In late October I posted and talked about the 6-week old Border Collie pup we had just acquired. Everyone here had a lot of postitives to say about the breed and all the info provided has been really appreciated. Now that Abby is almost four months old, I have to admit she's a lot different...
Well, we just acquired a 6-week old Border Collie puppy to go with our seven year old beagle/retriever and the cats. I kind of forgot what puppies were all about. Anyway........
I was wondering if anyone else out there has had much experience with Border Collies. My wife wanted another dog...
Here's my dilema. We have an above ground 27' round pool that has a 24' x 16' deck built against it. It was built in 1993 or 1994 using all pressure treated lumber. The decking is 5/4 x 6 round edged deck board. Over the years I've cleaned the deck every spring, re-sealed, re-stained...
I finally got tired of bouncing over all of the mole trails/hills and uneven areas around our place. So, last weekend I picked up a tow behind 4 ft lawn roller from the local TSC. Steel. Big. A man's roller. Fully loaded with water, it's supposed to weigh in just under 1,000 lbs. Last...
We had to have one of our two dogs put down Wednesday night. She was a tan cocker spaniel that adopted us about 5 years ago.......somebody apparantly dropped her off. The Vet thinks she had a stroke about a week ago and just hasn't been able to overcome it. We think she was about 14-15 years...
Wondering what the employment mood is in other parts of the country these days. I happen to work for one of the auto companies that just announced it's going to trim the salaried workforce by about 5,000 jobs by year-end. And the guys at the German/American company up the road took a lot of...
It's lots of fun for many of us to talk about new Kubotas and John Deeres and New Hollands and others, and sometimes to even go hassle with the dealers and drink coffee, drive the new tractors around, move dirt, and play for a bit. But the reality of the situation is lots of folks buy used...
It seems like where we live in Michigan it's rained and been 60 degrees for most of the past two weeks. There's some strange Canadian weather system that's supposedly pushed the jet stream south and won't move. Because of the every day rains we haven't been able to mow since before Memorial...
Saturday afternoon my little '95 B7100 HST rolled past the 500 hour mark. So, Saturday night I changed the oil and filter, put in new air and fuel filters, drained and refilled with new anti-freeze and gave the little bull a bath to boot (things were kinda slow out where I live). I changed the...
I was stumbling around the John Deere site today (www.johndeere.com) and fell into some pretty cool screen savers they have available. A good variety of tractors and related stuff. Of course, it's all John Deere, but......... Somebody here had asked a while ago if there were any tractor...
That previous post must have escaped undetected when no one was on duty. Anyway, here are the real pictures this time.
And I still think paper clips and scotch tape are easier!!!
Bob Pence
One of the dilemas of owning a compact Kubota is finding a place to mount a tool box. I found that a "tool bag" hung on a j-bolt attached to the ROPS works OK, but I also found that it often times blocks my vision while working backwards with the back blade. So, I came up with another solution...
My mail box got wiped out in early December - that was at least the 3rd one in a year. Somebody hit it with something (motor vehicle type something) and snapped off the 4x4 post and crushed the mail box. Several other mail boxes on our road were just beat up with baseball bats that same night...
I was talking with one of the old farmers in our area after church yesterday. He said, and I quote: "Old Man Winter's back is broken. Maybe a little more snow and cold, but we're through the worst of it. Seen it before and bad December storms mean an early spring". I'd sure like to believe...
Just kind of curious and this seemed like the right spot to ask. Besides playing (er, I mean working) with tractors and related equipment, what's everyone do for fun when not working in the "real world".
Personally, I'm a total golf kind of guy. Love to play....anytime and anyplace. I can...
Bob\'s Place in Winter
Everyone keeps saying to post pictures of where we call home, so, here's where we call home. There's 2ft. + of snow on the ground. This is a 10 acre parcel. House sits about 100 yds off the road and faces south (1st pic). The view out the back of the house looks north...
What\'s going on in California?
All you folks out on the left coast......what's going on out there?
I heard on the news the past couple of days that California is about ready to shut the lights off....no more power. This AM there was talk about rolling black-outs and that the power grid was...
