Love the way you and your dad respect machinery, and use it with care, skill and knowledge. I guess when you repair your own stuff, abusing it just makes more work!
Clearing brush and trees isn't for the light hearted, but it sure feels good when you make some serious progress. Having that Kubota sure makes quick work of it, and at far less of a cost to the body. Nice work fellas!
I like watching you and your father working together, its the kind of relationship I wish I had with mine, you two made a nice job of clearing that area and I don't know what Mtn Dew tastes like as we cant get it here in the UK.
Hmm. Your burn pile. Would it be worthwhile to you to pick up a wood chipper ? Run the chips into your compost pilings, they would bulk up the soil,add a carbon balance, and deteriorate slowly while aiding in water retention. A lot of road maintenance crews do this now instead of burning,just spit the chips into the trees. Seems to work. Just a thought. No farm ever has enough compost for soil improvement. Cheers.
Y'all make a good team working together and looks like room for a couple of rows of firewood. Guess spring planting in the garden will be next.👌👌 Stay safe.
Thank you for your videos of the 4701. They were very helpful. Just purchased the exact setup you have. You sold us on the backhoe attachment with hydraulic thumb. Pricey but I think it's worth it with what you've been doing with it.
If I may offer you a suggestion for your wood piles, stock up on plastic pallets. Keeps the wood off the ground and the clean up, so much easier plus, cuts down on rotted firewood. The good thing about cutting down those trees, you just got yourself more firewood, hahaha. When my grand father was still alive, enjoyed cutting wood with him as a kid, we'd have 4 -5 different "piles"/stacks of wood. They were in different drying stages, always burned the oldest first but, every yr, were moving them. Those compact utilities tractors are awesome to have, can do a lot more than people think they can. Great video, cheers :)
Even hardwood pallets would last for years. I recall reading that years ago,pallets were made from seconds,reject from the likes of Jim Beam,whisky barrel manufacters. So very good wood,oak does deteriorate steadily as it starts to rot,but shipping pallets from work would be free and useful. Last for years.
I see Kubotas still have slow hydraulics. About 15 years ago I was going land clearing for a man who also owned a Kubota dealership. As a farmer I had used small tractor mounted backhoes and John Deere and Ford loader backhoes. The Kubota was frustrating beyond belief. Not only was it slow it was weak. I had also used a Kubota mini excavator and it was great, a dream to operate. The owner came out and wondered why we hadn't got much done. He couldn't make it do much either and was puzzled.
Nice relaxing day of doing something different. Love the sound of silence with only nature singing at the end. Done that a few times myself....until I get caught. I have a Massey 22 hp TLB and wouldn't go without a backhoe...just to handy to have around. Dug down for deck posts below frost line and it worked great. Had to dig 14 holes to construct the deck plus wrap around walkway. Mt. Dew a nice breakfast drink since it has orange juice in it too.
Careful with that Mountain Dew are used to be my favorite drink until I found out it made my heart race and eventually lead to a pacemaker. But I’m still here pushing 81 inspired enough to work on my John Deere LUC rebuild job
Pleased to hear that you guys are still satisfied with that Kubota. It was a heck of an investment, would be a bummer if you werent pleased. Do you heat with a stove, forced air wood furnace, in home boiler, or a combination of all 3? For me it doesn't get any better than wood heat! Heating with wood keeps you warm multiple times too, once each (minimum) cutting, splitting, stacking, hauling, and finally burning. Hopefully you have an awesome weekend Squatch and Senior.
@@squatch253 growing up in Marquette we had a Fisher wood stove in the full basement of our house, natural circulation allowed it to keep the whole house warm just like yours, backup heat was an oil fired forced air furnace. Many many fond memories of helping dad cut, split, stack and haul wood.
Picked up 2017 L4701 Rental with 119 hours from dealer. Got 220 hrs now. Added Scrap Grapple, Third function, Tip/Tilt, three remotes, Canopy with led lights, Land Pride 6' box scraper with hyd teeth. A Kubota 2018 K008-3 mini excavator with 4 hrs. Back hoe, for me, to hard to get on and off.
