I have the exact model Kubota and grapple as you and it is perfect for what you are doing! Get some pallet to place the grapple and bucket for easier loading and unloading! Thanks for your videos!
Congratulations on the upgrade. I'm sure you will love it even more as you get used to it. Take care, be safe and may the Lord bless you and your family.
Congratulations on your New Tractor you're gonna love it! I bought the mx4700 bout 8 yrs. ago and with the bucket, forks, and posthole digger it saved me a lot of labor. Also be real careful with that roll over bar/canopy rack when in the brush or thick trees, garages that it don't hang up on anything. it will catch you unaware. God Bless!
I have no clue what all that equipment would cost in the States, but your work life will never look back now. Have often thought watching these woody type videos why the rubbish logs aren't used to keep the good stuff of the wet ground. Also I breaks my heart to think of all the stuff that just gets burned when some of it could be used to heat some old folks homes who can not afford to buy wood. Great video as usual. Thanks from New Zealand.
Wishing you all the best with your new machine. Later no doubt you will get round to reading the user's manual or as one old farmer called it the book of destruction . All the best from the Uk🇬🇧
Congrats on your beautiful upgrade! I wish you years of service from this new acquisition. With time you will get more proficient with it's capabilities.
Congrats! Your going to love having a modern tractor! Get a box scraper for ballast and weld a hitch ball on the back of it for moving other things around, you can use the 3 point to pick em up and never leave your seat.
O' Boy , new paint and a grapple! Very Nice, Messick's has a very informative video just released on grapples and the incredible amount of hydraulic pressure spikes when improperly using a grapple. It's will worth a watch and can save you thousands of dollars on repair cost. Happy Harvesting and Milling!
Nice tractor. I hope you show the wood pile burn in a future video cause that is quite the pile. Thanks love your videos and whole family God bless you all.
Congratulations on buying a damn good machine! Just be careful and may God continue to bless you, your family and all your animals! PS, don't ever forget to thank your wife for allowing you to buy this great machine!
Congratulations on the new tractor and grapple!! You’ll love it. Similar to you, for years I used a “seasoned” tractor with a boom pole for logging on my place. A few years ago I also got a Kubota with a grapple. Don’t see how I got along before without it. It makes everything soooo much easier. One piece of advice that learned about the hard way. Strap down your quick release arms on the grapple - I just used some rope. Without them being strapped down, irregular brush poking though the back of the grapple can release one side or the other making it a pain to get back on.
Life just got a little easier, you sure did need some lifting power around the mill and on your property! That won't only save the day, it will save your back too! Congrats.
Great choice Tractor. I just recently purchased the 2020 Model MX5400. You'll be very happy and surprised at what a Great Machine for the Money. Really enjoy your Channel.
Congratulations on your new piece! It's wonderful your Dad and you were able to share the experience of getting this great piece together. I have so enjoyed your video's. You have a beautiful family and you really seem to enjoy your wood trade. Well done you! Take care and Many Blessings! :)
Very happy for you with the new tractor. Nice setup 👍🏼 Grapples are great for holding logs at a comfortable height to chainsaw off pieces for fire wood. You will love it if not only for loading logs on the mill. Congrazt.
Morning from Yukon, Oklahoma. Nice tractor and video. Noe you need to cut you some 4x4 posts to put your attachments on to make them a little higher of the ground for easier to remove and install them. Hope you understand what I’m trying to say. Have a fantastic day. God Bless.
Sweet tractor! I was wanting to buy a used one that size, but didn't find anyone selling one in my area. Apparently, people love their Kubotas. I ended up with a smaller tractor, JD 4200 with a loader. It's 26 HP. It does a pretty good job, but wish I had 40 HP, so I could run a bigger mower. Thanks for letting us look it over.
Congrats on your new tractor life will be a little easier around your property now and maybe save your back from all the brush..lol Enjoy and keep those videos coming and God Bless!
