47F and partly cloudy @ 01:00 ...
Fell asleep around 09:00 after having my one meal of the day ... the wife has me on her special "healthy meal regime": two Hebrew National dogs, topped with her homemade chili ... lol ...
Got all the plate, cut, trimmed, sliced and diced for the grapple and the shrub bucket ... plus a fair amount of jaw jacking done as well. Got to try my hand with the torch ... last time I monkeyed with one of those was about 40 years ago in the Old Man's repair shop ...
I think I like it.
Also got the brackets taken off my loader bucket ... so getting the tractor-side SSQA is looming on the horizon ...
Gonna head up to the shop here in a bit and do a little clean up at least ...
UB scarfing out the welds on the bucket brackets:
Managed to get that done before we ran out of Ox ... hope that's cheaper than the acetylene was ... lol ...
Have probably 1 or 2 hours in on getting those brackets off, all told ... UB was impressed with how well Kubota had welded them on.
Bucket got bent up a little under the brackets taking them off ... from beating on them and prying them off with a chisel ... no biggie ... just clean it up and weld it ... the SSQA plate will cover it anyways.
(Note the wear plates my dealer installed on the bottom of my bucket

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