Well, SE Michigan and the Detroit/Pontiac/Flint area sure got it's share of snow the past few days. About 16-17" where I live on Monday & Monday night. It's a 52 mile drive from work to home and took just over 5 hours Monday night (normally 1 hr. & 5 min). Everything was closed on Tuesday and...
Anyone ever have one of THOSE days. Saturday was one for me.
Went out Saturday afternoon to grab the B7100 & trailer to haul some brush I had been clearing from an old fence row back in the woods. I walked into the barn and there sat the Kubota with a flat front tire. No big deal I thought...
This photo shows the tiltmeter mounted right out front in the operators view. Seems to work well there and is a constant reminder when operating on hills and slopes.
Bob Pence
The idea of using barbell weights came from this forum as well as "Mike's Tractor Page". I made a different type of bracket to hold the weights as I'm not a welder. The backbone is a piece of 1/4" x 2" c-channel steel with a galvanized pipe floor plate bolted to the center. The c-channel is...
This photo shows the headlight replacements I put on the B7100 as well as the tiltmeter mounting. Also, the grille was home-crafted from hardware wire, bent to fit the existing opening and lined with black aluminum screen to filter the dust and debris, and then held in place with four springs...
This tool bag purchased at Home Depot solved my tool box problem on the B7100. It has a plastic tray in the bottom that allows me to carry extra hitch pins, clips, etc. as well as a few wrenches, pliers, hammer, and screw drivers in the main compartment. Seems to work just fine and is out of...
This is the new suspension seat I installed on the B7100. It came from Tractor Supply Company and cost $139.95. Right now it's mounted on a 3/4" plywood plate that I'm going to repace with 1/4" steel plate this weekend. It is absolutely, positively, beyond a shadow of a doubt a great seat for...
I finally borrowed a digital camera over Thanksgiving and was able to snap a few pixels worth of B7100 photos. This first one is just the little B7100 sitting around waiting for something to do.
Bob Pence
B7100 Tool \"Box?\"
One of the challenges with the small compact tractors is trying to find a place or way to attach a tool box to the little beast. Like most owners, I'm sure I like to have more tools with me than will fit in the little tool compartment Kubota provides (won't hold a hammer)...
I was able to get this copy of the official presidential election ballot used in Palm Beach County, Florida. I just don't see how anyone could be confused.
Bob Pence
Curiosity has gotten the best of me.
I'm really struggling with why someone would NOT want a tiltmeter on a tractor, especially a new tractor. Maybe there are valid reasons that I have not thought through completely or things I've overlooked.
Being a safety fanatic, I'm interested in this...
What\'s YOUR Dream Tractor?
I was talking with a friend yesterday and the disucssion somehow turned to what tractor would each of us get if we could. Forget about being able to really afford it or even really need it. What would we get? I went Kubota, he went for the NH TC29.
I guess I'd...
Ok, I've never tried to post a picture on the net before and am pretty sure if there's a way to do it wrong I'll find it.
This is my little B7100 rigged for winter running. The pictures were taken around Christmas time last year. The light arrangement on the front puts out about 700...
It's the time of year when lots of folks will be removing their mid-mounted mower decks and I know a lot of folks use the front-end loader to lift the tractor enough to move the mower deck out from underneath. One of the things a friend does when using his FEL to accomplish this task on his...
I've had a 1995 B7100 for a couple of years now and really don't care for the seat on the machine. I've considered some of the replacement seats that TSC offers, have looked at a couple of newer model seats that Kubota uses on other B-series tractors, but am wondering if anyone has actually...
I was somewhat surprised when I looked at the Best Manufacturer Poll on the home page this morning. Being a proud Kubota owner, knowing other Kubota tractor junkies, having read all of the posts here and on the CTB about "challenges" folks are having with their blue and especially green...
A question for all the other hydrostatic trans users out there. I changed the hydraulic fluid and filter again on my 95 B7100 yesterday and had an interesting thing happen when I was done and went to move the tractor. It seems that the hydro pedal would barely move in reverse. Really hard to...