[arlen]

dont forget the 6Ds around here........seems to me to be 6Ds or 6Ms ...a few 6Es and yet to see a 6R....... The lots are covered with 5Es and a rare 5M....yet to see a 5R in person but heard a few rumors LOL

My nephew bought new 6105d a few years back. He initially liked it, but he got rid of it and bought a 2012 6125r.
He said the transmission, clutch, and drivetrain ultimately drove him to get rid of it. It just felt very light duty and primitive compared to the 6r. The 6d was cheap though!

 

[mo1]

dont forget the 6Ds around here........seems to me to be 6Ds or 6Ms ...a few 6Es and yet to see a 6R....... The lots are covered with 5Es and a rare 5M....yet to see a 5R in person but heard a few rumors LOL

I've seen a few 6Ds but most of the 6 series units are 6x00/6x10/6x20/6x30s or 6Ms.

I forgot to mention, I see very few 6Rs that aren't owned by the state highway department. They bought a bunch of 6130Rs for ditch mowing. Gotta love watching about $200,000 worth of iron mow my ditch between the 6130R and the Schulte or Deere CX20 batwing it is pulling. And to think pretty recently they were just using 54xx/55xx open station 2WD machines with hydraulic sickles to cut ditches for the most part. I can't say they are any faster with the new stuff but boy did they ever pay a whole lot more for it.

 

[JDDriver95]

Hi,
those things that you guys mentioned (pretty big price tag, people like to buy the 5E´s and some 5M´s or they just go up to the 6M) are probably the reasons why deere discontinued the 5R last year. I heard some rumors that they might come back with a new 5R someday.....

 

[AKfish]

I noticed that the "Build It" function on the Deere website is no longer available for the 5R. So, I was curious if Deere actually dropped the 5R availability for the U.S. market or if they stopped building them entirely.
I think Deere had a great, functional tractor design with the R but, the bean-counters got carried away with themselves.
The price jump from the 5M model up to the 5R was nuts. And, that put the 5R within just a couple thousand to a 6M. (Never mind the 6D's and 6E's.) IMO, if Deere had priced the 5R within $10K or so of the 5M, that tractor would still be available.
After looking for the last 4-5yrs for a bigger tractor than our JD4720, I bought a low-hour 5075E to run our square baler and accumulator.
Looked real hard at those 5R's and might have traded my 5115M for one. But, not for $100-120K.

 

[Montana Dan]

Hi,
those things that you guys mentioned (pretty big price tag, people like to buy the 5E´s and some 5M´s or they just go up to the 6M) are probably the reasons why deere discontinued the 5R last year. I heard some rumors that they might come back with a new 5R someday.....

I wouldn't be surprised if it reappeared with a hydro tranny. The 5's could use one.

 

[mo1]

After looking for the last 4-5yrs for a bigger tractor than our JD4720, I bought a low-hour 5075E to run our square baler and accumulator.
Looked real hard at those 5R's and might have traded my 5115M for one. But, not for $100-120K.

A 5075E is a nice sized tractor to run in front of a small square baler, you should be happy with it. It has more than enough power but is still small enough to have a tight enough turning radius to make corners nicely. I bale small squares with one, using a baler with a thrower and throw wagons instead of an accumulator, it does that job well.

On a side note, nice to see somebody else still making small squares. Nobody else around here does, it's all round bales now. Most of my hay gets round baled too but having some small squares is handy for feeding stock that aren't cattle. It's less work and fuss to make small squares than to tear apart round bales and handle it as loose hay, and it's not like I make 20,000 bales.

 

[ttazzman]

A 5075E is a nice sized tractor to run in front of a small square baler, you should be happy with it. It has more than enough power but is still small enough to have a tight enough turning radius to make corners nicely. I bale small squares with one, using a baler with a thrower and throw wagons instead of an accumulator, it does that job well.

On a side note, nice to see somebody else still making small squares. Nobody else around here does, it's all round bales now. Most of my hay gets round baled too but having some small squares is handy for feeding stock that aren't cattle. It's less work and fuss to make small squares than to tear apart round bales and handle it as loose hay, and it's not like I make 20,000 bales.

i experimented with running my 336 sm sq baler dropping them on the ground this year behind the 4520 it was a excellent match ..ran well..no issues..hydrostat made speed easy to adjust and i dont like a hydrostat in the field normally.....and cut fuel ussage by 2/3 vs the 5105m ...i was quite suprized and pleased with results ...the 5 series was much more comphy but harder to fine tune ground speed, turning radius really isnt a issue for us.....did pull a 100bale-bale basket behind it in 2nd cutting with no issues