WINTER - I thought it was over ?!

Green Power · Mar 12, 2014

TSO said:
I hear ya James, I'm hoping I don't hate the cab come warm weather, when I'm hopping up & down from the tractor a bunch. It sure is nice now tho!

Parker, I think I'm up to 33 hrs now. I don't usually go to the dealer for standard maintenance, but I'll probably take this one in for the 50hr mark. There's a couple things that I'm gonna have looked at, including this weird clicking sound when the key is turned for the accessory or Glow Plug setting ... and it starts pretty rough so it might have something to do with the plugs.

Overall I like it, just hoping I made the right choice by going to red.

Sorry to hear that you are having some minor problems with it. Hopefully warranty will cover it. Are you planning on painting your grapple?

grsthegreat · Mar 12, 2014

you guys can have it. its 57F here today and were supposed to have 10 days in the 50's and 60's here. All snow gear was serviced and stored away till next season last weekend.

Looking4new · Mar 12, 2014

The snow storms will be over with come Labour Day weekend. :laughing:

TSO · Mar 12, 2014

Green Power said:
Sorry to hear that you are having some minor problems with it. Hopefully warranty will cover it. Are you planning on painting your grapple?

Yeah, but I've gotta rebuild the top first. The cylinder I used was too strong and it bent a bunch of the metal and actual ripped some of it. It's sitting in the barn on saw horses now, just waiting for the temps to be a bit more reasonable out there!

I'm sure whatever it is, it'll be covered under warranty ... just inconvenient, never had to take my LS in

Green Power · Mar 12, 2014

Hopefully we wont ever have to take the LS in. Our closest dealer is about 100 miles from the farm

and if we had to leave it there that would be about 400 miles (there and back, there and back).

k0ua · Mar 12, 2014

RG1 said:
Just came in from plowing snow here. 8-10" of wet snow.

I'm so ready for spring. The year before last and for a few before that. I was already putting down my first app of fert in late March. Not this year.......

TSO- you're killing me with the pics of that MF.

I agree, that red tractor is just darn nice to look at.

TerryR · Mar 12, 2014

TSO,

Am I missing something or are there really no hydraulics on that rear blade? I was beginning to think I was the only one on here thinking one can run a rear blade with manual adjustments.

Terry

kebo · Mar 12, 2014

Was sunny and 78 here yesterday, just about all the trees are blooming now, along with many flowers.

Today was a bit cooler, about 73 and sunny. However.... right now the wind is howling outside because a cold front is blowing through, should be about 30 in the morning with a high of 54. :confused2: The good news is it will warm back up to 68 for the weekend. Hope all of you get some warmer weather too!

TSO · Mar 12, 2014

TerryR said:
TSO,

Am I missing something or are there really no hydraulics on that rear blade? I was beginning to think I was the only one on here thinking one can run a rear blade with manual adjustments.

Terry

Lol, no you're right, no hydraulics on that blade yet. That's on my to do list, just haven't got around to it yet. Most of the time its not a big deal, only rarely do I need to change the angle.

GPintheMitten · Mar 12, 2014

TSO, you git hit harder than we did. Hard to tell with all the drifting. I'm guessing about 4 or 5 inches here but had 2 foot drifts in the drive. I also had to deal with thawed soft ground under the snow. Appreciated my new homemade cab though even without the heater which I havent installed yet.

TSO · Mar 12, 2014

GPintheMitten said:
TSO, you git hit harder than we did. Hard to tell with all the drifting. I'm guessing about 4 or 5 inches here but had 2 foot drifts in the drive. I also had to deal with thawed soft ground under the snow. Appreciated my new homemade cab though even without the heater which I havent installed yet.

Hey, ain't no problem with a home made cab. I was gonna complete & redo the one I was building for the LS, but decided that after all the costs added up for what I wanted to do, I'd just spend the money in the factory one. I haven't seen the build thread on yours tho, do you have one?

GPintheMitten · Mar 12, 2014

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/300825-diy-cab-kubota-b2620.html

This is my build thread. A little more to do to finish it but it is still great to have it.

TSO · Mar 12, 2014

GPintheMitten said:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/build-yourself/300825-diy-cab-kubota-b2620.html

This is my build thread. A little more to do to finish it but it is still great to have it.

Looks great. I'll be interested too see how the plexi does. I was gonna end up spending more to use laminated glass for clarity, but considering all the projects I have going on, I just didn't have time to do it the way I wanted.

Vibration & noise reverberation were something I was dealing with as well. One of the things I was going to do to try to fix that was use expanding foam inside the framing.

GPintheMitten · Mar 12, 2014

Thanks. I posted another thread about sound damping. I got several good suggestions but I haven't had a chance (motivation) to get back to it yet.

deerseeker001 · Mar 12, 2014

Mother nature says its not over till she says its over.

TSO · Mar 12, 2014

deerseeker001 said:
Mother nature says its not over till she says its over.

She's a b!tc&

murphy1244 · Mar 12, 2014

TSO said:
She's a b!tc&

That's gonna cost ya another 2 ft of snow.

Dozernut · Mar 13, 2014

Yesterday I hauled stone with my dump trailer to put on the drive. The -0 degree deep freeze and subsequent thawing took the bottom out of the drive. I was working the drive on the tractor wearing a tee shirt and actually got a little sunburn, it was 71 degrees. Now it is freezing and we have a little over an inch of sleet and snow on the ground. This all happened in a 24 hour period, this global warming sure is cold and getting old.

coobie · Mar 13, 2014

We only got about 6 inches today.My first year with my cab tractor.No regrets yet.Bought one of Michigan Irons 84 inch (hydro)front mount medium duty skid steer snowplow today for next years winter.

mark02tj · Mar 13, 2014

TSO and you other guys in S E Michigan sure got hit a lot worse than we did. I'm about 10 miles south of Dayton (it takes me about 3 hours, 15 minutes to get from home to Ypsi) and we just got a light coating of snow but the roads this morning are reported with a lot of black ice on them. Of course, it's going to be in the mid-50s again tomorrow.

I'm just ready for it to stay warm for a while. This winter has been tough.