To cab or not to cab?

[srs]

I can get a cab on the desired tractor I want or I can get one without. Any reason not to get one? It's about $2500 more for the cab with heat and air. I like the open air feel of tractors and for me this would be the only downside, but I can see during hot days like we have now (and cold ones) where a cab would come in handy. Is this a no brainer...get the cab?

My wife is severely allergic to poison ivy and said I should get a cabbed tractor since she does most of the lawn mowing. Twisted my arm did she!!!! I do the snow plowing so with the record blizzard we got this past winter wow was it nice to plow in a sweat shirt.

 

[TripleR]

Is that a slam to my "Manly Men" comments, Dave?

And, another one!!

Jeezzzzz!

No, I think I know you well enough to know when you are kidding, just trying to lighten it up a bit.

I don't slam people, not my style.

Larry

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, if you can take those purple sticker things in the face and all over your arms without issue, you are a manly man!

Might be manly, but that doesn't mean I'm stupid. When I'm working in that kind of brush, I've got heavy bib overalls (Carhartt's) and a canvas jacket. Since it's just for me, I do this work early Spring or late Fall (less growth).

Is that a slam to my "Manly Men" comments, Dave?



No, I think I know you well enough to know when you are kidding, just trying to lighten it up a bit.

I don't slam people, not my style.

Larry

You're exactly right...

 

[Rob-D]

My wife is severely allergic to poison ivy and said I should get a cabbed tractor since she does most of the lawn mowing. Twisted my arm did she!!!! I do the snow plowing so with the record blizzard we got this past winter wow was it nice to plow in a sweat shirt.

If I lived in Maryland all I'd ever wear is a sweat shirt!

We've seen forty below here, that's when we put on jackets! You guys might have gotten a bad storm last year but it's just a storm when you live in the mountains.

On the brighter side we don't have poison ivy, ticks, chiggers, copperheads in our garages, long lines at the market or traffic jams.

Rob

 

[Cat_Driver]

..don't know about where you live, but where I am about every stinking thing that grows tall around here has some sort of thorns! We have these purple colored stalky things that have the sharpest thorns that hurt like the dickens and itch for days. Heck, I once got slapped in the face with a tall thistle plant when bush hogging on an open station tractor. Dang! Talk about unpleasant!!

What I have a re Date Palms with thorns on the end of the leaves that will go through a tire like a hot knife through butter. One day I was clearing up around the trees and got into some of the branches and started to turn around to back up ( WITHOUT A CAB ) and one of those thorns had reached in the cab and was about an inch from my eye. That day I started looking for a cab unit.

Fir kicks I got on the no cab Kubota and got near some brush and a swarm of bees engulfed the open cab. The only thing saved me that day was there was soo much heat coming off the engine the bees must have been sensitive to because the circled the can and never came near me.

That's it - I've had it with no cabs.

 

[mjncad]

:thumbsup: Thats a sweet machine! What were you doing?

I'm getting ready to resurface my driveway with recycled crushed concrete, and I want to run some electrical conduit and irrigation lines to the other side before I resurface it. Also, I'm redoing two of the storm drains on the front of the house that are nearby.

So it was time to dig some trenches, about 100-feet all total I'm guessing. I can dig a straight trench; but getting consistent depth is a problem, and I tend to dig too deep. However, I don't run an excavator too often, so I guess that's to be expected.

Today I was backfilling the longest trench (~55 feet) to a consistent 2-foot depth using my non-cabbed JD 4200. The wind was blowing, and of course I'd get a face full of dirt on occasion, all on a high 90's day. I like my 4200; but if I could afford to get a cabbed tractor, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[Rob-D]

What I have a re Date Palms with thorns on the end of the leaves that will go through a tire like a hot knife through butter. One day I was clearing up around the trees and got into some of the branches and started to turn around to back up ( WITHOUT A CAB ) and one of those thorns had reached in the cab and was about an inch from my eye. That day I started looking for a cab unit.

Fir kicks I got on the no cab Kubota and got near some brush and a swarm of bees engulfed the open cab. The only thing saved me that day was there was soo much heat coming off the engine the bees must have been sensitive to because the circled the can and never came near me.

That's it - I've had it with no cabs.

I think it's a bad idea, regardless whether you have a cab or not, to work in any kind of brush without some sort of safety glasses on. I never do.

I live in farm country, farmers have a mix of cabbed and non cabbed tractors here. I'm still looking for the farmer that doesn't sweat and get dirty regardless what they're driving on any particular day. Farming is a dirty, sweaty, stinky job. This is not for me.

If you spend your day plowing 100 acres of corn field than the cab is a nice benefit. That's a business and it's not for me either. This is the last thing I want to do, I find it boring. Clean out barns full of manure, Uck! Gag me with a spoon. You're in and out of the tractor, there is no way around it. Now you're dragging fresh manure into the cab. Simply wonderful, now your cab smells like a barn along with your house! Again, God bless the farmers but I'm not one and never want to be one.

Do I accomplish real work on my tractor, yes, I plow snow, restone my long driveway, plant fruit trees, remove stumps, make trails through the woods, split wood, move heavy stuff, etc, etc. Do I sweat, yes, but I like to sweat and work hard. Do I get dirty, you bet, but so what. I figure if you're going to be outside working on and off your tractor it comes with it.

Now those of you who own cabs, do you ever sweat, have to get out of your cab in the cold, hot or dirt? Has to be it's just a part of working outside.

Rob

 

[nmu98]

I'm getting ready to resurface my driveway with recycled crushed concrete, and I want to run some electrical conduit and irrigation lines to the other side before I resurface it. Also, I'm redoing two of the storm drains on the front of the house that are nearby.

So it was time to dig some trenches, about 100-feet all total I'm guessing. I can dig a straight trench; but getting consistent depth is a problem, and I tend to dig too deep. However, I don't run an excavator too often, so I guess that's to be expected.

Today I was backfilling the longest trench (~55 feet) to a consistent 2-foot depth using my non-cabbed JD 4200. The wind was blowing, and of course I'd get a face full of dirt on occasion, all on a high 90's day. I like my 4200; but if I could afford to get a cabbed tractor, I'd do it in a heartbeat.

I have the same depth problem. I only use our hoe about 4 times a year. We ussually have to dig a ditch with a downward slope. I think each year our ditches get a foot deeper...

 

[mjncad]

Gag me with a spoon.

Rob

Were you a Valley Girl in a previous life?

 

[Rob-D]

Were you a Valley Girl in a previous life?

No a farmer!