Don’t Make This Mistake When Buying A Tractor!

After owning my Kubota B2301 for a year there is one thing I hate about it. I'm going to fix that problem today. A mild disaster happened on the property and I need the tractor to help fix it. I ordered a skid steer quick attach adapter from Kubota and I'm going to use a Titan stump bucket to dig up and move a bunch of trees around to create a barrier on the property. I can't believe I didn't get a quick attach sooner. No more hammering pins out. Thanks for watching!

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[UFRooster]

I’ve had our B2920 for 7 years and love it! We have 40 acres and my wife is amazed at how I can spend all weekend on it! It also sips diesel, unless I’m bush hogging thick stuff.
Thanks for the video!

[TheSHOP]

I have 6 acres and the previous owner had it cleared like a wooded park. I have huge trees but it's like a park. I decided to let a large portion go back to woods and I also planted a lot of small seedling pines. I'm a full year into this process. From my experience, it takes pines about 3 to 4 years to grow tall enough to block the sight line from a road. We have only neighbors ride by but I swear the know everything I do. I had one call me and ask me if I needed help getting a tree off my fence. It was so far in the back, I don't know how he could see it. Everytime I put in something new in the gardens, they come by to talk about it. I can't wait till these trees to grow up so they can't see everytime I sneeze. I know exactly how you feels.

[deanwells]

Good job! What I am going to mention to you is a “trick” I use to speed up the tree growth due to allowing the water to get deeper into the soil. Before putting the root ball into the ground, I would dig a little deeper and place drainage pipe / sewer leech line pipe into the soil standing vertically. Instead of water easily getting down into the root zone quickly you can double the water penetration allowing and encouraging root growth down deeper. Just a thought I know it works great in my area of the country.

[tombarnes]

Something I found valuable is to fill the hole with water first and give it some time to moisten the adjunct ground below where you are going to plant. I always plant tree/shrub level to the ground, when I pour the second bucket of water I mix the right amount of liquid fertilizer so the tree/shrub has something to utilize as it begins to send out new capillary roots. Mulching helps keep roots cool in the summer and warm in the winter. Hope this is a help.

[carriebrown]

Drll 1/8th in hole in bottom side of 5 gal bucket. Fill bucket with water and let it slowly run out around the tree. Works very well here in kansas. Timming some of the small branches will help the tree not have to work so hard while it rebuilds roots.

[cleonmain]

Thanks for the video. Lots of good suggestions in the comments section. I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but in the midwest something that is sometimes done is Root Pruning a season before transplanting. You cut around he tree in the soil just outside of the drip line, this encourages a better more compact root system. Making sure that the trees get extra water after the Root Pruning. Then the following year when you transplant the trees you will have increased success and less stress. And as mentioned in the comments thinning the canopy will also encourage better success.

[jimmaria]

That's awesome he has a daughter that is cool enough to want to get involved and learn and help. She will be happy she did when she is older and has friends and guys that are impressed that she knows how to handle a tractor or work on her car even if she dosent want to she will know enough that she dosent get taken advantage of at a repair shop or a parts store. Great job parenting!

[MAGAMAN]

Hopefully you got enough roots for the trees to live. Also, if you leave any holes under the tree when you filled in the dirt it can be really bad for the tree. You don't want it really packed down, but you don't want any voids either.

[kathmandu]

I'm no expert - but you might want to cut about 25% of the tree back after transplanting. It's a bit counter-intuitive to cut back the branches and foliage, but the reasoning is that the roots were severely damaged by the transplanting, and the tree will die if it still has the same amount of foliage to support on those damaged roots. Over the long run, you will have a greater chance of the tree surviving, and also growing faster. Good Luck!

[lookthat]

That's a good dad who gives his daughter tools and time on the tractor.

[ChrisHiblerPinball]

“I don’t have the right tool….”, sends me immediately to the hardware store. Missed opportunity my friend. :-)

[cuffeteaghlach]

I bought a B2301 four years ago, and it's been great.
Mine didn't come with a third valve kit, so I installed one because I need grapple capability for firewood harvesting.
Great machine. No complaints.

[travisbenson]

Great idea transplanting the trees. My parents would do that the hard way by driving out close to the mountains were no one was around and using shovels to slowly dig them up, obviously not as big as you were doing but when they replant then they would tamp a lot of soil around them and just leave the garden hose run on them giving them tons of water for a long time and then the next day re-tamp the soil again and adding pmore soil and water again. Those exposed roots really needed to recover from being torn up out of the ground.
Good luck with getting the trees to reclaim your privacy :)

[tonyioannoni]

I have a BX24D, and the first thing I did when I saw the new BX23S with quick attach on loader, is getting myself the quick attach from a BX23S and install it on mine, fits like a glove. But I see 2 issues on your video, 1st, when you transplant a tree, you always make the hole twice the size of the roots, and you absolutely flood the hole to the rim, then you put your new tree in, and put back the dirt slowly not to make the water flow out, this "trick" was explained to me by an old tree farmer arboriculturist, since then I never lost a transplant! Second, you should have bought a BX model with the backhoe, you can transplant way bigger trees, the backhoe is a formidable tool, amazing all you can do with it! But you are absolutely right about the SSQA quick attach, the amount of attachments available is amazing and way much cheaper!!! Update, I forgot to say I bought an SSQA adaptor plate to weld on my bucket for $80, just welded it on, did not need to order a new bucket!

[ddbtdd]

The convenience of a Quick Attach makes sense but when you add a Quick Attach and bucket it does reduce your lift capacity.
Keep it in mind when your lift capacity is less than 1, 000 lbs with a pin on bucket.

[jameskua]

If you can weld and cut you can convert your pin on bucket to SSQA. I did one several years ago when I had a Kubota. The SSQA plate to weld on the bucket was about $125. It took me some time to get the "ears" off of the bucket, but it was easy to weld on the plate to the cleaned bucket then. You will need a welder (mine was a stick welder), the SSQA bracket to weld on the bucket, and a bunch of slitting wheels for your angle grinder. Or if you are good with a cutting torch, that could work too. My next tractor, I was a bit smarter and got a Kioti with SSQA equipped from the factory.. :) James

[GoodWorksTractors]

Great video. Bummer you didn't get the SSQA up front, but I'll be sharing this with folks who don't understand what I'm telling them when I say they need a conversion kit. Thanks for sharing! Stump buckets rock!

[bullboss]

It's good to see your little girl pitch in and "help". Nice tractor too.

[gearhead]

My family and I just move to a 6 acre property. I have several projects in mind, and I want a tractor for many of these projects. One of the main attachments I want is a stump bucket. I have SOME privacy, but there are a few holes in the tree line near the road. Thanks for this video.

[mrlaw]

We need more people/parents showing and teaching their kids how to do things...like you do.