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Are there any good LED replacements for the CH15208 bulb, I have a YM-186 and need to refesh the bulbs. Would like to go LED. Either new bulbs or good fit housings. Gary

Will an M60 yanmar belly mower fit ym186 tractor without much refab work? (Apparently the M60 was a popular ym240 mower deck).

I have a JD GT-225 and the bolt that holds the electric clutch to the engine pto shaft came out. The clutch fell off the shaft. The repair kit has 3 parts, bolt, domed washer and a new keyway... How the heck do I get the clutch apart to replace the keyway. Anyone have a repair manual drawings...

I have a ymm-45 mid mount mower and need a new pulley for the right side blade. I think they call it a sheave hub. I have part number 7053994. Anyone have a source for original parts or suitable replacement? Gary

Does anyone know where I can get a set of blades for a Yanmar YMM-45 mower? Mine are showing there are and I dont think will last another season of sharpening. Gary

Been a bit slow getting the tractor out, but today had some time to get some of the basic done. Checking fluids and greasing zerts. Still needs a good bath but will be ready for grass soon.

I am looking for a small "hunk" of insulative platic. I need a block 6" x 18" x 1" could go a little smaller but not much. Everyplace I have looked wants me to buy large sheets at VERY high prices. Gary

I am looking for a front gril for a YM 165. The white lower grill insert. Any one have one in any shape?

No, not your little compact that could be carted off by anyone but a BIG John Deere 9220 and a John Deere 7920. tractor. http://www.nbc4i.com/news/7878709/detail.html

I have an old wincharger windmil. Its part of an old farm radio setup. The motor was orginally wired for 6v but no longer generates ANY voltage. Does anyone know of a company that can rewire the motor? Preferable to 12v?

I am looking for a general purpose compressor. Would like to be able to use air nailers, inflate tires, light implement painting, air grinding. Lowes has a Kobalt 1.5 Running HP, 30 Gallon, Digital Air Compressor. Specs are 4.0 @ 90 PSI, 6.0 @ 40 PSI0/155 maximum PSI Looks like lots of...

What size 3pt blade would work best on a YM165? 4ft or 5ft? Main use is snow removal (1-3"). I have chains but not sure of bloade size. I got a snow blower with my tractor but with the small amount of snow and a gravel driveway, I throw more stone than snow.

My son took this picture today, Anyone ID the bird? Some sort of bird of prey, hawk or falcon.

Has anyone used this harbor freight generator head http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=45416 or ther northern head? http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=6970&productId=21008&R=21008 The northern head says for horizontal...

Has any tried to install a JD 650 snow blade on a Yanmar ym165? The blade is similar to this one snow blade. Anyone else come up with a snow blade option for the 165?

My family and I went up the the football hall of fame this weekend. On the way back we took the scenic amish country route back. Here are a few photo's along the way. Amish country, Homes county NE Ohio. No trip through amish country is complete without a stop at Lehman's hardware store. This...

Was up and running around NE ohio up in amish country and came across Ranch King farm store. In the spring this store was a TSC but has since changed. Here is a photo of a nice looking tractor.

I finally got some seat time in my YM165. I picked up the tactor a few weeks go. Was off this week so had some time to play and do some mowing. So far things look pretty good. I did have to replace the long front belt on the mower. Between and old belt and an unseen tree branch I broke the...

You can find a some good stuff in the backyard.

My DS was playing with my digital camera again.

I am now have a yanmar back in my stable. I had sold my 1810 back in the spring and had been looking for a smaller tractor for more mowing work than field work. I had a tractor at a local dealer lined up. Friday it was available, sold my yanmar on saturday morning and I took off to the dealer...

I end up selling my YM1810 tractor back in the spring. It wasnt meeting my needs. I needed to consolidate down to something that had a belly mower and the ability to support 3pt items from time to time. I found a ym165, Looks to be in good shape has a 4ft belly (a little smaller than I was...

Tim allen would be proud. http://www.v8snowblowers.com/index.html

My neighbor and his son stopped by and offered to help with some field mowing. My back pasture was getting a bit out of hand.

