New Holland
New Holland C330
The bright segment is what New Holland C330 is rated to carry; the grey run past it is the rest of its tipping load. Bar length is tipping load drawn to the same scale on every machine on the site, so a short bar is a smaller machine and not a conservative rating.
The New Holland C330 is a mid-size compact track loader with the patented Super Boom vertical lift and a 67 hp Perkins diesel. It delivers 3000 lbs of rated capacity in a lighter, simpler package that stays below the DEF-aftertreatment power class.
Suits: Owners wanting a simple, capable vertical-lift CTL without big-frame weight or emissions complexity Its vertical lift path reaches highest at full extension, for loading high-sided trucks and stacking.
Lifting and reach
- Rated operating capacityTrack loader rating convention
- 3,000 lbs
- Tipping load
- 6,000 lbs
- Lift height to hinge pin
- 121 in
- Lift path
- Vertical Lift
- Operating weight
- 8,380 lbs
Power and hydraulics
- Engine power
- 67 hp
- Engine
- Perkins
- Auxiliary flowStandard circuit
- 24.2 GPM
- Flow type
- Standard
- Warranty
- 2 yr / 2,000 hr
Fitted or available
What this machine can be ordered with. Some of these are standard and some cost extra, and which is which moves between trim levels, so check them against the quote rather than against this list.
What owners report
Summarised from the sources listed below. Nothing here was tested by us.
Newest of New Holland's mid-frame track loaders, and the one with the most distinctive drivetrain: while the rest of the line runs FPT engines, this one carries a 67 hp Perkins. Owners who want vertical-lift geometry and a lot of carrying capacity relative to trailer weight, without the emissions hardware and price of a 74 hp machine, are the natural buyers.
In practice it behaves like a lighter C332. Dump height is 91.7 in with 34.7 in of reach, cycle times are the quickest of the mid-frame C machines at 3.5 seconds up, and the low-profile undercarriage with rubber-on-rubber track contact keeps cleanout and noise manageable. The weaknesses are the same ones reported across this generation of New Holland and Case loaders - display and camera trouble, and short-to-power faults at the boom and bucket valve drivers - all of which need dealer diagnostic software to chase. The permanent limitation is hydraulic: there is no high-flow package for this model, ever.
Worth buying at roughly $63,000 if your work is bucket, forks and grapple on soft ground and you have no ambitions toward a mulching head. If you do, the C332 at about $66,000 is the model that can take the high-flow option and the small price difference makes that the easier decision than it looks. Before signing, check whether the machine in front of you has the optional display and camera, and convert the capacity to the 35 percent basis before you set it against a Bobcat, Deere or Kubota quote.
What owners like
- Perkins power rather than the FPT engine used through the rest of the line. It is a 67 hp Tier 4 Final unit, and the practical upshot is a simpler, lower-output emissions package than the 74 hp machines above it - worth something to owners who would rather not own aftertreatment sensors.
- 3,000 lb of rated capacity out of an 8,380 lb machine is a strong capacity-to-weight ratio for a track loader, and it means a smaller trailer than the 9,630 lb C332 needs for a capacity difference of 200 lb on the same rating basis.
- Super Boom vertical lift gives 91.7 in of dump height with 34.7 in of reach. Reach is what actually matters when you are placing a load over the side of a truck box, and 34.7 in is close to the larger C332's 37 in - much more useful than the 22.3 in the radial C327 manages.
- Quick on the levers: 3.5 seconds to raise and 2.3 to lower, the fastest cycle times of the mid-frame New Holland track loaders, helped by the in-line pump layout that also keeps the hydraulics quiet.
- The undercarriage is the same low-profile design used across the C-Series, with steel-embedded rubber tracks running on rubber rather than steel and fewer moving parts than a conventional steel-roller arrangement, which keeps cleanout and noise down.
What owners complain about
- No high-flow option exists for this model at all. The 24.2 GPM standard circuit is all you will ever have, which rules out mulchers, cold planers and most stump grinders permanently. If there is any chance you will want one, the C332 one rung up is the cheapest machine in the line that can be optioned for it.
- The 3,000 lb headline is taken at 50 percent of a 6,000 lb tipping load, where most track loaders are published at 35 percent. On the 35 percent basis this is a 2,100 lb machine, and New Holland's own page confusingly labels that figure '30% tip' even though it is 35 percent of the load quoted directly beside it.
- The 8-inch display and its integrated backup camera are listed as optional equipment on this model, where the radial C327 gets them as standard. A used machine may simply not have them, and the price advantage over a better-equipped rival can evaporate once the option is added.
- 67 hp pushing an 8,380 lb machine is modest. The 74 hp C332 is only slightly heavier per pound of capacity, and owners moving material uphill or into a pile notice the difference in how quickly the machine loads down.
- The electrical faults reported across this generation apply here too - shorts to power at the boom and bucket valve low-side drivers, camera and display trouble, and a stuck relief spool throwing implausible auxiliary sensor codes. These need CNH's dealer-locked diagnostic software, and New Holland's construction dealer coverage is thin in many regions.
- The Perkins engine that makes this model interesting also makes it the odd one out in the line. Your dealer's parts shelf and technicians are set up around the FPT engines in the rest of the range, and this is the machine they will have seen least of.
Drawn from construction.newholland.com, compactequip.com, skidsteerforum.com, aglist.ca.
What buyers ask
Can I add high flow to a C330 later?
Why does this one have a Perkins when the rest of the line is FPT?
How does the 3,000 lb rating compare to other brands?
Is the backup camera standard?
What should I inspect on a used one?
Put the New Holland C330 against
Machines in the same range
The rest of the New Holland line
New Holland
New Holland C327
$60,000
Also sold as the Case TR270B
- Engine
- 74 hp
- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
- 8,270 lbs
Digging, grading, and dirt work rather than truck loading is where the C327's radial geometry aims. It's the sole radial-lift compact track loader in New Holland's 300 Series, pairing a 74 hp FPT diesel with 2700 lbs of rated capacity.
Full sheet & owner reports
New Holland
New Holland C332
$66,000
- Engine
- 74 hp
- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
- 9,630 lbs
Sharing the C337's frame and 101.6-inch dump height at a lower price and capacity point, the C332 is a large-frame compact track loader with the patented Super Boom vertical lift and a 74 hp FPT diesel.
Full sheet & owner reports
New Holland
New Holland C345
$95,000
Also sold as the Case TV450B
- Engine
- 90 hp
- Aux flow
- 24.2 GPM
- Weight
- 10,610 lbs
Workhorse of the 300 Series for serious loading and high-flow attachment work, the C345 is a heavy-duty compact track loader pairing a 90 hp FPT diesel with the patented Super Boom vertical lift and 4500 lbs of rated capacity.
Full sheet & owner reports