newtarheel
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I've put about 30 hours on my new Kubota B7800 since I last reported on the joyous day of its arrival. So far I've used it to till under about 4,000 square feet of sod (with a Woods tiller) to make way for a vegetable garden (and was pleased not to have to use herbicides); used the FEL to tighten 280 feet of 6-foot welded wire fencing around perimeter of said garden (to keep athletic deer out); dug a 6-foot-deep drainage pit and accompanying ditch (with Woods BH70-X backhoe) and filled all with crushed rock with the FEL; cleared an 8-foot-wide and 300-yard long path through dense woods and scrub; and moved a lot of stone dust, rocks, crushed rock and red clay to Point B with the FEL.
Observations:
The tiller is fairly easy to connect to the 3-point hitch and did a heck of a job, even though there was some stone ledge here and there in the garden --also some old tree roots. I think the thing LIKES violence.
I haven't found the limits of the FEL, yet. I've filled it with as much as it will hold with different materials, and the FEL never balks.
The backhoe works well: I've used to dig the above pit and ditch in hard-packed red clay. The implement does seem a bit underpowered sometimes when I'm pulling stumps, but when that happens I just give the task more time. (And, since I'm retired, I have more time than the stumps.)
About 125 yards of the path I cleared was steep downhill with some scary curves. Probably the BH, ballasted tires, and FEL kept me from rolling over (though I had a couple of healthy scares).
I have one beef, and that is with re-connecting the Woods BH after I've used the tiller. It has taken me as long as an hour-and-a-half to connect it -- though the problem may be that I haven't disconnected the implement onto level ground in the first place. We'll see.
The machine and implements work as advertised and I'm terrifically pleased with the Kubota. My great fear is that I'll run out of work to do.
Plans for this spring include more garden work, some fairly serious (?) landscaping -- including perhaps a decorative pond -- and expansion of my forest highway system.
This from a city boy.
Observations:
The tiller is fairly easy to connect to the 3-point hitch and did a heck of a job, even though there was some stone ledge here and there in the garden --also some old tree roots. I think the thing LIKES violence.
I haven't found the limits of the FEL, yet. I've filled it with as much as it will hold with different materials, and the FEL never balks.
The backhoe works well: I've used to dig the above pit and ditch in hard-packed red clay. The implement does seem a bit underpowered sometimes when I'm pulling stumps, but when that happens I just give the task more time. (And, since I'm retired, I have more time than the stumps.)
About 125 yards of the path I cleared was steep downhill with some scary curves. Probably the BH, ballasted tires, and FEL kept me from rolling over (though I had a couple of healthy scares).
I have one beef, and that is with re-connecting the Woods BH after I've used the tiller. It has taken me as long as an hour-and-a-half to connect it -- though the problem may be that I haven't disconnected the implement onto level ground in the first place. We'll see.
The machine and implements work as advertised and I'm terrifically pleased with the Kubota. My great fear is that I'll run out of work to do.
Plans for this spring include more garden work, some fairly serious (?) landscaping -- including perhaps a decorative pond -- and expansion of my forest highway system.
This from a city boy.