Anyone have any commets on yanmar GT14? I know its was made for the US market, Are parts still availalbe for it? Whats a fair value for one in good condition at 595 hours? Thanks. gary

What is the differance between a JD 650 and JD 655? gary

IS an L2000 a US or greymarket kubota? Anyone have any comments on one?

Well, Yesterday my trusty yanmar was sold. Was a nice tractor but a bit bigger and didnt do the mowing i had. Now the orange question. I have been looking at a couple of B1750's, One is an E the other is a DT (what is DT vs E). Both have around 500 hours on them. Both have a 60" mower and turf...

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Anyone know of a source of small 4-8hp diesel engines? Little pull starts are fine. Even a cost effective chineese diesel would be nice. Someplace that doesnt require me to by a cargo ship full to get a usable price.

Flood warnings this morning, temps 70deg, Raining with thunder and lightning, high wind warning 45mph gust, more rain, Temps dropping fast , Freeze warnings, temps going to 22deg. Welcome to Ohio weather.

Here is a follow up to my White Christmas post . Then it was 20+ inches of snow. -5 deg temps. 1 week later, high 50's, snow is almost gone. Now we have to deal with all the water and flooding from the snow melt off.

Woke up this morning to a white yard. 6-10 inches comming today another 6 inches tomorrow. Temp dropping from 50 yesterday to 30's today to 12 on friday and -5 on Christmas day.

My girls are finally starting to produce.

I have a old carriage barn on my property.(see attached pix) Its 20ft deep and about 30ft wide and has a second story hay loft. Its most likley a 1920's vintage (maybe earlier) building. Its post and beam constructions. Full spanning timbers, No structural support inside. The barn is still in...

This appears in the Marion News (ohio). A Marion man was killed in what police are ruling an accident when he fell from a tractor pulling a “bush-hog” type lawn mower. The man died from injuries he received when the mower ran over him. According to the Marion City Police...

You have to ship it across the pond but ebay has a "YEAR 2003 CLASS EARTHMOVING MAKE YANMAR CATEGORY Tractor Loaders MODEL ym2000" forsale. 2003/ym2000 Oh. There is that zero feed back issue, but that should be an issue should it? I mean he only been on ebay since Jun 6th, how can...

We have had a lot of rain this spring. Had a big "gully washer" this morning. Went to check on the animals and noticed a new guest in the barn. there was about 10 little frogs swimming around the barn. I suspect they were washed out of there home by the overflowing pasture next door.

Not sure where to put this post, but guess the customize guys are painting the most, so here goes. Is there any paint sprayers that will worth with a small 2 gallon pancake compressesor? I am looking for something to paint small projects, implement touch ups, etc. Dont need show car finsihes...

Had a bit of rain this afternoon. Not sure if I should plant corn or carp.

I told the wife I was going to pickup a box of chicken on the way home from work. I dont think this is what she had in mind.

How do I recreate this ceiling texture in the patched area shown in the photo? Not even sure what the ceiling type is called, Its a "spike" dropped texture.

Nice pix of a Amish farm.

finally found a spot to squeeze in. lehmans is a great place to visit for all your non electric needs.

I stopped by the hardware store but had a heck of a time finding a place to park.

I saw this on a trip today through Ohio amish country. I had to stop and get another look. Man those amish make some fast cows.

I was flipping through channels and end up on RFDTV. They were showing a tractor doing "Deep ripping" of a field. It look like a middle buster but went 4-5ft deep into the soil. Why would you "deep rip"?

I have been going through my Agri Supply catalog and see a number disc harrow blades. What do the different shapes of the blades do? Notched, smooth, raised, cone, flat,etc?

Does anyone know of a PTO pump that will lift a head? I only need 10-10ft of head. I would like to rig up a system where I could pull up to a cistern,shallow well or pond and pump water into a tank. Then switch the pump over to pump the water out into the garden, animal tanks, etc. I havent...

I want to re-power my ym1802. Will this yanmar engine fit? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50441&item=2457395545

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After a long day of working. A photo of my fleet and my crew.

Oh boy what a fun time me and my son had at the county fair tonight. Skys were a little threating when we left but figured we could get there gets a few rides in for the DS and some fair food for me. Got tto he fair and clouds were darkening, but we parked and started walking to the rides. Get...

