ORDERED YANMAR TODAY!!!

[piddling]

This rhetoric reminds me of the garden tractor web site I got interested in after I purchased a new lawnmower 3 years ago.

My mistake there was buying a Craftsman mower when any idiot knows only a John Deere can be seen in your yard without making the neighbors laugh at your poor judgment. The ridicule I've endured on that web site for purchasing a Sears product is monumental.

Same thing on this board. I'm so ashamed of my newly-purchased Vietnam Yanmar that I keep it down in the cattle loafing shed, out of sight. Only mow at night when passers-by can't tell what it is.

I think I'll trade it for a Ford 8N (probably have to pay some boot) but I'll get an American product that a foreigner has never touched. One that has never been double stacked in a shipping container, one that has been properly maintained (absolutely no "hand-made" parts) by an American farmer who religiously followed the maintenance schedule. No baling wire repairs for me! Oh, yeah - absolutely no new paint! That's a sure tip-off that somebody has used the paint as a smokescreen to cover up major defects. My "new" Ford will need to be beat all to **** and rusty. That way I'll know for sure that the hoses, generator, water pump, engine, transmission and bearings are all good - and I can start mowing again in daylight. Weather- beaten farmers driving by will nod to themselves in approval as they observe the wheezing old war horse in action. I will once again be able to hold my head up in public. Babies will cease to cry when I approach and the banker will greet me by my first name.

Right now I've got to go. The Craftsman is about to get its first new part - a mower deck belt. Had a feeling I shouldn't have bought that thing.

Shoot, without all the informed and considered information available on the internet I’d probably still be mowing in daylight with the Yanmar and the Craftsman, much to the hilarious delight of my wise old neighbors - both digital and geographic.

 

[BruceR]

Oh come on now. We're all famiily here. No need to hide your Yannie, Pid. Park it out front and make those folks with orange tractors green with envy

I would never kick dirt on anyone owning a recon. What makes me see red, pardon the pun, is some slick website or a salesman pushing them as being "factory reconditioned" and having every moving part replaced.---- Speaking in general here, no names mentioned, no fingers pointed, polically correct.

Mine is a second cousin to recon's -- I bought from a "roadside vendor".
This place cracks me up sometimes. Reminds me of all those heated Ford _vs_ Chevy debates I suffered through at family gatherings as a kid. Made me decide to drive a Dodge.

Bruce

 

[Eddie]

I don't hide mine. I'm very proud to show my neighbor I have a tractor equivalent to his JD at a fraction the price. When they are running side by side the engines sound just alike. Wonder why???

 

[Travis_R]

I don't hide my Yanmar either.......Its too tuff to hide!.........It don't matter to me anymore what people says about recons...........I am happy with mine and thats all that matters...............But like people say, "there's a smart a*s in every crowd!"

 

[Eddie]

"there's a smart a*s in every crowd!"

Now that was uncalled for

 

[ChuckT]

Now that was uncalled for

Maybe, maybe not.

There's a good reason to ignore the venom that some posts contain - perhaps those writers just can't appreciate the image that their prose evokes.

But a good raspberry is worth something too.

cvt

 

[Travis_R]

Eddie,

I wasn't refering to you........... please go back and read.

 

[Tractors4u]

Shoot, without all the informed and considered information available on the internet I’d probably still be mowing in daylight with the Yanmar and the Craftsman, much to the hilarious delight of my wise old neighbors - both digital and geographic.

The pro recon folks are just as bad as they think the anti recon are. This topic had died down, yes it had died down and then Travis_R felt the need to inform us that his tractor was still running. No one felt the need to bash his running Vietnamese reconditioned tractor but Piddling felt the need to jump in and stir things up a bit. Mr Piddling has a viet recon and obviously he feels as though his toes have been stepped on. To Travis_R and Piddling, don't take things so personal. I have seen this bitterness in the Chinese, Kioti, Deere, Mahindra, Kubota forum too. Somebody buys something, somebody makes a comment about it and then feelings are hurt. Here is the part that makes this different. Travis_R came to this forum and asked about Yanmars. He was warned about recons and bought one anyway. Then he had problems. He still will not acknowledge that maybe recons are not all they are cracked up to be. He seems to thrive on attention. In the last three weeks he has flip flopped between selling his Yanmar, not selling it and his Mahindra, to buying a bigger Yanmar or Chinese tractor. Mr. Piddling, well I don't know what his issue is other than this conspiracy theory he has about viet recon bashers being on the payroll of some non recon dealer.

 

[California]

Brent, this follows your post by chance but it isn't intended for you.

I come here for information but recently it seems that this forum, and a couple others, read more like soap opera. Much drama surrounding a vacuum of information.

I finally am trying out the twit filter provided in this new TBN software. (user profile/ignore user). Hopefully TBN will at least appear more calm and reasonable. I don't think I'll miss anything valuable.

 

[piddling]

I got into this thread because I was saddened when a new owner proudly announces his purchase and is promptly hit with "I told you so" posts.

I felt even worse for the company that sold the tractor and was held up to such public scrutiny as they attempted to deal with this "major" problem, all the while no doubt worrying about their perceived public image and how it will be affected by (what?) - a plugged radiator that proved tough to pin down. This is one sale I'll bet they wish they had missed as every future hiccup that YM2000 makes will be reported here and the finger pointing will be aimed at them - rightly or wrongly.

I think it would be only fair, but not especially conclusive, if someone who recently purchased (or plans to purchase) an American recon YM2000 from an unsuspecting dealer do the same - report every detail from friendliness of the sales staff to how well the tractor holds up and the manner in which any problems were resolved. Will the Vietnam tractor shuck its transmission before the carefully checked out American recon? Whose hydraulics will play out first? Has your radiator still got rice paddy water in it or have you discovered your connecting rods are pieced together with welds?

Maybe then we could all get a feel for something other than cartridges as we participate in this circular firing squad.

Piddling
pot metal member