Japanese Speakers, Grey import Tractors

timfromtang

Greetings all,
Like many a poor soul before me i have bought a grey import iseki tractor, ....... groan,,,, support,,,,, spares,,,,,,
I spoke to a kind man in an irish iseki dealership who explained the whole deal with grey imports, about how they cant supply parts to be used on machines without CE certification etc etc,

I hope i am not alone amongst Grey import tractor owners in wishing for a solution.

European Iseki tractors are well supported however, one can download all the manuals from http://www.ransomesjacobsen.com/europe-manuals/

I suggest that perhaps a Japanese dealership offers similar support.

It would be great if we grey import owners could find a japanese speaker prepared to track down manuals for our machines in Japanese, we could then use OCR (optical character recognition) and clever google to perhaps make some sort of sense of our manuals.

I've photographed some of the decals on my tractor if any with a knowledge of Japanese wishes to have a go i'd be obliged and might even carve and post a wooden spoon from our forest as a reward, emailed offers of translation services to tim@kindling.ie please

I've attached 5 pics of the decals, more to follow

If we grey import owners can get ourselves sorted with a dealer in japan and a way to get parts and support, well it'd be grand right?

all the best
tim

timfromtang

here's a few more of those japanese instructions

timfromtang

the last few

oh how i wish i knew what these mean.......


here's hoping

tim

ganmo

Get the part number that you want ring the Irish lad, don't mention anything about non ce import or anything and get him to send it you

greenpetrol

timfromtang wrote: »

the last few

oh how i wish i knew what these mean.......


here's hoping

tim

Any picture of the tractor? The price you paid ? Could do with a small cheap tractor for scraping yards

Grecco

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ondafly

Repost the pictures to the Japanese language section on boards and someone should be able to translate them.

patsy_mccabe

OP,
The Japanese written language is made up of 3 different written symbols. Kanji, Hiragana & katakana. Katakana is used to write foreign words, so by just using the symbols below you can make out a lot of the text which are actually English words.

I'll have a go at a few for you in the next post.

patsy_mccabe

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patsy_mccabe

Could the 'Check' button be to check that all the bulbs are working on the dashboards. I've often seen that on old industrial machines.