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Todd, one of the biggest character builders I've ever gotten was trying to scoop up a big rock and move it with the FEL. It didn't work and I knew absolute morons that could do it. Why not me?

I have kept trying and finally learned how to do it(sometimes). Nothing in books can help.


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Love it! A challenge! I kind of feel like Qui Chang Caine, trying to snatch the pebble from Master Po's hand! laugh


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Originally Posted By: Todd3138
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Forks are pretty good for moving things like logs, picking up downed trees to easily cut up with a chain saw, getting your chainsaw out of a pinch situation, and I can go on... Great attachment, and I would buy one. Very many uses, and your back, arm's, leg's, head, family, friends will thank you, But...

...They really suck at moving brush! Got a steel grill on that baby? Brush has a way finding the right passage thru the grill guard, and you don't have one, to mess up the grill. I need a new one on the Kubota, and they ain't cheap!


Good points, JKB. Thanks! I hadn't thought of being able to use forks to hold logs while I cut them - great idea!


We just section the trees in the field about 12-16 feet long, then move them to the wood shed where the the log splitter is. Makes life easier. Cut, split and stack in one convenient location. Some large trees have to be cut shorter due to the weight.

Another handy attachment is a box scraper. One thing I would not be without! Long driveways are really easy to grade in a couple passes. Work much better than a back blade. Good for popping out little stumps too!


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Todd Grats on your new tractor! It will evolve to more and more clarity of another dimension of your property. Getting a loader with filled rear tires is a smart move. Now you can move about anything on your property, pull vines down and out of trees, etc. And an instant lifter upper of about anything, including your spirit.


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Thanks, Rick! It has been amazing at lifting my spirits, for sure! I've been putting in a decent amount of work with it as we're in the process of bringing water and electric into the farm. All the utilities have to be buried so I've been supporting my excavator with hauling dirt around as needed and dumping "choke" into the bottom of our 500' of trench to lay the water and electric onto a reasonably smooth surface. There have been some pretty heavy loads in the bucket so the filled rear tires have been an asset. Looking forward to all the other stuff I'll be doing with it, too. I've only mowed once with the brush hog, but will likely be doing that again this week some time. All I can say so far is fun, fun, fun!


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I had problems with my loader bucket at the top starting to bend, and split. I use this loader ALOT, for just about anything. I took a 1/4 thick piece of angle and welded it to the top and I have had no problems since. I have pushed over some good sized trees with it. Also welded on a hook in the middle to pick up things with a chain.


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Originally Posted By: spinnerbait
Also welded on a hook in the middle to pick up things with a chain.


Now that was a good idea!

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Originally Posted By: spinnerbait
I had problems with my loader bucket at the top starting to bend, and split. I use this loader ALOT, for just about anything. I took a 1/4 thick piece of angle and welded it to the top and I have had no problems since. I have pushed over some good sized trees with it. Also welded on a hook in the middle to pick up things with a chain.


At the top??? Perhaps it's more common than I realize, but I don't believe I've ever heard of one splitting up there. I certainly have heard about them splitting on the leading edge on the bottom from heavy work, but never the top. I would like to eventually add a tooth bar to my bucket but they're not cheap, so I'll wait a little before adding one. Besides, I really think I need a rake first in light of all the work we're doing at the farm right now with trenching in water and electric. Lots of rocks to contend with now. Love the hook idea, by the way.


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Rake for rocks? Box blades are nice too, to fill in the trench. I just wish I had a "float" setting on the Kubota 3-point.


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A box blade would be nice, too, but there are a pretty good number of big rocks that may be better suited for faster removal by being able to rake them up. Maybe not. I'm new at this tractor stuff!


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Todd, love all of this tractor talk. Hopefully in the future I'll be getting one and
all of this info will be helpful. Keep up the good work...


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Originally Posted By: Todd3138
A box blade would be nice, too, but there are a pretty good number of big rocks that may be better suited for faster removal by being able to rake them up. Maybe not. I'm new at this tractor stuff!


You'll toast a rake on rocks.

A box scraper works fairly decent on rocks, but you always get a few that roll out under if it is full.

I would like to get a rake, but have not found one that I thought would hold up with me at the wheel.

I've broken just about everything so far. Warranty on the tractor is up, so it is take it easy from now on.

Hey, just testing their engineering out whistle

I would like to sell my disc and get a tiller.


Read your warranty Todd. If you modify stuff, probably won't be covered.

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Originally Posted By: esshup
Rake for rocks? Box blades are nice too, to fill in the trench. I just wish I had a "float" setting on the Kubota 3-point.


Box Scrapers are wonderful tools. I doubt you would need a float with a box scraper.

What Kubota do you have?

I have an L3540, and will eventually boot that out for a larger model or different brand. Just not up to my expectations.

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B7500 (I think). When using the box blade without the float, it loads up the rear the more dirt it holds, making it dig down even deeper, loading more dirt, repeat, repeat. You get the picture. The FEL has a float setting. It's small, and it doesn't pick up near what I wished it did, but the price was right and I don't know what I'd do without one.

