MossyDell
Silver Member
- Joined
- Jul 25, 2002
- Messages
- 236
- Location
- southwestern Virginia
- Tractor
- B2601 (2021) B6100E (1988) B2100 (1991) JD970 (1998)
Hey,
I love the Kubota forums and decided to tell a story that's been on my mind for some reason. About 15 years ago on our property in southern Indiana we had a pond dug. Had a great old excavator named Walt Taylor dig it, mostly with his little dozer. He noticed I had a Kubota and to my surprise was a real fan, had at least one he used at home and told me it was his brother who advertised in the paper that he tilled gardens with a "Kubota tractor and tiller."
Well, that pond ended up with a seam in the bottom and we bought a fancy sealer that needed to be tilled in, so we hired Walt's brother. He arrived towing his outfit, big HD pickup and trailer and a little B series that was about 24 hp. I had a 2wd B series 21 hp at the time and was impressed because his was 4wd and a little beefier, looked more serious. Well, he tilled the heck out of that pond bottom and it stopped the leak.
When he came back to be paid he was towing his rig again but had a big bushhog on the tractor, said he was on his way to cut for someone. Now, it was at least a 5 foot bushhog and maybe even 6--at least a foot over whatever the tractor was rated for---and I commented on it. He said the dealer told him it was too big but the tractor would handle it. He said he used straight 50 weight oil. He also had cut the roll bar off because it hit limbs when bushhogging, which I thought was insane and still do, but I still run into folks who do it. He had made a little shelf out of it at the height of the seat back.
Another odd thing to me that maybe someone here can explain is that his tractor was so small for the work he did, about the equivalent of today's B2410 I guess, that I wondered why he didn't get a bigger tractor. He said he didn't want to have to have brakes on his trailer and a bigger tractor would obligate him legally to do so because he'd go over whatever the cutoff was.
I have a 16 foot trailer with electric brakes now and it's no big deal. I wonder if an old coot like that didn't consider electric brakes BRAKES and was talking about REAL surge brakes?
Anyway, I think of those brothers sometimes. Nice guys, good equipment operators, Bota fans, original characters. They gave me a lot of faith in small tractors to do big work, with care. Of course folks overload and can and do damage CUTs, but at least one old feller and his little bota made a big dent in Hoosier weeds and dirt for a while.
I love the Kubota forums and decided to tell a story that's been on my mind for some reason. About 15 years ago on our property in southern Indiana we had a pond dug. Had a great old excavator named Walt Taylor dig it, mostly with his little dozer. He noticed I had a Kubota and to my surprise was a real fan, had at least one he used at home and told me it was his brother who advertised in the paper that he tilled gardens with a "Kubota tractor and tiller."
Well, that pond ended up with a seam in the bottom and we bought a fancy sealer that needed to be tilled in, so we hired Walt's brother. He arrived towing his outfit, big HD pickup and trailer and a little B series that was about 24 hp. I had a 2wd B series 21 hp at the time and was impressed because his was 4wd and a little beefier, looked more serious. Well, he tilled the heck out of that pond bottom and it stopped the leak.
When he came back to be paid he was towing his rig again but had a big bushhog on the tractor, said he was on his way to cut for someone. Now, it was at least a 5 foot bushhog and maybe even 6--at least a foot over whatever the tractor was rated for---and I commented on it. He said the dealer told him it was too big but the tractor would handle it. He said he used straight 50 weight oil. He also had cut the roll bar off because it hit limbs when bushhogging, which I thought was insane and still do, but I still run into folks who do it. He had made a little shelf out of it at the height of the seat back.
Another odd thing to me that maybe someone here can explain is that his tractor was so small for the work he did, about the equivalent of today's B2410 I guess, that I wondered why he didn't get a bigger tractor. He said he didn't want to have to have brakes on his trailer and a bigger tractor would obligate him legally to do so because he'd go over whatever the cutoff was.
I have a 16 foot trailer with electric brakes now and it's no big deal. I wonder if an old coot like that didn't consider electric brakes BRAKES and was talking about REAL surge brakes?
Anyway, I think of those brothers sometimes. Nice guys, good equipment operators, Bota fans, original characters. They gave me a lot of faith in small tractors to do big work, with care. Of course folks overload and can and do damage CUTs, but at least one old feller and his little bota made a big dent in Hoosier weeds and dirt for a while.
