Me, The Wife , The Kubota 5740 & the BX25D Part # 4
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- This is Part #4 of our property series. In this video you'll see the 5740 and the BX25D working together to get the job done. We did run into a little trouble along the way and a few snags.
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Well, all I can say is job well done by both you, Kathy and both tractors. Love the video and watching things get done. I don't know Paul, I like the tractors dirty. They worked for it and they deserve all the dirt on them. Besides, now you have to work for them and get them all clean. That way they well keep on working for you. Have a great day and I hope you get that BIG rock out of there. That looks like a job. Good luck with that. Levi~~
Thanks Levi. Oh I don't like them dirty but there are times they have to get that way. We are dealing with that rock now and will post a video on it when the weather gets better. You keep well my friend.
I love watching your videos. Some day soon I will be getting a BX of my own. You have the best channel on utube for bx tractors. Thanks.
michael porra
Thank you Michael. Happy to hear your enjoying our channel. Your going to really enjoy your BX when it comes along. Good luck.
Hey Paul. I don't think your vids are boring at all. I can watch everything you want to capture! I especially like seeing what all the little bota can handle. Kubota should be paying you for all that you deliver!
JayBird Thanks Jay. Happy to hear your enjoying the content. We try and mix it up a bit. There will be more Kubota vids soon. Promise. We get a lot of emails and phone calls with folks saying they bought a Kubota because of our videos. That's a great compliment. Thanks for watching and commenting sir.
Thanks Paul. Btw, this is JbirdNC from the orange talk forum! When I settle on a tractor, I'll be doing a similar series, inspired by yours of course.
JayBird That's cool. I'll be looking forward to seeing it. Good luck in your tractor hunt.
That was a nice saturday afternoon movie!
Glad you enjoyed it Bob. hope you had a great day. Sure is cooler out. Kathy and I spend the day in the city for a change.
Paul, thank you for inspiring me! I very much enjoy watching you enjoy life. I just bought a new L3800 and have adopted your Excellence is not a skill it's an attitude. You have an awesome thing going and I would love to come visit some day. Keep up the fight. Third function going in now, grapple up next. Stihl chainsaw scabbard after that. Life is good! Thank-You. Mark from Longview
Thank you Mark. We try our best and that's all any of us can do. As far as visiting you'd be more than welcome here and if you get the opportunity come on over. You got some nice plans for your new tractor. Hope you do a video on it. Keep well.
Another awesome video.
Thanks Mike. I appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment.
Kathy did a excellent job at filming you! That poor Woman was starving and you didn't want to give her a lunch break?
Great video! Also, the BX did have lots of power, more than I expected it to have + that thumb really gave those roots a thrashing! Have you thought about calcium filled tires? No flats & it adds ballast also.
A answer to your comment in part #3 ? Yup a Grand cabbed 5740 without the ability to stay inside is foolish if you want a backhoe they really made a mistake by not making the cab bigger to allow that. It really turned me off to buying a cab.
You may not have it on your BX but I am sure you have it on your 5740 & that is when you want to creep forward or backward they have a lever. You just lift your bucket & outriggers when using the backhoe & steer while still in the backhoe seat, it works fantastic. But for you, with the cab you are out of luck... ;-)
I really enjoy watching anything you do with the BX. Thank you.
Hey Paul awesome as usual. I have no worries on cutting tires all my tires on my bx have been foam filled. My son has his b2620 they're filled as well. We think the tires wear better and no worries about nails sharp rocks etc. also added ballast down low. Great video. Looking forward to next one
Brian
Good idea too. It's the first one I punctured and to be truthful I expected it. I'd still want it replace if I seen a cut in ti. Pouring rain here today but the grass is really starting to grow. Stay safe over there.
I had a nice comment just about finished when all of a sudden it just disappeared and I'm not going to repeat all of it. anyway I love your videos, keep up the great work.
Oh man how many times do that happen to me too lol. Thanks though and I'm happy to hear you like the videos and I appreciate you taking the time to comment.
Great vid Paul!!!
Thanks Frank!
