What did you do to your Yanmar today?

[Neat 1500]

46? You're still a pup! Try it is 20 years and see how it feels.

Ha, I'm 46 too and feel like a 96 YO ATM, back let go on me a few days ago. Won't be using the Yannie for a bit.

 

[MesaAZguy]

So here are the mirrors. They really help immensely.

 

[normde2001]

Gray market Yanmars originally had mirrors.

 

[California]

Ha, I'm 46 too and feel like a 96 YO ATM, back let go on me a few days ago. Won't be using the Yannie for a bit.

Bah kids. I'm the age of your parents.

I feel better now than I did at 50 when I was stuck in a desk job and didn't have the opportunity for enough outdoors time. Best thing I ever did was a few years later taking early retirement and resuming living a real life. I haven't regretted it.

As for back problems I've been through that couple of times. For me hanging my weight from crutches and stretching my spine was the most effective 'physical therapy' for compressed discs, it took a couple of months.

And I've learned for me picking fruit leaning off a ladder with a 30 lb harvest bag hanging off my neck is the worst avoidable activity. Plus of course lifting excessive weight when in an awkward position. Adjust your activities to avoid things like this and you can age gracefully.

 

[jimjumper]

You're only as old as you let yourself feel! Yesterday I located and greased all the fittings and replaced a couple that were missing. Then I actually used it for the first time to do some work on our rutted out dirt road, filling some holes and just generally playing with the FEL getting used to operating it. I would have done it on Friday but had to go skydiving, something I've done for over 30 years now. And if some people think I'm to old (57), I just have to tell them that 12 years ago I took my father on a tandem skydive! In the photo I am in the purple and white helmet just to the left of the "R" on the plane.
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[search4one]

This is the page I see showing two different ones, two different prices. Sort of confusing.
Yanmar Tractor Parts: Product Search

Well, it won't copy over but if you type in drive shaft in the search field, then scroll down they show two different ones.

Winston1,

Received a reply from Hoye. As I suspected, they are both the wrong size.

 

[California]

Well, yesterday I did an experiment. I tried installing the Yanmar backhoe that was sold along with YM240, onto the little YM186D. Another poster a few months ago has a YM186D with this model (?) hoe on it.

That didn't work. The YM186D can't lift it. The bypass squeals instead. Lifting the hoe with its own hydraulics got it up but then releasing that and letting it hang from the 3-point seemed like excessive strain that could blow up something in the tractor hydraulics. Pulling the 3-point control to 'Lift' squealed and let the hoe descend instead.

Driving over rough ground would cause even greater strain. I've seen photos of a Kubota with the back of its (aluminum) transmission ripped out from stress like this. I took the hoe off the YM186D and installed it on the YM240 where it belongs.

Today I'll go back to digging out the stumps of old, punky trees that collapsed last summer from a heavy apple crop and insufficient propping.

Here's a stump removal photo from a couple of years ago. I compact my excavations by driving across them but this one was deep and soft. I'm not hopelessly stuck, just 'momentarily inconvenienced' when I couldn't get the backhoe's feet high enough that they didn't high-center me and act as an anchor.

I had to push by un-curling the backhoe bucket and pull by curling the loader bucket to get moving. Took a few minutes to walk it out of there a foot at a time.

 

[search4one]

Well, yesterday I did an experiment. I tried installing the Yanmar backhoe that was sold along with YM240, onto the little YM186D. Another poster a few months ago has a YM186D with this model (?) hoe on it.

That didn't work. The YM186D can't lift it. The bypass squeals instead. Lifting the hoe with its own hydraulics got it up but then releasing that and letting it hang from the 3-point seemed like excessive strain that could blow up something in the tractor hydraulics. Pulling the 3-point control to 'Lift' squealed and let the hoe descend instead.

Driving over rough ground would cause even greater strain. I've seen photos of a Kubota with the back of its (aluminum) transmission ripped out from stress like this. I took the hoe off the YM186D and installed it on the YM240 where it belongs.

Today I'll go back to digging out the stumps of old, punky trees that collapsed last summer from a heavy apple crop and insufficient propping.

Here's a stump removal photo from a couple of years ago. I compact my excavations by driving across them but this one was deep and soft. I'm not hopelessly stuck, just 'momentarily inconvenienced' when I couldn't get the backhoe's feet high enough that they didn't high-center me and act as an anchor.

I had to push by un-curling the backhoe bucket and pull by curling the loader bucket to get moving. Took a few minutes to walk it out of there a foot at a time.

While speaking with Dave at Dave's Tractor in Red Bluff upon your suggestion, he told me they had bad luck with installing backhoes on the Yanmars they imported. He said it split the transmission on so many of them they quit offering them.

 

[California]

While speaking with Dave at Dave's Tractor in Red Bluff upon your suggestion, he told me they had bad luck with installing backhoes on the Yanmars they imported. He said it split the transmission on so many of them they quit offering them.

Yes, I've had that same conversation with Dave. He said driving around with so much weight pulling on the top link is a particular hazard.

So far I've been lucky ... 1) I try to use it in a way where all the stress is on the backhoe, mainly digging by curling the bucket then dragging loose dirt in to pick it up 2) I never use the hoe to move the tractor. I bent a 3-point arm dragging the tractor sideways, after I straightened it I haven't tried that again 3) this hoe was sold as a Yanmar OEM implement by their dealers back in the day specifically for YM240, and the same hoe was sold by Kubota dealers as OEM for their similar size tractors. I think its power is much less than a frame mount hoe, specifically designed to be underpowered to reduce stresses. Only the bucket curl is strong, the other motions are just adequate. For example I can't swing a full bucket uphill if I'm on a side slope, I have to re-level with the feet before I can dump the bucket on the uphill side. I assume that was an intentional design.

I've use this thing 9 years now without breaking anything. Wish me luck!

 

[search4one]

Yes, I've had that same conversation with Dave. He said driving around with so much weight pulling on the top link is a particular hazard.

So far I've been lucky ... 1) I try to use it in a way where all the stress is on the backhoe, mainly digging by curling the bucket then dragging loose dirt in to pick it up 2) I never use the hoe to move the tractor. I bent a 3-point arm dragging the tractor sideways, after I straightened it I haven't tried that again 3) this hoe was sold as a Yanmar OEM implement by their dealers back in the day specifically for YM240, and the same hoe was sold by Kubota dealers as OEM for their similar size tractors. I think its power is much less than a frame mount hoe, specifically designed to be underpowered to reduce stresses. Only the bucket curl is strong, the other motions are just adequate. For example I can't swing a full bucket uphill if I'm on a side slope, I have to re-level with the feet before I can dump the bucket on the uphill side. I assume that was an intentional design.

I've use this thing 9 years now without breaking anything. Wish me luck!

Good deal, hope we have the same conversation nine years from now.