shawnjvl
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YouTube - Yanmar NS60T Stationary Engine (part1)
This sounds like my 2000
This sounds like my 2000
I want one of these !!
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Neat 1500
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just about any yanmar engine sounds the same, 1 cyl or 2. even some of the 3 cylinders...... sweet sound.
rScotty
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There might be more to the story. Back when Yanmar sold in the US, it was already producing many of the world's large ship engines, but instead of being a corporation it was owned by one guy! Back then some of my friends were local dealers and recall a slick Yanmar in-house mag showing some of the oddball things that Yanmar was making just because the boss/owner wanted to do it. He treated the company like it was his private workshop - which of course it was....sort of like Honda Motors when Mr. Honda decided he wanted to go GP racing.
Apparently the owner of Yanmar International was a nut for futuristic agriculture stuff including fish and sea food farming done both in tanks and in the open ocean. That's why Yanmar started making things like combo sonar/radar and robot fish harvesters. Back on land, his ag hobby also explains why a company mostly dedicated to making two-story sized diesel engines for big ships came to start making little 4WD tractors....as well as why they were made too well and sold too expensively.
For a while Yanmar also made a number of fancy turf maintenance machines and grass cutting equipment. Turf farming just happened to combine the owner's passion for growing things with another hobby - that of collecting golf courses.
Anyway, that was the story at the time; I don't know the guy myself...
rScotty
Apparently the owner of Yanmar International was a nut for futuristic agriculture stuff including fish and sea food farming done both in tanks and in the open ocean. That's why Yanmar started making things like combo sonar/radar and robot fish harvesters. Back on land, his ag hobby also explains why a company mostly dedicated to making two-story sized diesel engines for big ships came to start making little 4WD tractors....as well as why they were made too well and sold too expensively.
For a while Yanmar also made a number of fancy turf maintenance machines and grass cutting equipment. Turf farming just happened to combine the owner's passion for growing things with another hobby - that of collecting golf courses.
Anyway, that was the story at the time; I don't know the guy myself...
rScotty
Johndeere3720
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Would be a fun thing to have around, but the price is pretty steep. 
Smoody
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80k sure could buy me all the different yanmar tractors I want. Which will most likely outlast that heli..
Taylortractornut
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Ill stick with my 3000 Yanmar. It would be nice equiped with a 12 gauge to hunt down that annoying ultra light that keeps buzzing the landfill taking pictures just kidding. Yanmar is an amazing company. Its neat to see Japanese logging and forestry. Im still fascinated by my little Takakita baler and Yanmar tractor teamed up.
Pete Judd
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My oldest son just asked for a remote controlled helicopter for xmas. I had to email him back that I just don't have the bucks for this right now, but maybe after I die:laughing:. I also sent him the link.
