Yanmar Hay Fever

[EddieWalker]

I enjoyed your pictures. It's fun to see what you are doing with your Yanmar. How much HP does it have? Or I should say, how much HP does each one you posted have? Are you able to get enough hay baled to feed livestock? What are you raising? If not, what are you doing with the hay? I've never seen small bales that small. Are they bigger than square bales?

 

[5030]

Most any diminutive tractor can operate a square bailer (not baller) as they aren't power intensive, the flywheel provides the inertia to produce bales. Efficient, no way. Only on flat ground as well. Those rounds in the pictures certainly weren't rolled with any of the tractors in the pictures, simply because they all lack the power to pull or run a round bailer, except the mini round bailer in the one picture that makes tiny round bales.

Nice pictures, mostly pie in the sky, however.

 

[CH4Ohio]

Even the smaller Yanmar Deere machines can play,

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That looks like a real good way to end up with a baler on top of your overturned jack-knifed tractor. That baler has to bang the heck out of the tractor and driver with every stroke of the plunger. Seems like this would NOT be recommended . . .

 

[California]

It's fun to see what you are doing with your Yanmar. How much HP does it have? Or I should say, how much HP does each one you posted have?

On the gray market Yanmars shown here, the model # starts with the PTO horsepower.

YM1700 = 17 PTO hp etc. The YM1510 shown is the Japan-market version of my YM186D. (D=4x4).

The same Yanmars built for the US market with slight changes to meet US specs, turn signals etc, have a model # representing the engine hp. Japan-market YM1700 is US YM195. Same tractor, except with a waterpump instead of thermosiphon, and an over-run clutch in the PTO - to better match what the US customer expects.

My YM240 is the export version of YM2000. 24 engine hp, 20 hp measured at the PTO.

The local John Deere dealer sold YM240s in the 1970s. I like to think this specific model was what persuaded Deere to contract with Yanmar instead of trying to design their own smaller tractors, back then.

 

[careyo63]

1977 YM2000 all Org. From A Fredricks supplied dealer. My Frontier 5' FM is all it can handle. I had to add front bumper weight to keep the wheels on the ground. Moving I could ride some good wheelies. On purpose ...

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[5030]

That looks like a real good way to end up with a baler on top of your overturned jack-knifed tractor. That baler has to bang the heck out of the tractor and driver with every stroke of the plunger. Seems like this would NOT be recommended . . .

Exactly. Before I sold my New Holland 575 High Capacity square bailer and went all rounds, the 575 behind my M9000 Kubota, when making a headland turn to begin a new row, the bailer would throw me and the tractor around violently unless I cut down the pto speed and the M9 weighs probably 3 times as much as that Yanmar in the picture.

Sure you can run a square bailer with not a bunch of pto horsepower but controlling it is another story, especially on not level terrain. You'll never run a round bailer with any of the tractors pictured simply because the power requirements of any round bailer (except the toy one in the one picture), far exceeds the pto output of any of them. Example, my Kubota BV sileage special requires a minimum of 65 horses pto input to run efficiently and roll a full sized bale. Not enough Cajonies.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Impressive collection of tractors. I'm sure you just wanted to share, not get criticized...

 

[CH4Ohio]

Impressive collection of tractors. I'm sure you just wanted to share, not get criticized...

Point taken . . . Didn't really mean to criticize . . . Just wanted to add a "disclaimer" so that newbies thinking about baling hay with their lawn mowers would think twice . . . Easy to hook up something that looks ok but can get you hurt real quick . . .

 

[careyo63]

My Ford 63 2000 had a hay fork on the bucket. PO. still had it bolted down. He stated he would like to keep it. I think he attached it to a JD.. I spot weld the holes in since I would never would use them. When the clutch stuck engaged he listed it on CL. Hey it's a tractor I believe the add said. Well worth the split!

 

[tacticalturnip]

Even the smaller Yanmar Deere machines can play,

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Have you ever watching this video of Tim haying with a 1025R? It's crazy, very cool to see it work, though it pushed the little Deere around a fair bit.