Paul, i love watching your videos. billstmaxx brought me here when he mentioned your quick connect. i dont regret it at all. we had a Kubota m6800 and we didnt like the hydraulics on the loader. there wasnt any power. but your kubotas have plenty of power. kubota must have changed the design. good luck on the project. and wifey does a good job filming. you should have her out there with a shovel to do the digging. lol
Thanks Nicholas. I think if I asked the wife to use the shovel she would hit me with it lol. I'm really happy with the quick connect. I'll be showing it more in the upcoming video's. I didn't know billstmaxx had mentioned the quick connect but I'm glad you ended up visiting our channel. The quick connect was a toughly to get right but It's exceeded my expectations and most guys that are standing by the machine don't even realize that's its even on there so it blended in nicely. some of the Kubota's leave the factory with low hydrilic pressure and they can be boosted up to their actual specs so that might have been your issue with yours. Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
I think it is safe to say this was a "Rocking Video" I think size wise you have out done me. I was really impressed with the BX 25 it's a Beast like my old B6000 maybe more so and the power is nothing to laugh at ! If and when I do get my back how the hydraulic thumb will be a must, it was a work saver. Great job and can't wait to see how the dexpan works out, I wonder if you can drill granite rock . The last one I couldn't move even with the help of my neighbor and his L3800DT we dug a deep hole next to it and now it is part of the driveway..... Your wife is so patient with the camera, mine would be kicking me off the Kubota and driving it. That's why I tell her shifting is really hard with a HST.... ;-)
Oh ya. The wife is a patient person. she had to be that way to stay with me lol. Really pleased with the BX and it's power. It's exceeded all my expectations that's for sure. I started the drilling of the rock. It's no easy task. So far I've got 12 1.5" holes drilled that's 14" deep. Four more holes to go and we'll do the pour. Couldn't get Dexpan here so we're using Ecobust. Couldn't dig a hole for this rock because there were to many rocks around it.
Hello Mr. & Mrs. Short!!!!
PS Kathy. Make Paul wash his own tractor. He got it dirty, he can pressure wash easily. Lol. Have great week my friends.
LOL. That's about the way it's going to work out to. Keep well.
It helps when the operator knows what he's doing for sure
AWESOME !!!
Thanks!
We had a john Deere mini digger and a kubota for two years and it was always the kubota that was the best
Great to hear. The JD do look good but I'm a Hugh fan of the Kubota product.
Hi,
And well done! The large rock was a huge boulder of flint. If you have flint you should have chalk and clay, both easier to work with, but take a close look at parts of the Flint. I collected a whole ;lot when a road and or ditch was getting dug. I went after the work had stopped, often around times 9-10-11oclock, and on finding as large a flint as your and other slight smaller I could just about pick up, I had learned from previous work that a really good smack rather than several small ones would crack the rock clear through the area I hit and won’t have smashed the internal structure. I can then take a look to see if there is any crystal that I would be the first to see!!! I find Petrology real REALLY exciting, finding and seeing things no one has ever seen and surprisingly there was a whole lot of smaller flint nodules some of which were no larger than my hand and others I had to smash bits off to make it possible to lift and get my tiny 10 x Loupe out to check any tiny internal caves/inclusions I found in the flint where before it was completely inclosed it was possible for water to run through the space sometimes no larger than my fingernail and at other times as I mentioned the tiny cave is the size of my hand.
As I split the flint, there is two sides to the crack I have made checking out both halves you can often see one half with hardly and crystals but the second half has a wonderfully enclosed crystal garden, mostly white, but also some other colours like purple and brown and yellow. They make great display pieces, when cleaned of their dirt and loose parts, they will be surrounded in a white cover of chalk, this can be from 1 mm to several cm’s. We have flint chalk and sandstone, but mostly we, as your area was swept by the last Ice-Age with it bringing these giant and barely visible rocks, especially flint spreading it and chalk across the land, and of course the chalk was at the bottom of the sea at one time and so was the flint covered and surrounded by it.
BTW I love your Dutch style barns come workshops.
