dealer list, not MSRP
Yanmar's 3TNV80F under the hood is the reason to look at the top of the MT1 line: 24.7 hp kept deliberately under the 25 hp emissions threshold, so there is no diesel particulate filter and no regeneration cycle to sit through. LS publishes no price, so the figure here comes from dealer books at around $18,600.
0.92 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 MT125 is bought on price and financing, and owners are refreshingly open about it. The same machine is sold as the New Holland Workmaster 25S, and buyers report the LS badge saving five to seven thousand dollars against a comparably equipped 1025R or BX - one paid about $24,000 all in for a loader, mid-mount mower, grapple and third function at zero percent over ten years. That long interest-free term is what turns up in almost every purchase story, including from people who could pay cash and chose not to. What they get for the money is described as bare-bones in a way owners mostly like, with a Yanmar engine from the same family as the competition's.
Two faults recur often enough to plan around. The first is the front tires breaking their beads under a loaded bucket: the standard four-ply industrial fronts are rated well below what a full bucket asks of them, more than one owner has rolled a bead and lost air, and the advice that circulates is to fit tubes. The second is the loader joystick linkage, which owners report snapping - one at 70 hours, another twice inside 270 - to the point that one keeps spare parts on the shelf and calls the loader poorly designed. Tie rods sit exposed and cost about a hundred dollars apiece, with thin boots that tear easily, so owners doing rough work check them on walk-arounds.
The dealer network, not the tractor, is the real gamble. Owners describe dealers losing their LS franchise, closing outright, or simply being unresponsive, and one documents a warranty claim running four weeks of back and forth with parts hard to locate. Against that, several owners report entirely ordinary experiences - filters ordered without fuss, a leaking hydraulic pump collected and returned by the dealer, six years of no parts trouble. The workaround worth knowing is that New Holland dealers stock the same components under the same part number with an LS prefix or suffix. Owners run 4-foot brush hogs, 48-inch box blades and post hole diggers on it without complaint, and the ones with 300 to 600 hours describe only minor repairs they made themselves.
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
LS Tractor
LS's answer to the gap between a sub-compact and a real compact: Mitsubishi's S3L2 three-cylinder, 18.5 hp at the PTO, and 1,433 lb of rear lift on a 1,609 lb frame that still parks like a sub-compact. Dealer books put it around $21,300, since LS prints no price of its own.
Spec sheet & owner notes
LS Tractor
Smallest machine LS sells in the US, and the only one under 1,500 lb. The Yanmar 3TNV76F stays under the 25 hp emissions line so there is no DPF to regenerate, and the 1,008 lb loader rating is unusually strong for a tractor this light.
Spec sheet & owner notes
LS Tractor
LS builds its own engine, transmission and loader, which is how a 24.7 hp compact turns up with a 1,896 lb hitch - more rear lift than a Deere 2025R or Kubota B2601. Standard equipment is unusually complete for what it costs.
Spec sheet & owner notes