Yanmar Hay Fever

[5030]

Well we can't all grow hay.

fair statement. You could always harvest your lawn if you let it grow tall enough...lol

 

[careyo63]

I could do that. My Profile is my front yard 4 acres. The YM2000 has been my lawn mower since 2008. Around 8 acres in the back. I'm working clearing it. Last couple days it's been the Weed eater with a Brush Attachment. Brutal! I've learned how to take my beating with it! Twice a Yr..

 

[California]

fair statement. You could always harvest your lawn if you let it grow tall enough...lol

In an orchard? Nah.

Lots of grass. But an orchard has pruning debris that would make baled hay a disaster for livestock to eat.

Photo 2009. The processor halted taking apples. Sales had dropped and their tanks still had all the juice they could use. The contractor who tills and harvests here, notified me he wouldn't disc because he wouldn't harvest. I had to mow before it became a dried-out fire hazard. The little 18 hp Yanmar was working pretty hard mowing the uphill slopes.

You wouldn't want to bale this.

Or this.

 

[bmaverick]

Before the big tractors, many small tractors ran the hay balers.

There are many old time videos up on YT showing how the Ford 8N gasoline tractor ran those square balers with ease. This would be 18.35 out the PTO as the Nebraska tests show.

1947 Ford 8N still going in the hay business.

1951 Ford 8N clicking away with the baler, kicker and wagon.

My machine is diesel with a bit more torque and with 26Hp out the PTO. I've done hay baling with the YM2610 twice on a New Holland square balers. No issues.
Sure, my ground speed isn't like a big tractor, yet it can do big tractor work. And on tight fields with slopes doing hay, the big tractors can't fit there.

 

[5030]

I agree and in the case of the 575 I sold, it is at least 2 times as big as any in your pictures. It all has to do with safe and comfortable operation. You can run anything with anything but is it safe and efficient. I don't believe so. Don't see any full size round bailers either....

All flatland pictures as well.

You can make idiot squares with even a lawn tractor that has a 6 spline 540 pto if you want to. Nice thing about square bailers, even with kickers is, they don't need any hydraulic connections and the kickers have self contained hydraulics, independent of a tractor. Now my 575 required auxiliary hydraulics but just for the hydraulic cylinder the swung the tongue.

 

[YanmarFever]

Nice little tractors, emphasis on little. Never work for me however. Heck I could pick one up in my bucket and tote it around.

5030, dude you're such a stick in the mud...

 

[careyo63]

Old School Yanmar are rice Patty tractors. They float in it!!

 

[California]

Old School Yanmar are rice Patty tractors. They float in it!!

Photo source: copied off Yanmar-Japan's official website long ago.

 

[RayIN]

fair statement. You could always harvest your lawn if you let it grow tall enough...lol

Speaking of which; I had a friend, passed now, that had a miniature square baler to bale lawn clippings. It was a manual wire-tie baler. I still have one of the miniature bales in the basement somewhere. They were 3" long X 1.5" sq.

 

[Hay Dude]

Nice little tractors, emphasis on little. Never work for me however. Heck I could pick one up in my bucket and tote it around.

5030, Your tractors look like nice little tractors to me, emphasis on little.
I could squash ‘em like a bug with mine
Oh and my dad can beat up your dad, too. lol