No more Yanmars??

kayssupply · Sep 15, 2003

I guess I'll stir it up if no one else will. What is going on with this guy named Wallace being the only one able to import Yanmars? I have just heard bits and pieces. Can anyone tell us what is really going on?
How can you slap a Zen Noh label on a tractor that was manufactured a Yanmar and all of a sudden it becomes a Zen Noh?

normde2001 · Sep 16, 2003

Interesting.....I fired off an email to Sanko Industries in Japan on the subject. Will see if I hear back from them.

EFC · Sep 16, 2003

Reed, he can have them all (Yanmars) as far as I'm concerned but don’t worry Japan is a slave to the $ and will sell you anything you want. The greatest part about this is that if JD or the like wants to get an injunction they only have to sue one company to make it happen not you or I. It is always cool to be the engine of the train but I would rather be in the Caboose when the bridge goes out….. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Just ask Gammut how it felt with Kubota, they are still rubbing lotion on that rash.

Whiskey · Sep 16, 2003

Kayssuply:

Huh?, what did I miss.....give me a little back ground on what you guy's are talking about????? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Whiskey

kayssupply · Sep 16, 2003

One of my importers just told me this weekend that he wouldn't be selling Yanmars any more because another importer down the road had bought the franchise from a guy named Wa;llace. He said that all Yanmars were going to be relabeled Zen Noh and he ( Wallace ) had a copywrite on the Zen Noh label in the US. That is all I have to go on.

rdam · Sep 16, 2003

Heyyyyy, Get yourrr Yanmars here.....get em while they're hot...get em while they're Yanmars !!!!!!!!

EFC · Sep 17, 2003

Reed, dont worry you can still buy Yanmars..

SydKen · Sep 18, 2003

The way I understand it is Zen-Noh is a farming Co-Op in Japan that buys up equipment renames it for themselves and then resells them. You may have Yanmar, Kubota, Iseki etc.. tractors all with the Zen-Noh sticker on them. If you watch ebay you will occasionally see a Kubota with the Zen-Noh name roll through. I don't see how having the copywrite on the name of a company oversees will benefit him here in the states. These tractors are not re labled when they get here, they come over that way.

The whole thing doesn't make sense to me. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

pruntyc · Sep 18, 2003

I saw a YM 1500 with a couple of other Ym 1500s and a 1700 and a 2000, on a small lot beside the road on a back road in AR. the other day. Only one of them had Zen-Noh on it, it was one of the 1500's. I asked him where he got them and he said he and two or three others were buying them from a importer in MO. didn't say who that was. That is the first one of the Zen-Noh that I have seen.

fivestring · Sep 19, 2003

I saw one at Corriher's back in May. It was painted Yanmar red. It had Zen Noh on the side. To me, it looked like a Yanmar, so I asked about it. Ted told me it was a Yanmar with a Zen Noh decal on it. The price was the same as a Yanmar.