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This picture of the Mackinac Bridge was taken from the shore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The bridge is 5 miles long and represent the artificial divider of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. They do maintenance work on it all summer in preparation for our harsh winters. If you look...

Here in the central upper Peninsula of Michigan we had close to 40" of wet heavy snow making it look like mid February. I am sure it is here to stay the duration of winter. Here is a short snow blowing movie I made: http://youtu.be/6GJ7zBnn8Zc

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We have had about one foot of fairly dense snow, so far today. I ran the blower at maximum to avoid problem as the snow was very dense. This makes about 16' for the year and the 24th, and hopefully last time this year. Well there will still be some more tomorrow. It is supposed to get up to...

We have had about a foot of wet heavy snow today, the big beautiful flake variety, but mostly tonight, so I went out and took a couple of pictures of the snow on the trees behind my house before the wind blows the snow off the trees. Most of the trees on my property are pine as you can see. The...

When I bought my tractor in 2007 (Kubota B3030 HSDCC), the dealer filled the rear tires with beet juice as additional ballast. It was a very cold year and the tires flat spotted and had a frozen spot so it would bump along every tire cycle. I don't remember that being a problem until this year...

I was looking to replace the 4 exterior cab lights with powerful LED lights. Has anyone done this and where, or what lights did you buy?

I remember 25 years ago when my wife and I each had diesel vehicles, before global warming when the temperature here hit 30 below zero on a regular basis and my wife didn't properly prepare for the cold temperatures. She would start off to work and 10 min. later walk in the door saying my car...

This is one of the most interesting scuba dives that I have every made. the location is the Republic of Palau. The video is 1 minute long.

I made this short video of a WWII light Japanese bomber that was sunk in the Truk Lagoon, near Chuuk Island in the Federated States of Micronesia. I bumped into my wife Kathy Foulks on my way out. The US destroyed most of the Japanese 4th fleet in this Lagoon in February 1944.

Pictures I took on 3/5/12 - 50 second YouTube video Pictures I took on 3/5/12

I know many of you who do get a lot of snow normally, haven't this year. We are just about normal because of the last 9 days when we had almost 55". From Friday at 7 PM until Sunday morning we had 34" and I had to snow blow 3 times during that time period and 7 times in the last 9 days. I...

I made this short movie yesterday of driving the last 4 miles to my house in the country in a snow storm. It is pretty much driving like this for 4 months a year. The plows are quite efficient and have things clear most of the time. I live on what is called a tertiary road - one of the last...

I get this message when I try to upload a photo. I don't understand what the problem is or how to resolve it: Error creating thumbnail! Error code: 127 Command: "/usr/bin/mogrify" +profile "*" -size 100x66 -quality 70 -geometry 100x66 -unsharp 10...

As I contemplate the possible need to get the snowblower out tomorrow, I have developed some snow blowing "rules of thumb" over the years that some of you newbies to snow blowing may want to consider. I figure that I have moved about 5,700 inches of snow with my three snow blowing rigs over the...

The movies are pretty self explanatory. There is about 8" of fairly dry snow to be moved in this movie. I know some areas are below average in snowfall this year. We are about 90% of normal - about 9 feet so far with some melting recently. The movies are HD and done with my Nikon D7000 camera...

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...in Marquette County, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We are still 10% below normal and the snow depth is about 20% below normal for the season as our temperature has been above average this winter. I just wonder if things have got more normal elsewhere. Kubota B3030 HSDC snowblowing Jan...

I took the pictures that follow a week ago on a beautiful but very cold day. The temperature according to my car was 0, and there was a 25 mph wind. So there was a lot of pain associated with these pictures, especially the one near the breakwater. I trudged through the snow in my street shoes...

The movie is pretty self explanatory. There is about 8" of fairly dry snow to be moved in this movie. I know some areas are below average in snowfall this year. We are about 90% of normal - about 8 feet so far with not too much melting. Kubota B3030 HSDC snowblowing Jan 2012 (HD) - YouTube...

We have had close to 3 feet of snow this year so far and I made two movies of me snow blowing with my Kubota B3030 HSDC. I made the first movie on January 2 snow blowing around my pole building, and the second movie a couple days ago snow blowing the main part of my driveway to the road. I was...

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My Kubota B3030 HSDC tractor came with a B2782 snowblower with a manual chute deflector pictured below: Although I live in the boondocks and don't have to worry about thowing snow in my neighbor's yard, it is still nice to change the angle of the chute periodically. Getting out of the...

