I have a 2014 year Deere 5055d - 2 wheel drive I bought new. My brother has a 2015 Deere 5045e - 2 wheel drive with loader he bought new.
I use my JD for haying, small squares with a wagon in tow. IMHO, it is to light for wagons going down hill and would need weights or a loader up front as they are very light in the front - for going up hill.
Even my IH Farmall 756, which weighs in probably around 9,000 lbs with weights and fluids, I'm not going to run it up and down hills with the baler and wagon. I've been on a wagon full of hay that pushed a tractor down a moderate hill in my younger days. Everything stopped safely, but it could have been deadly.
What I will do is pull a baler by itself up and down, with the 756, probably not the 5055d - no wagon in tow. We are not going to pull fully loaded wagons down hills either. Maybe I'm over cautious, but for us, there are some things we don't want to learn by mistake.
One thing we will do with baler and wagon in tow is work ourselves around the side of a moderate slope to the top, very gradually making our way up. We plan on shelters at the top of these hills/fields so we don't have to bring the hay down.
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