Cab cost justification.

[Couple of Achers]

My take on whether to buy the cab or not is this. If you choose to buy one, you will only miss the money for a short period of time. However, if you choose not to buy one, you will miss not having the cab forever.

Frostbite Falls, Minnesota

 

[Chilly807]

My take on whether to buy the cab or not is this. If you choose to buy one, you will only miss the money for a short period of time. However, if you choose not to buy one, you will miss not having the cab forever.

Frostbite Falls, Minnesota

What, and miss out on the nice cool January breeze through my non-existent hair? The heart-warming howl of mosquitoes around my ears in the spring? And not to be forgotten, the lovely warm August sun roasting me like a duck in an oven...

I keep telling myself this, like a mantra. Soon I'll actually believe it. Maybe.

Chilly

 

[peterc38]

My take on whether to buy the cab or not is this. If you choose to buy one, you will only miss the money for a short period of time. However, if you choose not to buy one, you will miss not having the cab forever.

Frostbite Falls, Minnesota

I had a chance to buy a curtis cab for my B7610 early last summer that was in very good shape for $800. I passed and I have been kicking myself ever since.

 

[Doug in NNY]

In October I had my dealer install a Curtis hard cab with heater on my BX2350. I have a 48" 3ph Loftness snow thrower on the back and the loader on the front. With this 3ph unit I had a rear wiper installed also.

Yup, it wasn't cheap. And, yeah, it was more than I had planned on. I saved for it and now it's done. We get some mean snow amounts in this part of the world, and cold. At my years (I'm 66) I figured I need all the help I can get.

If I were 30 years younger I'd be out there bundled in Carhartts and a hoodie and goggles and snowmobile boots with felt liners. Winters in the 1970s in Northern New York State were brutal. I froze and didn't mind it so much (or so I told myself). We didn't have much money back then, and an old 8N with a back blade got us through.

Today we complain about (say) the snappy coming out of reverse in high range on the BX2350. But back in the day I remember many a time trying to get ice out of the fuel filter bowl on our 8N, or reverse being geared too high, or something.

I do remember being thankful for what we had back then, and I'm thankful for what I have now. And that's all I have to say about that.

Doug

 

[lawn_king]

Too bad you let that one get away! I had a curtis soft side cab on my b7500, it had a 15000 btu heater,wiper and front worklights.

 

[brin]

Hey it was 32 deg. here in Georgia this morning and this is one Southern Boy who is cold..I know what ole Sam was a thinkin' - How you Northern fellas can take the cold is beyond me...Geez, I hate the cold..give me 90 deg ++ anyday...bring on the supposed global warming...the sooner the better I say.

 

[Chilly807]

It's a funny thing, the first cold spell in early winter feels like the North Pole has moved south, then you start to get acclimatized to it. We had about -6 or -8 C here today with a howling north wind. I think the worst part is the dampness we get here along the Atlantic coast. It goes right through your bones.

By spring I'll be used to it, and hardly complaining any more.

Chilly

 

[northernjake]

Funny how the topic of a thread can broaden out. Doug, you are so right to be so thankful and appreciate what we have. I remember as a kid on the farm driving the old Allis WD to feed the cattle, in freezing cold weather, then my Dad telling of his times as a child, riding to town all bundled up in the back of a cutter to get groceries. And then later on telling how his Dad had a Model A Ford and would have to remove the radiator and bring it in so that it would not freeze because they did not have antifreeze then...

Chilly, I know what you mean about the damp cold, here we don't have the humidity that a lot of you experience and -40 dry still feels better than -20 with the dampness..
I'm still thankful for so much,..... right now it's the cab on my tractor.

Jake

 

[bstrom]

I've lived in the north and the south. After a year or two you can get used to anything - hot or cold. But for me the worst thing is damp cold -brutal. Never can get used to that. Try working outside when it's 34 degrees F and drizzling. I'll take - 10 F or 98 F any day over that.

 

[lawn_king]

Agreed, when you bring moisture into the equation the comfort level drops another level. We work snow during the winter and love to see spring peeking around the corner!