Iseki pedestrian rotovator

[vhgmcbuddy]

Good evening to all. Have today come by this machine. it looks a beefed up version of a household rotovator.not ,as yet got the numbers from the plate. it looks as if it has 2 forward gears and the tiller tines are like merry tiller ones but twice as beefy. Another thing about it is it has fitted a take off flat pulley which is on the opposite side to rope start cowling. can any one id this machine and has anybody got one ? thanks john. its like a much stronger version of a small tractor. ie barford.

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[trusty220]

The Iseki brand is still going strong in this country despite having a huge loss in the tsunami a couple of years ago.
Iseki never had a presence in the country but relied on importers to sell their wares over here; the current importer of Iseki is Ransomes Jacobsen in Ipswich. They confine themselves to the tractor range and diesel ride-on lawnmowers to sell alongside their own professional grasscare machinery and if you were to ask them about rotavators I pretty sure they wouldn’t have any knowledge whatsoever (sorry).
Like most of these worldwide manufacturers, Iseki make a vast range and the importers just cherry-pick what they want out of the range. In the past they have made walk-behind rotary mowers and strimmers as well as rotavators, and some of these have even been brought in by previous importers. My spies tell me that the rotavators were originally imported by Lely when they were based at Huntingdon, and also that there were a lot of “grey imports” floating around at the time as well. Apparently some unscrupulous (unofficial) importers would sell rotavators with rice blades on which are absolutely useless in this country.
The blades that you have on your machine look a little like Landmaster ones- could it be possible that someone has adapted some of these to fit?

[wristpin]

Iseki never had a presence in the country but relied on importers to sell their wares over here; the current importer of Iseki is Ransomes Jacobsen in Ipswich. They confine themselves to the tractor range and diesel ride-on lawnmowers to sell alongside their own professional grasscare machinery and if you were to ask them about rotavators I pretty sure they wouldn’t have any knowledge whatsoever (sorry).

I wouldn’t be too hasty in writing off Ransomes as a source of info about Iseki cultivators as that is where my photocopy parts lists came from 3-5 years ago but it could well depend upon to whom you get to speak to.
Can confirm that Lely did handle some Iseki stuff – we bought brush cutter from them – but can’t confirm whether or not they handled the cultivators.

[Anonymous]

Hi Geoff, Is there any point in contacting Ipswitch about the Iseki ks280?

[trusty220]

Sorry for the delay, but I’ve been away for a week in Wales (and, yes, it was sunny!).
I would try Ransomes at Ipswich as a starting point, but don’t hold your breath. They used to have a couple of people there who used to specialise in Iseki products and they would go the extra mile to find things if at all possible, but they both took early retirement three or four years ago and there is nobody there now who has a knowledge of the history of the brand.
I’ll have a dig about and see if I can come up with any alternatives for you.

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