I Don’t think you’ll ever be disappointed in your Kabota tractor ! I have a lawn care business forestry land clearing business and I beat the hell out of my equipment ! since 2000 when I first went into business and bought the first tractor although I own several others now I’ve still never had one minutes trouble out of the original tractor or any of the newer models 👍
Hey Wes good luck with the new tractor, expecting to see a lot of good projects in the near future. I always admired how much you did with the old Ford and wondered if you were ever going to upgrade. Great video, thumbs up.
Great machinery. Does lot of work. Can easily drag log to mizer than hook and can easily put the log on mizer. Looking forward to seeing it in future videos👍👍👍👍👍
We bought an old 50 hp Case farm tractor. It just takes a bit of ingenuity to add hydraulics and to weld together all manner of attachments for special purposes. Though I would admit…having a tractor just a little newer than WW2 would indeed be handy!
Hey bud, nice tractor, just a little friendly tip when using your front loader on roads, when you back drag anything try to use the back and bottom of your bucket instead of the front tip, if you hit anything hard while those bucket pistons are extended that far out they can bend and cause you a lot of hassle down the road. Hope that helps, enjoy!
I got to see that bonfire! By the way, enjoy your Kubota. They are very nice tractors. I have the smaller BX version and love it for mowing and light work that I do around my place.
Love watching your videos, watching you deal with your day to day life, Have you considered a chipper - shredded with the clear up, It will reduce the amount of fire smoke pollution, fire risk, Keep up the good work 👏
I made up a blue 200L fertilizer drum to fit linkage then took it to the local concrete makers and for a Friday carton of beer they filled it with left over concrete it was easy to hook up and made good counter weight on my tractor.
Congrats. I got my MX 5200 a year ago and I love it. I too had an antique, so I didn’t understand all the bells and whistles. Your productivity is going to go through the roof. Consider a quick hitch as much as you’re going to change implement. I don’t have to please the tractor except for connecting the PTO shaft. Again congrats.
When grabbing logs to move or load on to the sawmill, use the teeth of the grapple to have more control over your logs so they don't roll around in the bucket. Shouldn't damage the log to the boards, just the skins.
Suggestion... when you dropped that log on the mill, it really torqued it sideways. You may want to think about a square tubing frame that you can sit next to the mill that goes around the bucket so you can set the log down ( three-sided box) and back out then just roll the log over on to the mill. Just a thought...
Wes:. Great video!!! This was so very helpful, as I am undergoing the decision process right now on upgrading my tractor. That L4701 is sharp!!! My biggest need is for lifting logs and moving soil and gravel! Congratulations on the acquisition!!
Well many congratulations that is a nice tractor for sure and going to make life so much easier, indeed an exciting day, I know was when I bought my first new tractor. Loading your saw mill is now going to be a piece of cake. Enjoy. BTW got my first swarm on Tuesday not huge but ok, only down side they are a bit touchy, had a few stings. Have fun with your tractor, you choose well
Oh man. That grapple ties the room together. You know how much smoother milling just got. Nice work.
Thanks Bus! That’s a good way to put it.
Two words... GAME CHANGER! Congratulations, Wes!
Thanks! It’s looking like a MAJOR game changer so far.
I have the exact model Kubota and grapple as you and it is perfect for what you are doing! Get some pallet to place the grapple and bucket for easier loading and unloading! Thanks for your videos!
Good idea! I have a pallet already.
Congrats on the upgrade. Your ability to get things done has expended so much. Nice tractor and best wishes for you and your family.
Gotta "like" this! I upgraded in 2020 also. Too old to take the heat, so I went to A/C. Thats wonderful too! Congratulations.
Wes, as you already know that “K” is going to make your life a lot easier. Congratulations my friend.
Congratulations. Proud for you and happy that you were able to get the tractor and grapple. Tractor time is therapy time. Way to go!
Those shots from underneath the tractor are really cool !!
Thanks 👍
Congratulations on the upgrade. I'm sure you will love it even more as you get used to it. Take care, be safe and may the Lord bless you and your family.