My Kubota B3030 HSDC tractor came with a B2782 snowblower with a manual chute deflector pictured below: Although I live in the boondocks, it is still nice to change the angle of the chute periodically. Getting out of the tractor and doing it manually is a pain so most of the time when I...

I made this short movie of my tractor using my new camera (Nikon D7000) using the high definition mode of a foot of new snow over the last day. Like much of the country we are way behind our normal snow total. Kubota B3030 Snowblowing on 1/02/2012 - YouTube

After the end of this snow season, I took a look at the cylindrical housing which houses the impeller blades (i.e., the area where the snow is shot out of the blower) on my Kubota B2782 snowblower. I am not sure what the official name for this part is, but it doesn't appear to have a...

I generally buy most things that I need from our local Airgas dealer, but are there any places "on line" that you guys think offer better value for good product.

There is an auction this Thursday with the above Plasma Cutter. Of course things are bought "as is where is". Given the risk, I was thinking if it looked good externally I would go as high as $400. Does that seems reasonable? It is used b a construction company.

There is a big cross member right below the oil drain plugs (great design). At first I thought I would take it off, but it is torqued seriously tightly. Then I figured I would raise the front of the tractor off the ground a bit and just let the oil drain down on the cross member and to the...

This is a very specific problem so I won't try to explain it. I will contact Westendorf tomorrow if I hear nothing back here. Has anyone installed the Westendorf Brush Crusher BC3000 on the LA403 loader (my tractor is a B3030)? There clearly looks like a problem and I want to see how...

I generally use Mobil 1 in my cars and I want to do so with my tractor. In my B3030 owner's manual it says, When an off-road vehicle engine runs on a high sulfur fuel, it is advisable to employ the CF, CD, or CE lubricating oil with a high total base number. In a chart it says CF is...

I generally use Mobil 1 in my cars and I want to do so with my tractor. In my B3030 owner's manual it says, When an off-road vehicle engine runs on a high sulfur fuel, it is advisable to employ the CF, CD, or CE lubricating oil with a high total base number. In a chart it says CF is...

Is there any type of vegetation that you can buy that will grow in near beach sand, like a type of grass?

My addition to my driveway is pretty rough after last winter. My driveway is gravel. I have a box blade but that would make bigger adjustments than I need. My neighbor drags a set of box springs with a few cement blocks for weight to smooth his. Does anyone sell, does some ingenious...

I am heading there tomorrow afternoon to scuba dive.

..for this winter and it was a beautiful day to snow blow. Although we have only had a few days above freezing so you can see from the basketball rim, it does compress. You can just about walk on that snow without snowshoes.:

I am curious what you people who aren't used to moving big snow around learned from events of the last week?

This is a very specific question about the above helmet. I got the helmet today and I like the way it is put together and fits. One question however. When I pressed the ON switch it turns on, but pushing it a second time (which the usual procedure for an ON-OFF switch) did not turn it off...

My wife bumped a tree with the right rear work light and bend the bracket a bit. I didn't think too much about it, until I wanted to use the work lights some time later and they didn't work. The front work lights didn't work either! It appears to me that there is only one fuse for the work...

As I contemplate the possible need to get the snowblower out tomorrow, I have developed some snow blowing "rules of thumb" over the years that some of you newbies to snow blowing may want to consider. I have made a post like this each year that I have participated in this forum. I figure that...

My wife is a prodigious reader, so I thought this (Kindle 2) would be a good Christmas gift. Anyone have any experience with one?

If you look at the picture below, you see the inside of my pole building. Looking at the walls (inside to outside), first you have 6 by 6 posts, then you have 2 by 6's nailed horizontally to the posts, finally you have the metal sheeting screwed to the 2 by 6's. There is a 1 3/4 inch gap...

cell foam insulation. It appears to give you the R value per inch (around 7) of any insulation. Can it be applied directly to the metal siding of a pole building (which appears to be the case)? Can it be applied to a thickness of 5"? It appears that you might have to do it in multiple...

Below are pictures of the driveway to my new pole building from my old driveway, about 120 feet or so. I used to tell people that my property was like beach sand, but in reality it is a combination of sand and finely ground clay according to a well driller friend of mine. It dawned on me that...

Unfortunately we have too much stuff, and I want to build a place where I can weld in the winter (even mig welders give off some smoke), so I decided to build a pole building (30 by 48 feet). I sought advice here and got some good ideas, but few on this forum live in such an extreme and...