I would love to know in depth your process for stacking firewood. From, how old the trees are, how you rotate so there is never ending supply as well as how you keep the growth organized from each age and location for ease of access. thanks!
Happy May Day! Looks like as good as any way to celebrate although one lone like one of those would make a good may pole. Wish I could clear out the trees I need to remove that fast. I've got near zero clearance to my neighbors driveway so no room to just drop it plus itone is now touching their power line (one good reason to remove it.)
So if you have a bunch of cords leftover why are you making more storage? I always kept enough on hand for half a year but after that I worried about rot.
Squatch, This is my 1st time commenting on anyone's channel. I love watching and learning from you with your D2 rebuild. I have a Kubota BX 22 that i got new in 2002 with the loader, backhoe and a 54"midmount mower. I'm surprised that you are using a strap to hold your stabilizers. I've never had to do that. Mine don't drift when on the machine. I have had to replace all of the hoses on the loader and the backhoe once since new, but that's something I expected. It is 18 years old and lives outside under a good tarp 365. It sounds like there might be a problem with the O rings in the valve distribution assembly. Keep doing what you're doing and stay safe. Traff1cman
@@squatch253 Kubota is being foolish in that regard. 18 years and my controls have never given me any problems. The hoses yes but that's expected. The hydrostatic cooling fan is a stoopid design, and replacement is a real pain to do. The service manual walks you through splitting the tractor in half to get to it. When it happens again ( & it will) I'll fabricate a guard for it.
You make great videos. I know it is going to be a good day when I see a new one posted. Have you thought about a wood chipper? It would be cool is you found one that could be powered from the pto of one of your dozers. Not sure they make those or how rare. Thanks again
Now that is my kind of music. :-) Love your uniform wood piles and it appears you cut all your firewood to a uniform length which I do also. I see no reason to make any more sawdust than absolutely necessary.
I winced in fear at 10 minutes and 42 seconds. There is a danger of destroying a hydraulic cylinder. When back dragging have the bottom of the bucket more horizontal, say 10 to 20 degrees from horizontal. With the bucket tipped down nearly vertically that means that when moving backward the edge of the bucket could catch and hang up on something in the dirt. This will put a compression load on the fully extended bucket tilt cylinders. They are most vulnerable to buckling from too much compression load when fully extended. If the bottom of the bucket is more horizontal then if it goes across something, instead of catching it will pop up and over without destroying a cylinder.
Thanks for info on bh92 I have one with 650 hrs and its out riggers have been sagging since day 2. Can't waite to get hydraulicly accuated on my thumb. Realy liked your assembly procedure on the bh92 and thumb install. I went with the MX5200 with 9.8 gal/min vs the L4701 with 7.8 gal/min unit. Wish it had 15.8 gal/min. I would like to use at least 3 functions at once instead of two- even sort of slow at that. I calculate it only uses 13.2 HP @ full reves to get any preformance at all. Maybe a 25 gal/min PTO pump with 1/2 the engine revs will do it right for the sloow motion "preformance matced Kubota Bh92 backhoe". You seem like the man for the job to show us how it's done. Your vidios are the absolute the best on instruction. Like them all, best wishes, keep up all the excelent work.
So.... the Kubota pretty much does the job of two other machines (Super M- loader) and D2 (light dozing, grading and backblading) PLUS its backhoe adds excavation capabilities. Yikes, will we see a shift in machine utilization here, Squatch?! 😊 Oh and almost forgot to ask, does Rick Bork have the same model of Kubota or is it not the L4701?
The end of the video is the best hands down...nature at its best!
Does my heart good to know that there's other people that enjoy working with their dad like this!
That Kubota is a real handy machine - perfect for a treed property. Thank you for taking us along!
That little giant saves a lot of manual labour indeed. Always a pleasure to see someone working on Labour Day!
Who doesn't love bloopers? So long as no equipment was damaged in the making of said bloopers....
Love the way you and your dad respect machinery, and use it with care, skill and knowledge. I guess when you repair your own stuff, abusing it just makes more work!
