Comparison TYM and Cub Cadet SCUTs- how do they compare to big three?

[jeffgreef]

I'm researching what tractor to buy, and have noticed that occasionally a TYM or Cub Cadet SCUT comes into the used ads- always at a significantly lower price than comparably sized Kubotas, Deeres, NH, Mahindra etc.

TYM is South Korean I believe, and should be a well made unit, and CCs are made I think by Yanmar, like Deere. So, just wondering in general, are these brands lower quality than the bigger brands?

I have five acres, need to do a bunch of grading and clear 1/2 mile road of snow with a blade or thrower, and perhaps some minor excavating. In ten years I might only put 750 hours on it, so I wonder if I need the durability of a big three

Are TYM, CC and the like a cheaper, but reasonably well made alternative to the more expensive brands?

Thanks

 

[Grandad4]

There has been some sort of parting of the ways involving Cub Cadet and Yanmar. Yanmar is bringing out its own line of equipment. Don't know if CC is pulling out of the SCUT and CUT business or will stay on its own or with some other partner. Check out the Yanmar/CC forum here for more info. Yanmar is a quality company... excellent engines, previously sold good small tractors in the US.

 

[LAWALLSTRACTOR]

TYM doesn't have a SubCUT a T233 is a small CUT weighing near 2000 lbs. The SCUTS are 1500 lbs or less. The TYM is definately a bigger machine. Mahindra is coming out with a SCUT in January.

 

[magicheater]

TYM doesn't have a SubCUT a T233 is a small CUT weighing near 2000 lbs. The SCUTS are 1500 lbs or less. The TYM is definately a bigger machine. Mahindra is coming out with a SCUT in January.

Would you happen to have a little more detailed info or perhaps a link?

 

[bp fick]

Cub Cadet, as I understand it, a division of MTD, has simply been re-selling Yanmar. I do not know if Yanmar initiated the "break", but it would appear that it has. The Yanmar press release is all over the web. From now on, Yanmar will control their product here completely. (Given MTD's perceived reputation, this may explain anything associated with MTD having questionable re-sale value.) The tractor's now sport Yanmar stickers, although, for now, they are still black and yellow. There is a lot of chatter about Yanmar going back to it's red color scheme sometime in the future.

TYM has captured a tiny slice of the market here. Very tiny. That also doesn't equate to super high re-sale values. The name recognition of the brand by "the guy on the street" would be near nil, especially if you say Kubota or Deere) It simply isn't a a top tier brand by anyone's reckoning, which isn't, per se, a condemnation of the tractor, nor it's quality. Just is what it is.

 

[LAWALLSTRACTOR]

Would you happen to have a little more detailed info or perhaps a link?

No detailed imfo as yet. Mahindra will be releasing that arround the 1st of Febuary.

 

[pete-mi]

One thing about getting a regular compact rather than a subcompact is you wont find you have to small of tractor to do the job. I see more people wishing their tractor was a little bigger rather than a little smaller. My TYM T330 is a little larger than what you are looking at and I am glad I went on the bigger size so I dont over work the tractor. My TYM is almost the same as the Mahindra 3510 as TYM made it for them. The T233 you are looking at is the same as the Montana T2334 tractor. There are more TYM tractors around than most think because of making tractors for other brands. They have only been selling tractors themselves here a few years. It sounds like Yanmar may do the same and start selling tractors under their own brand again. You can often get just as good of a tractor for less money spent by buying a smaller brand tractor. Take each one for a test drive and then decide.

 

[Redneck in training]

We have TYM 330 about 500 hours on it. So far it didn't have single major issue. The check light comes on sometime. It checks all the interlocks before the tractor can be started. Aparently some loose wire somewhere.

 

[vabiker23518]

I purchased a T233 last year to keep my trails cut, food plots plowed and fertilizer spread on my 28 acres in Virginia. Put 50 hours on it this year; it's done everything I've needed done!

 

[MessickFarmEqu]

with the number of SUDTS that Deere and Kubota kickout, I have a hard time seeing how other vendors are going to offer meaningfully less expensive products since they don't have the sales volume. New Holland had a heck of a time with this before they killed the TZ-series.