dealer list, not MSRP
Middle of the big-frame Boomers and the one that changes nothing but the fuel map: 3,490 lb, 16x16 shuttle, 260TLA loader and a 2,756 lb hitch are all identical to the Boomer 45. You are paying about $4,162 for 4.3 PTO hp.
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
Long-term owners are quietly positive: one bought his in 2013 and reports 750 trouble-free hours, another has used one across ten acres plus sixteen of woods for years and calls it a great all-rounder for plowing snow, moving logs and mowing, and a commercial user cuts 27 acres with a 5-foot rotary cutter in two or three days a couple of times a year. What owners warn about is weight rather than power. One advises anyone moving snow, manure and round bales to look for a heavier machine entirely, reckoning you run out of weight before horsepower and wanting at least 5,000 lb ballasted; another whose parents own one says it came up short trying to move a crate of cast-iron parts despite its rating; a third says it does everything asked of it except pallets much above a ton. The flip side is that the low gears surprise people - one operator struggling for traction in third dropped into first and was startled by how much push 50 horsepower actually has.
Two specific problems recur. The first is regeneration frequency, which one owner cured rather than endured: he started using a filtered funnel when refuelling to catch moisture in the diesel and added fuel treatment occasionally, and cut regenerations from every couple of hours to almost never. The second is cooling while mowing, and one owner is scathing about it - he cannot cut grass for more than twenty minutes before the radiator screen and side screens pack solid with clippings and it overheats, and having mowed the same fields with several other tractors without trouble he considers the airflow design at fault. On implements, owners put the ceiling lower than the horsepower suggests: an 8-foot land plane drew warnings that he would struggle because a plane needs speed as well as power, and a 7-foot snowblower is described as a load in heavy snow that the owner creeps through in two passes.
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
New Holland
Top of the Boomer range and the point where the compact frame is fully loaded: 55 hp and 46.7 at the PTO on the same 3,490 lb chassis, 2,756 lb hitch and 260TLA loader the Boomer 45 carries. At $49,983 ROPS it prices against ROPS utility tractors that lift far more.
Spec sheet & owner notesNew Holland
The step in the Boomer range where the frame actually changes: 16x16 shuttle instead of 12x12, 2,756 lb at the ball ends instead of 1,808, the bigger 260TLA loader and 620 lb more tractor. That is what the roughly $6,700 over a Boomer 40 buys.
Spec sheet & owner notesNew Holland
Same chassis, same 2,870 lb and the same 250TLA loader as the Boomer 35, with 5 more engine hp and 4.3 more at the PTO for $2,562. It is also the smallest Boomer offered with a factory cab, at $43,128 and 3,574 lb.
Spec sheet & owner notes