Well done with persuading the rock out of the ground that may have been there at least ten thousand years and probably several million years, with its total age certainly million and millions of years, do not look at these as a nuisance but something no one but you has ever seen!
Take care
mrbluenun
Great work looks awesome that's why I bought my bx to my case is huge and powerful and can move a lot of material but combine it with the bx and you get the best of both worlds I need a hydraulic thumb that thing works awesome
I totally agree with you. You need both sizes. As you seen in the video I was back and forth on both units. The hydraulic thumb is fantastic. It was a good bit of work to do it but well worth it. The Kwik-Con for the back hoe also exceed all my expectations but the real winner for me is the "Sure Footers" which are the outrigger pads for the back hoe. The OEM ones would always sink in the dirt. Not anymore.
I wish I could hold a camera as steady as Wifey , looks like im in a earthquake when I hold a camera lol
Looking good guys.
LOL. Ya shes pretty good. She also said to say thanks for the compliment.
A man, his wife, 2 tractors and camera's a dream to entertain other's
Another great vid- just came back from my camp and the black flies were real bad and taste bad as well - doesn't look like you had any bugs at all. Newfoundland has salt water cowboys -does it have salt water black flies as well. LOL
Steve we experienced our first flies last evening :( One fly used to hold my arm while the other bit it ;) Hey. What has ten wheels and flies?A garbage truck lol
Great vidoe Paul. If you haven't split that rock yet it would be interesting to see a time lapse of it happening.
Good idea Jan. I'll look into doing that. It would be interesting. Thank you very much.
That KUBOTA has more guts than i thought it did! Those teeth sure make the difference don't they
I couldn't agree more that's my biggest complaint with those pads they don't hold their ground either thus making the backhoe seem not as strong. Now that you say that and I watch the video it doesn't move an inch when your digging good work
Love the pads. It's night and day compared to foolish little things that were on the tractor. Very stable now ;)
Yes I enjoyed it and no your videos will never be boring!
You could have washed the top part of that big rock and planted a flower=bed around it?!
+mrbluenun
Thanks. The rock had to go. It was in the way. Glad you enjoyed it.
Setting the displayed stone over a strong light will sometimes let the light shine through and show some colours of the flints and other hard semi-translucent stone.
really nice paul i know how mutch work that type of gruond and i must say you r in luck that the stons is not as big as the one i have but still it is ammzing the power off the 5740 and sad that you need you cahnge the tyer cuz i can imagen that the r expensiv ty for a good video =)
Thank you. The tire and rim was $90. Canadian dollors so it wasn't to bad. We have much bigger rocks than the video showed but we were just lucky it was bigger on our property. Glad you enjoyed the video.
i can imagen that the r biget stones ther to =)
Paul-1
Rocks -0
Well, we shall see about the BIG monster rock. My money is on you , Paul.
The battle has started. Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Paul, Your tractors need a bath. But hey at least one tire on the BX is clean. The progress is coming along nicely. The tractors are all covered in dirt now, But hey before you know it I'll be saying that they are all covered in snow lol. Great length on the video. Gives me something to do with my time. I'm wondering though are there any more mods coming? Or did the ideas run dry. Stay safe with your project and in the shop and I'll talk to you again soon.
This TH-cam stuff is funny. When I'm doing the mods in the winter everyone will ask, When are you going to show the tractors working? When the spring comes and I get them out to play I get asked, When are you going to be working at your mods in the shop lol. Oh I have never run out of ideas. I could mod a freezer lol. This is the time of the year that I test all my mods and if anything needs to be tweaked then I do it and test again. I do have a mini mod coming up that anyone can do and it's never been done before ;) Yes there will be a video on it. Thanks buddy.
Paul Short did you wire the light on the top of the rops through the rops or on the outside? i would like to know if its possible to go on the inside for mine. Thanks
Nick head on over to my video and go to the 12:00 Mark and watch. You'll get an explanation of what I did with the wiring. th-cam.com/video/v7aYYuWIh_8/w-d-xo.html
I hope this link works. www.th-cam.com/video/v7aYYuWIh_8/w-d-xo.html
i thought i lived in a rocky place, i'm from a town called rock camp and it really earns its name, but you got more rocks i think.
