Iseki Videos and Photos

[NHmitch]

Disking:

 

[NHmitch]

Mowing:

 

[daugen]

wow! impressive photos and a wonderful "family" of capability. You really have equipped yourself well. The first reaction I had to you riding your tractor down to your neighbor's is that you have made "her" your sidekick, like a favorite horse to ride or dog to keep you company.

Nothing like a little whiff of diesel in the morning...:thumbsup:
And what a nice looking tractor, with some very interesting(and old?) small implements.

We had several Bolens garden tractors on our farm, including one of the last HD ones that were really small tractors like a Gravely rider.
There were a lot of Isekis sold in this area and I bet most of them are still plugging along out there. From a retail standpoint, they disappeared and i guess saw their future as coming back even stronger brand labeled for someone else. Iseki's fit and finish was always very good. I have a Mitsubishi in my Case IH and it just purrs, much less knocking than my Kubota. And boy my 23hp 2wd I ton tractor performs well, field mows well, never overheats, etc. I liked it so much I kept it when I got the tractor with FEL and 4wd I need here for wood use and snow. It would have been like giving away my favorite tool...wasn't going to happen.
And if you don't need a bigger tractor, and can get what you want to get done safely with this, you are smart to stay small.

Bolens had such a good name. Now they, well, best not to be negative.
I will go back and watch all your videos. I'm very interested in that dump cart. Need something
very similar for our Quaker Meeting's graveyard maintenance...hauling sticks, and certainly dirt, away.

I am slowly building a collection of old garden tractors, renovating them one at a time. Next will be a Wheel Horse.
Always loved that design, though I'd sure rather have gear drive. And my memory was that the largest Bolens had them, including the one with
the smallest Iseki diesel in it, now that is one for my collection. What a gorgeous machine. Just like yours.
Need to finish my 1968 Cub Cadet 125 first.

Have fun and thanks for sharing this with us.

 

[Ilikeurtractor]

Neat stuff. Thanks for sharing. I never knew there was a bailer that small out there. That can't be cheap. Looks a little hazardous too, but apparently the owner isn't much into leaving the covers on things. I saw one with a v-plow about a year ago on youtube but I can't find it now. Would be great to have but I have no idea where a person could buy one. I'm guessing it would ding the bank account a bit too :shocked:

 

[NHmitch]

Thanks! My Bolens/Iseki has a Mitsubishi 2cyl engine, and it has that classic 2cyl tractor sound, and runs incredibly smooth. They really great engines. What model is your case? I have seen the smaller case models, and I always liked them. Do you have a photo of it? I wish that Bolens kept its partnership with FMC, and Iseki, but they fizzled out in the early 1990's. They had about a 12-13 year run. I think that the Japanese really perfected engines, and tractors, and they have very good quality control. I wish that stuff was still built this well. Thats very true about the tractor being my sidekick, and while we do have horses that I could have ridden, that was out of the question, and really still is, but the tractor really gave me mobility, and I drove into town one day to the gas station to get milk. I have plates on it for the road as required here, but one I get of my country road, the main road has quite a few semi's that travel down its, so not very safe to drive down. Ironically the day that I drove to the gas station, I had a moose run right in front of me, and through the parking lot. That would have been a bad collision! I have looked dump carts in the past, but they seem to be expensive, unless you can fabricate one? I have actually been impressed with the farm equipment that comes out of Pennsylvania where you live. They sell hay trailers and pasture drags near me that are made by the Amish, and our barn was actually built by the Amish in Lancaster, and shipped on a huge semi. It is very well built, and it was cheaper to order it built than to have it built here. I'll keep my eyes open for inexpensive dump carts. Thanks again!

wow! impressive photos and a wonderful "family" of capability. You really have equipped yourself well. The first reaction I had to you riding your tractor down to your neighbor's is that you have made "her" your sidekick, like a favorite horse to ride or dog to keep you company.

Nothing like a little whiff of diesel in the morning...:thumbsup:
And what a nice looking tractor, with some very interesting(and old?) small implements.

We had several Bolens garden tractors on our farm, including one of the last HD ones that were really small tractors like a Gravely rider.
There were a lot of Isekis sold in this area and I bet most of them are still plugging along out there. From a retail standpoint, they disappeared and i guess saw their future as coming back even stronger brand labeled for someone else. Iseki's fit and finish was always very good. I have a Mitsubishi in my Case IH and it just purrs, much less knocking than my Kubota. And boy my 23hp 2wd I ton tractor performs well, field mows well, never overheats, etc. I liked it so much I kept it when I got the tractor with FEL and 4wd I need here for wood use and snow. It would have been like giving away my favorite tool...wasn't going to happen.
And if you don't need a bigger tractor, and can get what you want to get done safely with this, you are smart to stay small.

Bolens had such a good name. Now they, well, best not to be negative.
I will go back and watch all your videos. I'm very interested in that dump cart. Need something
very similar for our Quaker Meeting's graveyard maintenance...hauling sticks, and certainly dirt, away.