Thank you!
Congratulations on your New Tractor you're gonna love it! I bought the mx4700 bout 8 yrs. ago and with the bucket, forks, and posthole digger it saved me a lot of labor. Also be real careful with that roll over bar/canopy rack when in the brush or thick trees, garages that it don't hang up on anything. it will catch you unaware. God Bless!
Creative camera angles. I don't think I've ever seen a view from underneath the tractor before.
Hey! I just wanted to say how much I'm glad you made that upgrade. Nice tractor, and with a grapple. Alright.
Dude! You’re in high cotton now loading that sawmill! Congrats on the upgrade.
Thanks!
Love your new toys! Tools are tricks for the trades! Great video!
Really nice, have fun and great luck
That’s gonna save you a lot of time Wes. Not so much winding logs up the ramp onto the mill bed! Great machine. Take care and stay safe! Stan
I have no clue what all that equipment would cost in the States, but your work life will never look back now. Have often thought watching these woody type videos why the rubbish logs aren't used to keep the good stuff of the wet ground. Also I breaks my heart to think of all the stuff that just gets burned when some of it could be used to heat some old folks homes who can not afford to buy wood. Great video as usual. Thanks from New Zealand.
Wishing you all the best with your new machine. Later no doubt you will get round to reading the user's manual or as one old farmer called it the book of destruction . All the best from the Uk🇬🇧
Haha!
Looks like a very welcome addition to the mill! Congrats my friend!
Awesome 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing. Your back is going "THANK YOU !!!! THANK YOU !!! " LOL. Be safe
Congrats on your beautiful upgrade! I wish you years of service from this new acquisition. With time you will get more proficient with it's capabilities.
Good job on your filming.👍
Thank you! 👍
Congrats! Your going to love having a modern tractor! Get a box scraper for ballast and weld a hitch ball on the back of it for moving other things around, you can use the 3 point to pick em up and never leave your seat.
Already love it! Power steering is nice!
Awesome....I want one. Time saved is well worth it. 👍🏼
As you know from your dad's you will not regret your choice. I miss my wife's L3400 but it was to small for our new homestead projects.
O' Boy , new paint and a grapple! Very Nice, Messick's has a very informative video just released on grapples and the incredible amount of hydraulic pressure spikes when improperly using a grapple. It's will worth a watch and can save you thousands of dollars on repair cost. Happy Harvesting and Milling!
Thanks!
Nice tractor. I hope you show the wood pile burn in a future video cause that is quite the pile. Thanks love your videos and whole family God bless you all.
Congratulations on buying a damn good machine! Just be careful and may God continue to bless you, your family and all your animals!
PS, don't ever forget to thank your wife for allowing you to buy this great machine!
She encouraged it!
Richard Frazee "thank your wife for allowing"????? Seriously???
That’s a great addition to your farm. It should make your life a lot easier and more productive. Great videos!
I think so too!
Looks great. You'll have a lot of fun!
Good luck with your new machine
Ordered the exact set up. I get it in 4 days. Excitement !!!!!Great video.
Congratulations on the new toy. It'll make life/work so much easier.
Yes it will
Congratulations on the new tractor and grapple!! You’ll love it. Similar to you, for years I used a “seasoned” tractor with a boom pole for logging on my place. A few years ago I also got a Kubota with a grapple. Don’t see how I got along before without it. It makes everything soooo much easier. One piece of advice that learned about the hard way. Strap down your quick release arms on the grapple - I just used some rope. Without them being strapped down, irregular brush poking though the back of the grapple can release one side or the other making it a pain to get back on.
The dealer told me to keep an eye on that too. Thanks for the tip!
Congratulations on a good purchase - enjoy!
Thank you!
Happy for you on your new equipment, I know this will make your work faster and easier.
Yes it will!
What a wonderful new toy! Not many guys have their own pet T-Rex now.
You must have gotten your stimulus check! Haven’t seen mine. Sweet ride. Cant wait to see the reviews
Ha! Thanks!
