We have had some slightly more seasonable/typical weather recently.
Several days ago I did the spring cleaning on my Yamaha YZF R3 motorcycle, and cleaned/lubricated/adjusted the drive chain. Did I mention I really prefer the drive belt on the Harley vs a chain?
I did a 45 minute ride on the Yamaha, my first motorcycle ride for 2025.

Yesterday, I rolled the Harley Road King out of the barn and did spring cleaning on that. When I finished, I thought about taking a half day ride on the Harley, and quickly decided against it.
We have had out-of-town company for around 10 days, and disappearing on the Harley would have been frowned upon, in addition it would have been rude.
Oh, and that out-of-town company? This morning I drove four hours round trip and dropped them at the airport. My Girlfriend's maternal Grandmother passed several months ago,
and the funeral/burial was last weekend. My Girlfriends parents stayed here at the house with us.

So instead of a Road King motorcycle ride, I climbed on the 2013 Kubota BX 2370 tractor I've spent between 80 & 100 hours restoring/repairing over the previous month and a half.
I could have waited another week before the lawn at the house really needed mowing. But at some point, I knew I had to stop painting/polishing the Kubota and put it to work.
I am happy with the results of the Kubota restoration. It didn't do anything unexpected. No leaks, no unusual noises, no vibrations.
After spending several hours mowing, it appears it will be everything that I had hoped it would be.

Here is the damage they did to my Dunstan Chestnut tree when they dropped two Popular trees into the tree and damage the limbs. When I tried to call the worker over who was working about 60 yards away, he ignored me and after several shout outs, gave me the finger. That is when I pulled out my Rossi 44 Spl and shot the rake out of his hand.







He didn't cut this branch off close enough to the collar so it would heal over in time.

I finally caught a sunny day. We've had monsoon rains here for weeks.
It's the first mowing of the recreational property for 2025, and the first time using the Kubota BX 2370 up there. I've mowed several times at home already.
I filled the tractor fuel tank as I was heading to the property before mowing, and filled it again on my way back home.

Even with the extra long grass and having to re-mow the windrows of grass clippings, it appears that the diesel uses about half of the gallons quantity compared to the gas powered John Deere.
Here at my location, diesel fuel is about seventy cents more per gallon compared to regular gasoline.
The diesel engine doesn't bog down when re-mowing a five inch tall windrow of previously cut grass clippings.
It was so tall, in places where a tractor wheel drove over the clippings, it packed the clippings down into a mat which will kill the grass underneath.
But it isn't a golf course, and a year from now it won't matter.

Apparently, the cold winter weather didn't kill off the ticks, as I brought one home with me and the better half had to remove it from my leg.

I did take a few photos using my new cell phone. It has an option in the camera settings for 50 MP ultra high resolution photos, and the file size per photo is about 20 MB. (8160 x 6144 pixels)

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Whadda coinkydink. I mowed the upper half of the pasture with the B2650 and Landpride 60" rer finish mower and the back yard with the 54" Husky rider I bought last fall.

Lower half of the pasture needs a week of dry weather before I'll be able to mow it, and it'll likely be a foot high by then.

Yesterday after completion.
It didn't turn out bad at all for an old humpy/bumpy farm pasture.
There are several locations in the ~ 2 acres that have chronic high grass growth rate, over the bank and downhill where the water runoff tends to go when it rains hard.
But it's never soft ground, and if it's dry enough to cut grass, just bring a hay baler.

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Looking good, green grass and trees coming out is always nice to see.

Now that you have the BX 2370 you could get a bar to tow behind it and lay out some top soil to level the place a little at a time... to rid the Humpy bumpy pasture You don't want to spill your barley malt whilst mowing!

I believe most of the uneven surfaces are a result of cow pathways. They will walk on a particular path for their entire life.
Filling the low spots in? Nope, not going to happen!
It was tough enough removing the huge rocks.

I can't drink any barley malt while there doing mowing, I have to drive home.
When I'm at the cabin and staying for a day or more, then that is a different story.

Yup on the cow paths.

Heck I've got a "PHPaul Path" from the back door to the chicken coop from walking down and back twice a day for 30 years while I kept critters!

That yard looks fantastic! I see yards on nice houses that don’t look that good.

How far a drive is it from your home to the property? Do you tow the mower on a highway?

Good looking lawn, how often do you cut it this time of the year, weekly?

^^^
This early in the season, every 7 to 10 days.
Later in the season, IF it ever stops raining, 10 to 14 days.
In the past, I've pushed it to 18 - 20 days if it's really dry.
I was there again today. So exactly one week.

It's about 25 to 30 minutes driving time. Home to cabin.
It's all two lane blacktop, tar/stone, and the road frontage at
the recreational property/cabin is dirt for the last mile or so.

I don't see any real difference towing the BX 2370 vs the JD X720.
The BX is about 300 pounds heavier, but still inside the Jeep's rated
towing specifications.

The Jeep is a Rubicon with manual transmission and 4.10 axles.
It easily hauls the Kubota BX mower at 55 to 60 without any concerns.
With the other Kubota BX loader/backhoe on the steel double axle trailer,
it works harder.

I have been "fighting" with the hinges on my shipping container entry doors since I purchased it.
The day it was delivered at the remote property, the hauler/installer got stuck in traffic accident bumper to bumper gridlock on I-81 and was delayed for arrival for multiple hours.
The installer demos the newly installed shipping container for the customer.
Surprise! The entry doors hinges were very stiff.

The installer still had to travel back to the container yard in the Philly/Trenton vicinity, so I told him I would lube the hinges.
Nothing worked during the years for freeing up those stiff hinges.

Yesterday, with the heat and humidity off the charts, I decided to do something about the stiff hinges.
The hinge pins are welded in place, so it isn't really possible to remove them and free them up.
I have tried all the "rust buster" aerosol products, along with ATF and motor oil.
The only thing that made any difference on those hinges is "Ed's Red" which is a 50% - 50% mixture of ATF and Acetone, and it didn't really free the hinges up for long.

Yesterday, I decided to install grease fittings on all of the eight hinges. It was a pain in the ass job!

1) Because the exterior surface of the hinge is round, first you file a flat by hand.
2) Centerpunch.
3) Pilot drill the hinge body and the hinge pin.
4) Tap drill the hinge body.
5) Tap 1/4"-28 UNF.
6) Install grease fitting.
7) Grease the hinge.
8) Move the door back and forth endlessly.
9) Grease again, continue with moving the door back and forth.

Each of the two entry doors on the container have four hinges per door, eight hinges in total.

One door freed up nicely, you can move the door using just pressure from one finger.
The door that was always the really stiff hinges is better, but needs more greasing/moving.
I stopped yesterday when I about dropped from the heat/humidity.

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On another matter, I will mention that I recently signed a non disclosure agreement.

Another brutally hot & humid day at the recreational property/cabin.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, (unending rain) it had been 17 days since I mowed the last time.
I don't believe I had any fun while there today.