Clutch...what is it good for?

[Bird]

I haven't used an M series Kubota, but I figured they would have that kind of set up like the other bigger tractors I've been on. By the way, Wen, I got an e-mail notification of a message that you posted (about loading a mower on the trailer with the front end loader), but did you edit that and change it right away, because when I click on the link, it takes me to the message about stressing the top link on the mower when loading it on a trailer?

Bird

 

[W5FL]

Yeah, Bird, The post was changed because it involved two trailers for a solution and I thought it bordered on nonsense. We seem to have enough of that.

It is difficult to transport a tractor and a heavy implement that are not connected together and even two trailers does not always help unless you have a tractor at both locations to lift the implement or you carry the tractor on the second trip. The case is made worse when the implement is too wide to load on the trailer. That is why my boxblade is 76 inches instead of 84 inches wide.

I do transport many heavy things with a single trailer without loading the tractor, but my dad has a tractor with a 2200# loader at his place and I have one at mine, so we load up at one place and unload at the other. Doing that without a tractor would be very difficult.

 

[Bird]

I was sure hoping so, Wen, since I had a message you posted on the e-mail, but couldn't find it on the board./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Hope you're getting some rain from all that stuff I see north of us.

Bird

 

[W5FL]

Yeah, thank goodness you can write with disappearing ink on this board! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Only .25 last night and this evening, but I have coastal up and spreading and hope to fertilize it this weekend again. If I had planted it this same time last year, I would just have a little dead grass. Timing is everything when it depends on the weather and the weather is not particularly predictable. Sounds like there is a chance for some more rain. I will sure take all I can get. After 5 inches of rain, I can drive a tractor on any part that has grass or weeds on it and the next day on plowed ground. How is that for drainage. Kinda like gravel with a little cliche thrown in to make it a little bit sticky. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

94 degrees this afternoon, then the cloud showed up and dropped it to 82 pretty quick, but no rain./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird

 

[MChalkley]

Bird, I sure wish I coulda sent you some of what we got. We got a real frog-stranglin' gulley-washer!

Mark

 

[Bird]

Yep, I'd sure like a little rain; don't need much. This clay is peculiar ground. Last summer we had cracks in the ground that you could literally and quite easily have lost a golf club in. Then when we did get the rains, the sides of those cracks cave in, and you're left with a hole or low spot. So, the last few days, I've been moving dirt from the back of the pasture to the yard, and around the garden, filling in some low spots. The surface of the ground is already dry and dusty with small cracks, but it's still damp 3" below the surface. Our weather prognosticators are guessing a 40-50% chance of showers today and tomorrow, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Bird

 

[DarrylG]

Bird - Yes, I have a hand lever for my PTO that I simply raise to engage the PTO. It's a Deere, of course it has advantages over the Kubota set up! My hydro has two ranges, though I rarely use the high range - doesn't handle loader work well in high.

 

[MarkV]

In the Atlanta area we will take any rain you want to share. Last I heard on the news we are 11.82" below normal for the year, so far. Had the driest May in 100 years. Most counties have outdoor water restrictions, odd/even watering days from 10 pm to 4 am only, and several counties have banded outdoor water use totally. This is the third year running and the farmers are going under through out the state. You have to feel for the small farmers.

 

[Bird]

That's what I figured DarrylG, it's probably the same, or similar, PTO engagement system that Wen mentioned on the M series Kubotas. I don't know why they're not the same on their smaller ones, and I don't know whether one really has any great advantage over the other, except "convenience" and different operators have different opinions about what's convenient.

Bird