I am slowly building a collection of old garden tractors, renovating them one at a time. Next will be a Wheel Horse.
Always loved that design, though I'd sure rather have gear drive. And my memory was that the largest Bolens had them, including the one with
the smallest Iseki diesel in it, now that is one for my collection. What a gorgeous machine. Just like yours.
Need to finish my 1968 Cub Cadet 125 first.

Have fun and thanks for sharing this with us.

 

[NHmitch]

Neat stuff. Thanks for sharing. I never knew there was a bailer that small out there. That can't be cheap. Looks a little hazardous too, but apparently the owner isn't much into leaving the covers on things. I saw one with a v-plow about a year ago on youtube but I can't find it now. Would be great to have but I have no idea where a person could buy one. I'm guessing it would ding the bank account a bit too :shocked:

Thanks! The bailer is very expensive. I looked them up, and for the smallest one, they are 9K. That is for one that makes a round bale about the size of a standard square bale- about 45 pounds. Now 9K is cheap when it comes to bailers, however not for that small of a bale. We had briefly considered hay equipment at one time, because we put away about 500 bales a year, however it does not come close to paying for itself unless you can sell quite a bit, and that is a lot of work. Especially on our small scale.
When I was looking at the videos I saw all of your videos on youtube. Great videos on your front mounted snow blower! Your video is what made me really want one. I finally found one last weekend, and it sold before they could respond. I did find this video on a rear v plow, but I wasn't sure if you meant a v-snow plow?

 

[NHmitch]

And the snow blower video, thanks Ilikeyourtractor!:

 

[Ilikeurtractor]

...I did find this video on a rear v plow, but I wasn't sure if you meant a v-snow plow?

Yeah, it was a v-plow for the front for snow removal with full hydraulics for inverting. It looked like a new factory build, somewhere over in Europe. I'm wondering if the poster removed it since it seems hard to find now (?) Seemed like the tractor was either a TX1410 or TX1510 possibly with a cab. It was in really great cosmetic shape, appeared to be new paint, etc. Definitely would have cost some decent coin.

I'm in the process of adapting a front-mount Kubota B2650 2-stage snow thrower over for use on my TX tractors. I'll try and get some videos along the way. I found a bad bearing on the drive input yesterday so that will set me back a week or two while I wait for a replacement bearing. Since winter is pretty much over here (and has been since Christmas) there isn't a pressing need to get this done. I might not have it ready until next winter or later depending on how things go. Someday the hope is to live where a little more snow happens. I'm not saying I'd like to see what the east has been getting this year (but that would be ok once in a while), but one or two snow storms a year doesn't really cut it for me. It would be great to take the kids sleding now and then and that pretty much doesn't happen here.

 

[NHmitch]

I found the video! I knew that I had seen that somewhere. They are actually pushing quite a bit of snow. I looked at the snow blower that you are adapting, and it looks like it will work really well. I am surprised at how many Kubota parts seem to be interchangeable, or close, with Iseki's but I guess they are and were built in Japan in the same market. YOu probably remember my posts, but I got my rims that were an exact fit, and identical patterns, and my rear hitch, with a very small hole mod from Kubotas. What type of modification do you have to make for it to fit? That might be a god option for me if I can find one. The Kubota parts seem to be a bit more abundant. I wish that we had a bit less snow. I had to clear about 16 inches yesterday, and another 2 this morning, but for us, it has actually been a bit less snow this year. We had a few storms last year, that was close to 28 inches at a time. It seems like you either get too little, or to much, but the weather patterns are so crazy lately, the south has been getting our snow. Look forward to seeing the progress on your new snow blower. Do you have to weld the attachment points?

Yeah, it was a v-plow for the front for snow removal with full hydraulics for inverting. It looked like a new factory build, somewhere over in Europe. I'm wondering if the poster removed it since it seems hard to find now (?) Seemed like the tractor was either a TX1410 or TX1510 possibly with a cab. It was in really great cosmetic shape, appeared to be new paint, etc. Definitely would have cost some decent coin.

I'm in the process of adapting a front-mount Kubota B2650 2-stage snow thrower over for use on my TX tractors. I'll try and get some videos along the way. I found a bad bearing on the drive input yesterday so that will set me back a week or two while I wait for a replacement bearing. Since winter is pretty much over here (and has been since Christmas) there isn't a pressing need to get this done. I might not have it ready until next winter or later depending on how things go. Someday the hope is to live where a little more snow happens. I'm not saying I'd like to see what the east has been getting this year (but that would be ok once in a while), but one or two snow storms a year doesn't really cut it for me. It would be great to take the kids sleding now and then and that pretty much doesn't happen here.

 

[NHmitch]

I actually also just found a very interesting Yanmar part that looks like it might fit the top link tow attachment. Have you ever seen one like this?