KeithInSpace
Veteran Member
Just to add to the database of very significant projects completed by a mighty-mite tractor, my BX2230.
The yard had many dips, blips, and holes left over by my prior tree removal as well as the way my builder left the grading to suit the trees that are no longer there. Plus a long, dry summer has left my yard all but worthless.
I pulled the trigger on a complete sprinkler system and wanted to get everything graded out prior to them coming so the heads would all be exactly where I wanted them. Through a contact, I was able to get 60 CY of beautiful, screened topsoil for only the trucking costs. I filled all the holes and low areas in the yard, some as much as 18", before the sprinkler guys came in. Using only the 4' BoxBlade and the FEL, I was able to nuke the entire yard, smooth it out, and spread all 60 CY of dirt in 10 tractor-hours (or about 15 working hours). That included several side projects like "re-perching" my A/C compressors (the ground under them sank about 6", thereby making one of them basically hanging from the supply hose), extending the sump discharge 60 feet, and installing some other cross-drains to suit drainage after all the filling.
The full and complete project has left me with a much nicer yard area than I had originally. After spreading 300# of seed, 300# of starter fertilizer, and 200# of tackifier on some of the slopes, I've turned the sprinker system on and hope for some grass in the next couple of weeks.
Right now it is a mud pit, but once (if) it looks like something, I'll be sure to post more appropriate pictures.
In the end, for $3,300 (sprinkler system), $250 (trucking costs), and $750 (seed, fertilizer, and tackifier), three weekend days, and 15 total tractor hours, I have completed a project covering an acre of land that I had quoted for $11,500. Put THAT toward the purchase price of the tractor!!! Cha-ching!
Between that, the front flower bed, and other various projects I have saved myself at least $8,000 that I would have otherwise paid contractors.
Upcoming projects: Stone wall along driveway slope, digging footers for screened porch addition (contracting most of addition), and constructing a paver patio into the back yard after porch is done.
I figure that by the end of next summer, I'll have saved myself the complete cost of the tractor by the projects I will have completed that would have been UNCOMPLTETABLE by hand (or just taken 3 months each instead of 1 or 2 days).
Long live my Kubota! Please!
The yard had many dips, blips, and holes left over by my prior tree removal as well as the way my builder left the grading to suit the trees that are no longer there. Plus a long, dry summer has left my yard all but worthless.
I pulled the trigger on a complete sprinkler system and wanted to get everything graded out prior to them coming so the heads would all be exactly where I wanted them. Through a contact, I was able to get 60 CY of beautiful, screened topsoil for only the trucking costs. I filled all the holes and low areas in the yard, some as much as 18", before the sprinkler guys came in. Using only the 4' BoxBlade and the FEL, I was able to nuke the entire yard, smooth it out, and spread all 60 CY of dirt in 10 tractor-hours (or about 15 working hours). That included several side projects like "re-perching" my A/C compressors (the ground under them sank about 6", thereby making one of them basically hanging from the supply hose), extending the sump discharge 60 feet, and installing some other cross-drains to suit drainage after all the filling.
The full and complete project has left me with a much nicer yard area than I had originally. After spreading 300# of seed, 300# of starter fertilizer, and 200# of tackifier on some of the slopes, I've turned the sprinker system on and hope for some grass in the next couple of weeks.
Right now it is a mud pit, but once (if) it looks like something, I'll be sure to post more appropriate pictures.
In the end, for $3,300 (sprinkler system), $250 (trucking costs), and $750 (seed, fertilizer, and tackifier), three weekend days, and 15 total tractor hours, I have completed a project covering an acre of land that I had quoted for $11,500. Put THAT toward the purchase price of the tractor!!! Cha-ching!
Between that, the front flower bed, and other various projects I have saved myself at least $8,000 that I would have otherwise paid contractors.
Upcoming projects: Stone wall along driveway slope, digging footers for screened porch addition (contracting most of addition), and constructing a paver patio into the back yard after porch is done.
I figure that by the end of next summer, I'll have saved myself the complete cost of the tractor by the projects I will have completed that would have been UNCOMPLTETABLE by hand (or just taken 3 months each instead of 1 or 2 days).
Long live my Kubota! Please!
