Let's see your Kubota

[Wobblin-Goblin]

Pics of my L4330. Got it Aug. 2013 with 513 hours, it now has just under 1000.

The Tractor itself:

Mods I've made:

Concrete, lead and steel wheel weights, about 250 lbs each, total of 500 lbs:

3 Remote Rears:

Large chainsaw (MS-362CM) holder:

Small chainsaw (MS-180) holder:

And last but not least, my favorite mod by far:

Thanks for looking!

NICE!

 

[lpigott]

Is that a rotary cutter on front?

I guess you can call it that. It is a Lane Shark, which is a hydraulic powered rotary cutter that is made for maintaining trails and road sides. It is much lighter weight and requires far less hyd flow than the larger units made for skid steer. Albeit it cannot do the heavy duty work they can but for cutting over hanging limbs on trails field edges and such it is awesome. It can be rotated manually to number positions depending on your needs. In the position shown it can reach about 16' or so and cut overhead limbs that would hit you or the cab and ing the vertical, on edge position, clips side encroaching limbs and the fall straight down and your bush hog on back just grinds them up. I have already cut up to 2" material with it but it does awesome job on smaller branches like you see in annual outgrowth. It is not stupid expensive either. Look them up, Lane Shark USA The Only FEL Mounted Brush Cutter Designed For The Midsize Tractor .

http://lanesharkusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/brush_cutter_loop-1.gif

You can see some of the stuff I just cut on the side of the field in this picture.

 

[mike69440]

I guess you can call it that. It is a Lane Shark, which is a hydraulic powered rotary cutter that is made for maintaining trails and road sides. It is much lighter weight and requires far less hyd flow than the larger units made for skid steer. Albeit it cannot do the heavy duty work they can but for cutting over hanging limbs on trails field edges and such it is awesome. It can be rotated manually to number positions depending on your needs. In the position shown it can reach about 16' or so and cut overhead limbs that would hit you or the cab and ing the vertical, on edge position, clips side encroaching limbs and the fall straight down and your bush hog on back just grinds them up. I have already cut up to 2" material with it but it does awesome job on smaller branches like you see in annual outgrowth. It is not stupid expensive either. Look them up, Lane Shark USA The Only FEL Mounted Brush Cutter Designed For The Midsize Tractor .

http://lanesharkusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/brush_cutter_loop-1.gif

You can see some of the stuff I just cut on the side of the field in this picture.

Looks a bit Fragile. It will be interesting to see how well it holds up. Nice idea, but has to be light enough to man handle and be used on a CUT. For heavy duty CUTs, M size machine utility, and tiny skid steers an heavier intermediate model should be on the drawing boards. They could keep weight reasonable by boxing the other rail and more reinforcement on the top plate. The skid steer plate either rib on the bottom or go 3/8" thick. Does your machine have enough hydraulics to run it well?

 

[lpigott]

Looks a bit Fragile. It will be interesting to see how well it holds up. Nice idea, but has to be light enough to man handle and be used on a CUT. For heavy duty CUTs, M size machine utility, and tiny skid steers an heavier intermediate model should be on the drawing boards. They could keep weight reasonable by boxing the other rail and more reinforcement on the top plate. The skid steer plate either rib on the bottom or go 3/8" thick. Does your machine have enough hydraulics to run it well?

Like I said and so does the manufacturer, it is a trail and road maintainer not clearing machine and it does great in that respect. I think it weights a little over 250# and I can drag it around on my shop floor without huge effort, but is very well built. About the only way to hurt it would be operator error by ramming it in the ground or against a large limb and not stopping. This is not something you traveling over 1st gear with, in fact I added the creep speed to my M7060 so I can crawl along while raising it up and down and cut all the limbs I need at different heights without having to make multiple passes or go forward and back too much. This works great as L-1 was just too fast in many cases, especially if there was heavy amounts of brush to cut. I did more in in the first 2 hours with it than I did in the entire year with my Stihl pole saw and never broke a sweat and had a blast doing it. I am 55 and the pole saw wears me out in a very short time, especially in the summer and I could never keep up with all I needed to do. Now I can easily and also use it for hire doing it for others. It is great cutting around pond in the offset horizonal position too, no more weed eating and risking getting to close to the edge while mowing now! The standard flow requirement is 10 GPM but will run on 9 GPM well. My M7060 has 16.2 GPM so they upgraded my cutter to a 15 GPM pump for no extra charge. Another thing to note is, unlike boom mowers and the HD forest units, this one does not send debris flying everywhere. The blades stick out a little less than an inch in front and a made from hardened steel and are very sharp with no uplift at all. They are also reversible. I have cut a fair amount already and they are still sharp like new. The owner of the company showed me one of their R&D units that has done a ton of cutting with the blades never sharpened or flipped and they were still sharp too. There is a slight learning curve to learning how to use it and adjust it easily and efficiently, so I don't think it would be a good choice so a novice tractor and equipment operator but I would buy one again in a heartbeat. They may consider other sizes in the future but they are selling these like hotcakes already and just sold the first one in Feb 2017. When I got mine it was number 95 I think and in December they had sold over 130 of them and are expanding the dealer network throughout the southeast.

 

[Thall303]

Thanks

 

[goeduck]

Like I said and so does the manufacturer, it is a trail and road maintainer not clearing machine and it does great in that respect.

I could get a lot of brush and branches cleared with that. Like you say, not a stump clearing machine, but lots of uses.

