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Read articles →This is a real owner's long-term review of a 2013 5055D with the 512 loader, bought used at ~250 hours and now at ~454 hours after a year and a half of hay work. He walks through the transmission ranges/gears, PTO, loader limitations (one function at a time, no self-leveling), added lighting, tires/ballast, and gripes like a hot floorboard and a fragile fuse box cover. Useful for buyers comparing the D to the E series.
Posted by an owner-operator (Poorsquarebaler) sharing personal, hands-on impressions from actual hay work, not a dealer or sponsored source.
Not on its own. You can feather it each way to do both if you are smooth, but it does not have a position for combined curl and lower or curl and raise automatically.
Two ranges, A and B, with four gears each, giving eight gears total plus reverse. Reverse is synchronized so you do not have to stop fully for loader work.
The floorboard gets very hot from engine heat coming back onto your feet when working hard, especially running a baler. The E models have a plexiglass heat shield this one lacks.
No, it is two-wheel drive. The owner says all the D series tractors were two-wheel drive, but it works well for his hay operation.
