It finally came & I'm in love

[BMW]

It finally came & I\'m in love

After a problem with a mismatched set of Ag tires, my L3010DT was delivered yesterday evening. Actually if you ask my 4 year old he'll tell you that its his tractor. This is my first experience with a 3 point hitch tractor, so I'll probably be posting more questions than answers for a while.

Later
Mark

 

[toddler]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Congratulation Mark,
Have fun and be safe.
When my tractor was delivered the dealer had put the midmount mower and the rotary cutter on. I didn't know the 3pt lift arms also raised the mower, so that night I took it out back and lowered the hydraulics and couldn't get the cutter off. The mower couldn't drop all the way, and was pulling down with over 300lbs on the cutter. I had no clue until after trying to get the lift arms to the perfect height to be loose, and prying for an hour I got both arms off, and the mower went down. Now I lock the mower up before I try to change anything on the 3pt hitch!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Just make sure everything is stable when you detatch implements and keep your feet out from under mobile items.

One of the 10 commandments kubota gives us is no rides, but we both know that won't work. After all, it really is your 4y/o's tractor, and kids look really cute in those peltor yellow earmuffs. Be safe!
Todd

 

[BMW]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Thanks Todd, I'm learning. I got a tiller, finish mower and a box scraper with it so I got some practice with the 3PH moving everything into the barn. It took some getting used to but its still a whole lot easier than changing out implements on a Farmall Super A without 3PH.
I'm afraid that you're right - I broke the "no rides" commandment. We stick to the level areas of the property. I didn't get to use any of the implements because I couldn't get him off of the tractor. There is no way I'll try to do any work with him around.

Thanks for the advice
Mark

 

[Harv]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Mighty fine looking rig, Mark, but I think it came with a too-small driver. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Now we'll see how long you hold out before you put a loader on it. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Billc]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Mark, congratulations, fine looking tractor, fine looking barn, fine looking little guy. The fun you will have.

I'm with Harv, soon you will have a FEL. Without a FEL how do you carry the mail from the mail box to the house???

Bill Cook

 

[RobS]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Fine looking machine and young'n there Mark. I've broken the no rides rule since day one I'm afraid, but we do stick to flat surfaces. I let my six year old steer from my lap the other day and it was a riot. What comes so instinctively for us with years of practice is all new to him. Kind of takes me back to my younger days /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[BMW]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

You have me convinced about the FEL. Now I need you to convince my spouse./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif Actually I thought long and hard about getting one and couldn't justify the grief I was getting and would get. The price would be the same whether I got it with the tractor or added it later. And to be truthful, our property (which was her grandfathers) is well established and I couldn't come up with any projects that would support the extra $3500 for a loader. I guess I'll have to put an addition on the house or think of some other project as an excuse.

 

[Harv]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

BMW -

I know our properties are different, but with barely 30 hours of seat time on my L2500, I've used the loader for:

- Distributing piles of delivered crushed rock
- Cleaning up the spoils from boxblading a couple of acres
- Picking up rocks of all sizes from all over the property
- Creating hundreds of yards of new road (in conjunction with box blade)
- Back-dragging to smooth out portions of said road (works better than box blade sometimes)
- Removed a large stand of blackberry bushes (reach over the top, drop bucket edge, back-drag)
- Digging out three culvert sites
- Transporting a hundred or so sandbags and sacks o' concrete to the culvert sites
- Transporting 5 culvert pipes to the culvert site (using bucket forks)
- Carrying lots o' heavy tools to and from wherever needed
- Cleaning up brush, tranporting to the brush pile (using bucket forks)
- Moving 29 concrete stepping stones from one side of the property to the other
- Transporting a large doghouse several hundred yards to the well head (using bucket forks)
- Popping small dead trees out of the ground (using chains and/or bucket forks)
- Moving logs (using bucket forks)

Mind you, there are probably other ways of accomplishing some of these things, but few are as convenient or save as much time as the FEL. I believe a loader will pay for itself on that basis alone. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Thomas]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Glad your new Kubota finally arrive,and by the looks of the picture you have plans for her. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Looks like dad going to be fighting for seat time in a couple of years from the picture /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[GlueGuy]

Re: It finally came & I\'m in love

Mark,

That is one fine looking rig! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I had no idea you were so short! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

As others have mentioned, you will soon need a FEL! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif. I can't imagine mine without one, I think I use it almost 50% of the time (if not more)....

The GlueGuy