I recently did some research into implements for planting food plots, and a tiller looks like the best option. I didn't get the brands, but 60" wide tillers were from $1750 to $2650.


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Scott, try Craigs List.


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Originally Posted By: Todd3138
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I had problems with my loader bucket at the top starting to bend, and split. I use this loader ALOT, for just about anything. I took a 1/4 thick piece of angle and welded it to the top and I have had no problems since. I have pushed over some good sized trees with it. Also welded on a hook in the middle to pick up things with a chain.


At the top??? Perhaps it's more common than I realize, but I don't believe I've ever heard of one splitting up there. I certainly have heard about them splitting on the leading edge on the bottom from heavy work, but never the top. Love the hook idea, by the way.


I split both top and bottom. Rewelded the top, bottom, and welded the angle on top to reinforce it.
I added the hook mainly to move my trailers when mowing. Just hook the hitch, lift and move, then move back when done. You can see by the battle scars on the bucket that it is used alot. Second pic is moving a pile of brush with pallet forks. 5-600 bucks on ebay for pallet forks which I use alot also.

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Nice! The whole warranty voiding bit is enough of a concern that I'll probably wait to add a hook, but I do really like that idea. Another friend did that with his bucket and seems to make a lot of sense and add a great deal of functionality for a variety of uses.


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I have 3 hooks on my FEL and use it all the time for picking up just about anything with a chain. You can bend the middle of the FEL trying to pick something up too heavey. We welded about a 1 1/2 inch piece of round steel underneath the top portion of the bucket for support (directly underneath the hooks).

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Good idea.


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Originally Posted By: Todd3138
Nice! The whole warranty voiding bit is enough of a concern that I'll probably wait to add a hook, but I do really like that idea. Another friend did that with his bucket and seems to make a lot of sense and add a great deal of functionality for a variety of uses.


Todd,
When I got the Kubota. Dealer said most people weld hooks on their bucket. Told me not to because it voids the "Entire Tractor Warranty". Also, if you hook chains up where they are not supposed to, the warranty is void. I had a 6K warranty repair. A bearing split in the rear end which busted a lot of stuff. They went over it like a forensic team looking for misuse, and found none. Whew!!! Fixed for free and it works better than new. I think the bearing was bad in the first place because it is much smoother running now. He showed all the busted parts and the bearing that split. Knowing a bit about failure analysis, it was easy to tell that the bearing was bad in the first place. That said, if they found any marks from like chains, etc... bad bearing or not, it would not be covered under warranty.

They also void the warranty if you use implements not authorized by Kubota. Kubota and Land Pride are the only ones I know of that wont void the Kubota warranty.

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Having a problem with something that is totally unrelated to the failure negating the warranty really sucks.

I reinforced the top of my bucket with a piece of heavy channel iron and welded the hooks on. Or my Brother did. I'm a lousy welder. I use the bucket for a lot of things including lifting deer and hogs to be skinned and butchered. It also makes me feel better when I load it onto a trailer. I can chain it down so it makes it to wherever I'm going.

One thing that I've seen but don't have is a home made gizmo that locks into the FEL with a couple of flat pieces of channel extending outward. You can slide a wooden pallet onto the channels and have a stable platform to stand on. Currently, when I want to trim trees or fill deer feeders, I stand in the loader and get lifted up to do whatever. It's not really all that good of a perch but, so far, I haven't fallen out or off. I need to get a set of these made. Sooner or later, I'm going to fall out of that loader. I wish I had a picture of that thing.

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One thing that I've seen but don't have is a home made gizmo that locks into the FEL with a couple of flat pieces of channel extending outward. You can slide a wooden pallet onto the channels and have a stable platform to stand on. Currently, when I want to trim trees or fill deer feeders, I stand in the loader and get lifted up to do whatever. It's not really all that good of a perch but, so far, I haven't fallen out or off. I need to get a set of these made. Sooner or later, I'm going to fall out of that loader. I wish I had a picture of that thing. [/quote]

Anyone using the bucket for a platform, take a couple minutes and harness off! Just had a local guy who fell out of a bucket trimming trees and is no paralized from the fall. I would hate to read on here of someone doing this. It takes just a few minutes to be safe. Tree stand harness works fine.


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Easier to use the forks with a platform on the bobcat. It has a gizmo button on it, so when you lift or lower a load, it keeps the forks level. It lifts about 10 feet. Nice unit, but after I fix a cylinder seal, it's going on Craigs List. Gonna pull permits and start building this fall.

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Originally Posted By: Dave Davidson1
Having a problem with something that is totally unrelated to the failure negating the warranty really sucks.


A couple weeks after the delivery of my new tractor and all the attachments, Which my hand was very shaky signing the check. Moving some small pieces of concrete, small, meaning a couple hundred or more each, the tilt cylinders bent. Cost about 1200.00 for two new cylinders. I have the original's, and the rod bent on both. I had to pay for that. They don't cover cylinders in their warranty.

Who in the heck did Kubota build this expensive, fancy crap for! City folk?

Being booted out at the right time. Sure is cute tho!

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Todd congrats on your new tractor, try to stay out of trouble with it.



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