Clearing brush and trees isn't for the light hearted, but it sure feels good when you make some serious progress. Having that Kubota sure makes quick work of it, and at far less of a cost to the body. Nice work fellas!
That’s thumb option on that bucket is as handy as, well, a thumb. 👍
I like watching you and your father working together, its the kind of relationship I wish I had with mine, you two made a nice job of clearing that area and I don't know what Mtn Dew tastes like as we cant get it here in the UK.
Best I can suggest is to have some lemon squash. Not available in USA.
You can get Mountain Dew in the UK! I had a can in Beccles a few weeks ago! :-O
@@chrisskelhorn5727 Son of a gun. Times change. Now if I could get orange squash,this side of the Atlantic.....
Like always love the videos. Keep them coming. Plus the sound of spring it doesn't get any better than that definitely music to my ears.
Never a dull moment owning a few acres, a lotta work, but comes along with a lotta fun too.
Hmm. Your burn pile. Would it be worthwhile to you to pick up a wood chipper ? Run the chips into your compost pilings, they would bulk up the soil,add a carbon balance, and deteriorate slowly while aiding in water retention. A lot of road maintenance crews do this now instead of burning,just spit the chips into the trees. Seems to work. Just a thought. No farm ever has enough compost for soil improvement. Cheers.
You're the only one I see doing what i'd do to clean stump root balls of soil...drop them on existing stumps!
Ooohhhhh, that is some sweet music. The Dew is pretty good too. Lol
Y'all make a good team working together and looks like room for a couple of rows of firewood. Guess spring planting in the garden will be next.👌👌 Stay safe.
Back in the late 80s, we had a few acres out of Memphis, TN. I bought a new Kobota 2250. Some of the best money I ever spent.
I love my pallet forks for handling wood! Thanks for sharing. Full watch and thumbs up. I think I heard a woodpecker...
Thank you for your videos of the 4701. They were very helpful. Just purchased the exact setup you have. You sold us on the backhoe attachment with hydraulic thumb. Pricey but I think it's worth it with what you've been doing with it.
love that tractor, dude
Nice job Toby, and Senior! And that little Kubota worked very well! :-)
Coming home from a business trip in Georgia today, I drove by the original Home of your "Favorite Brew"......
Love the music at the end!!! Thanks for sharing!
If I may offer you a suggestion for your wood piles, stock up on plastic pallets. Keeps the wood off the ground and the clean up, so much easier plus, cuts down on rotted firewood. The good thing about cutting down those trees, you just got yourself more firewood, hahaha. When my grand father was still alive, enjoyed cutting wood with him as a kid, we'd have 4 -5 different "piles"/stacks of wood. They were in different drying stages, always burned the oldest first but, every yr, were moving them.
Those compact utilities tractors are awesome to have, can do a lot more than people think they can. Great video, cheers :)
Even hardwood pallets would last for years. I recall reading that years ago,pallets were made from seconds,reject from the likes of Jim Beam,whisky barrel manufacters. So very good wood,oak does deteriorate steadily as it starts to rot,but shipping pallets from work would be free and useful. Last for years.
I see Kubotas still have slow hydraulics. About 15 years ago I was going land clearing for a man who also owned a Kubota dealership. As a farmer I had used small tractor mounted backhoes and John Deere and Ford loader backhoes. The Kubota was frustrating beyond belief. Not only was it slow it was weak. I had also used a Kubota mini excavator and it was great, a dream to operate. The owner came out and wondered why we hadn't got much done. He couldn't make it do much either and was puzzled.
Nice relaxing day of doing something different. Love the sound of silence with only nature singing at the end. Done that a few times myself....until I get caught. I have a Massey 22 hp TLB and wouldn't go without a backhoe...just to handy to have around. Dug down for deck posts below frost line and it worked great. Had to dig 14 holes to construct the deck plus wrap around walkway. Mt. Dew a nice breakfast drink since it has orange juice in it too.
Great video thanks
I'm sure Cleetus McFarlane would sure be proud of the Bartle Skeet product placement!!! :)
Bulldozers, tractors, maple syrup processing, = great channel!
