New Holland Workmaster 75 three-point issues

[chief 83]

I purchased a 2023 Workmaster recently. It was new just has been sitting on the dealers lot. When I got it home, after trying to connect my landplane, the three point would just not go down without significant weight on it. Tough to hook stuff up that's for sure. The sales guy is a good dude. He drove an hour to help with the problem. The workmaster does not have an easy way to adjust that lowering function. You have to crawl under with a wrench and an an Allen wrench to adjust. Not much fun. I actually can do it, I'm just not flexible enough. Anyway we got it adjusted (we thought) and all seemed well. Today I had my dump trailer hooded to the tractor. As soon as I applied the weight, the three point started what I'll describe as "shudder". Kind of jerking up and down an inch or so quite rapidly. Nothing I did with the controls would make it stop. I tried applying more throttle but that didn't help either. Did we "open" the lowering valve(?) too much? I will call the dealer again on Tuesday and see what they want to do. They are the closest dealer at about an hour and a half away. I know, dealer location needs to be a factor in a tractor purchase. Unfortunately, the nearest dealer is Kubota, nice people but the pricing was way out of my range. The other dealer is John Deere. I have 2 John Deere tractors and like them just fine, but the local dealer acts like they are doing you a great favor to sell you something. I anyone has an idea on the New Holland issue please let me know. So far though I'm really liking the tractor.

 

[Lame cowboy]

I have no advice for chief 83 other than my sympathy for his purchase of workmaster 75. I recently purchased used 21 model with 201 hours. Drove it home on backroads. It wandered back and forth. I had one hand on throttle and other on steering wheel hoping to just get home. Called dealer for advice and it was factory recall for steering Problem. Dealer picked it up, found problem with stretched clutch cable with with repair quote for $941. I approved that repair. Dealer brought it home. I plowed 3 acres, plenty of power. Moved it out of barn, later started to put it back in the barn. It started to wander to left. I turned steering wheel 6 rotations to right with no response. Maybe a John Deere would have been a better purchase for you. Like I said, I sympathize with you.

 

[Harry in Ky]

The Workmaster series tractors were (at one time) a pretty good machine. In 2015 that changed. They are now an LS based machine, and an absolute train wreck. Nothing in common with the older tractors except four tires and blue paint No doubt the salesman was eager to help. I'm sure they find it hard to peddle those things, so a bird in the hand....

 

[gengine]

We had a case 40c at work with the same issues your describing. There was a knob below the seat, where your ankles would be, that had been turned, It was an adjustment for the drop rate. Since New Holland and case are similiar, that may be something to look into. I hope it helps!

 

[Harry in Ky]

We had a case 40c at work with the same issues your describing. There was a knob below the seat, where your ankles would be, that had been turned, It was an adjustment for the drop rate. Since New Holland and case are similiar, that may be something to look into. I hope it helps!

Just curious, what model year was this 40C? The early ones were built by Shibaura, the later ones, again, by LS. Totally different tractors.