dealer list, not MSRP, spread across dealers
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.
0.96 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
More than any other tractor here, the MT225S is bought as a package on a long zero-percent loan. The deals owners report are remarkably consistent: around $34,000 to $36,000 out the door for the tractor, loader, third-function controls, a rake grapple, a 48-inch rotary cutter, a 48-inch tiller, a box blade and a twenty-foot trailer, financed at 0% over 120 months with nothing down — one owner works out to about $296 a month for all of it. The tractor and loader alone run about $19,000, and one buyer paid $27,000 with a loader and belly mower and blamed tariffs. Owners also note that taking the finance gives up the cash rebate, which cost one of them roughly $3,000, and they generally decide the maths still favours the loan. The other thing worth knowing is what it is: LS builds the New Holland Workmaster compacts, and owners say the Workmaster 25 is literally the same machine.
In use, the machine most owners are replacing is a shed full of old equipment — a 1970s Ford 2000, a lawn tractor, a snowblower and a rear-tine tiller all retired by one purchase. At 24.9 hp there is no particulate filter and no regeneration cycle, which owners mention as a relief rather than a feature. The 5-foot belly mower earns specific praise for being genuinely heavy, with a deck around an eighth of an inch thick and quarter-inch blades that chew woody stalks at zero-turn speeds. The two warnings in the file are worth taking seriously. Someone who repairs these says the MT225S uses a cast aluminium transmission housing, where the more basic 225E uses cast steel, and that he has repaired more than a few cracked housings on this model. And one buyer was still waiting five weeks after signing for a mower deck his dealer said was on the way, which is the parts-supply worry made concrete.
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
A full 3,007 lb compact frame and a 1,965 lb loader, kept under 25 gross hp so it dodges the particulate filter entirely - that combination is what the MT2E line exists to sell. Priced here as the 12F/12R gear build, which returns 19.2 PTO hp against 17.1 for the hydrostatic.
Spec sheet & owner notes
LS Tractor
Stepping past 25 hp buys a much bigger loader rather than a much bigger tractor: the LL3303 lifts 2,506 lb, up 541 lb on the MT226 below it, from the same 100 cu in Yanmar block and the same 10.6-gallon tank. Three-range hydrostatic, open station, and no published price anywhere from LS.
Spec sheet & owner notes
LS Tractor
Four cylinders and 133.6 cu in at the top of the MT2 frame, naturally aspirated and common-rail, for 42.5 hp and 34.8 at the PTO - a third more power than the MT232 on a chassis only 84 lb heavier. LS prints no price; dealers put the open-station hydrostatic in the low thirties.
Spec sheet & owner notes