Congratulations. I'm happy for you buddy.. always a 👍 from me...
Thanks! Appreciate you watching!
Beautiful Kubota! You will never regret the grapple!
I don't think so either. It's great!
Congratulations! You’re gonna love that thing
Already do, thanks!
Congrats my friend, you EARNED it !!
Thanks!!
Congratulations on the new tractor! Get yourself a set of pallet forks for moving lumber and a land plane for your driveway.
Bronze medal lol. That is a serious looking piece of kit! Congratulations, and I hope it serves you well.
Life just got a little easier, you sure did need some lifting power around the mill and on your property! That won't only save the day, it will save your back too! Congrats.
I have learned a lot with my 3940 Kubota in the 6 mo. I had it. Thanks for the demo I need one too
Nice machine, that construction grapple will probably be the thing you leave on the most . Very versatile. Happy for you!!! Congrats
I think so too. It's incredibly useful!
Great choice Tractor. I just recently purchased the 2020 Model MX5400. You'll be very happy and surprised at what a Great Machine for the Money. Really enjoy your Channel.
Congratulations on your new piece! It's wonderful your Dad and you were able to share the experience of getting this great piece together. I have so enjoyed your video's. You have a beautiful family and you really seem to enjoy your wood trade. Well done you! Take care and Many Blessings! :)
Congrats on the new tractor much needed piece of the puzzle you are officially a real sawmill now lol
Haha, thanks.
Now you are cooking on the front burner!! I'm glad you got it.
Very happy for you with the new tractor. Nice setup 👍🏼
Grapples are great for holding logs at a comfortable height to chainsaw off pieces for fire wood. You will love it if not only for loading logs on the mill.
Congrazt.
Morning from Yukon, Oklahoma. Nice tractor and video. Noe you need to cut you some 4x4 posts to put your attachments on to make them a little higher of the ground for easier to remove and install them. Hope you understand what I’m trying to say. Have a fantastic day. God Bless.
good info
I do understand, thanks for the tip!
Congratulations! Definitely the right color.
Sweet tractor! I was wanting to buy a used one that size, but didn't find anyone selling one in my area. Apparently, people love their Kubotas. I ended up with a smaller tractor, JD 4200 with a loader. It's 26 HP. It does a pretty good job, but wish I had 40 HP, so I could run a bigger mower. Thanks for letting us look it over.
Congrats on your new tractor life will be a little easier around your property now and maybe save your back from all the brush..lol Enjoy and keep those videos coming and God Bless!
Congratulations!! Very happy for you.
I have the Kubota L3901 with a grapple, never had so much fun getting work done!
Good video. I have a smaller Kubota and grapple. For ballast I have filled tires and pond scoop and old metal box with 6 - 80# bags of concrete.
I Don’t think you’ll ever be disappointed in your Kabota tractor ! I have a lawn care business forestry land clearing business and I beat the hell out of my equipment ! since 2000 when I first went into business and bought the first tractor although I own several others now I’ve still never had one minutes trouble out of the original tractor or any of the newer models 👍
Good to know! Thanks!
Hey Wes good luck with the new tractor, expecting to see a lot of good projects in the near future. I always admired how much you did with the old Ford and wondered if you were ever going to upgrade. Great video, thumbs up.
Thanks Craig!
Great machinery. Does lot of work. Can easily drag log to mizer than hook and can easily put the log on mizer. Looking forward to seeing it in future videos👍👍👍👍👍
We bought an old 50 hp Case farm tractor. It just takes a bit of ingenuity to add hydraulics and to weld together all manner of attachments for special purposes. Though I would admit…having a tractor just a little newer than WW2 would indeed be handy!
Wow that thing is gonna make life a lot easier around the house!
Good investment. Your proficiency and productivity increased significantly.
congratulations, good looking setup. Hope you enjoy using it.
Congratulations on the upgrade.
