John Deere 5R Series Tractor: Lighting Comparison LED vs Halogen

[@mdgiddens9818]

Man, that pattern is unbelievable! My gosh, the dollars I could have saved with that package over the years. Thanks for keeping us informed with your videos and yes, LEDs are a must.

[@gpax-6197]

Finally someone doing a 5000 series tractor review.

[@mbarber84]

Gpax-6 thanks. I’m happy to be posting them. Information on the 5R tractor is still limited because they are so new. I’ll be making more videos soon, once the weather gets better. Not much farm work going on right now.

[@DonegalTDI]

Great video and thanks for posting. My 5125R is on it's way to me in Ireland, currently it's in a container on a ship heading east in the middle of the Atlantic. Should get it towards end of August.

[@iamtheman240]

Wow thanks for shedding some light on that, I now feel illuminated lol. Another great video 👍

[@eof3100]

I like the videos, do you think you will make any more 5125R videos I recently purchased a 2020 5125R with 22 hours It would be nice to see all of the features and buttons covered . John Deere's owners manuals lacks detail in many area's .

[@mbarber84]

Thanks, I have a 1,000 hour review video planned I just haven’t had the time due to hay season being busy.

[@eof3100]

@@mbarber84 Great thank you.

[@David-ll8bt]

Nice video. What a difference. If you would have said "I apologize for apologizing so much" it would have made my day.

[@gibbons025]

How’s the tractor doing ? Any updates ?

[@LakeJoe]

Hi, I have a recently purchased 5125R (2017) with 1,300 hrs. Huge learning curve from my 4066R. Do you still have your 5R or have you moved on from it….

[@mbarber84]

@@LakeJoe we still have the 5125R but it will be going up for sale soon. The family has decided to sell the farm so we’re selling the equipment

[@LakeJoe]

@@mbarber84 understandable, best wishes for the future.

[@mgerardv]

Its been cold here in NH and in PA. How has the tractor been? How many hours on it? Any problems?

[@mbarber84]

Marc Vaillancourt we’ve had no issues with the tractor whatsoever. It has performed flawlessly in all weather conditions we’ve experienced thus far. I’m at around 200 hours last I looked. When it was extremely cold out, I was using the block heater to make things easier but I don’t think it would’ve hesitated to start regardless. The heated seat was a nice creature comfort on those -20° windchill days!

[@wilf.x]

the LED’s make a huge difference ... it’s difficult to tell in the dark but how does the 5125r compare in size to the 6420 ?

[@mbarber84]

Wilf Smith the 5125R is very comparable to the 6420. Talking engine horsepower, the 5125R is actually stronger. They’re also very close in weight. It’s amazing how things have changed/grown in 12 years. I should do a comparison between the two in the daylight. Good idea!

[@wilf.x]

mbarber84 thanks for the reply, the John Deere 6000 series tractors have a good following with contractors where i live in south west England, but small dairy/beef farmers seem to favour Massey Ferguson (MF have a good dealership network here) but people are talking about the JD 5125r as a good alternative to the MF 5700 series as a good all round loader & utility tractor your videos are very informative and you have a great way of presenting them (John Deere should be paying you) thank you for your time & effort of putting them online for us to view

[@mbarber84]

Wilf Smith thanks for the compliments. I truly appreciate it. I will be doing more videos as time goes on. It is difficult this time of year because the weather isn’t conducive to being outside for long but when I get a chance I will make some more and post them. I’m trying to build a good channel that is interesting and informative. When I was looking to buy a 5R there simply was nothing like this out there so I decided it was a good idea to promote the tractor for the benefit of others. I would love to do this professionally for Deere. I believe they build an excellent machine but often they don’t promote them through social media enough. Or worse, they have people unfamiliar with the machine do the demonstrations. I feel your best salesman will be someone who knows the machine through daily use and takes a common sense approach. If you ever have questions just let me know and I’ll do my best to answer them or create more videos. Happy new year!

[@mbarber84]

Wilf Smith I forgot to mention when I was ready to buy, it came down to a 5125R or a Massey Ferguson 5713SL. The Deere was a better price, and the other elements that made it the better choice for me was my experience with Deere tractors as well as local dealer support. Price was competitive with Deere actually winning out there as well. I have a Massey 362 that has been an excellent machine for us for over 20 years. I have nothing bad to say about them, but ultimately I feel Deere builds a superior tractor. Add to that my experiences and operational time in the seat, you’ll have a hard time selling me any other color tractor than green and yellow. They aren’t perfect, but I have a lot of faith in their engineering and design. They also hold value exceptionally well.

[@wilf.x]

mbarber84 i agree, there is very little out there for the 5125r, and the stuff that i have found is John Deere’s own media with a salesman demonstrating the tractor, so it’s really good to get the perspective of an owner that actually operates the tractor on his own farm, getting a farmer to change the colour of his tractor is possibly one of the hardest tasks in the world 😉 (especially if it’s green and yellow) i follow a few American farmers on here and “Spring Hollow Farm” switched from a Deere 6330 to a Massey 5610, but switched back to a Deere relatively quickly, and “One Lonely Farmer” buys his John Deere tractors secondhand here in the UK and ships them back to America (apparently he saves a lot of money doing it this way ?) i’m guessing that John Deere will have the biggest network of dealers in the USA ? availability of getting a field engineer out during harvesting time is an essential consideration when buying a tractor (MF would win that race where i live) once again, thanks for your replies and your videos (i really do enjoy them) and i hope 2019 is a great year for you

[@lobbyrobby]

Do you happen to know what the spread is on these? Like 60° or 80°?

[@davidsean1762]

Incredible difference

[@ericstebenne6368]

I'm very like this tractor I happy for you next year I'm looking buying 5100r I am excited

is this a jd set of led lights or you had switched from halogens to leds?

[@mbarber84]

Jacek Skowroński the LED lights on the 5R are factory. The tractor can be ordered that way from the factory 👍🏻

@@mbarber84 Thx, I'm looking for solution how to upgrade halogens to LEDs on my 6140r (6 years old)

[@mbarber84]

Jacek Skowroński Deere offers direct LED upgrades for most of their lights. I believe on your R series it would be easy to do, but the LED’s are very expensive.

@@mbarber84 I know, so I'm searching for cheaper alternative. Today I received package with LEDs for JD but from Polish led company - Wesem. I will try it on harvester, and will try to fit it on tractor. Those are big lamps - 4000lm, when JDs original have 1800lm.

[@vincentvanpaepeghem4844]

Great video. LED's are the way to go.

[@zfilmmaker]

Most LED light manufactures offer different color temps, 3000-4000k has a yellowish hue similar to halogen and 5000k+ is toward the blue hue.

[@joelhutchinson4281]

Best!

[@ericstebenne6368]

I wan see new video please

[@fcttmemes2372]

I don’t understand why you Americans (nothing against you guys) why you call it a sixty four twenty why not just say six four twenty

[@mbarber84]

Most likely because the way we say it is derived from the way John Deere used to number their tractors. The tractor I refer to in the video is from the "Sixty - Twenty Series" of tractors. The series prior was the "Sixty-Ten" series and the series after was the "Sixty-Thirty". So when I say Sixty-Four, it refers to the specific tractor in that series. Deere also made a Sixty- Two Twenty and so on. Years later, and currently, they have the new numbering system in use where the first number refers to the series, the next three numbers refers to the engine horsepower, and the letter following denotes the "spec" , capability, or cost level. SO for instance on the new tractors, a tractor labeled 6175R would be read as "Six One-Seventy-five R" (Six series or Six family, 175 engine horse power, R level)