I just got back from visiting Roatan, Hunduras made posted a 1 minute clip of the caribbean reef sharks that we saw while scuba diving: YouTube - Caribbean reef sharks

Several months ago, I started a thread about having a pole building built. It is going to be a Cleary building (30 by 48 by 14 feet) and appropriate for the kinds of snow loads (20 to 30 feet per year) we get in the UP of Michigan, and they will build it during the last week of October. The...

I asked my friends this question before I had my garage rebuilt and got some good information. This forum provides a lot more potential good advice. I am going to have a pole building built (30' by 48' by 13' 4" (eave) with a concrete floor). I plan to have a heated workshop in a portion...

I am not sure, but it seems a foregone conclusion. I have a Z06 Vette still under factory warranty. I also have a GM credit card with rebate dollars good toward the purchase of a new car, which may be lost.

I didn't bother to mount my box scraper this winter as it lengthens the blower too much and make manuering more difficult with the added length. So today I was out scraping with the blower (i.e., get the front wheels off the ground and run on the edge of the blower). This scrapes and removes...

I don't know about you guys but there is definitely one job around the house that I really hate above all others and for me it is cleaning the snow off of my roofs. I usually hope that the snow won't get too deep and will begin to melt before I have to clean it off. By the time I realize it...

Lets see how much snow some of you have moved thus far this winter. We are about 1/3 of the way through winter thus far and we have had over 12 feet of snow in the upper UP of Michigan, with only one melting event (38 degrees for a few hours one afternoon). To give you some idea of scale, my...

We have officially already had 12 feet of snow this year with about 1/3 of winter already over. Of course we get a fair amount of snow before winter actually begins. As best I can recall we only had one small day of above freezing during this winter and the snow has settled down to about a 4...

As I contemplate the possible need to get the snowblower out tomorrow, I have developed some snow blowing "rules of thumb" over the years that some of you newbies to snow blowing may want to consider. I figure that I have moved about 5,400 inches of snow with my three snow blowing rigs over the...

My Kubota Snowblower say to use SAE 80W/90 AGMA or 5EP oil for the gearbox. I was at the store without the oil spec and picked up some SAE 80W/90 gear lubricant that says to use where API GL-5, API MT-1, SAE J260, MACJ GO-J, or MIL-PRF-2105E (p2) are recommended. Since I don't know what all...

It has been a while since I have done this, but it appears when when you are at the final stage (hooking up the blower to the quick hitch) it looks like you might want to have the blower wedged against something, otherwise it slides rather than allowing the male quick hitch to move into...

Ok the first picture is this year's firewood for some last minute drying before going in the house. I stacked it with the front end loader (about 6 cords). I store oall of the wood I will use for the year in a corner of my basement. It has been drying for a month, so it isn't very dry. I...

Here is a movie that I made of my B3030HSDC snowblowing my drive on April Fool's day this year. The quality sure changes when it gets on YouTube, but you get the idea. Kubota B3030HSDC snowblowing

Don't ask how. It was through my stupidity. Anyway I order the replacement glass and gasket. I didn't damage the hinges, handle, etc. I cleaned up all of the broken safety glass from the hinges, ground and was contemplating how it would cost to have the thing hauled to the dealer and...

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I partially heat my house with wood, and have done so for 30 years. Currently I have a Woodchuck 4000 forced air furnace. The other half my heating comes from a propane furnace. Periodically I buy wood, since me land is about 95% pine, usually around 20+cords at a time which should last 3 to...

I built this 29 years ago, all from scrap parts. The engine is a Wisconsin single cylinder engine built in the early built in the mid 50's for $75. It needed a new magnito. A friend of mine gave me the hydraulic pump. I bought the hydraulic cylinder in Denver while visiting my sister. I...

I have an outside entrance to my basement which takes advantage of the natural slope of the land. I built the retaining wall when I built the house 30 years ago - six posts set in concrete which I dug with my post hole digger. Well as you can see time has taken its toll and it looks pretty...

...protection from biting bugs. We have nasty black flies here and a few mosquitos. I have spent 11 hours over the last 3 days on the tractor digging a trench to build a pair of retaining walls for my outside basement entrance (8 hours digging 175% of what I needed to take out and 3 hours...

Anyone have any experience with a Westendorf Brush Crusher Model BC-4000? I have a Kubota B3030 tractor.

I just got a Wallenstein BX-42 wood chipper and installed it with no problem, but when I lower the 3 point hitch it doesn't quite go to the ground (maybe a half an inch from the ground). Anyone have any thoughts. Another question is how can you run the chipper if you aren't in the seat. When...

