YM135 Info

normde2001 · Sep 28, 2006

The YM135 is a rare tractor and hardly any dealers will handle them that small, thus, not much info.

roxynoodle · Sep 28, 2006

Well, I wouldn't hesitate to ask questions. It is good there is a place to go to ask them. I have asked tons of them, concering my tractor, implements, operating safely and effectively. And, as you learn, you will be able to pass on your experience to other new tractor owners. As far as whether you should buy a tractor, check your local rental rates. Around here a tractor with a loader is about $150 per day to rent; $200 with a backhoe. Will the work you need done come to more than what you want to spend on a tractor? If the answer is yes, you should buy one. For that matter I'd probably buy one even if it was less, but close. Of course, the convenience of having your own is helpful too. Especially if it keeps raining on the weekends like it has been doing here! I might want to work my tractor all day on Saturday, but if it is going to rain then, maybe I can divide that work to 3 weekday evenings instead. I wouldn't worry too much about justifying it; you are looking used. A good lawn mower costs over $2k. A tractor can do a heck of a lot more work.

Chuk · Sep 28, 2006

I bought my ym135 last june for $1200 with a belly mower from a local tractor dealer. It has no hour meter but looked well cared for and seemed to run well enough. I pulled off the mower and put on a (lightweight) six foot scraper blade. I have used the scraper to cut out a level parking area for 2 cars, about a 25'x30' excavation, a level area for a swingset simillarly sized but not as deep. I also cut in a driveway through existing sod 12'wide and 80' long, then spread the new shale and gravel. I used the same blade all winter long to push snow, and when spring came I put on a single bottom moldboard plow and pulled a 4' tine harrow to put in a garden. My brother borrowed the tractor then to plow a new 3 acre garden (that one is mostly corn for the local deer). Since the tractor seemed so much more usefull without the belly mower I got a used 5' three point finish mower just to cut my upper yard (2 acres) but I wouldn't reccomend that size mower to anyone else. It is too large for that size tractor. I've done all this with only the factory turf tires, I'd like to see what it would do with some ag tires.

BruceR · Sep 29, 2006

murphyce,
Don't worry about asking questions. PH digger is probably, out but there is a chance that a box blade would work to move your dirt around and maintain a gravel drive. Maybe Chuk could cut you a deal on that belly mower he isn't using anymore

Since an acre is only 208.71' square, you probably don't need anything a lot bigger.

Bruce

roxynoodle · Sep 29, 2006

Last I checked an acre was 43,560 sq. ft. Not trying to be a smart aleck but that is a significant difference.

normde2001 · Sep 29, 2006

roxynoodle said:
Last I checked an acre was 43,560 sq. ft. Not trying to be a smart aleck but that is a significant difference.

Nope, that is almost exactly 208.71' square.

roxynoodle · Sep 29, 2006

Ok, are we saying a square lot where each side is 208.71'? If so, then yes, 208.71 squared equals 43,560 sq. ft. It sounded like he meant 208.71 sq. ft. was an acre, I guess I misunderstood. I was thinking, gee, that's smaller than my kitchen. And I suppose everyone knows area is calculated as length x width (if it is a rectangle) and any area that comes to 43,560 sq. ft. is considered an acre even if it is not shaped like a square.

BruceR · Sep 30, 2006

roxynoodle said:
Ok, are we saying a square lot where each side is 208.71'? If so, then yes, 208.71 squared equals 43,560 sq. ft. It sounded like he meant 208.71 sq. ft. was an acre, I guess I misunderstood. I was thinking, gee, that's smaller than my kitchen. And I suppose everyone knows area is calculated as length x width (if it is a rectangle) and any area that comes to 43,560 sq. ft. is considered an acre even if it is not shaped like a square.

No problem Roxynoodle. Feet square is not the same as square feet. R.P.L.S. = Registered Professional Land Surveyor.

Bruce ( R.P.L.S. 5781 )

roxynoodle · Sep 30, 2006

Ok, that's interesting, I've never seen that conversion, so I guess I've just learned something. And, although ft square may been the side of a square in feet, there are people who use that instead of square feet. Sometimes you see ft-lbs and sometimes lbs-ft for torque. Gotcha though. When you survey an irregularly shaped lot, do you you use the area formulas and convert the square feet to acres? Just wondering, because many years ago when looking for a house, one I looked at had the weirdest lot. Part of it was a rectangle and the other part was a parallelogram attached to it at an angle, though the area came to about 3 acres.

tallyho8 · Sep 30, 2006

I hate to change the subject of this thread, but since you are talking about irregular shaped, sized lots, I wanted to mention this. The strangest ones are here in South Louisiana where the property was initially divided up by the French into arpents instead of acres. The French made lots very narrow and very long so that neighbors could live closer together like they were accustomed to doing in France and so it is not unusual for lots here to be only 100 feet wide and a mile or so long. My title says my lot is "approx. 1/2 arpent wide and 15 arpents long" with no other measurements. I have not been able to find out any specific measurements for an arpent, but when I measure my property, it is a parallelogram and it is about 105 feet wide and 3500 feet long. (plus I own a few acres next to it)