Dealer Is this dealer selling a certified ROPS? Looks fishy!

[California]

I wonder if the installer re-used the bolts there - which would have been too short after adding the thickness of the ROPS plate.

 

[3Ts]

Darn it 3T I read your post and it cost me 3 hours of my life. Tracing roads and photo-location dots in the Game Preserve area of Botswana then across Namibia to the Atlantic, and as you suggested, photo locations north of Windhoek.

Elder Daughter did her Semester Abroad at a university in South Africa. Then a couple of fearless German girls convinced her to join them on a road trip before going home. Your post reminded me there might now be Google Street View for some of the places she described.

The 3 blondes in rural Africa where white people are mostly fly-in guests for $500/day game safaris or wealthy secluded farmers, were a novelty. They went north through Zimbabwe to Victoria Falls, then west across the game preserve area of Botswana and the Kalahari desert of Namibia to the Atlantic, then north to the border with Angola. There they realized things were getting serious when the Angolan border guards screamed at them don't come any closer. They suddenly remembered what Angola is most famous for ... land mines all over the place. They retreated. Then drove back to Johannesburg to fly home. An adventure of a lifetime! We love seeing her photos.

Long ago I posted about Younger Daughter's Semester Abroad in New Delhi. We visited her and I took a lot of photos. Here are some tractor pix. 1 - 2 - 3 - 4-Jeeps and 5-My favorite.

Anyhow thanks for posting that. Have you been to Namibia?

I have. My wife and I spent 2 weeks there back in 2018. We also spent a week in Maun, Botswana and a few days at Victoria Falls. Only passed thru Johannesburg & Cape Town in South Africa.

Namibia is quite the contrast in cultures. I have a picture of my wife sitting next to the meteors in downtown Windhoek and sitting out in the Kalahari desert. The Hilton is downtown and next to the hotel is a marketplace for the Himba tribe. You'll have to look them up - We spent some time at one of the schools in the bush. It's 100 years old and is in need of repairs, we did what we could, but it's never enough. In spite of that the kids seem to have a very positive outlook on life and don't know what they're missing. For that matter, they may actually be better off than ones here in the USA.

We spent a couple of days in Maun and went to church there. Turns out the pastor and his wife are from the Tyler Texas area and we got a run down of the culture and the impact AIDS and the wildlife (especially the damage elephants) cause.

And by-the-way, they sell raincoats at the entrance to the Victoria Falls park. It doesn't matter whether you use one or not, you're going to get soaked anyway.

Africa was a lovely experience! Covid has caused problems with travel, but our church is talking about going to Africa when things open up. If people are interested I can post a few pictures, but they're not tractor related.

 

[California]

I have. My wife and I spent 2 weeks there [Namibia] back in 2018. We also spent a week in Maun, Botswana and a few days at Victoria Falls.

Namibia is quite the contrast in cultures. ... If people are interested I can post a few pictures, but they're not tractor related.

This thread probably isn't the place for travel adventure stories but maybe TBN should start an area for that.

A neighbor is in a church sponsoring a clinic in upcountry Zimbabwe. A member of their congregation, a RN, went over to volunteer and stayed. The neighbor assembles packages - 55 gallon drums - that are shipped over monthly. The neighbors have visited the clinic and said there are few resources in-country so this shipped stuff is their lifeline. He said the clinic is well respected and has never been hassled throughout the country's troubled recent history. In fact Important People from the capital make the 4 hour drive out to the clinic if they have some issue that can't be treated in Harare. I gave my neighbor a bunch of inherited, un-needed tools to send over. I should do more. I admire what they are doing.

Again, thanks for referencing Google Street View overseas. It really is possible to do a virtual road trip wherever the roads, or just photos, are shown.

 

[aczlan]

I wonder if the installer re-used the bolts there - which would have been too short after adding the thickness of the ROPS plate.

That's what it looks like to me, that would be why they broke out.
Those bolts should have gone to within about 1/8" of the bottom of the hole, if they had been there they probably would not have broken out like they did, or else they would have broken out the entire side of the hole and not just the top two thirds.

Aaron Z

 

[clemsonfor]

I love Yanmar, but being a 3 SPEED (Can that even be correct?) would make any talk of ROPS a moot point. The structure crumpling wouldn't concern me nearly as much as the thing ripping off the tractor. That thing could be the thing that kills you.

With certain tractor deals, you always seem to get exactly what you pay for.

You talking about the PTO? Yea the PTO on the Grey models has a three speed. The american models have a two speed. It's actually more of a good thing than a hindrance. The YM gear models at least all the smaller sizes have 8 forward speeds.

 

[Industrial Toys]

The Ad says "Three Speed Transmisssion" To me, that means only one thing.

I just WISH any of the tractors I have owned had multi speed PTOs. Had a few with ground speed/live speed though.

 

[Tinhack]

I have an independent PTO on the Ford, i.e., it can be engaged or disengaged whether moving or not. The transmission clutch has no affect on the PTO. I do wish it had a two-speed option though. But I guess if the implement is designed for 540rpm input, that's where it should be. :confused3: Aren't some finish mowers designed to run at 1000rpm?

 

[Industrial Toys]

Never heard of one. Some BIG AG mowers and choppers operate at 1000rpm.

Some BIG PTO snow blowerstoo. Man talk about a performance enhancement.

 

[California]

Some BIG AG mowers and choppers operate at 1000rpm. Some BIG PTO snow blowers too.

My two US-version Yanmars - sent over the first time Yanmar had dealers here, in the 70's and 80's - both have 540/1000 two speed PTO. I think all the US Yanmars from back then had it. This feature was one of a very few adaptations Yanmar made to their standard models for the US market. The only other notable US feature is the throttle lever is pull to slow down, opposite their Japan-market version. I don't know if the models that Yanmars later built for John Deere had the two speed PTO.

 

[bmaverick]

My two US-version Yanmars - sent over the first time Yanmar had dealers here, in the 70's and 80's - both have 540/1000 two speed PTO. I think all the US Yanmars from back then had it. This feature was one of a very few adaptations Yanmar made to their standard models for the US market. The only other notable US feature is the throttle lever is pull to slow down, opposite their Japan-market version. I don't know if the models that Yanmars later built for John Deere had the two speed PTO.

I love the fact my YM2610 has a PTO 4-speed. 542-685-1005-1268

And with CA's input here of the throttle lever, the PTO speed like most tractors is VARIABLE.

In the image:
PTO-1 is 500-RPMs @ 2,400-RPMs engine
PTO-2 is 500-RPMs @ 1,900-RPMs engine
PTO-3 is 500-RPMs @ 1,300-RPMs engine
PTO-4 is 500-RPMs @ 1,000-RPMs engine

With my brush mower, I run it in PTO-2 and about 1,700-RPMs engine. Sure, it's less than the 540 PTO speed needed, but everything works just fine this way. Less wear on all thing too. Now, with tall thick pasture that was over grown, PTO-1 @ 2,200-RPMs engine works just fine.

To run a NorthStar PTO generator, PTO-3 @ 1,400-RPMs engine works really nice. Why run the diesel hard and drink down the fuel with PTO-1? Let everything run at nicer RPMs to get the same results.
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Now, on the SAME gauge, there are other PTO speeds for other equipment should it need to run higher.

I'm very impressed with the hour meter tach feedback for the YM2500-YM2610-YM3000-YM3110