I am retiring today after 32 years as a university professor (teaching income taxes in the college of business). As a matter of fact, I am composing this while giving my last exam - 5,000+ class sessions and 6,000+ students over those years. It is only my second real job (first as CPA for a...

Why am I having so much problem connecting the hydraulic lines for the loader? I did it in the fall as a test. - Move control valve in all direction with unit off to reduce pressure - Pull back locking collar on hoses - Push on hoses until bearing are in groove and locked I can't seem to...

wet heavy snow, or why I got my Kubota tractor / snowblower. We have had 40" of wet, heavy snow already this month to go along with the 17' previously this winter As you can see from the pictures below, it isn't as pretty as it used to be. We have had above freezing temperartures so the...

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When I look at the attachments section on TractorByNet.com, I see several gizmos, for the lack of a better name to make it easier to use the rear PTO which I haven't used thus far. I will be using a wood chipper and a box scraper this summer a fair amount so does anyone have any words of...

Although we have had about 15 feet of snow this year, 4 to 8" at a crack, we haven't had those snow storms that many of you have had throughout the winter, well that finally happened. It started snowing when it was about 34 degrees (4 PM yesterday) and snowed and blew all night long with the...

Is it better to use high, or low sulfur diesel? The manual for my B3030 is unclear. The irrationality for diesel pricing is another matter.

If anyone has ordered one of these, what is the exact dimension that they are looking for for the LA403 FEL?

It doesn't appear to be, but don't get me wrong, I can easily live with that.

In the past when I would cut down a tree, where I wanted to control where it fell. I would use chains, my come-along to pull it tin the right direction before i began cutting. Now I have the Kubota B3030HSDC tractor with a FEL. I just wonder what you guys think of giving the tree a push...

I have seen this product advertised in the local paper and got a flyer for it recently. Is it as good as claimed? Actually doesn anyone here have one, and what do you think.

I got a quote from a local dealer (Christmas, MI) of $2,300 for the Wallenstein BX42. This doesn't include $50 of shipping and state sales tax. When I look at prices on line they are usually higher by several hundred dollars, so I would not complain. I am just wondering if there is some...

Any other Scuba divers out there? My wife and i just came back from a three week diving trip to two places in the Fijian Islands and had a great time.

Both of these chippers look like good values and I am sure no one has compared the two, but does anyone have any thoughts about which I should buy (with the hydraulic feed). Yes, I know about the Jimna but I not interested in it because I don't want to have to partially rebuild the machine...

I ordered one and it should be here this week. It is a device used to remove snow from house roofs without have to climb on the roof and shovel. In my opinion the worst job in big snow country is cleaning the roof, especially on my 12 by 12 roof. Here is the company's web site: Avalanche...

Ok guys be patient because I have only owned my B3030 for about 3 weeks and operated it five times snow blowing, but there is something that isn't crystal clear in the operating manual. When using a PTO set the hand throttle lever control to the "PTO" setting on the tachometer. To control...

I have owned my tractor for less than a month, but I am just curious what the rules are in terms of driving on the road. I am from farm country in Ohio (Allen County) and the farmers seemed to pretty much do what they wanted to on our local roads, around their farms. It doesn't have a license...

When I got my B3030, they said I need ballast in the tires for snow blowing so I figured OK and everything has been fine. It has been very cold the last few weeks, most nights are below zero, and it hasn't been above freezing for several weeks. So today I decided to take a run down the road to...

I have developed some snow blowing "rules of thumb" over the years that some of you newbies to snow blowing may want to consider. I figure that I have moved about 5400 inches of snow with my three snow blowing rigs. Feel free to add to my list, I am always looking for new techniques: RULE 1...

Any idea on hooking up a chain (tow hook, etc) to the back of my B3030 tractor to skid logs. I would think something like that would be standard.

The local dealer wants $1 each for the shear bolt Nut and washer) for this unit. Does anyone know where they can be had cheaper?

I will be retiring in a few months and won't be able to use my employer's web site anymore. does anyone know of a good web hosting site that they have used? I don't want to pay an arm and leg, and I design my own web pages.

It should be fun to use, but it really isn't a toy. We get 20 to 30 feet of snow in the winter, I also have a front end loader and pallet arms (primarily for dead tree removal on my 10 wooded acres): My old snow removal unit worked well 95% of the time, and neighbors help me out the rest of...