Welcome, A little history of our Yanmar Tractor Owners Yahoo Group. Back in 1999 Jay Brown, owner of Affordable Equipment, Inc. in Easley, SC formed our group on Yahoo. He sold gray market Yanmar tractors and other gray market vehicle imports from Asia. When the big names in the Ag industry started to clamp down on these gray market dealers, it seems Affordable Equipment, Inc. and affordableequipment.com website disappeared. Thus, so did Jay Brown from our group. Doug, our Yahoo Group moderator stayed till the very end of the road at Yahoo Groups. Doug no longer has his Yanmar tractor, but has a nice JD330 with a Yanmar engine. He stayed on because there was no possible way to add another moderator, only the group owner Jay Brown could. For all of us members this was a real commitment to the group over those 2 decades. Doug was our quasi owner by default, with limited functionality. When there were issues with Yahoo, Doug was there to work things out. Thank you Doug for your dedication to the group. Here we are in 2020, some 21 years later from the startup. We have our Yanmars as we farm, homestead, landscape, or mow, etc. regardless if it's a hobby or career with our Yanmar tractors. We also age folks. Our Yanmars may not get the use as it once did in the past, but many or most of us have that youngster who is growing up too. Passing on the Yanmar for the next generation is something really special. And should we pass, our messages here would be retain for them to seek out. There are tractor brands already passed down into the 3rd and 4th generations of families or to the ones close to your heart as they mature. It could even be a neighbor kid too. Looking at our group and how strong it's become over those years is remarkable. Let's look forward for more years ahead. All is not lost, we have a plan. BMaverick 2nd take: fixed some grammar :)

The site does work differently from most. It's a bit old-fashioned. Here are two or three tricks: 1. A convenient link to the Yanmar Home Page is NOT among those links at the bottom of the Yanmar group message we get in our emails. I don't know why. You need to go to the Groups.io ( http://Groups.io ) link that is there at the bottom of the email message, and once in the Groups.io ( http://Groups.io ) homepage scratch around in the "Find a Group" tab at the top of the page until you find the Yanmar group home page, go there, and then bookmark it for yourself so that you can get back to it. Otherwise you will have to find go find the Yanmar group home page every time you want to go there. [ The group can be found via a Search Engine with this entered, Yanmar Tractor Owners Group -pick the link in the search results with the letters of IO in the path. ] 2. Although, if you are scratching around doing #1 above and ask for the list of groups beginning with a "Y", you will then notice that there are 9 alphabetical pages of groups beginning with "Y". GLITCH WARNING: the pages don't always show the same entries! For example moving from page 2 up to page 3 may get you a truncated list as compared to moving from page 4 down to page 3. Keep after it. Yanmar-Tractor-Owners is in there and you will find us . Remember to bookmark it when you do 3. Unless you are a member AND logged in on that Yanmar group homepage, You won't see that hand list of directories that BMaverick keeps saying is in the left hand column....and he has made that left hand column has primary navigation signpost. However, it simply does not appear unless you are a member and logged into the site. .......and there is no clue that the list of directories is what you are missing. That's a problem, because you need to see that list of directories to successfully navigate the site. And you didn't even know it was missing .....So anyway....., just get yourself properly logged in and I can almost promise you that the list will automatically and miraculously appear on the left column. 4. Now that you can see the list of our Yanmar directories, the one you want is " *WIKI* ". It's the very last tag at the bottom (of course). Click it and you will see "Resources" - which is the place where all the new Yanmar owner info you will need. Hope this helps, BTW, of course it all makes perfectly logical sense to BMaverick, but that's why he is a computer guru. I had to struggle a bit. rScotty [ updated: provided Search Engine trick in line item-1. Underlined the login requirement in item-3. Made BOLD the WIKI in item-4. tweaked minor grammar for EZ reading. -BMaverick ]

Yanmar Folks, Progress is being made for storage space to retain our FILES, PHOTOS, DOCUMENTS and RESOURCES. This is located on our GroupsIO page, on the left side column, at the very bottom called *Wiki*. Next, just click on the *Yanmar Tractor Owners Group - RESOURCE Page * Our Wiki page offers a robust method to link into other storage places on the web. The Yanmar Manuals link is already working. The Hoye Technical Articles and Knowledge Base links are working. In the past 2 months, evaluating FREE document storage sites and how the user interfaces work with each, the FLIPDrive solution became the hands down choice winner. When this becomes available, a second follow-up message will provide a notification. BMaverick -- *Yanmar Tractor Owners Group. A valuable source for owners of Yanmar tractors. *