An enjoyable video. I love it when order emerges from chaos. My Squatch LOL was the blooper at the end. 😎👍👏
Thays some nice looking topsoil yall have up there...gotta love how glaciation made such great soil over the years....awsome
Cleaned that spot up nice. Thanks for sharing.
Good video 👍 can certainly see Squatch senior knows how to grade 💪💪
Careful with that Mountain Dew are used to be my favorite drink until I found out it made my heart race and eventually lead to a pacemaker. But I’m still here pushing 81 inspired enough to work on my John Deere LUC rebuild job
I like your idea of sitting and listening to the music.
Good video Toby, looked like a nice day to do wood clearing.
Y'all made quick work of that, well done.
I like the idea cutting the logs into manageable lengths and marking them for cutting later.
Nothing better than cold Mt Dew in a can.
Pleased to hear that you guys are still satisfied with that Kubota. It was a heck of an investment, would be a bummer if you werent pleased. Do you heat with a stove, forced air wood furnace, in home boiler, or a combination of all 3? For me it doesn't get any better than wood heat! Heating with wood keeps you warm multiple times too, once each (minimum) cutting, splitting, stacking, hauling, and finally burning. Hopefully you have an awesome weekend Squatch and Senior.
@@squatch253 growing up in Marquette we had a Fisher wood stove in the full basement of our house, natural circulation allowed it to keep the whole house warm just like yours, backup heat was an oil fired forced air furnace. Many many fond memories of helping dad cut, split, stack and haul wood.
Picked up 2017 L4701 Rental with 119 hours from dealer. Got 220 hrs now. Added Scrap Grapple, Third function, Tip/Tilt, three remotes, Canopy with led lights, Land Pride 6' box scraper with hyd teeth. A Kubota 2018 K008-3 mini excavator with 4 hrs. Back hoe, for me, to hard to get on and off.
Nothing like the smell of the wood and the chainsaw......
Mountain Dew, a man after my own heart. Mountain Dew Throw Back is awesome if you have it available in your neck of the woods.
Great video. I like your firewood system . Thanks for sharing
Looks like an enjoyable afternoon.
Mass production there. Nice work.
Good job, i was thinking the new clearing would be a good spot to park a few more crawlers ! ha ha ha.
You should’ve called your Forrester Rick Bork 😂😂
😂🤣
Murphy Law don’t you agree Murphy 😂
i like the idea of the story stick for measuring the fire wood .
wood have been nice if you pulled them out with the D 6 then cleaned up with the tractor ........ carnage lol.
Love the music.
Does that hydraulic thumb work off the power beyond or do you need rear remotes? Wonder if that option is available for the BH77?
Pretty work. You guys are the best.
I would love to know in depth your process for stacking firewood. From, how old the trees are, how you rotate so there is never ending supply as well as how you keep the growth organized from each age and location for ease of access. thanks!
I just saw two Squatches in the nature habitat!!!!
Happy May Day! Looks like as good as any way to celebrate although one lone like one of those would make a good may pole. Wish I could clear out the trees I need to remove that fast. I've got near zero clearance to my neighbors driveway so no room to just drop it plus itone is now touching their power line (one good reason to remove it.)
So if you have a bunch of cords leftover why are you making more storage? I always kept enough on hand for half a year but after that I worried about rot.
Doing it with the D2 was far more FUN!!!
Squatch,
This is my 1st time commenting on anyone's channel.
I love watching and learning from you with your D2 rebuild.
I have a Kubota BX 22 that i got new in 2002 with the loader, backhoe and a 54"midmount mower. I'm surprised that you are using a strap to hold your stabilizers. I've never had to do that. Mine don't drift when on the machine. I have had to replace all of the hoses on the loader and the backhoe once since new, but that's something I expected. It is 18 years old and lives outside under a good tarp 365. It sounds like there might be a problem with the O rings in the valve distribution assembly.
Keep doing what you're doing and stay safe.
Traff1cman
@@squatch253 Kubota is being foolish in that regard. 18 years and my controls have never given me any problems. The hoses yes but that's expected. The hydrostatic cooling fan is a stoopid design, and replacement is a real pain to do. The service manual walks you through splitting the tractor in half to get to it. When it happens again ( & it will) I'll fabricate a guard for it.
