If I was buying a deere open station I'd be asking for ear protection from the dealer with purchase!
Care to elaborate as to why? Would you require this of the other brands? When I say that I find my 5075E to be the quietest 75 HP that I've ever heard I'm honestly not fanboying the tractor. I've had a couple people comment to me about how quiet it is. I find it to be quieter than a
M7060. Not that the
M7060 was overly loud, but I honest found it louder than my 5E. This isn't the first 5E I've driven, but I never considered them to be too loud, but they got a new DPF in 2018 so maybe that quieted them down more, but IDK. I honestly don't like how quiet my 5E is, and preferred the noise level of the
M7060 at WOT. My 5075E is deceivingly quiet, and I honestly wish it was a little louder, or maybe it's more accurate to say that I wished it was louder. I've gotten use to how quiet it is, and it doesn't bother me anymore, but I do fine it quiet enough to make you think it isn't making much power.
OP what I think you should do is buy the tractor you like most for the $ you're willing to spend. The last thing you should do is make a big purchase because of what people on the internet say. Reason I say this is it's often based on narratives created by people that aren't necessarily true. People on here are very bias against JD from what I've seen. I like my tractor but I'm no JD fanboy. I was looking at tractors for several months before even stopping at a JD dealer largely based on the negative publicist given to JD (namely the 5E series) on this very forum. I was surprised that when I did I liked the 5E series the most out of MF, Kubota and JD because of all the negative about it I've seen on TBN. (These are the only ones I cared to look at.) The reality is most people that down them own a Kubota or sometimes maybe another brand. I'm sure there are some owners or former owners who've had bad experiences with them, but overall most 5E owners seem to be very happy with their tractors.
Look, I honestly don't care what brand someone buys. I think everyone should look at what's out there, go to dealerships and test drive them, etc, and buy what you like if the price is right for you. The only reason I'm getting defensive about the thing is because I keep seeing people pushing these false narratives again the 5E's. Things like, "they're unreliable, just look at the issues this guy on YT is having." Or that they're overly loud and you should wear hearing protection with them but not with other brands. Or "I looked at both
M7060 and 5075E and found the
M7060 to be better at everything." I've seen people claim that
M7060's are just engineered so well and the 5E is just a clusterfuhuck of things pieced together with the Kubota having better initial build quality. I personally found none of these things to be true. IMO the 5E is a tighter machine when new, it fired up faster, and neither machine came across poorly engineered. It's quieter and IMO from the data I've gathered that I trust the 5E's seem to be pretty reliable machines, and if they have a problem other than emissions it's usually the brakes. For someone to say that they compare 2 competitive tractors and they found "everything" to be better about one over the other comes across as fanboying at its finest. I looked and drove both machines, and overall I liked the 5075E more, but there was definitely some things I liked about the
M7060 more than the 5E. For example it would be hard to take someone serious if they said, "I looked at both new Ram 1500's and F150's, and found that everything about the Ram was better."
Also people need to stop campaigning again JD assembling some of their tractors in the U.S. and acting like it's so un-American of them. Doing that's make no good sense. The 5E is more American than any other tractor in its class. I will say it again, the 5E is more American than any other tractor in its class. It's actually built in the U.S. unlike any other tractors it competes with. No, it's wheels and fenders aren't stamped here, or its gas tank molded here, etc, etc, but JD made foreign parts are sent in bulk to the JD plant in Grovetown, (Augusta) GA, and the tractors get pieced together riding down an assembly line. Why is this such an issue when looking at every other tractor manufacture and how/where their machines are built? If you fly in a new Boeing 787 Dreamliner it's assembled from parts largely manufactured overseas. Much of the Lockheed F35 is made overseas. If you buy a new F150 many of it's parts are made by foreign manufacturers that have been contracted to make parts for the truck. If you buy a new GM full-size truck it's put together in Mexico.
JD isn't doing anything different from what most other large American manufacturers are doing, but people constantly flame them for being un-American, and trying to be deceiving when they are again the most American made tractor in its class other than maybe a JD 5075M if you want to consider it in the same class which has most of its pieces made here in the U.S. BTW John Deere parts made in India aren't made at Tafe or something. Their parts are made in India at an actual JD plant. The MF 4700 series is made in China. Some might say that because of this the 4700 series must suck as Chinese things are often of poor quality. Still AGCO owns the plant in China and therefore controls the QC of the items that they make and send out, and from my understand and looking at them the 4700 series seems to be a very well build machines even though they're built in China. Again largely because it's still an AGCO plant, and not some other tractor manufacture that AGCO contracts to build the tractor. (Pretty sure its engine is made in Japan BTW) Same with JD. The 5E parts are made in a foreign JD owned plant, and then sent here. It's not like JD is contracting other companies to build 5E's or anything. This is something that people really don't understand, or something they don't really care to understand so that they can find a reason to hold something against the brand or the tractor.
Again the 5E is more American than any other tractor it competes against. At least I can't think of one who's manufacturing employees more American. The plant in Augusta employees thousands of people to built new tractors, and JD likely employees more Americans than any other tractor manufacture out there so you should stop holding that against them. If JD was trying to keep it a secret that they were making parts overseas, and assembling them here then I could see people holding that against them, but they're not doing that. They let it be known how, and where they build any given model of tractor so I don't see an issue. Seriously where's the problem? I know 2 people that work at the JD plant in Augusta, and I live 80 something miles from Augusta, but my wife is from Augusta, and has family that works there. I also have friends local to me who have family members that work there. Point being they are one of the largest employers in their area. I personally am glad my tractor was assembled here in the southeast. Makes me wonder if one of my wifes cousins drove it off the assembly line. I know one of her cousins who works there leads a team of workers who drive the tractors off the lines when they are finished being built.
