dealer list, not MSRP
Nearly 24 hp carrying a 1,200 lb loader at the pivot pin, comfortably above what a BX2380 or 1025R manages, on a chassis Yanmar builds under its own badge rather than someone else's. The ten-year powertrain warranty is the closer.
0.85 PTO hp per $1,000 of list price
As published by the maker
On the price: This maker publishes no price, so the figure comes from dealer listings. Regional dealers price the same machine differently.
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
The thing nobody tells SA425 buyers until after they have signed is that the loader does not take skid-steer attachments. Yanmar uses its own pin-on quick link on this model, so the grapple, the forks and anything else must come from Yanmar, and one shopper says that single fact took the SA325 and SA425 out of his running entirely. Plan the attachment budget accordingly — a dealer quoted one owner about $2,300 for a third-function kit with labour before any grapple was bought. The tractor itself gets consistently warm reviews from a group skewed toward older owners replacing much older Yanmars, who value how easy it is to get on and off: the open platform is described as something you walk into rather than climb over, and a hydraulic top link is a common first addition, as much for the arthritis as for adjusting a box blade on the move.
Capability reports run in both directions and the difference is ballast. One owner pulled roughly fifty stumps, including large birch and spruce, and rates the bucket bigger and stronger than the Kubota he compared it with. Another is sceptical that the published 1,200 lb figure means much on a tractor that weighs about 1,800 lb, and the most useful account is from an owner who normally keeps a disc on the three-point, took it off for a lighter implement, then used the grapple — and describes the loss of stability as stunning enough that he will never do loader work unballasted again. On reliability the notable event is a PTO shaft shearing clean off at 55 hours while a brush hog was spinning up, with collection, parts, labour and delivery all covered under warranty; the owner suspects a casting fault in a batch, says the warranty covered it twice, and notes the parts took far longer to arrive than he expected.
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
Yanmar
Sits between the SA223 and SA425 on price while running the same 23.9 hp 3TNV80F diesel as the dearer SA425, so what the badge buys over the SA223 is horsepower rather than a different machine. Full-frame chassis, dual-range hydrostatic, 1,200 lb loader.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Yanmar
Cheapest tractor Yanmar sells in the US, and the least expensive way into its ten-year powertrain warranty. At 21.5 hp with an 825 lb loader it lines up against a 1023E and a BX1880, with a thinner dealer network behind it.
Spec sheet & owner notes
Yanmar
Yanmar's gear-drive YM2 platform starts here, swapping the hydrostatic pedals of the SA line for an 8x8 synchronized reverser and adding 300 lb of loader lift. At 24.4 hp it stays under the emissions threshold that forces a particulate filter.
Spec sheet & owner notes