dealer list for the cab build
Middle of the Workmaster utility three, and the one that fixes the 55's worst number: 50 PTO hp instead of 40, for $3,404 more. Everything else - 2.9-litre FPT triple, 3,500 lb hitch, 21.7 gal tank, cab - is identical.
0.69 PTO hp per $1,000 of list price
As published by the maker
On the price: This figure is the maker's published price for the cab build. It is a real published number but not a like-for-like one, so nothing on this site ranks it against the bare-tractor prices — not the per-dollar picks, not the matchup pairings.
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
Most of what exists about this tractor comes from one very happy owner in East Texas, and it is worth reading as one detailed account rather than a consensus. He replaced a permanently broken 1991 two-wheel-drive machine after months of comparing TYM, Mahindra, Massey, Kubota and New Holland, deliberately buying more tractor than his ten acres needed, and ordered a full cab with heat and air conditioning, a dealer-installed third function, three rear remotes and what he calls the best tractor seat he has ever sat on. He reports it quiet, smooth and easy to see out of, with flawless lift controls, and put fifteen hours on it in the first week. His figures are useful: just under $60,000 with zero interest over sixty months, R4 front tires chosen specifically so it would not tear up the lawns, and two dealers within thirty minutes. Another owner who took delivery separately describes his as amazing with plenty of power for pasture and woods work.
The faults on record are few but specific. One owner's machine would not start at 50 hours after sitting for a few months, with the dash lighting up normally and every interlock checked, and the only way to get it going was running a wire directly to the starter. The same enthusiastic owner sheared the outer PTO shaft off at the tractor end while running a 6-foot rotary cutter, and was surprised because he expected the shear bolt to let go first. Where this size of machine earns its money, according to an owner comparing it against a 40-horsepower compact, is stacking bales: the point he makes is that lift capacity matters at eight feet and up rather than at three, and that a compact sitting near its limit at full height is a different proposition from this.
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
Where New Holland stops building compacts and starts building farm tractors: 2.9-litre FPT three-cylinder, 21.7 gal of fuel, a 3,500 lb hitch and 6,239 lb of iron. The MY2026 book lists it only as a cab tractor, at $69,496.
Spec sheet & owner notes
New Holland
Three-cylinder FPT power with no DPF and no regeneration cycle, which is most of the pitch: 74 hp that never stops to clean itself. A 12x12 power shuttle and a 3,500 lb hitch, optionable to 4,000 lb, make it a working loader tractor rather than a large compact.
Spec sheet & owner notesNew Holland
The Workmaster utility tractor with the clutch pedal taken away: a 12x12 power shuttle, a Category II hitch lifting 3,664 lb and a 3.4-litre four-cylinder FPT instead of a triple. Cab only, factory loader, $90,725 in the MY2026 book.
Spec sheet & owner notes