Japanese Yanmar tractor are extremely popular due to their incredible durability, compact size and affordable price tag. The only problem, until now, was that there were no English owners manuals for these Yanmar tractors

Murray Publishing
The Japanese Yanmar tractor are extremely popular due to their incredible durability, compact size and affordable price tag. The only problem, until now, was that there were no English owners manuals for these Yanmar tractors. Murray Publishing have taken the Japanese owner's manuals for the most popular "gray market" Yanmar tractor and carefully translated them into English. These Yanmar operation manuals have a full wiring diagram, capacities, specifications, controls, operating procedures, and more.

Yanmar YM 1500d (Click to enlarge)

Yanmar YM720
According to several reliable sources in the tractor industry, the new Yanmar tractors will again be rolling.... er..... crawling into the US again. Before you go out and put your name down on the Yanmar waiting list, these are not the tractors that every Yanmar user has grown to love. This new tractor uses 2 long rubber "dozer" type tracks instead of 4 tires.

The 1st of these machines, dubbed the X80 crawler, is designed to be used primarily in orchard applications. Yanmar has, apparently, a few of these prototype "crawlers"currently being tested in a few California orchards. If all goes well, and it looks like it is, around 100 of these new tractors should be in dealerships as soon as January 2005. So what are the specs on these new beasts? Rumor has it that the 1st crawler, the X80 will use an 80hp- diesel (of course) in the 54" width range with a slightly smaller version on the horizon.

From Dec 2005 Yanmar announced that the new X80 tracked tractor was for sale in select California dealerships.