[mo1]

Hello, long time reader, first time caller. I bought a little over 80 acres of rolling mostly open land a little while ago and needed a tractor to maintain the 1/3 mile long gravel driveway, clean up ditches and fencerows, mow fields, make some small squares, and maybe a few round bales as well. I have run various tractors of various brands ranging from an older 27 HP compact the size of a Deere 3 series to a 120 HP cabbed 6 cylinder with a powershift and several in between including a Deere 5410 and a cabbed 5083E. I prefer the visibility of a regular open station and the simplicity of a regular transmission over a hydraulic shuttle or powershift, and wanted a maneuverable machine for ditch/edge mowing and raking.

I initially watched a long time for decent newer used units (less than 30 years old with 3000 hours or less) but these were either essentially new with a nearly new price or gone in hours. I finally gave up and looked at new tractors as due to various reasons we all know, there is the start of a shortage on everything except taxes, so I needed to get one or wait a long time. I decided on a 2WD 5075E open station with the 512 loader as except for being a tier 4 tractor, it was what I was looking for, a simple, sturdy, maneuverable tractor. The other brands either don't make (Kubota) or don't stock (CNH) units like this. The local dealer had one on the lot and was about as maneuverable as the 4044M they had sitting next to it and far more handy than the MFWD 5075E sitting on its other side (which felt nearly identical to the 5083.) I had the dealer add the second SCV and load the rear tires, and it and an MX6 show up tomorrow. I got an RB 2284 blade as well, it arrives in the middle of August.

I will let you know how it goes when the 5075E shows up tomorrow. Hopefully this rain quits so I can do more than just park it in the shed next to the '65 110 that my grandmother bought new and will eventually be a restoration project of mine.

 

[Jimmy Walker]

Welcome from southern KY!

 

[rtgt]

Congratulations and welcome to GTT.

Nothing like getting what you want and it sounds like you got fairly close.

BTW, we like pictures.......

 

[Guja0501]

Welcome from MN, let us know how you like the 5075E!

 

[Gizmo2]

Welcome to GTT

 

[Levi]

Welcome to GTT and congrats!

 

[jdmich]

Welcome and congrats. Basic tractors are nice. Miss a couple I used to have

 

[Stevo3556]

Congratulations on the new tractor!

 

[robwheeler]

Welcome from NW SD.

rob

 

[Drifterbike]

Welcome from Illinois. I have a 67 1020 that my grandfather bought in 68 its been a great tractor. enjoy your new one and put it to work!!

 

[hosspuller]

Congratulations on the new tractor! Be aware the DPF expects a few changes in your operation. It wants :
1. clean fuel. No old fuel from the heating oil tank
2. Heat. Short runs, idling, low loads, cold weather will build up soot and require Regen. Don't interrupt it unless it'll start a fire. Tractor is designed to work hard. Enjoy it

 

[mo1]

The tractor arrived this morning on a lowboy. Here it is right after it was unloaded:

The dealership had gone over the tractor and cutter to some extent before they loaded it up as it had all been greased and the gearbox in the cutter was appropriately filled with oil. I did do a once-over to make sure everything was as it should be. The 3 point hitch was not level, the left hand lift arm (the one without the adjustment wing) was too short and the adjustable wing lift arm on the right was not able to be shortened enough to level the cutter. I had to set down the cutter on blocks and remove it from the cutter from the 3 point, detach the left lift arm, unscrew the top portion to the same length as the right one, and then reinstall. That was simple. The cutter also has category 1 pins and the tractor is category 2 without rotatable balls, so I put in the appropriate bushings and put it back on. The seat on the tractor was set to the lightest operator weight on the scale and was thus as bouncy as a '78 Thunderbird going over a speedbump, so I set it to midway in the scale which was comfortable to sit on as I am average size and weight. I realized why the seat was set to minimum weight, the seat has to pretty much bottom out on the springs to activate the operator presence switch for the PTO and not cause the instrument panel to flash a warning light and ding. Fortunately my tractor is a '20 and not a '21 so all it does is ding and flash the light, it doesn't kill the engine.

Other than my behind not being fat enough to trigger the seat switch, the tractor and cutter were excellent and it worked without complaint. It came to me with 7 hours and I put three on it today running the cutter to knock down some 2-3 foot tall grassy weeds, a few thistles, some 3-4 foot tall finger-diameter locust trees, and blackberry brambles in what will be my backyard and along the 1/3 mile long gravel driveway. The tractor is pretty similar in size and power to the open station MFWD 5410 my family had two decades ago and the controls are very similar, except the throttle on the 5075E is on the fender like in a cabbed tractor instead of on the dashboard. It felt like almost exactly driving the 5410 did until I had to turn, in which case this unit turns about as sharp as the competitor-to-the-4044M compact tractor my Dad has. The cutter did just fine too. I had never run a slip clutch cutter before, they had always been shear pin units. The clutch slipped a couple of times when I hit some hidden dirt mounds, that was a different experience the first time it happened as the cutter doesn't completely stop like it would if a shear pin sheared. But, it was sure handy to just lift up the cutter a few inches and the clutch re-engages rather than having to line up the hole in the PTO shaft to punch out the sheared off bolt piece in the gearbox input shaft.

I give the tractor pretty high marks for its first day, and it appears to be very well suited for the work I do.

 

[Mackford13]

Welcome from Wisconsin. Congrats on your new tractor. Pretty nice looking. 👍 😎

 

[PlumberHome]

Welcome to the forum from Western North Carolina!

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[Herminator]

Welcome to GTT

 

[Tx Jim]

Welcome to GTT from Texas

 

[Xesike]

Welcome to GTT from Eastern Kentucky and congrats on the new tractor

 

[flyweight]

 

[dodgeman]

Very nice, enjoy it!

 

[mo1]

I have been using the tractor more and have found a few little issues that were easy to fix.

1. The 3 point hitch position control lever was set from the factory such that it would only lift the MX6's tailwheel about 6" off of the ground. This was an easy adjustment as the lever has slotted holes where it connects to the rockshaft control bracket, although it took some fiddling to get the travel correct (not too much but not too little.)

2. The steering stops were set for slightly too short (about one turn of the stop nut too short) of a turning radius, there was a small bit of rubbing on the axle at full lock. The manual lists how to adjust this on the MFWD tractors but not the 2WD units, but the adjustment is pretty similar.

3. I fixed the seat switch. This is an unusual switch as the switch opening triggers the presence rather than the switch closing. A piece of plastic wrapping that originally covered the seat had gotten tucked into the seat support and was pushing the switch closed. Removing it fixed the issue.

I also went back and got a set of pallet forks as picking up some building materials that needed moved reminded me how hoky it is to hook a chain around a bucket and then hook the chain around the object you are trying to lift, and then have it spin and move on you when you lift it with the bucket. I'd never had a set of forks before nor did we ever have anything besides buckets growing up, but I saw that forks are not terribly expensive and there is a fairly decent-sized local manufacturer that makes them, so I got a set. I am very glad I did, I picked up a pallet of bricks that needed moved and the forks made it ridiculously easy, and the tractor with the loaded tires and MX6 as counterweight didn't complain in the least. I can also see how forks will be very handy for handling logs as logs were always too long to really fit well in a bucket (yet we still did it anyway.)