Guessing the F-200 build year

[prejudiced0ne]

Hi, everyone

I'm from Lithuania and I have one dilemma. My father wants to buy a yanmar F-200. It's a good looking tractor... and that is all that we know. The only other farm equipment that we have used was... a horse lent by our neighbor.
So the dealer has told us many nice things about the F-200 and that the one we are looking at was built in 2003. Is that possible?
I have checked a few sites that provide model numbers with their dates of manufacture and come up with a date 1987-1992.
The sites:
TractorData.com - Yanmar tractors sorted by model
F145-F195/YANMAR/K.S.Enterprise

Does anyone know of the specific dates by the model? It might be overpriced on the basis of it being a relatively 'NEW' tractor (it certainly looks better in a heap of old square mitsubishis and kubotas). The dealer wants 7500$ for it.
Also any info on the tractor itself is greatly appreciated (is it bad/good - if so then why).
I'll attach an image of how it looks like.

 

[normde2001]

You can be pretty sure of 87-92. I think the only Yanmars built in the 2000's were the Ke models

 

[YanmarFever]

Hi, everyone

I'm from Lithuania and I have one dilemma. My father wants to buy a yanmar F-200. It's a good looking tractor... and that is all that we know. The only other farm equipment that we have used was... a horse lent by our neighbor.
So the dealer has told us many nice things about the F-200 and that the one we are looking at was built in 2003. Is that possible?
I have checked a few sites that provide numbers with their dates of manufacture and come up with a date 1987-1992.
The sites:
TractorData.com - Yanmar tractors sorted by
F145-F195/YANMAR/K.S.Enterprise

Does anyone know of the specific dates by the ? It might be overpriced on the basis of it being a relatively 'NEW' tractor (it certainly looks better in a heap of old square mitsubishis and kubotas). The dealer wants 7500$ for it.
Also any info on the tractor itself is greatly appreciated (is it bad/good - if so then why).
I'll attach an image of how it looks like.

Is that $7500 in US. dollars ?

 

[prejudiced0ne]

Yes, the 7500 is in the US currency (I've converted from our local currency). Thats what they cost around these parts.
They get imported straight from Japan, fixed up in local workshops and sold locally or in neighboring countries. They are usually fully repainted and one owner told us that they do a crappy job at that - they didn't even properly clean his tractor before repainting. Paint was spread on-top the dirt that came from Japan.

 

[normde2001]

For some strange reason, most reconditioned tractor dealers have a tendency to lie about the age of their tractors. All Yanmars are good tractors as built. We don't see many/any F200's in the U S, but it's value all depends on condition and parts availability. Check it out really well before purchase.

 

[LMTC]

For some strange reason, most reconditioned tractor dealers have a tendency to lie about the age of their tractors. All Yanmars are good tractors as built. We don't see many/any F200's in the U S, but it's value all depends on condition and parts availability. Check it out really well before purchase.

I suspect you are being tongue-in-cheek about this The simple explanation is that people lie about stuff because, well, ummm.....because they're liars. After nearly a decade of dealing with the vnrecon silliness it still leaves me baffled as to why anyone would by from anyone who is either 1. exceedingly ignorant about their product, or 2. lies or misleads about their product, and most that I have encountered selling these abominations are one or the other.

I show zero...as in none...parts listed for an F200 in our aftermarket parts catalog.

 

[YanmarFever]

Yes, the 7500 is in the US currency (I've converted from our local currency). Thats what they cost around these parts.
They get imported straight from Japan, fixed up in local workshops and sold locally or in neighboring countries. They are usually fully repainted and one owner told us that they do a crappy job at that - they didn't even properly clean his tractor before repainting. Paint was spread on-top the dirt that came from Japan.

At $7500 that tractor is WAAAAY over priced !

 

[prejudiced0ne]

There is also a Kubota B1410 for sale for 8000 $. It comes with a frontal loader. But it only has 14 hp. Would that be enough to operate a 1.2m wide finishing mower?
Does anyone know when kubota started building b1410 models? I know that they replaced them with a new model only in 2009. But I can't find a date when they introduced this model.