dealer list for the ROPS build; the cab row of the same book is $77,044
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.
0.9 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 ROPS build; the cab row of the same book is $77,044. 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
This is a tractor with real field capability and a bad electrical reputation among the people who own it. On the capable side, one owner farms with his, running a 10-foot disc, a 16-foot grain drill, a 12-foot culpacker and an 18-foot field cultivator, and reasons about it purely in terms of implement width against time — which is the right conversation to be having about a tractor this size. A 2024 owner says plainly that he hears a lot of criticism of New Holland and has been very happy with his, and an owner who has had both a Workmaster 35 and a 2019 Workmaster 75 would buy another, with a battery that dies over winter as his only serious complaint alongside a toolbox that blocks the fuel cap.
The complaints, though, are specific and they cluster. One owner lost power pulling on inclines and could not hold engine speed in higher ranges; his dealer diagnosed a fault in the MPROP, also called the fuel control actuator, explaining that repeated overpressure faults had caused the computer to start limiting fuel pressure, and quoted a repair the owner describes as very expensive. Another has a tractor that will not start where everything reads 12 volts until the ignition is switched on, at which point every circuit drops to five volts for about five minutes — he has replaced the relay, checked every fuse and fitted a new ignition switch with no change, and says the tractor is leaving the farm once he solves it. A third has chewed or broken wires at a connector behind the cab, and a 2014 owner listing his dislikes simply says he is fairly sure the wiring will become a problem. The same owner rates the loader light duty for the size of the tractor and already tweaked, the hydraulics slow, and serviceability poor, with filters and plugs awkward to reach.
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 notesNew Holland
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.
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