Overkill? Not enough? Just right?

[Jay-ell]

I use three varying sizes of Kubota tractors at work. Joy of joys, I've got to drive the biggest on the road for about seven mile between sites tomorrow afternoon, avoiding rushhour............very embarrassing when you've got a convoy of cars half a mile long behind you!

Could be worse. You could be driving your car - imagine the tailback you'd have then.

[Birdie Wife]

I knew an octegenarian lady up in Orkney who had one of those old Fords as her island run about. Well, I say run about, actually you could hear her coming 10 minutes before she actually arrived. She was also blind as a bat so never went anywhere at more than 8 miles an hour.

[Snoop Puss]

OH NO!...

Now I have to start buying lottery tickets. It's the only way I'll ever get one of those Kubotas and now I really, really want one (there's a Kubota dealer in our village...).

[Snadger]

Just back from a harrowing drive on busy roads in Kubota 5040...............I'm still shaking!

[Snoop Puss]

I have a friend with a Kubota Narrow, as they call them here (with interesting pronunciation). Meaning I have tractor envy.

[Snadger]

I have a friend with a Kubota Narrow, as they call them here (with interesting pronunciation). Meaning I have tractor envy.

Vinyard machines have a narrower wheelbase so they fit easily between the rows of vines.

[Snoop Puss]

Vinyard machines have a narrower wheelbase so they fit easily between the rows of vines.

It's a dinky little number. My friend drives it like a madman amid his almond trees and reverses at a speed that can only be described as expletive daft.

Went out shopping with Mr Snoop today. He commented on a flashy Merc, so I owned up about my new longing for a Kubota RUV. He wasn't surprised...

[DWSmith]

Got the sickle bar mower out this afternoon and mowed around the pond.

This is at the shallow end. Need to get the weeds shorter all the way around but it looks much better than it did a few hours ago. I think I still had the mower in the transporting position instead of the operating position. It rides too high in that position. (It has been a while since I have used this mower.)

Update: Operator error has been corrected Sunday night. The pond looks much better with the short grass and so does our ditch up and down the road.. Couldn't reach out far enough to get all of the cattails but probably got nearly half of them cut. Getting there!

[Snoop Puss]

That looks more like a mini-lake than a pond! Do you use it for water storage?

[DWSmith]

That looks more like a mini-lake than a pond! Do you use it for water storage?

It's about 1/2 acre in area but I had the guy dig it deep so it's 18+ feet at its deepest. It's just water storage for the fish, frogs, etc. at this point but if things got bad we could filter it for drinking water. About 95% of the water shed property is ours so the water is relatively clean of chemicals.

[DWSmith]

Arrived yesterday.

[Snoop Puss]

That is one heck of a mobility scooter!

[Jay-ell]

Smithy goes Vroom Vroom

[DWSmith]

Looks like a riding lawn mower from a distance. The next larger machine would be a garden tractor. Then the sub-compact tractor. This is a sub-compact tractor.

Not nearly as big as Old Blue (my 1969 Ford 3000 utility tractor) but a heck of a lot gentler on the lawn. We have a fairly good sized lawn and this will be much better in the mini-orchard area, vegetable plot area, etc. and for projects around the house.

[ESBkevin]

I plan to get my Iseki out of the shed for some compost hauling this evening, seeing you Kubota just made me more determined to play...er..I mean work with the tractor.