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A friend of mine recently gave me a Yanmar YKT40 tiller that needed a new chain (was missing it entirely). Nonetheless I have a new chain waiting to go on it. Now fast forward a few days..

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I was on a jobsite and noticed this Kobashi tiller near where I was working. What’s interesting is it is identical to the Yanmar YKT series tiller.

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Now here’s my suspicion:
Y - Yanmar
K - Kobashi
T - Tiller

Kobashi still exists and sells tillers but it appears that their main focus is the Japanese market. My hope is that discovering this link could be valuable for parts resources or even if new isn’t available having another option for used parts.

My other hope is that this thread can be added to with info about the other US market tillers Yanmar sold but for now I’ll start it off with what I currently know.
 
   / The Yanmar US market tiller thread #2  
A friend of mine recently gave me a Yanmar YKT40 tiller that needed a new chain (was missing it entirely). Nonetheless I have a new chain waiting to go on it. Now fast forward a few days..

View attachment 2905562

I was on a jobsite and noticed this Kobashi tiller near where I was working. What’s interesting is it is identical to the Yanmar YKT series tiller.

View attachment 2905555

Now here’s my suspicion:
Y - Yanmar
K - Kobashi
T - Tiller

Kobashi still exists and sells tillers but it appears that their main focus is the Japanese market. My hope is that discovering this link could be valuable for parts resources or even if new isn’t available having another option for used parts.

My other hope is that this thread can be added to with info about the other US market tillers Yanmar sold but for now I’ll start it off with what I currently know.
The YTOG holds the largest collection of Yanmar rotary tillers. Many are just rebranded and painted Yanmar Tree Frog Green, Apple Red or Yanmar semi-gloss black.

You will find Mitsubishi, Kubota, Satoh, Iseki, Hinomoto and others being the same tiller coming out of Japan.

Now, the YKT series is only manufactured at Yanmar in Turkey. Yanmar calls the place, Turkaysan


 
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