Hey bud, nice tractor, just a little friendly tip when using your front loader on roads, when you back drag anything try to use the back and bottom of your bucket instead of the front tip, if you hit anything hard while those bucket pistons are extended that far out they can bend and cause you a lot of hassle down the road. Hope that helps, enjoy!
Thanks for the tip!
Bon-Fire at Wes's House! Congrats on the new Kubota
Very Nice !! You're gonna love that thing!
Now, you can do a full restoration on the Ford and take it to the fair every year!
Good for u . I enjoy your channel
Sorry im behind a few weeks but nice machine congrats all the best.
Now we all know where all that big TH-cam money goes! Congrats my friend, looking forward to future videos with your new equipment.
I got to see that bonfire!
By the way, enjoy your Kubota. They are very nice tractors. I have the smaller BX version and love it for mowing and light work that I do around my place.
What a BEAUTIFUL rig! Time to build its own pole barn
Congrats! Nice tractor and grapple.
very nice!!! I take delivery of mine in a couple days, waiting for the 3rd function to be installed.
Awesome!
I'll never need more than a riding mower on my half acre lot but I'm gonna enjoy watching you use yours. Congrats.
Thank you, Jack!
Love watching your videos, watching you deal with your day to day life,
Have you considered a chipper - shredded with the clear up,
It will reduce the amount of fire smoke pollution, fire risk,
Keep up the good work 👏
I made up a blue 200L fertilizer drum to fit linkage then took it to the local concrete makers and for a Friday carton of beer they filled it with left over concrete it was easy to hook up and made good counter weight on my tractor.
Congrats. I got my MX 5200 a year ago and I love it. I too had an antique, so I didn’t understand all the bells and whistles. Your productivity is going to go through the roof. Consider a quick hitch as much as you’re going to change implement. I don’t have to please the tractor except for connecting the PTO shaft. Again congrats.
You deserve it mate ....good luck to you and your loved ones ...
Very good tractor and very good channel. Bless you and yours.
Thank you.
God is good my Brother!!
When grabbing logs to move or load on to the sawmill, use the teeth of the grapple to have more control over your logs so they don't roll around in the bucket. Shouldn't damage the log to the boards, just the skins.
Thanks!
i disagree, if you like live edges on your boards.
Congrats! Your having way to much fun there!
Suggestion... when you dropped that log on the mill, it really torqued it sideways. You may want to think about a square tubing frame that you can sit next to the mill that goes around the bucket so you can set the log down ( three-sided box) and back out then just roll the log over on to the mill. Just a thought...
Good one Wes. Looks like your back muscles will thank you & overall you should be a very happy chappy.
My back is very thankful.
Congrats on your new L4701HST! It is going to say your back and time. Enjoy your videos.
Thanks 👍
Very happy for you ... enjoy the ride !
Congratulation, and the best of luck with this. I'm sure you are putting it through its paces. :)
Wes:. Great video!!! This was so very helpful, as I am undergoing the decision process right now on upgrading my tractor. That L4701 is sharp!!! My biggest need is for lifting logs and moving soil and gravel! Congratulations on the acquisition!!
Thanks!
Now that's what I call a force multiplier! And makes work fun, too
Hooray for you! With all you do, you deserve to have that quality piece of equipment. Your life just became a lot easier. Enjoy!
Glad U were able to get a tractor that would do what U needed it to do !! I enjoy ALL UR LOG SAWING VIDEOS TOO !! :)
Very nice machine. I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of it.
Well many congratulations that is a nice tractor for sure and going to make life so much easier, indeed an exciting day, I know was when I bought my first new tractor. Loading your saw mill is now going to be a piece of cake. Enjoy. BTW got my first swarm on Tuesday not huge but ok, only down side they are a bit touchy, had a few stings.
Have fun with your tractor, you choose well
That upgrade was needed and glad you was able to get it my friend take care stay safe god bless
So proud for you, you will love it!!
Already do! Thanks.
Congrats on the upgrade! Loving the orange color scheme!
Can never have too much orange stuff.