TYM Tractor Thread !

Now your dads gonna be like “seems like you don’t come around as much now” , or maybe you’ll both run your tractors together. Get stuff done even quicker than when you’d borrow his!that grapple looks pretty stout! What’s the weight on it?

 

I like the way you think ! I hope it's the latter part ! He's got the power rake..I've got the grapple...look out !
In fact..the tree removal today was at my parents house. I Grappled and removed..and chewed up some dirt.
Dad will come through and put in a lil dirt and power rake alil. We make a good team !
Our jokingly goal was to someday have a tractor for every implement...so we never have to go through changing them around ever again. Slowly..this appears to be becoming closer to a reality !
It is definitely a very stout grapple..cool lookin too
I think tractor and front loader combined..somewhere around 4,200-4300 lbs ish. Perhaps a little more.

So probably as pictured with grapple and brushhog...im probably a hare over 5,000 lbs. Feels nimble and responsive though. It feels right !

 

Congrats on the new tractor! I’m interested in hearing your long term review of it. I don’t know anyone who has one besides the guys who work at the dealership. It’s very handy to have a pair of tractors on the property, each setup to handle different things at the same time.

I was at the local TYM dealer a month or so ago getting some IronCraft implements and gave the TYM T1104 they had on the lot a good look over. For the asking price of $67k, it was a lot of tractor at 110 hp, and cab. My wife has been hinting at wanting a cab tractor for the next one, she’s more willing to help with heat or ac and music. I’ve said great we will have 3 tractors, and I got the well you will just trade in the big one for one with a cab. A guy can dream!

 

I understand completely! I look forward to working it..and giving my honest opinion .
I believe they are a great bang for the buck. Lots of things come standard..that other already expensive companies add on as extras.
I use to justify the $5000 difference as something that made me feel better.
$15000-20000 difference is an absolute joke to try and justify.

 

How are you liking your IronCraft stuff ?
So far so good for me. Everything seems beefy built.

 

I'm in process of hopefully getting a little bulk tank and pump put together . In the meantime I'm 5 gallon canning it. I decided at two bars on the gauge lower than full id fill it up..to try and keep up with it.
It worked perfect for the amount and I have exactly 10 hrs on it. It got delivered with 2 hrs already..and was filled up before it left the dealer. So about 8 hrs on 5 gallons. If my math is right..works out to about 1.6 hours per gallon of fuel. And that's about 75% work..25% just driving around.
I'm kind of impressed with that.
My lil Kubota was always about 1 gallon per hour.
I think for the amount of work I got done...and the speed i got it done..with quickness and less trips than the BX...im impressed !

 

Some more storm clean up..

 

Some brush hogging

 

Some Turkeys lol

 

I like it, it’s not quite as refined and polished as some of the big brands, but it works just the same. The little 4’ HD grapple is a beast and way over built. It’s at my in-laws for “storage”, I’ll get pictures of it the next time I’m up there. I’ve used both the box blade and skeleton bucket a bunch and only worn off the paint. I have zero complaints. I’m glad to have saved some money going this route.

 

We did the 5 gal cans for awhile, but it got to be a lot and often with 3 machines. We got a 275 gallon Roth dual walled tank for off-road diesel and put a fill-rite pump on it. It’s just like pulling up to a fuel station now, 15 gal/minute pump.

We get a decent discount on bulk delivery as well, might be worth looking into. You could also do a hand pump for now and swap it out as funds allow.

 

That's a great idea ....Thank you for that advice !

 

Great to hear ! This is exactly how I thought of there stuff too so far ! Badic..but tough.
I've been eying up the skeleton bucket..and dreaming of the front loader mounted pist hole digger lol.
How good does the skeleton bucket work for you ?

 

For the little bit it’s been used, it works great. I’ve been more focused on fencing lately as trees show up this fall. The bucket works great to move firewood and leave debris behind, used it to move a couple piles of rock as well. As long as you keep the tines out of the sod it works well. It also does really well at stripping sod off of the lawn, I reshaped an area and used it to take the sod off, back dragged the wheel ruts from last spring and it was ready to rake. Overall I’m very happy to have it, and it will get plenty of use.

 

Been driving Kubotas my whole life. Didn't realize that I hated this arrangement the whole time !! Lol


After about a week...I prefer this now. Never gonna look back !


Was very interesting to hope off of Dad's Kubota and on to my TYM !

 

Got to move some dirt around....and get into the mud. No problems !
Impressed how little effort it takes to dig into a pile !

 

I wonder just why the treadle pedals are continued to be offered? They seem inconvenient. Lawn tractor has the treadle pedal....it's not too bad on that sized machine though.

 

I agree ..now that I've used the side by side . It's interesting....my Dad's L3940 pedal.....a little different than my BX pedal. I've always preferred my dads..to my bx's. But now..I prefer my TYM to them all. Within a day of using it !

 

Kubota BX ..


Dad's L3940


TYM T474

 

It’s one of the bigger reasons I ended up with John Deere’s versus Kubotas. There’s a spot in Union where each dealer is across the street from the other. I went and sat on each one, drove them around, and couldn’t get use to the treadle pedal. Pricing was close enough it didn’t matter, which one I chose. Both were completely new to my wife as she grew up driving manual geared tractors. She also liked the Deere controls and the joystick location on the fender versus the loader, she’s short.