What could Yanmar improve?

[Peter 315]

I think that JD held Yanmar back form selling there own branded tractors in the usa I had a jd 770 made by Yanmar very nice tractor

 

[rockyridgefarm]

Oh, yes, agreed. Except that I am already using mine .

We just want it ALL! World Domination!

But, honestly, it is better to under-market a superior machine than the usual strategy of 'what you lack talent; make up with volume'

 

[Jchonline]

Turbocharge ( or offer an option) their engines, especially on the 359 and 347. I am at 8600 ft and Yanmar will not compete with Koiti, Kubota, MF, LS, and many others that TC as a standard offering. The crazy thing is I know Yanmar makes TC engines for other tractor manufacturers. Why not their own? Am I missing something? This is all new to me, so please speak up if I am.

 

[Tractorable]

Turbocharge ( or offer an option) their engines, especially on the 359 and 347. I am at 8600 ft and Yanmar will not compete with Koiti, Kubota, MF, LS, and many others that TC as a standard offering. The crazy thing is I know Yanmar makes TC engines for other tractor manufacturers. Why not their own? Am I missing something? This is all new to me, so please speak up if I am.

Lots of folks prefer larger displacement to turbocharging as a way of making power. It's simpler without all the extra plumbing that forced induction entails. Of course, turbocharging has an advantage over large displacement at high altitudes where it minimizes the power loss in thin air.

 

[sloeffle]

No replacement for displacement.

I'll pass on a turbocharged engine. Just something else to break.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Commit to marketing, PR, social media etc... the latest "news" post on the website is from August 2017. The site is very static and not comprehensive. It is kind of weird to have such a great product and not really make an effort to tell anybody about it. I went to the Great American Sportsman Show in Harrisburg PA last month and Yanmar had a woeful little space along a busy boulevard with two tractors jammed up against the wall and two guys in Yanmar polo shirts trying to field questions from a very interested outdoorsmen public. At first I thought they were selling tractor attachments and the tractors were props. Meanwhile Kubota and Mahindra flooded the zone with dedicated floor space, a lot of product set up to support outdoors activities, signage, flyers for a take-a-way, knowledgeable sales people and all of it supported by advertising announcing a spring sales event and incentives. Jeez does any brand have as strong a reputation for excellence as Yanmar in the grey market? And look how hard they work to disown and run away from that base of super brand loyalists. Right now Yanmar is thinking like a manufacturing company and needs to think like a marketing/sales company. The rear locking differential could be better executed in terms of understanding and engagement.

Yanmar has WesternStar to market their tractors. While it looks to my eye he sort of got everything, he is in a learning curve of what works and doesn't work.

If Yanmar would like to offer an excavator for my YouTube channel, you let me know!

 

[sugarloafguy]

Hey Guys,

I am thinking maybe Yanmar could start by painting all of their equipment the same colors-say red and white and lose that obnoxious green wheeled, faded out Case red disaster they are peddling on their TOL machines. It is sad their small tractors look pretty sharp but the bigger ones on the dealer's lot here look faded out and are not selling real well. I like that small factory class II cab but hate the color combination. Almost as bad as the green they used to have. Smaller ones like the 424 have a very crude loader setup for an expensive tractor. They could learn some things in curved boom loaders from New Holland I think.

Brian

 

[rockyridgefarm]

I would like more slope on the hood - better visibility for the bucket.

 

[Tractorable]

I love the Ferrari red and beige wheels of Yanmar's new YT tractors.

One improvement I could recommend on the YT235 is to put extendable link arms and pinned adjusters on the 3pt. The whole tractor is high-end with auto-throttle, electric over hydraulic PTO, loader controls by the operator, etc, ........then when the designers got to the back they just forgot to add the convenience of extendable link arms. Maybe they just want to sell more quick hitches.

 

[TnAndy]

One improvement I could recommend on the YT235 is to put extendable link arms and pinned adjusters on the 3pt. ........then when the designers got to the back they just forgot to add the convenience of extendable link arms.

No, mine came with pinned adjusters on the lower links.....they apparently just didn't know how to build them (had them on my previous New Holland and never bent one) I bent several, replaced under warranty, and complained enough they sent me a threaded type which has not bent in the following years.

My take on the ones I was bending was the metal was too soft and the adjustment holes were drilled too close to the outside, leaving too little metal to be strong enough to resist bending when the lower links were put in a bind.

Version I have now is on the left:

Mine also came with extendable link arms.....funny they quit putting them on there, as they ARE quite handy.

See this thread:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/yanmar-new/333147-some-things-about-new-yanmars.html