Joyce
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I have waited for a long time to enter a post in the "Kubota Owning" forum /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif, but we finally received our baby on Tuesday. Our 'baby' being a B2910 with a 60" mmm, the grass catcher and a Land Pride brush hog. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
The funny part was getting the thing off of the trailer. Sounds easy? Take tractor off with mmm and grass catcher attached. Remove grass catcher when we can finally pull the two freshly painted, unyeilding metal parts apart. Salesman attaches balance of 3ph arms that have to come off when the grass catcher goes on. Just turned 7 year old son is fully involved and wants to help at every step.
Attempt to use pins provided to hold mmm 'up'. Find myself talking about needing a 'von rod'. "Huh?" says the salesman. I explain. Pins provided require about 20 minutes to line up and install.
Back up tractor on trailer to unload brush hog. Salesman courteously decides to adjust the back wheel height for me. Loving the chivalry, but one of the carriage bolts is cross threaded! The second one, of course /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif. We try channel locks. They slip. I dredge up vice grips from the shop. They slip. I suggest vice grips on the carriage bolt head, with channel locks holding the vice grips from slipping. This, with a pipe on the wrench to move that nasty nut, we get movement in barely perceptable increments. We keep at this until I'm willing to confess that my hands are getting sore holding the channel locks. I dredge up two bolts to replace the messed up ones (the first one looked like it spent a month is salt water). I am promised replacements in the mail.
We remove the brush hog and park it in a nice protected spot. Salesman starts reminding me how to change things to get back to the grass cather. "What?" I say. "You're not going to help me with this?" /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif (Husband out of town for a couple of days and I want to PLAY!)
Two cotter pins that require two tools to remove take up a major amount of time to 'do' and 'un-do'. Salesman promises to send me some of the easy on and off ones. Great! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
We add oil to the spot where the grass catcher is supported.
Total Time Elapsed: slightly over two hours.
First trial run: mower. Wow /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif. This thing really goes. It is also louder than I expected. Hearing the mower blades sounds very much like an airplane. Forgot my ear protectors on the first run out /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif.
This would be the year that we have not had an appreciable amount of rain since spring, and thus little to mow, but I did so anyway...leaning into the field grasses for mulch for my many trees /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
When I tried to see how small of a circle I could mow, I sadly discovered that I was ripping up the already pathetic grass /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. It occurred to me later, to take it out of four wheel drive. I think this will solve the problem.
I'm feeling a bit intimidated about remembering how things come apart and go together...seemed a lot more straight forward on our old '52 Farmall, but I'm sure I was feeling the same way when that arrived back whenever./w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
SO!!! THANK YOU TO ALL YOU FOLKS WHO HAVE HELPED ME MAKE THIS WONDERFUL (however, quite expensive /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif)PURCHASE /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif!!!
I will keep in touch with how my work/play goes with it. Oh...I omitted that we also got a post hole digger with this. They did not have any 9" augers in stock, so they loaded one with a 12" auger, with no adjustments to our price /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif.
The funny part was getting the thing off of the trailer. Sounds easy? Take tractor off with mmm and grass catcher attached. Remove grass catcher when we can finally pull the two freshly painted, unyeilding metal parts apart. Salesman attaches balance of 3ph arms that have to come off when the grass catcher goes on. Just turned 7 year old son is fully involved and wants to help at every step.
Attempt to use pins provided to hold mmm 'up'. Find myself talking about needing a 'von rod'. "Huh?" says the salesman. I explain. Pins provided require about 20 minutes to line up and install.
Back up tractor on trailer to unload brush hog. Salesman courteously decides to adjust the back wheel height for me. Loving the chivalry, but one of the carriage bolts is cross threaded! The second one, of course /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif. We try channel locks. They slip. I dredge up vice grips from the shop. They slip. I suggest vice grips on the carriage bolt head, with channel locks holding the vice grips from slipping. This, with a pipe on the wrench to move that nasty nut, we get movement in barely perceptable increments. We keep at this until I'm willing to confess that my hands are getting sore holding the channel locks. I dredge up two bolts to replace the messed up ones (the first one looked like it spent a month is salt water). I am promised replacements in the mail.
We remove the brush hog and park it in a nice protected spot. Salesman starts reminding me how to change things to get back to the grass cather. "What?" I say. "You're not going to help me with this?" /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif (Husband out of town for a couple of days and I want to PLAY!)
Two cotter pins that require two tools to remove take up a major amount of time to 'do' and 'un-do'. Salesman promises to send me some of the easy on and off ones. Great! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
We add oil to the spot where the grass catcher is supported.
Total Time Elapsed: slightly over two hours.
First trial run: mower. Wow /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif. This thing really goes. It is also louder than I expected. Hearing the mower blades sounds very much like an airplane. Forgot my ear protectors on the first run out /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif.
This would be the year that we have not had an appreciable amount of rain since spring, and thus little to mow, but I did so anyway...leaning into the field grasses for mulch for my many trees /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.
When I tried to see how small of a circle I could mow, I sadly discovered that I was ripping up the already pathetic grass /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. It occurred to me later, to take it out of four wheel drive. I think this will solve the problem.
I'm feeling a bit intimidated about remembering how things come apart and go together...seemed a lot more straight forward on our old '52 Farmall, but I'm sure I was feeling the same way when that arrived back whenever./w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
SO!!! THANK YOU TO ALL YOU FOLKS WHO HAVE HELPED ME MAKE THIS WONDERFUL (however, quite expensive /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif)PURCHASE /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif!!!
I will keep in touch with how my work/play goes with it. Oh...I omitted that we also got a post hole digger with this. They did not have any 9" augers in stock, so they loaded one with a 12" auger, with no adjustments to our price /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif.
