Green Yanmar

[BobinSeattle]

I'm considering buying a small Yanmar 4x4 tractor that's green. Can anyone tell me what that means?
Thanks

 

[normde2001]

Earlier model Yanmars were a light green, or it could be a repaint to look like a JD.Here's one.

 

[Tractors4u]

The pea green Ynamrs are indeed older models. On the YM1700 and 2000 the only difference is the sheet metal. On the YM1500 there are some stamped steel parts versus cast parts on the red 1500.

 

[professor]

Pea green color means it is nearing 30 years or older.

 

[DavesTractor]

There is a tractor company in Abbotsford just north of the border that has a habit of painting their Yanmar tractors John Deere Green and Yellow. He has sold quite a few tractors in your area, so that may be what you are looking at. Model number?

 

[California]

Another new member, my first post.

Thanks to you present members! I have learned a lot from you before buying my YM240. Now I hope my research can help another new buyer. Here's what I found regarding the lime-green tractors imported by YanmarUSA in the 1970's and 1980's. I don't know how much of this applies to the tractors first sold in Japan.

Below is a reference to a 1979 sales brochure illustrating the second-series YM240 that I bought. It's green and the headlights are in the grille. According to the serial number mine is at level 'Design Change Mark #3' so I estimate it was manufactured about 1979 or 1980.

After the manufacturer's tractor brochure is a dealer's implement brochure. The dealer showed a first-series YM240 with his implements. That model's hood opens like an automobile. My YM240 parts manual (for "tractors manufactured after 1975") shows 'Design Change Mark #2' for first-series hood hinges, so apparently the second series with forward-tilting hood began at Design Change Mark #3.

The parts manual shows Design Change Mark #4 as the final revision to the YM240. Perhaps someone else can post to clarify if these last YM240's were painted red, and also if the change from green to red ocurred earlier in Japan than on the American-market tractors.

 

[DavesTractor]

California,

Welcome! Nice to see another member from our area.

 

[California]

Dave,

Thanks for the welcome! When I was looking for a Yanmar I seriously considered driving up to buy a clean one from you. Everything I've heard about you is excellent.

I saw this one in the local paper. The farmer told me he had a buyer who would drive down from Red Bluff that afternoon if I didn't buy it on the spot. I gambled that Yanmar's indestructible reputation applied to this particular tractor, checked everything I could think of, and bought it on the spot. Hmm... I wonder if you were the other caller? "YM240 with loader"?

California

 

[bbfarm]

What kind of money does the YM 240 command in your area?

Is it physically the same size as the YM2610D?

Can't open the jpeg info, for some reason?

Thanks! David...

 

[Tractors4u]

The YM240 is the American version of the YM2000. Almost identical.

 

[pugetsails]

I have an FX18D that came from north of the border. It was painted green over the original red (everything is green , even the hoses and wires). I have put 200 hours on it in the last two years without so much as a hiccup. The only problem is that the red shows through where ever the green paint is chipped or abraided - but what the heck - it's a tractor and I love it!

 

[California]

<font color="blue">What kind of money does the YM 240 command in your area? </font>

Dunno what it should have cost. I bought it at beat-up used tractor price from a short term second owner who bailed after he spent several hundred $ on a starter.

This is agribusiness country (Northern California) and nearly all small tractors advertised here are 1 year harvest rental returns for $10-14k, or 4x4 landscaper units thrashed to death for $6k and up. Almost no private party CUT's advertised, so the dealer prices you see on Ebay are the norm.

I had expected to buy a gray market YM2000. The local seller of imported Yanmars said his equivalent of my unit would be a nicely painted YM2000 with new Koyker loader for about $7,500.

<font color="blue">physically the same size as the YM2610D?</font>

Dunno, specs are in the brochure. That said it should weigh 1696 lbs plus a little for the HD adjustable width front axle and the Wide Tire option. (actually has even larger tires, 12.4x24) I thought the loader would add 700 lbs. Actual truck scale weight was over 3000 lbs, with no ballast. I don't know the specs for a YM2610D.

<font color="blue">Can't open the jpeg info, for some reason?</font>

It works now. Might be a little slow to load.

Comment re. 'Green Yanmar': In the photo in my signature, there really is a lime-green tractor under that faded loader!

 

[DavesTractor]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Hmm... I wonder if you were the other caller? "YM240 with loader"? )</font>

California,

I surely wasn't the other caller. I'm too busy to buy less than a truckload at a time, although I probably miss some good deals sometime because of that.

Best of luck with your rig. What part of Northern California are you in?

 

[California]

Dave,

I'm a couple of hours south of you. Hope to do business with you some time!

 

[Tractors4u]

Here is an example of a green grey market Yanmar YM1700.

 

[jimstractors]

<font color="blue">" I bought it at beat-up used tractor price from a short term second owner who bailed after he spent several hundred $ on a starter." </font>



If the starter goes out again, just take it in and have it rebuilt. Saves you a ton of money.

 

[Tractors4u]

Jim is right. If you ever have starter problems with these little tractors do not buy another starter. First take it to an auto electric repair shop. There is a guy up the road from me that rebuilt my last starter for an Iseki for $30.

 

[California]

Here's another Green Yanmar, a YM135D.

It's listed on Ebay. See:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2591948603
(I have nothing to do with that auction, just an interested observer!)

The auction unit has the model # on a round medallion. This indicates a year model a little later than my YM240 (1979~80) which had the model number in the hood stripe.

I saw a note somewhere on tractorbynet or another board that the USA Yanmars were painted red starting 1982. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[greg_g]

Mine is a 2nd owner YM240/Mod3, also with green wires and hoses. Where the paint has chipped, I can see black under green on the rear axle, but can't tell the original color anywhere else. The original owner had a case of wishful thinking I guess - putting that D on the cowl.

//greg//

 

[fivestring]

<font color="red">"Can anyone tell me what that means?" </font>

Is this a trick question? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Uh, it means you are considering buying a green 4x4 Yanmar? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif