[Dyer, retired]

NY Yankess Fan, a.k.a. Tom,

Thanks for the pictures and excellent solution to what you see my problem to be (you see it correctly, by the way!)

I have found that regardless which direction I'm blowing the snow, which direction the wind is blowing, whether it's an election year, ha....the snow will inevitably come back into my face when blown. I also have this great advantage of many overhanging tree branches in the yard that unload their branches as soon as I can get up under them. What you don't see in the pictures is that the old snowmobile suit doesn't provide the protection it used to
(40 years ago when it was my Dad's) against water penetration (it wasn't even a snowmobile suit when purchased, but used as a cold weather protection for people working the deep freeze at a local Birds Eye plant,) so it's even more uncomfortable than it looks.

I looked at Curtis Cabs at one time and they had some pretty good prices on a couple of used ones here at my dealer, but then I would have needed the windshield wipers, the heater/defroster, the coffee pot with fixins', etc. My driveway ends up dictating that I'm on and off of the tractor so many times during a big storm that I would have to have spare door hinges on standby, etc., etc., etc. Truthfully, during most winters now, we don't get the kinds of storms that put me in these types of uncomfortable positions and, so , I have put off the cab and opted for things like rear blades, box scrapers, etc. Every time I pass someone in their T-shirt inside a tractor cab blowing snow in -3 F. weather with a 25 Northeast wind blowing, I confess a jealousy. Right at 0 degrees here now, but promising to get up to 9 above by end of day. Thanks for the pictures and thoughts. John, retired