Yanmar YM1100D

[Chuckarn]

I am looking at a Yanmar YM1100D I may buy. This will be my first real tractor. The tractor looks good but not to good, The guy has another larger Yanmar for sale also. The 1100 has a tiller included with it. He is asking $2950 for the tractor and tiller, does that seem like a good price and is there any known issues with a YM1100D? I can't wait to till my garden and I will be getting turf tires (Hoye) and a mower for some lawn care as well. Thank you. Chuckarn

 

[deerseeker001]

Welcome from Wisconsin

 

[mguitas]

:welcome:

 

[Chuckarn]

Thank You. I am going to look at the YM1100D today. I have to kick the tires and maybe do some horse trading or is that some horsepower trading.
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[Yandaddy1110]

Welcome to TBN

The YM1100 is a great tractor. Price seems about right with the factory green 2pt tiller. I paid 2K for my YM1110D with tiller, but had issue with the front axel. The small Yanmar aare known to get water in the front axel hubs and they corrode the bearings and other parts. So check that.

Maybe i can guide you with getting turfs on that tractor as I did.

Those tiny Yanmars make really nice garden tractors!!

 

[Chuckarn]

Thank You for the heads up. I am unloading my trailer and heading to look at it now. It may be a while for the tires, I have to recuperate from the purchase cost. My wife may be surprised I got one as she does not know and is out of State now. I am getting it for work as well that is why the turf tire want. I like the tires at Hoye but that cost is hard to swallow, they cost half what the tractor does with the wheels, I may get the wheels from Hoye and try to find the tires locally? Or I may just get spacers for my wheels? I will be getting a mower deck also but I will need to be able to mow tall grass and keep it narrow to through gates. :reading:

 

[Yandaddy1110]

Sounds good Chuckarn!
I checked out that tractor for sale on CL. Looks pretty good. The tiller is missing the rear guide wheels.

Also, ask the seller if a set of rear 3pt lift arms are included in the sale. You will need those eventually ($200).

I would offer him maybe $2200-2300 to get started. $2500 would be pretty fair. (2k for the tractor, $500 tiller)

Just to note, he has had it listed for a few weeks, and dropped the price once, as far as I can tell.

Tires shouldnt cost half the tractors value.

Good Luck!

 

[Chuckarn]

well it was a no go glad I didn't have to drive too far to look at it. The tractor seemed okay but it had some unusual white corrosion on it and I was thinking it might have come from my flooded area even know we are in Washington State and don't get too many floods up here generally he coulda bought it from out of state and had it delivered or picked it up. It also seem like it might be to clean. whereas the fenders look really good the hood was discolored and had a dent in it from somebody dropping something on it there was minor seal leakage on one if the front wheels and one of the back wheels. Lots of new nuts and bolts on the tiller with two of the tines missing. one brand new rear tire and the other rear tire was pretty low and had a very deep crack in it. The inside of the engine looked very clean and it seems to run good he had to give it a lot of throttle to start it so I don't know if that is normal he said it was normal. I start at $2,000 and he said he couldn't do that I asked him what he could do and he said $2950 in other words he didn't want to negotiate at all so I told him that I would pass which is very unlike me but I feel good for doing that. sorry for any typing errors or word errors I am using voice to text on my phone I have a wedding reception to go to now talk to you later thank you again. Chuck

 

[Chuckarn]

I will prevail, there is always another tractor out there and maybe this one was just not for me. I told him I would check back in 2 or 3 weeks and maybe reconsider, but apparently me showing up with my trailer he was under the opinion that I had to have his tractor. I had all the cash with me just in case it was just right for me. It had some white corrosion like you see on aluminum and it seemed to have quite a bit of rust in strange places. I also noted some teflon tape on a pipe going from the engine back to the transmission or PTO that had me wondering. The engine sounded good and looked very clean inside the oil fill spout. I just don't have money to spend on something that in my mind may need more attention than I want to give it to soon after purchase other than fluid and filter changes. I need to get a mower as well and if I spent my money on the tractor and then had several things that needed attention I may not be able to buy the mower this year. I have done almost all of my own repair work on my vehicles and riding lawn mowers so I was not worried about having to do some work.

 

[Yandaddy1110]

Maybe not in the shape you want. Easier to buy a tractor that fits your needs than a rig that needs a bunch of time and money to get it the way you want. The YM1100 is a really nice garden sized tractor though, kinda rare, hard to find.

Not to many tractors out there in that sub-compact size catagory. The YM135 is the US sold equivilent to the YM1100.

Kubota has the B6000, which also is a garden tractor sized, much more common. I recently bought one of those for a friend to mow his 3/4 acre lawn with.

Check back with the guy in a couples weeks like you said.