Bored here, with the lockdown. I expanded your photo and guess what I found. The decal above the front tire is TractorMasters!
In 1973 I got the parts I needed to renovate my badly neglected YM240 from them. Headlight assemblies, a
fuel filter assembly (that wasn't quite right until I got the proper element and bowl),
dash warning lights, the J-vent under the seat for the transmission, and front wheels because the prior owner of my YM240 had
cracked and welded the originals.
TractorMasters was the VN refurb wholesaler, unrelated to Vina etc, who as I described in posts long ago went out of business after honorably taking back too many warranty returns. They had dealers in NorCal, SoCal, and Nevada, apparently in Arizona too.
They had a row of pristine-looking Yanmars (and Iseki etc) to strip parts off of that had failed catastrophically while still under warranty. After a while Lee the manager was away over in VN trying to get the refurb plant to send over better quality. Vannessa his gorgeous sister was doing a great job running the place and another brother was the mechanic. I'm pretty sure all were members of the family that owned the refurb factory in VN.
I also bought my mower and box blade there. Vannessa could have sold snow to the Eskimos. She almost had me talked into being a dealer of the refurbs until I came to my senses. She said they were moving an average 200 refurbs per month.
In 2007 when it appeared they were struggling, I paid $200 for the model of tiller that arrived with all their YM2000's (twin to my YM240). (
photo of their tillers).
Then the last time I was in there, disaster. A container on a trailer backed up to their dock with a load of new refurbs that they hadn't unloaded yet had been stolen over the weekend. That must have been a mortal blow. Next time I went there the property was vacant. This would have been about 2008.
Your tractor looks immaculate. With that decal intact, it must have seen little use over the past 15 years.
Oh and what I started out to reply to:
Here's a 2004 thread where I posted photos of the subframe under the Great Bend loader on my YM240 (YM2000). It's similar to yours, a little beefier. Vannessa had said their VN factory had bought automated plasma cutters and welders to fabricate loaders, but so far they had only sent over a couple of prototypes. They had put Koyker loaders on everything until then. Possibly your loader came from TractorMasters and they used US-made joystick controllers.
