Yanmar Hay Fever

[careyo63]

JD. 1025R is only 23 Eng Hp. 1444 Lbs. Not very big. My Rice patty YM2000 24Eng. weight 1664 -1940 2WD-4WD. is my guess is the reason for the increase.

 

[R Barger]

TWO BALES, 1 YANMAR

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As I was looking at this thread I was thinking that I load and stack two large round bails with my YM336D on level ground. Then there it was [my tractor]. Still use it for everything.

 

[careyo63]

My Ford was setup like that. FEL. hay spike also. Hey it was a Hay tractor! A 62 yr. old one and still works today!

 

[bmaverick]

As I was looking at this thread I was thinking that I load and stack two large round bails with my YM336D on level ground. Then there it was [my tractor]. Still use it for everything.

You have two Yanmars then, YM336 and a YM2500 (aka JD850)

 

[R Barger]

You have two Yanmars then, YM336 and a YM2500 (aka JD850)

I actually have four Yanmars YM336D , JD850 2wd and two JD850 4wd [GREAT TRACTORS]

 

[5030]

Nice little tractors, emphasis on little. Never work for me however. Heck I could pick one up in my bucket and tote it around.

 

[California]

Nice little tractors, emphasis on little. Never work for me however. Heck I could pick one up in my bucket and tote it around.

Photo: Typical use of the 18 hp Yanmar I showed in that other thread. Watering new Apple trees in the orchard. The little guy can pull that tote uphill (note the water level in the tote, sloped) on loose ground. And it fits under the orchard trees for mowing. This is all I need.

Anything larger would be clumsy. And climbing down off a larger tractor at every tree when watering, to repair the tree's basin, would get old real fast.

Now the apple harvest contractor discs, and carries harvest bins, with larger tractors. But that's not my application.

 

[R Barger]

Nice little tractors, emphasis on little. Never work for me however. Heck I could pick one up in my bucket and tote it around.

95% of the jobs that I do requires a tractor of the size that I have. The other 5% would be nice to have a large tractor. $50,000.00 for 5% of your work is not practical. That's why they make different size tractors.

 

[5030]

Just the opposite here, 95% of my farm work requires substantial tractors (I own more than one) and 5% requires a small tractor that I don't have.

All I'm stating here is you don't use a small tractor in a safe manner, running hay tools other than perhaps a hay rake and certainly not a disc mower or full size round baler, both of which not only severely outweigh a small tractor but are inherently unsafe to operate with a small tractor as in not enough weight to control the implement and certainly not enough pto power...

I don't believe they can run this or even pull it around not being powered...

 

[California]

Well we can't all grow hay.