Somebody here buy this!!

[bunick]

90 watchers but no takers yet.

Yanmar YM186D 4x4 Diesel Tractor | eBay

 

[jeff9366]

A great way to leverage your eBay auction.

GOOD LUCK!

 

[bunick]

A great way to leverage your eBay auction.

GOOD LUCK!

I don't own it. I'm looking to buy but can't find one near by and I don't want to spend a third of the price of the tractor for shipping. It sure looks small with no loader or some attachment on it.

 

[California]

It sure looks small with no loader or some attachment on it.

These are big enough to drag a 2600 lb watering trailer all over the place. After adding ballast.

(But I gotta admit, I wait until the tank is near empty to take it down in back on steep ground).

I am using mine in place of the bigger YM240 for nearly everything because its faster and more productive because it fits in tight spots - mowing (1) (2), harrowing, pulling a utility trailer, rototilling. It will (just barely) run the YM240/YM2000 rototiller. Overall I think this model is the best small tractor anywhere.

 

[bunick]

It looks like you got it weighted down. I would imagine if that weights 2600# you need to have some weight. Do you have the rears with fluid in them as well. I see the weights on the rear rims. I take it your watering trees or you trying to get those steel posts to grow?

 

[California]

Rears 70 lbs iron + 100 lbs water on each side. QuickHitch is another 65 lbs hanging off the back. Fronts water-filled too. 250 lbs in front of the front bumper. This feels about right.

Discing etc would need more iron weights on rear wheels for maximum pulling force, but I don't use this for anything that needs pure drawbar horsepower.

Yeah there's a little budding tree in each cage. But they're kinda hard to see after we shelter them from the deer.

 

[California]

Getting back to the Ebay 186D - That looks like a fair price.

But I wouldn't buy it without an in person examination. The tires reveal that this isn't the initial 580 hours. Also one of the zooms shows substantial rust under the seat. My second YM186D has lived near salty ocean air its whole life and doesn't have rust like that. 'Trust but verify'.

 

[bunick]

Yes I think the hour meter on the 186d has rolled at least once looking at the rear tires. Spent a fair amount of time outside looking at how weathered the steering wheel is and how rusty the PS lever is. I still thought it might go before now. I see someone got bored with watching it. It has dropped from 90 watchers to 89. California, I figured you were watering trees and trying to keep them from being eaten.

 

[winston1]

These are big enough to drag a 2600 lb watering trailer all over the place. After adding ballast.

(But I gotta admit, I wait until the tank is near empty to take it down in back on steep ground).

I am using mine in place of the bigger YM240 for nearly everything because its faster and more productive because it fits in tight spots - mowing (1) (2), harrowing, pulling a utility trailer, rototilling. It will (just barely) run the YM240/YM2000 rototiller. Overall I think this model is the best small tractor anywhere.

All the news about the drought and fires in California lately put me wondering if you are in that climate? Also wondering where you get your water to haul? Well? Lake? Do you have to water the trees year round? Just new trees? You see I know nothing.

 

[California]

All the news about the drought and fires in California lately put me wondering if you are in that climate? Also wondering where you get your water to haul? Well? Lake? Do you have to water the trees year round? Just new trees?

Hi! It's spooky warm, dry and sunny, highs around 70. It should be cold and drizzly all winter but there's no winter.

We are getting day after day of Mexico's weather with all-time records exceeded daily. Meanwhile Alaska-like weather dumps into the East and South.

Locally, rain since July 1 should be 16 inches by now working to 36 inches for the year. Instead its only 2.37 inches so far and the entire 2012-2013 season was only 8 inches. Water agencies all over California are looking at dry reservoirs. There's no snowpack in the Sierras for water later in the year. As you noted, scrub brush and forests are still dry like late summer so fire season continues.

I water new trees for 2-3 years to get them started. After that, deep rooting to get groundwater plus morning fog from the ocean (10 miles west) are enough for dry farming. I'm not sure if the little trees are dormant now as they should be, or stressed. Haven't seen fog for a long time.

My well - down 250 ft - is holding up fine so far.

Winston, how are things where you are?

 

[kenmac]

Hi! It's spooky warm, dry and sunny, highs around 70. It should be cold and drizzly all winter but there's no winter.

Send it my way. I'll be glad to swap my 20's and 30's High here now is 45* for your 70* temps

 

[deepNdirt]

Yeah! and I'll be glad to share some of this rain we're getting, every 3-4 days a flood, I thought about getting the raft out and rafting down the rapids in my front yard, but was afraid I might drown when I got to the lake in my back yard
I have a 275 gal. rain catch system at the barn, it fills it up in 30 minutes, I been draining it off after each rain,
The forecast shows a 5 day stretch of NO rain next week, woooopeee! maybe can get the tractor out, I haven't had it out in over a month,

 

[winston1]

"Winston, how are things where you are?"

2011 was one of the dryest years on record here. Lots of hardwood trees died and are still dying from that. Set the all time high in Tyler in 2011 at 108 degress. 2012 was an improvement. 2013 was a good year. Not sure just where we came in but I think pretty close to average rainfall which is 47 or so inches. This winter is a pretty normal East Texas winter. We had some lows down in the lower 20s with the artic blast that recently covered most of the US. Today we are enjoying sunny skys, mid 60s and lows down in the 30s and 40s. Several days of that predicted.