I picked up a Kubota T1700 at a local consignment sale. Looks pretty good, runs good and price was nice. I did however have a couple of questions. Anyone have a t1700? I am trying to figure out if the blades are suppose to be 180-deg out of phase or inphase when you mow. SHould the blads be at...

Finally got an EGG out of my chicks... Not very big but has been a lot of fun working with my Son and the checks.

I have a 20hp v twin B&S engine on my tractor. Tractor was running fine then all of sudden it got very noisy and VERY fast. Probably came close to doubling my speed and trippled the noise the tractor made. I shut it off quickly and couldnt find anything wrong. I though I might have poked a hole...

I went to the Chuck Homier tent sale last night. Homier is similar to Harbor freight or Norhtern tools. They have a lot of the lower cost chineese imports. In the past, the show had mainly tools, but they are now mixing tools and other items including furniture. Didnt find any tools, but did...

I am looking at building a small 8x8 shed and wanted to use Gambrel Roof design. Anyone have or know how I go about calculating the angles of the roof truss cuts. Never been good with angles other than 45 and 90.

Well its april in ohio and its suppose to be 83deg today. What would you do? Spend the day in a stuffy office or outside? Here is what I did.

Well Spring is here and I am again trying to get my tiller back on. I know why every yanmar is sold with one, because no one is crazy enough to take it off.... I have a YM1810 and a 1300 tiller, I have to fight with that for hours and hours to try to get it lined up. The pto shaft has to be put...

It had just started snowing when we went to bed christmas eve. Christmas day we awoke to a white blanket covering the ground.

lofty ideas Well, After 2 years of dealing with alls sorts of animals living under my hay bales I finally decided to put a stop to it this year. My stable consist of 2 stalls and a tack area. I only have a couple of llama's I dont use the tack area and store my hay there. Bunnies, racoons...

I saw this at the top of the stairs when I past by. I had to snap a photo.

Kid say he wants a new pet, Not sure if this is the best pet for a 7 year old. Also not sure about upkeep, seems it would be a bit of a mess to keep clean. Any comments?

Found these in a high brush nest while walking my field.

Ohio's Farm science review is comming in Sept. Anyone in the Ohio valley comming? http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ofsr/

I want to add a small hay loft over a tack area in my stables. Entire tack area is 12 x 8, but usable loft area due to slope of roof is about 8x8ft. What size lumber for the joist do I need to span 8ft? Will 2x6 joist be enough? How about 2x8. Keep in mind I am looking at maybe 20 bales of hay...

After hitching up the garden wagon to the lawn tractor and tossing in a bunch of yard tools then driving all the way back to the barn only to find that 2 of the tools fell out, I figured there has to be a better way. I saw a similar metal device on another garden wagon. anyway, A few minutes...

Saw this on ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1744526882 What is a ke3d tractor? Looks like a F series

Here is a pix from the drivers seat of my YM1810.

almost done, t1-11 sides, roof almost complete. A little paint and some final trim and will be done.

Wife wanted a dog shelter built for two dogs. Looking around I figured I could do it in scrap supplies. Here are some photo's of the project.

226 ROPS photo\'s I am looking for photo's of a Yanmar 226 with a ROPS on it. I am looking specificily on how the ROPS attaches to the frame/axle. Anyone have one that can get some digital photos? GAry

Ok, so now I have a water return and a fuel line to replace. I have the hose, but what do I do to secure the hose. Both the fuel and water hose have spring clamps on them. My boating background says to use hose clamps. In fact on the boat, use double clamps on anything carrying water or fuel...

My tractor was out of commision a week or so due to a fuel filter assumbly leak. It set in the stables. Apparently a bird decided it was fair game for a nesting spot. They ended up building a straw and llama hair nest... Right next to the radiator return line. How did I find this out... Well the...

Ok, I finally got around to pulling my fuel filter. It started leaking all of a sudden and I need to fix it. Now the filter makes sense, but what is the top "hole' and hose for? The attached filter shows an inlet on the right, outlet on the left. The lower hole is used to attach the filter to...

The engine on my Yanmar 1810 is a 3t75h I assume 3 is 3 cyl, is T for tractor? what is 75h for ? also whats the differance between a 3t75h and 3t75ha?

