12.75AC said:
Is it something I can do with out?
A little tough to answer until we know where you are and what types of weather & temperature extremes you encounter.
For years, while sweating my tail off during the summers while doing a full day's worth of tractor work, I wished for a cab. In the winter, I'd think that it might also be nice to have a cab. I said to myself that if I ever moved to the mountains, where it snows a lot, I would then be able to justify a cab.
However, now that I live in the snowy mountains, I find that the summers don't get much above 85*, so a cab would only really be necessary in winter. Being tractorless right now, I've been handling the snow with a walk-behind snowblower and a ATV with a plow. I've yet to wish for a cab, though I long for the new tractor for snow removal.
I rented a full size backhoe with a cab for a long weekend this past fall, and I actually did not like the cab. I like being outside, and something about that cab did not sit right with me. I'm glad I rented that machine, because until I used it, I thought a cab was in my future. Now I've decided to buy a cabless tractor, and when and if I get wimpy enough in the winter one day in my old age, I can get one at that time. But since I go out running sled dogs in temps as cold as 25* below zero, I figure I can handle a cabless tractor. I have a friend who still runs his sleddogs at the age of 57, and he still doesn't wish he had a cab on his tractor, so I think it may be a while before I'm ready to bite the bullet on a cab.
I think if I still had to work in 105* summer heat, I'd be getting a cab. I'm a bigger wimp about the heat than the cold.