clemsonfor
Super Member
I can understand why didn't buy from them you live a long way from Austin. I really like Yanmar, I know anything can fail, so my expectation is not that this machine would be trouble free, but I think there is a reasonable chance it may run trouble free for a long time. I live close enough to get in RCO's face if they don't come through with their end of the deal, on the warranty if I need it. The thing is mowing now with my daughter-inlaw and seems to be doing fine, even in over 100+ temps all summer long in central Texas. She has been mowing about 15 acres with that finish mower because she likes how the Yanmar transmission works. I thought she would just finish mow the acre around the house with the Yanmar. There are lots of complains on TBN some from Kubota's and JD's new right out of the box, so I know it can happen to anyone with any machine. I like Yanmar and may go to Japan and walk into a dealer and buy a new tractor and ship it home. Well, you know me now.
HS
I agree with you on the brand new junk tractors. My uncle has a JD 4400 (now close to 10 yrs or so i guess) he bought new. There is no way that think will be functional at 30 yrs. Yanmar motor is still strong and starts up fast. Its the rest of the tractor thats junk. Pops out of 2 gears while underway in high range. Hood just decided to crack cause its plastic. He says sometimes the lift wont work right and it has 1200 hours.
Im a forester and deal with the logging end of the business. Showed up last week and one had a brand new Cat skidder, i knew they had a JD that was only a few years old. I asked if that was a loaner or did they buy it. He said its been one of those days and yes they bought it. On the tract they cut before this one, they had the main bearing in the grapple go out twice!! And the tract only took like 5-6 weeks total to cut. Both times was fixed under warrenty. (tractor only has about 5K hours) Then i asked what happend to it. He said they just got it back from having the rear diff explode and the axle shaft come out, for the second time, and then this AM the tranny was slipping in 3 gears so they called JD to come get it and had been working the deal on the Cat, so they just went and got it before the deal was even inked!! Talk about a lemon on a 2.5 yr old skidder. I have heard ones twice that age with half those problems.