Yanmar YM Series Tractor Toolboxes

[YanmarFever]

Yanmars wasnt all we had..

 

[tacticalturnip]

How did you end up with so many Branson's?

 

[YanmarFever]

We ran with Branson tractors Mahindra, Yanmars, Mitsubishis, Shibaura, Howse, Koyker ect...
We retired with a Mahindra, 2 Bransons and a Yanmar.
When we closed, we had every tractor sold, it was eerie not seeing any tractors here anymore
Im still a farmer.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I never knew you were a dealer. Very cool. You've got some history under your belt for sure.

 

[YanmarFever]

Retired the business in Nov 2011 and moved under the palm trees..

 

[bmaverick]

I never knew you were a dealer. Very cool. You've got some history under your belt for sure.

History. It's all still there. Take a walk back in time when life was easier and happier.

Used Yanmar tractors, New Mahindra tractors, New Branson Tractors from Ernie's Imports inc

Used Yanmar tractors, New Mahindra tractors, and New Branson tractors at an exception price from Ernie's Imports inc dealership. We are a direct importer from Japan for our used tractors.

web.archive.org

 

[tacticalturnip]

History. It's all still there. Take a walk back in time when life was easier and happier.

Used Yanmar tractors, New Mahindra tractors, New Branson Tractors from Ernie's Imports inc

Used Yanmar tractors, New Mahindra tractors, and New Branson tractors at an exception price from Ernie's Imports inc dealership. We are a direct importer from Japan for our used tractors.

web.archive.org

Thank you for sharing that, I'm about to do some browsing.

 

[bmaverick]

Thank you for sharing that, I'm about to do some browsing.

They are all out there, Hoye, RCO, LMTC, Big-Little Tractors, Coldwater, EFC, Jim Tractors, LCI, Malary, NCW, South Circle, UTDA, VDO-MX, Tractor-Co, Tractor Joe, etc. You only need hints to find their sites from long ago.

 

[California]

For anyone new to these classic Yanmars: The basic history here is that Japan tax law strongly supports trading in farm equipment that is still suitable for continued use.

The US industry of clean Japan imports and VN refurb factories grew. A flood of Yanmars appeared on Ebay etc. But Yanmar's US branch sold only US-version Yanmars and never acknowledged these other imports as legitimate.

Then the widow of an American who rolled his import, and died, sued Yanmar-USA. Yanmar-USA then sued all the importers and shut them down. (One importer had a prior arrangement and remains in business).

Then Yanmar left the US for years, but continued to build John Deere's under-50 hp tractors. Later Yanmar returned to the US but the modern dealers are selling modern tractors, they tend to ignore the prior models.

Even the legitimate US version Yanmars originally sold here, are now pretty much orphans.

Thankfully Yanmar designed for simplicity and used industry-standard bearings etc. Plus NAPA-quality replica parts remain available. So support continues, similar to timeless VW's Jeeps, Ford 8N's etc.

There's lots more detail but that's the general outline.

 

[YanmarFever]

Bmaverick,
Wow thats like hanging your laundry out for all to see!!

 

[careyo63]

My mother was the Kids School bus driver! On her route the morning it happened. The kids mother was a driver also. Aunt was the Court secretary. True! More to it than that! Trust me

 

[bmaverick]

Bmaverick,
Wow thats like hanging your laundry out for all to see!!

Coldwater was big too.

Coldwatertractors.com

Today, they only do a few loaders a month, mostly in their region of a few states.

coldwaterloaders.simplesite.com

Call or text- 360-533-2160 Can't find a loader for tractor with 10-30 hp ? Call or text us, we may be able to help you figure something out.

coldwaterloaders.simplesite.com

Coldwater Tractors Inc
274 Dekay Rd
Hoquiam, WA 98550
coldwaterloaders.simplesite.com
360-533-2160

 

[bmaverick]

EFC back in the YM hayday,

EFC Construction

 

[California]

... and Parker Eqpt in the South. The authority on YM2200 and 2700.

I think he and EFC evolved into implement dealer / farm supply operations.

 

[bmaverick]

Not a well know one, ProdetHR.

This family had 3 locations in the central mid-west states with the main location in Oklahoma. If things would of kept going, they could of been the next Fredricks. The family members were diesel mechanics.

Some YM machines, however they focused on the KE, FX and EF machines. All the machines were PowerShift.

They were on the Anglefire network. Not backed up by Archive.org

 

[bmaverick]

Jim's Tractors.
SERVING ALL OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WESTERN U.S.

His site has several links to the various different venues he was part of.

Links...
www.jimstractors.com
www.jims-tractors.com
www.dieseltractors.com
www.japanese-tractors.com
www.iseki-tractors.com
www.yanmar-tractors.com
www.mini-4x4-trucks.com

Jim's Tractors - Used Japanese Compact Diesel Tractors in California

We sell a good used Yanmar tractor, compact tractor, used compact tractor, Yanmar diesel tractor, diesel engine, imported diesel tractors, Yanmar tractor, implements, manuals, yanmar used tractor, backhoe, 3 point, 3 point backhoe, California used tractor

web.archive.org

 

[bmaverick]

LCI Equpiment - The Best Reconditioned Tractors Available World Wide

This site was tricky to activate on the archive.org site. The home page was corrupt. You had to guess one of the sub-pages to make it work. I did /yanmar

The Best Reconditioned Tractors Available in the US

 

[bmaverick]

LMTC

Little Miami Trading Company
8581 Bindley Mounts Rd Blanchester, OH 45107
513-877-3000 efax 1-786-358-8629 LMTC@tds.net
www.LMTCompany.com or www.OhioTractors.com

Little Miami Trading Company - Compact Tractors

Later, they became a Fredricks UTDA dealer and the machines looked super !

And there were PDF docs you could download from the site, see attached.

 

[California]

Jim's Tractors.
SERVING ALL OF CALIFORNIA AND THE WESTERN U.S.

Isn't that the guy who was out East of Los Angeles? In San Bernardino or Lancaster or something.

I happened to go through his city in 2007 and couldn't find a trace of him.

LMTC
Little Miami Trading Company

Yeah. Wayne of LMTC was a prolific poster here with broad knowledge. Until he got angry with being contradicted. He disappeared.

He had also mentioned a sick wife so he probably was on overload continually.

At any rate, a loss to this group.

 

[bmaverick]

MALARY Equipment up in the New England states in the central Massachusetts area.

This site too was an old Anglefire DIY make you own web page. Nothing backed up on archive.org

Bummer we lost places like this too.