Your pretty good on that tractor at leveling
Oh, very neat felling! Stay safe. BobUK
Gota have that Morning Dew!
Thanks for sharing... especially the blooper.... we all make mistakes.
You make great videos. I know it is going to be a good day when I see a new one posted. Have you thought about a wood chipper? It would be cool is you found one that could be powered from the pto of one of your dozers. Not sure they make those or how rare. Thanks again
That backhoe is strong!
My two favorite times is early morning and dusk
That`s a good days work ( out) !
Nice when you have the space to be able to do this, isn't it?
Good work!
I can wait to see how Team Squatch processes firewood
My kind of music too. perfect end of the day
DID EVERY GOOD JOB
"Hey big guy, sun's getting real low." -- Squatch Sr. Probably, instead of Black Widow. :-D
Now that is my kind of music. :-)
Love your uniform wood piles and it appears you cut all your firewood to a uniform length which I do also. I see no reason to make any more sawdust than absolutely necessary.
One of my favorite sounds
Would you have preferred to have a landscape rake to clean up the small debris?
That little tractor is a very nice little machine. .😊😊💝🌎💥🍻
I like your music , Oh yes done that many times , M Dew and an Eatmore bar
Happy May Day!
Good job
I've got a Kubota 4600 id love to put a backhoe on. My dad's IH 3414 is just wore the hell out haha
Damn that's a lot of firewood !
Getting close to time for second oil change on that Kubota!
I winced in fear at 10 minutes and 42 seconds. There is a danger of destroying a hydraulic cylinder. When back dragging have the bottom of the bucket more horizontal, say 10 to 20 degrees from horizontal. With the bucket tipped down nearly vertically that means that when moving backward the edge of the bucket could catch and hang up on something in the dirt. This will put a compression load on the fully extended bucket tilt cylinders. They are most vulnerable to buckling from too much compression load when fully extended. If the bottom of the bucket is more horizontal then if it goes across something, instead of catching it will pop up and over without destroying a cylinder.
Is a pople anything like a poplar
And you nailed the camera anyway lol that to happens
G'day Squatch
Still working at the dealership? Been able to work everyday ?
think you guys will ever buy a chipper?
Good ole Mtn Dew
Best kind of music.
Why do you have a ratchet strap on the outriggers? Holding valves not working? Looks like warrantee work to me
Thanks for info on bh92 I have one with 650 hrs and its out riggers have been sagging since day 2. Can't waite to get hydraulicly accuated on my thumb. Realy liked your assembly procedure on the bh92 and thumb install. I went with the MX5200 with 9.8 gal/min vs the L4701 with 7.8 gal/min unit. Wish it had 15.8 gal/min. I would like to use at least 3 functions at once instead of two- even sort of slow at that. I calculate it only uses 13.2 HP @ full reves to get any preformance at all. Maybe a 25 gal/min PTO pump with 1/2 the engine revs will do it right for the sloow motion "preformance matced Kubota Bh92 backhoe". You seem like the man for the job to show us how it's done. Your vidios are the absolute the best on instruction. Like them all, best wishes, keep up all the excelent work.
how much was the whole set up?
Hello, what width bucket is that on your bh92?
I'm actually a fan of Mountain Dew Throwback, seems to taste better with the sugar instead of the corn syrup of today's Dew..........
Cut and split to the tractor?
That’s the life.
Open it up will help ur wood dry faster
So.... the Kubota pretty much does the job of two other machines (Super M- loader) and D2 (light dozing, grading and backblading) PLUS its backhoe adds excavation capabilities. Yikes, will we see a shift in machine utilization here, Squatch?! 😊
Oh and almost forgot to ask, does Rick Bork have the same model of Kubota or is it not the L4701?
@@squatch253 I learned something, yet again. Thank you sir.
That is an impressive amount of wood lol
Have located some old cat d3400 parts what could they be worth they are used parts
No leaves on the trees . Filmed in March ?
All our leaves are fully filled out by 10 th of May in Raleigh-Durham, NC