A 1.7-litre Kukje engine and a 2,965 lb frame make this far heavier than 24.6 hp suggests, and that mass is what the 2,200 lb loader rating rests on. TYM's current Series 2 lineup no longer includes it, so only the series page remains.
As published by the maker
On the price: Neither this maker nor any dealer reachable from here publishes a bare-tractor price for this model — every listing found either says “call for price” or bundles a loader. That is how this brand sells, so expect to get a number by asking a dealer rather than by looking it up.
Lift figures are the maker's and are quoted at whichever point the maker chose; the about page explains why two loaders with the same number do not lift the same pallet.
Comes with
From owner discussion and long-term write-ups
Gathered from owner reports
This tractor is sold — and bought — on one number. Owners who chose it over a Kubota or a Kioti almost all say the loader decided it: better than 2,000 lb at the pins and around 2,400 lb on the three-point, on a machine that costs around $22,000 and was quoted $15,000 under an equivalent Kubota in one buyer's case. That capacity comes from the frame rather than the engine, because the 2515 sits on the chassis TYM uses all the way up to 45 hp, with the same loader fitted to the 25, 35 and 40 hp models. The engine is the same one those bigger models use, turned down; owners point out that a screw gets you to 35 hp without emissions equipment and voids the warranty in the process.
And that is exactly where the regret lands. The most-repeated comment from owners who have lived with one is that they should have bought more PTO horsepower on the same frame — a 3515, 4215 or 4815 — because the loader never runs out but the power take-off does. A five-foot rotary cutter is fine until the grass is much over a foot tall, at which point owners slow their ground speed right down, and a flail mower is described as too hungry for it. Several also conclude that a zero-turn is the right answer for finish mowing regardless, and say cutting grass with any tractor is simply inefficient.
The brand question owners keep being asked about is parts. Buyers are told by neighbours and local opinion to buy only Kubota or Deere, and the parts-availability worry follows TYM everywhere. What the evidence actually contains is an owner who needed parts, found the TYM-branded items out of stock, and bought the Bad Boy-branded equivalents instead — same part numbers, because Bad Boy is the same tractor under a different badge. One knowledgeable commenter also separates the range: the 15 and 20 series come from the Branson design TYM bought, and he considers them better built than other TYM machines of that size, while naming problems he has seen elsewhere in the line that do not appear here. On hydraulics the honest comparison is less flattering — a Kubota will run loader lift and tilt together and this will not, and owners describe the three-point stepping up in stages rather than rising smoothly, which they say is common to the Korean brands.
Summarised from public owner discussion, not from testing. Nothing here was measured by this site, and a report that recurs is not the same as a defect rate.
Cross-shopped against
Same brand or same size, nearest in price
TYM
Yanmar's 3TNV80F under a TYM badge is the whole argument here: a known engine in a machine priced below the brands that usually carry it. A factory cab option at sub-compact size is rare, and package deals are where TYM dealers compete.
Spec sheet & owner notes
TYM
Carried over from the Branson line under the TYM badge, and still one of the hardest-hitting 41 hp compacts on paper: a 3,306 lb Cat I hitch and 11.4 gpm to the implement circuit, both well above what a Deere 3038E or Kubota L3302 offers. TYM will not publish what it costs.
Spec sheet & owner notes
TYM
Same 2.3-litre four and same chassis as the 4215, tuned to 48 hp and 40 at the PTO without a turbo. Everything behind the engine is identical, which makes the pair the clearest illustration in this catalog of what an extra seven horsepower actually buys: nothing but horsepower.
Spec sheet & owner notes