Was a nice morning so I went out to bush hog the field before taking my son to Baseball practice. When I came back to the barn my wife noticed something leaking out. Pretty fast I might add. Turns out to be diesel fuel. I thougt the fuel filter bowl had loosened some, Not that. It turns out it...

I am looking for a draw bar for my YM1810. Its a round tube draw bar with a split square end. The one I have now has a ball mount on it. I would like to have a second one for connecting hay wagon upto. Anyone have one forsale?

Here is a photo of this weekends project. Re-face a stable door. Both doors need done, but only one at a time. The door is 14x10ft and was covered with T-1/11. It was a BIG heavy monster to move. I had a heck of a time trying to keep the roller rails from comming down. In addition to adding...

One of the things that bugged me last year was setting up my YM1810 to pull my 4ft bush hog (wallace brand). It work ok, but I never seem to be able to raise the mower off the ground. I see other tractor with entire bush hogs off the ground. Raising mine as far as I can without hit the tires...

I have a sears lawn sweeper. Its great for this time of year to take care of the fast growing grass clippings. At least it was until one of the wheels locked up. How the heck do you get the wheel off? There is some gearing behind the wheel I assume is busted but I cant even find the way to get...

Has any one purchased one of these running gears from northern tools? How is it holding up? http://www.northerntool.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=47661&prmenbr=6970 I am looking a making up a little wagon for various task and this looks like a possible choice. Its about 4ft...

I though folks were going to move over here and then close down the yanmar group on yahoo groups. Both the yanmar yahoo group and the yanmar yahoo club (now a group) are still going with post. How about we all pick one spot to communicate?

I have some fence work to do. First my wife wants a running area for our dogs. Then I need to fix some fence around our Llama pasture. When putting field fence up using t-post. Does the fence go on the inside of the t-post or the outside. My old pasture fence has a mix of both and I see other...

I made it ove here... Gary YM1810, qt1846 loader....

I have a 24x36 pole barn. Its setup with 2 stables and tac room on one half. The other half is empty and provides a drive through with 2 large 12x12 doors on each end. The doors are made 2x6/2x4 wood frame then covered with T1-11. This makes for a very very heavy door. It hard to open. Is...

Another one through the leaf less trees.

My digital camera doesnt have the greatest low light capabilities but I got a couple of interesting photos last night.

How about the ability to create custom fourms list. Show only the fourms that I want to look at. If never go into the case fourm, why show it on my list of fourms.

Its cold. Temps in the teens, negative chill factors, just a light slow dusting, but cold. A bit of wind and did I mention, Its cold!

Neighbor dropping off my winter load of hay for the Llama's. Gary.

Anyone have any experience with Klene Pipe Structures frames? http://www.klenepipe.com/ . I saw one at the local co-op and they look interesting. Basic a welded frame that you can attach whatever siding materials you want to. Even after sided they are portable and have metal skids to move the...

Here is picture of my 3 boys out near the stable. Gary.

While It not a board popular orange or green machine, it does serve me well on my plot of land. Its a Yanmar YM1801, Bushhog qt1846 FEL, Wallace 4ft bush hog. Gary Gary.

Northern tools has a 2000lb Utility Wagon in their catalog. http://www.northerntool.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=47661&prmenbr=6970 Its about the right size and height for a general purpose junk hauler. Price isnt too bad if I can get them to honor the free shipping coupon I...

Can anyone recomend a cad/cam program or better yet a building designer. Wife wants a carport hung off the front storage barn. I know the design I want and layout but county engineers wants a cad drawing of the project. 3D would be nice but can live with 2d. Hey, I am Gary

Will the PTO driven pumps (hypro and others) pump a head of 20 or so feet? I was looking a making a water buffalo for my garden and would like to drive the pump from the tractor. I have a few old shallow wells and cisterns that would be a nice water source if I can pump it out. Gary (N8EMR)...

Here is a picture of my Yanmar 1810 after a few hours in the field. Its has a bush hog qt1846 loader and wallace 4ft bush hog. Gary (N8EMR) gws@redbird.net

I purchased a 4ft wallace rotary mower at TSC over the weekend. I have a couple small pastures that are getting out of hand and I need to mow them back. I got the mower 3pt section togeather then it came to couple the drive shaft to the transmission. This is suppose to be a slip on shaft with a...