Towing a YM186D
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50 ft? No, just shift both shifters to neutral.
I'm glad you are ok.
Incidentally don't try to crank it over if there could be water in the cylinders. Or at least use the compression release until you are sure all the water is blown out.
I'm glad you are ok.
Incidentally don't try to crank it over if there could be water in the cylinders. Or at least use the compression release until you are sure all the water is blown out.
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Thanks all.
I have dried everything off the best I can. The only obvious damage was that the battery had fallen over. Gave it a quick charge and spun the engine over for a good while with the compression handle out.
No water in the fuel and the engine seemed amazingly dry when we flipped the hood open.
I'll get my local tractor repair man to give it a good look over.
As for how it got in there..............
I have dried everything off the best I can. The only obvious damage was that the battery had fallen over. Gave it a quick charge and spun the engine over for a good while with the compression handle out.
No water in the fuel and the engine seemed amazingly dry when we flipped the hood open.
I'll get my local tractor repair man to give it a good look over.
As for how it got in there..............
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There's not much to look over. Don't waste money on a mechanic unless you need the sheet metal pounded out.
Just replace all the fluids, that's all he would do.
Since these are designed for rice paddies, I'll bet a lot of them have been under water at some point. Why else would Yanmar include a compression release?
Just replace all the fluids, that's all he would do.
Since these are designed for rice paddies, I'll bet a lot of them have been under water at some point. Why else would Yanmar include a compression release?
Thanks all.
Gave the battery a good charge this morning, while that was going on I did all the fluids.
Sometime in the past it has had a handy gadget fitted between the fuel filter and the engine which can be used to bleed air out of the fuel line. Even with that it was took a long time to get it going. But when it did fire and keep running it was fine. Spat out drops of carbon black water but settled down and ran as sweet as a hard worked 20 year old diesel engine can be expected to run.
After seeing it upside down up nearly completely submerged I expected it to be a wreck, if not wrecked that it would need a lot of money to put right.
I am so pleased with this little machine, a lot of people here in the UK rave about the cheaper end of the Chinese tractor market, but I would rather have a 20 year old Yanmar to a shiny new Chinese tractor that will probably never get to 20 years old.
Only obvious damage seems to be to the 3 point linkage.
Gave the battery a good charge this morning, while that was going on I did all the fluids.
Sometime in the past it has had a handy gadget fitted between the fuel filter and the engine which can be used to bleed air out of the fuel line. Even with that it was took a long time to get it going. But when it did fire and keep running it was fine. Spat out drops of carbon black water but settled down and ran as sweet as a hard worked 20 year old diesel engine can be expected to run.
After seeing it upside down up nearly completely submerged I expected it to be a wreck, if not wrecked that it would need a lot of money to put right.
I am so pleased with this little machine, a lot of people here in the UK rave about the cheaper end of the Chinese tractor market, but I would rather have a 20 year old Yanmar to a shiny new Chinese tractor that will probably never get to 20 years old.
Only obvious damage seems to be to the 3 point linkage.
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The 3 point should be a quick easy fix... even if you replace everything.
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looks like it faired pretty well. But yet i wonder, how did it turn over in the water? the 3 point linkage will be an easy fix, either get a new one or bend it back with a hydraulic press or put in a vice and bend it back with a sledge hammer.
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Kernow, we're glad you're safe.
Now the question that everyone wants to know: How did you park your tractor upside down in the pond?
Now the question that everyone wants to know: How did you park your tractor upside down in the pond?
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Kernow, you're holding out on us. Why did you park your tractor upside down in the pond?
maybe fishing and the fish pulled to hard. :laughing::laughing:
Well its a long story.
I have a small piece of land across the lane from my house. It is just over 0.7 acre and is triangular with two long sides, one onto the lane, one onto rough land behind, this side has a drainage ditch.
The previous owner decided he wanted a pond so he had one dug, complete with an island in the middle. He wanted to keep ducks on it "for sport". As they kept flying off he had their wings clipped. Result was the first tiime the pond froze over a fox took out all his ducks. Anyway I digress.
Between the ditch and the pond is about 16 foot wide strip of solid ground, or so I thought. It had got badly overgrown so I took the Yanmar and flail mower over it a month ago to clear a way through. At points there were a few dips but nothing serious. I have even buzzed the quad around it a few times.
I have a load of dried up and crumbling softwood that had been collected for firewood but I burn only hard woods now. So I filled the loader bucket with them and also a load on a pallet picked up on a frame on the rear hitch which has long arms to pick up pallets with. I wanted to dump the lot around the back of the pond to disintegrate. Not a big weight but around the back of the pond the whole lot started tipping towards the edge of the pond. I dropped the loader to try to stop it going any further before getting off and that stopped it at about an angle of 30 degrees with the wheels on the pond side not on firm ground. Stopped the engine of course.
The local framer turned up with a big 4WD tractor but couldn't get it along the earth bank between pond and ditch as it was too risky to try. So we hooked together three truck type lash down straps and tried to pull it out. Of course the bucket dug in and it slowly flipped over into the pond with nothing we could do to stop it.
So it had to be dragged about 50 feet upside down, ploughing up stinky mud and pond flora as it went. Once we got it near the firmer ground we managed to pull it upright and drag it a few yards to where it sat covered with mud and aquatic plants.
Its all good now except for that bent linkage rod, which is an easy fix.
Its hard to describe just how much we seemed to be abusing it to get it to dry land. To see it running well again was a great sight. As you can see in the picture its not a show piece, its had a hard life and has a few little flaws.
This is my second YM186D, the first I had only used for a few months before selling it to fund this one as I needed a loader.
I am so impressed with the work both have done for me that I am buying another at the weekend !
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