 

[KenB2920]

I guess you can call it that. It is a Lane Shark, which is a hydraulic powered rotary cutter that is made for maintaining trails and road sides. It is much lighter weight and requires far less hyd flow than the larger units made for skid steer. Albeit it cannot do the heavy duty work they can but for cutting over hanging limbs on trails field edges and such it is awesome. It can be rotated manually to number positions depending on your needs. In the position shown it can reach about 16' or so and cut overhead limbs that would hit you or the cab and ing the vertical, on edge position, clips side encroaching limbs and the fall straight down and your bush hog on back just grinds them up. I have already cut up to 2" material with it but it does awesome job on smaller branches like you see in annual outgrowth. It is not stupid expensive either. Look them up, Lane Shark USA The Only FEL Mounted Brush Cutter Designed For The Midsize Tractor .

http://lanesharkusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/brush_cutter_loop-1.gif

You can see some of the stuff I just cut on the side of the field in this picture.

Side note, it looks like you have to sets of front remotes on your loader.

Also, on the shark lane site it says you must have rear remotes and the return cannot be through the remote but into the tank .... can you just clarify that it’s hooked up to your standard front remote with nothing else special done?

 

[KenB2920]

I could get a lot of brush and branches cleared with that. Like you say, not a stump clearing machine, but lots of uses.

This is copied from their page on compatibility l:

Skid steer quick attach system

Hydraulic flow rate of approx. 10 GPM or more.

1/2″ inner diameter hydraulic hoses with NPT motor (phased out)

5/8″ inner diameter hydraulic hoses with ORB motor (current production)

To run the Lane Shark, you must have rear remotes. Pressure to come from remote only, and return must be to the sump.(CANNOT RETURN THROUGH REMOTES)

 

[lpigott]

Side note, it looks like you have to sets of front remotes on your loader.

Also, on the shark lane site it says you must have rear remotes and the return cannot be through the remote but into the tank .... can you just clarify that it痴 hooked up to your standard front remote with nothing else special done?

Good eye! One set of connections on the FEL is for the standard 3rd function the other is for the Lane Shark with a line coming come one of the rear SCVs and the return goes directly to the sump. While it will run connected to the 3rd function the abrupt start and, even worse, abrupt stop would not bode well for the longevity of the hydraulic motor. This is understandable since when stopping, the centrifugal force of the blades want to keep the motor spinning and the fluid would have nowhere to go. Plumbed as they suggest eliminates this. So 3rd function is not required to operate one of these.

 

[KenB2920]

Good eye! One set of connections on the FEL is for the standard 3rd function the other is for the Lane Shark with a line coming come one of the rear SCVs and the return goes directly to the sump. While it will run connected to the 3rd function the abrupt start and, even worse, abrupt stop would not bode well for the longevity of the hydraulic motor. This is understandable since when stopping, the centrifugal force of the blades want to keep the motor spinning and the fluid would have nowhere to go. Plumbed as they suggest eliminates this. So 3rd function is not required to operate one of these.

Ahhhh very good..... makes sense. So do you plug into the rear and put it on detent?

 

[lpigott]

Ahhhh very good..... makes sense. So do you plug into the rear and put it on detent?

Yes. The supply hose is permanently routed to the rear and the return is hard connected to the sump. I knew I was getting this cutter before I ordered the tractor so I ordered it with all 3 rear SCVs for convenience.

 

[MRCONCDID]

So my new to me L48 (900 hours) was too heavy for my 1/2 ton truck, I needed a cheap dually, thinking outside the box i drug home this scissor lift truck. very low miles (73,000) and very heavy. I put the L48 to work stripping it down. The scissor lift weighed 4200lbs, the bed another 3,000lbs. I have replaced both of these with a cut down or bobbed flatbed about 2,000lbs. She is not fast but pulls and handles the weight of the tractor with no problem. the GVWR of this truck is 15k!

MrC.

 

[tjkubota93]

So my new to me L48 (900 hours) was too heavy for my 1/2 ton truck, I needed a cheap dually, thinking outside the box i drug home this scissor lift truck. very low miles (73,000) and very heavy. I put the L48 to work stripping it down. The scissor lift weighed 4200lbs, the bed another 3,000lbs. I have replaced both of these with a cut down or bobbed flatbed about 2,000lbs. She is not fast but pulls and handles the weight of the tractor with no problem. the GVWR of this truck is 15k!

MrC.

That's cool. How much was it? Is it gas 5.7 or diesel 6.2?

 

[oldafretired]

 

[MRCONCDID]

That's cool. How much was it? Is it gas 5.7 or diesel 6.2?

Cheap, $1800 for the truck drove it home. I scraped the lift for $240 and sold the utility bed for $1500. So now it cost me $60.
Paid $800 for the flat bed, and another $400 for new brakes, water pump, oil change, hitch and a few odds and ends.
I'm all in for about $1300.:thumbsup: 73,000 miles and A/C.

It has a 454 gas motor, turbo 400 with overdrive. Dana 80 rear axle with 4.63 gears, 19.5 wheels its classed as a ton 1/2
MrC.

 

[oosik]

View attachment 538580



Patiently waiting for that first snow flake.

 

[dragoneggs]

View attachment 538580



Patiently waiting for that first snow flake.

What? You haven’t had any snow yet this season?

 

[oosik]

Yes - got 8+ on December 16. Long since melted. Nothing since then. Rain, rain etc........ Pic taken in November, 2017.

 

[dragoneggs]

Yes - got 8+ on December 16. Long since melted. Nothing since then. Rain, rain etc........ Pic taken in November, 2017.

Okay, thought so. Yeah been way too much rain this winter!

 

[goeduck]

Okay, thought so. Yeah been way too much rain this winter!

Sunday was nice, real nice. Got out in the yard cleaned up and even cut a few trees up.