I CAN FINALLY POST HERE

[Joyce]

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.

 

[Bird]

Sounds like a fun day, Joyce./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif But it'll get better.

Bird

 

[glennmac]

Joyce,

Congratulations. Enjoy the new toy ... uh ... tool. I hope the hubby appreciates all the sophisticated research you did.

So you got the coveted grass catcher but got no grass to catch. Go out into the fields and make crop circles.

You'll probably find that you wont want to cut as sharp as you can if you scuff a bit. The hydro is so quick and easy to go back and forward it doesnt matter.

Now you are required to go out and spend more money to buy a digital camera so we can see your tractor and property.

Did you get the snowblower?

By the way, if you look at your profile, you will see that your attachments didnt list after the number 60. This is the darkest secret of TBN. When you put the inch symbol (") in the profile, it for some reason deletes everything after it. You can abbreviate the word inch instead.

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Joyce,

Let's see....

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2 /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif
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Smiles win

Welcome to <font color=orange>kubota</font color=orange> Owning.

Al

 

[Joyce]

Glenn,

Thanks /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Yes, I did get the snow blower, but it is not coming in until around October. Since it is not actually in my possesion, I did not figure it honest to list it. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Even if I DID have a digital camera, it would do me no good. Don't I need some kind of scanner unit to get that information into the cyber world? The extent of my computer toys in front of me (in this very small house we live in) is: a Digital (HiNote) Ultra 2000 laptop computer, with a DeskJet 952C printer. That's it. I don't think I can get photos out, but I would love to, because I like looking at the photos that others include. Fun to see what folks are working with.

Hubby appreciates all the homework and research. Seriously/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif, as he does not have the time to do it. He appreciates it as much as I appreciated his willingness to jump in there with negotiations /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif.

Thanks for the profile information tip. I'm headed there next to fix things.

 

[Wheeldog]

Congratulations, Joyce. That's a great tractor you've got.

Hope you enjoy the move from the 'Buying' to the 'Owning' forum too.

Rob

 

[copierguy]

Joyce,

I believe the phase of the times is: "You go girl!"
But I prefer: "Be safe and enjoy."

copierguy

 

[beenthere]

You don't need a scanner to get digital photos in the computer. The scanner is just one way to load existing copy (pics). The digital cameras plug directly into your computer, download directly, and you are good to go.

 

[Bird]

Joyce, as Beenthere said, the digital cameras (or at least some of them) come with a cable to plug directly into the computer, or you can do as I did and buy the Flashpath adapter that goes into the floppy disk drive because I didn't want to have to plug more cables into the back of the computer.

Bird

 

[Joyce]

Oh sure....my husband is going to enjoy hearing THIS bit of information $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$./w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif Aren't digital cameras rather pricey? (Not compared to tractors...)