I don't know if we have more than you but we sure got enough on them lol.
Paul: That was lots of work my friend. Kudos to your good wife. That camera must get heavy after awhile. Will you pressure wash and then hand wash the tractors? It is a good feeling to do work around home. Your opinion on the zero turn ZG 222. I am thinking of buying one. Is it hard on fuel as compared to the ZD model? I have 3 acres to cut. I like the air cooled V twin, no coolant etc to look after but how hard is it on fuel? $4000 difference in price will buy tons of gas....Be safe out there Paul.
Brian that's exactly how I'll do it plus tough up the paint ;) Kathy is getting better with the camera as time goes on. Not doing bad for a lady that wanted nothing to do with my video's. Truth be known I think she's starting to enjoy it. I really like our ZG222Z. I bought it because I got tired of our old Craftsman ride on mower. It worked well but figured the ZTR would fit our needs better and it has. We bought ours back in 2008 and I just checked the hour meter and it shows 42 hours so you can tell it don't mow a lot which is one of the reasons I didn't go for the ZD because I knew it would get the use to justify the extra $4000-$5000 like you mentioned. Like you I like the simplicity of the gas engine and in the case of our ZG it is a Kubota engine. If I had a use for a ZTR and was expected to put a minimum of 30 hours a season I would have opted for the diesel. I would say the ZG is hard on gas. That really depends on the height of the grass but I am really happy with the machine.
Paul Short Thanks for your reply Paul. Hard on gas depends on how many hrs it is used I guess so like you less than 50 hrs per cutting season so it is all relevant. Be safe out there.
Essentially that sums it up. If you have a lot of mowing in deep grass the ZD is the answer. If you have a small areas that you periodically mow the ZG is the one for you. Have a great weekend and ride safe.
I hope there's more lol
There will be ;)
I was wondering why you don't have the turbo on a timer so it turns of when it has cooled down. Greg Holmes.
gopha533
The tractor usually gets a sufficient cool down. What you see the tractor doing here is just above idle in most cases. It's not working hard.
fair enough.
Is there a reason you don't have a BH attachment for the 5740 and then you wouldn't need the BX?
+Mogman150
Yes. When we first starting our property projects there was nothing but trees on the back property and no room to operate the 5740. We purchased the BX25D to gain access back there which it did. Not having a cab on the BX also made a Hugh difference. The 5740 is really only used for snow clearing and i think its a great unit but I also think it's foolish to get out of a cool cab on a hot day and sit on the back hoe seat to operate it so that's why we kept the BX
how many rpms do you work the machines with ?
Average RPM's are 2500 and max is 3000 RPM's
If i hit this big lottery i will buy a new tractor and will ship it to you to MOD the heck out of it, cause your the man i would trust to do it right!
Wow Paul here everyday is atleast 15 right now
We had 21C yesterday but cool again today.
In the passed years
How much snow have you had
Brody Jason None so far this year. Last year was the most in decades and the last eight before that there wasn't much at all.
Is it the last part ?
If you want it to be ;)
Too bad the big tractor doesn't have a backhoe
ps love you´r bikering whit wife =)
Thanks.
hi paul any part 5 coming ?
Yes sir. There should be a part 6 as well. Part 5 will show me drilling the rock, mixing the stuff to crack the rock and trying to move the rock. I have all the holes drilled but it's to cold and it's raining to complete it.
ooooo nice looking forward to it il make som vidios off the stones il crak and dig upp 2 =)
i mae a smal video off my loder picking up one of the smal stones in my garden =)
paul wot camra you use most cus i find eit hard 2 do vidio whit my phone ?
I have an L4740 with hoe and other implements They are great machines. Great video.
P.S. I honour the paying it forward craz where the purpose is to keep subscribing to each others channel increasing everyones subscribers. You simple type paying it forward on any of my videos and subscribe to my channel and I subscribe to yours. Pass it on.
Take care