessarily the bottom or top tines in the grapple (dunno if I'm using the right words)...

Here's what I have. A portion of a long driveway with this shape: At one point this driveway was nice gravel & grade (1.5 inch crushed "extra dense", which probably refers to the fines). Over the years the snow plow has pushed a lot of the gravel off to the sides and down the slopes. What...

So, I finally had occasion to try out my new bucket spade, which unfortunately didn't go as expected. I need to contact the vendor, there was major impedance mismatch between the bucket spade attachment mechanisms and my bucket. I'm not maligning the product here, it seems very well built, but...

Just some data points. I just bought an MX5400 and it's great, and I have a lot of hilly terrain, and the tractor is _wider_ than pretty much any lower HP model Kubota makes. It's doing very well on the hills. I spent $44K (not incl. taxes) for the HST model with ROPS, loaded tires and...

I have a Kubota branded grease gun, and an additional Lock-N-Lube grease fitting. However the zerk at the top center of the attached picture is problematic (on both sides of the tractor): I suppose I should have cleaned the zerk before taking the photo, it points up toward the metal lip that...

I'm a new tractor owner. Things are going great, the tractor and attachments are 6 kinds of awesome. Now that I have it, despite thinking everything to death prior to purchase, I'll just throw things on here that I didn't think of and am realizing after the fact. I have all these forest...

I posted a longwinded bit about this on a blog years ago. Bought the 4.5lb axe (which was a weight I really liked in my axes) from HF, only to have it come flying off the handle on first use in the woods. Turns out it wasn't even remotely connected to the handle. There was a little blob of...

I have a 6' rotary cutter in my garage on cheap dollies because I'm still assimilating a new tractor and attachments in my life. If the cutter breaks the dolly, I need to use something to lift it up onto a new dolly. Because I was unprepared for this and the rotary cutter was a 90 degrees...

I'm "tool challenged". My seldom used 3/8 inch socket set whose largest socket probably only goes to 11/16 inch can't handle pretty much anything on my Kubota. Looking at other TBN threads which are often 10-15 years old, people say the Kubotas use metric bolts/nuts, I'm not sure if that's...

I bought a bunch of HF dollies on sale. The little 12x18's and some 18x30's. All supposedly rated for 1000 lbs. I had my doubts, but lots of people use them and they're cheap, so why not? Lol, here's why not: Turns out the "wood" hiding under those black covered ends is just thin plywood...

Given the irregularities of my field I know it's going to be demanding on my brush hog. In my first couple of hours on it, I was careful to avoid rocks (some of which I'll be working to remove soon), though at some point I hit something that I believe triggered the slip clutch. I thought it was...

First the power question. I notice that when I go up-hill with my new MX5400HST (with loaded rears) that it seems to struggle. I didn't think that I was really asking that much of it, but perhaps I was, you tell me. While climbing a short incline with a 745 lb rotary cutter raised on the...

Second try using "advanced" "attachments" options.

Lol, what's this?

Fancy ascii graphics of what I envision (since recaptured as an image because TBN strips all spaces in formatted text :-( ): So the question is can I squeeze all my equipment into the P slots under/on the racks and in front of the vehicles. I'm thinking I can, though that rotary cutter on...

I have three connected garage bays I'd like to use for attachment storage (as well as vehicles/tractors), with a strong hope to restrict attachment storage to two bays if I can. I'm trying to figure out if this is viable, and what size racks and pallets to order and/or build. A car/truck will...

Greetings all, hope you're faring well in your coronavirus self-isolation. So I've finally purchased a tractor (it hasn't been delivered yet). And while I was planning to put this off for a while, I'm very interested in getting a chipper/shredder and I'm trying to understand how many...

I've been all over this forum trying to figure out which I need. Seems like people are about 45% in favor of box blade, 35% in favor of rear blade, and 20% in favor of some kind of rake (which, alone, I'm pretty sure will be useless for me, and I don't want to buy more than one 3ph implement...

As I am close to purchasing a tractor I cannot believe there aren't bumper stickers of the form "My other car is a <tractor-brand>". I certainly can't find any for a Kubota, though once upon a time I guess they had a newspaper ad with that statement.

I can't remember the details, some are here: Access Denied I guess it's a 5.4l engine, rated for towing ~9000 lbs. Never towed anything with it, so the hitch receiver has never been used. I'm contemplating buying a Kubota MX5400. I don't really plan to tow it or even own a trailer, but I...

A bit of follow up to share information in my search. I'm getting closer to a decision. I priced a bunch of base tractor+loader+bucket scenarios on the Kubota web site. probably flubbing some things in my confusion about quick connect loaders, "standard" options, and such, but it was just a...

Well, that's an enviable lawn/tractor setup you have there with a huge tractor and your flat open grass as far as the eye can see. Mine is more like a maze of New England stone walls. buildings, trees, and garden beds. There is a fair bit of grass, but it's like the old Zork maze "you are in a...

I'm buying a tractor. First, let me say that my primary uses for my tractor are probably covered. The L3901 should be entirely adequate to the primary tasks. That said, I have a few secondary wish list items and concerns: Stability: Big concern for me, perhaps because I'm just a big chicken...

I can't say how deep the soil is, it varies. Much of the house had to blast out bedrock schist for a basement/foundation. THe driveway definitely has parts that are close to the schist. I'm not sure how deep the soil in the field goes. and havent' dug any deep holes on the property except in a...

Keywords: ballast, tire type, lawn preservation. I have these applications for a new tractor I plan to buy, which are somewhat at odds with each other in terms of weight and tire requirements. However I only get one tractor, so need to figure out the best compromise. My tentative plan is to...

I was searching machinefinder.com yesterday for some 'L' class Kubotas and some 3-series Deeres, focusing mostly on 30-45 HP tractors. The listings were most of the US and Canada, I wasn't looking in my local region, I was just trying to get a sense of what the prices were for tractors and...

Aging tractor virgin with a lot of need but no experience. Been living on a 180 parcel for 10 years, and I'm just getting too old to do things by hand. I'm also tired of paying other people to use their tractors for what are essentially routine maintenance chores, so here I am, asking these...