Yanmar Hay Fever

[careyo63]

JD. 1025R is only 23 Eng Hp. 1444 Lbs. Not very big. My Rice patty YM2000 24Eng. weight 1664 -1940 2WD-4WD. is my guess is the reason for the increase.

 

[R Barger]

TWO BALES, 1 YANMAR

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As I was looking at this thread I was thinking that I load and stack two large round bails with my YM336D on level ground. Then there it was [my tractor]. Still use it for everything.

 

[careyo63]

My Ford was setup like that. FEL. hay spike also. Hey it was a Hay tractor! A 62 yr. old one and still works today!

 

[bmaverick]

As I was looking at this thread I was thinking that I load and stack two large round bails with my YM336D on level ground. Then there it was [my tractor]. Still use it for everything.

You have two Yanmars then, YM336 and a YM2500 (aka JD850)

 

[R Barger]

You have two Yanmars then, YM336 and a YM2500 (aka JD850)

I actually have four Yanmars YM336D , JD850 2wd and two JD850 4wd [GREAT TRACTORS]

 

[5030]

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

 

[California]

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

Photo: Typical use of the 18 hp Yanmar I showed in that other thread. Watering new Apple trees in the orchard. The little guy can pull that tote uphill (note the water level in the tote, sloped) on loose ground. And it fits under the orchard trees for mowing. This is all I need.

Anything larger would be clumsy. And climbing down off a larger tractor at every tree when watering, to repair the tree's basin, would get old real fast.

Now the apple harvest contractor discs, and carries harvest bins, with larger tractors. But that's not my application.

 

[R Barger]

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

95% of the jobs that I do requires a tractor of the size that I have. The other 5% would be nice to have a large tractor. $50,000.00 for 5% of your work is not practical. That's why they make different size tractors.

 

[5030]

Just the opposite here, 95% of my farm work requires substantial tractors (I own more than one) and 5% requires a small tractor that I don't have.

All I'm stating here is you don't use a small tractor in a safe manner, running hay tools other than perhaps a hay rake and certainly not a disc mower or full size round baler, both of which not only severely outweigh a small tractor but are inherently unsafe to operate with a small tractor as in not enough weight to control the implement and certainly not enough pto power...

I don't believe they can run this or even pull it around not being powered...

 

[California]

Well we can't all grow hay.

 

[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