Regret a cab tractor?

[deezler]

Sounds like a POS rattletrap hot noisy cab that Curtis, Sims and others make only worse.

Lol, yes perhaps. I don't know or care since I'm not a pu$$y and thus don't need a cab for winter or summer (j/k, j/k! haha).

While a cab sure seems nice sometimes, it really wouldn't make sense for me. I only need to plow snow 5 to 10 times per year here, and rarely during a blowing storm or under 15 degrees F. Shoot it hardly snows when it's any colder than that, for most of us in the continental US. And in the summer, I am constantly on and off the tractor when using it (I don't mow pasture or do real farmer stuff). Having no breeze of fresh air, and having to open and close the door constantly seems like a crazy pain in the rear.

Why are the cab doors not easily removable? Should be like a jeep wrangler, just pull the pins and pop the whole door off. The rear glass panel, too. Then you're most of the way to convertible.

 

[Blue Mule]

It's pretty easy to see that most posters that prefer cabs don't have that luxury.

It's not a luxury, it's a choice.

The only job I can think of that would HAVE to be done on the worst days of the year would be pushing snow, and that's why I said if you have the full time job of pushing snow you need a pickup truck with a plow anyhow.

Anything else can wait until the extreme conditions improve.

 

[5030]

While a cab sure seems nice sometimes, it really wouldn't make sense for me.

Depends on the application. I'd never run my disc bine with an open station, in fact it's recommended by all manufacturers of disc machines to run with a cabin tractor due to the chance that objects (stones, etc) being thrown forward by the spinning heads. Same deal with my round bailer. I always use my cab tractor not find of being covered with chaff from the bailing operation. Why I have both and open station and a cab unit. Each has their place and use.

 

[deezler]

^ exactly, if I did any real farmer stuff in the summers, I would strongly consider a cab.

 

[RickB]

It's not a luxury, it's a choice.
Anything else can wait until the extreme conditions improve.

I don't need a lecture on what can wait for better conditions. Making my 1/4 mile gravel driveway in upstate NY passible so my wife and I could get to work wasn't something that was a choice. It happened, typically in the dark before 6:00 AM no matter what the conditions were.
We didn't live in the South then where a flurry shuts down the entire state.

 

[CobyRupert]

my only regret on getting the cabbed unit was selling my old 1996 JD870 open station. i should have kept the little guy. there are times i need a smaller tractor.

i could not convince the wife to keep old JD

Get rid of a tractor? Gasp! That seems backwards. How is it that the tractor didn’t convince you not to keep the wife?

Should of told her “You are SO right dear. Maybe it is time I should get rid of some of the old stuff around here and replace it with a younger shiny version. Thanks!”

 

[grsthegreat]

Get rid of a tractor? Gasp! That seems backwards. How is it that the tractor didn’t convince you not to keep the wife?

Should of told her “You are SO right dear. Maybe it is time I should get rid of some of the old stuff around here and replace it with a younger shiny version. Thanks!”

well....im still alive, so that never happened

 

[DieselBound]

Lol, yes perhaps. I don't know or care since I'm not a pu$$y and thus don't need a cab for winter or summer (j/k, j/k! haha).

While a cab sure seems nice sometimes, it really wouldn't make sense for me. I only need to plow snow 5 to 10 times per year here, and rarely during a blowing storm or under 15 degrees F. Shoot it hardly snows when it's any colder than that, for most of us in the continental US. And in the summer, I am constantly on and off the tractor when using it (I don't mow pasture or do real farmer stuff). Having no breeze of fresh air, and having to open and close the door constantly seems like a crazy pain in the rear.

Why are the cab doors not easily removable? Should be like a jeep wrangler, just pull the pins and pop the whole door off. The rear glass panel, too. Then you're most of the way to convertible.

My doors come off by popping a couple retaining clips on hinge pins and pulling the pins (and popping the stabilizers off). I've thought about this, but then why bother? If one gets pinned in then just pop open the rear glass and climb out. Five years and 715 hrs and I've never had to do this (not even close). There's "possibility" and then there's "probability"- I tend to be more concerned with the later.

 

[tjandrews]

It takes a pretty big limb to break a secured, closed cab door or window.
a little situational awareness goes a long ways.

Well, yes and no. My brother was moldboard plowing with our JD 4600 and aftermarket cab, when he happened to drive up and over a head-sized rock. When he came down on the other side, the back window shattered into a million pieces. No limbs for several hundred feet.

Plan is to eventually make our own replacement window from a piece of Plexiglass. For now, we made a "temporary" back window out of a piece of plastic that once covered a spare tire in a Pontiac Vibe. It has a small hole in the center that you can look through, but we run it with the back propped up most of the time anyway, so fixing it hasn't been a priority. However, winter IS coming...

 

[GSVette]

My greatest joy in my cabbed LS came from watching the bald faced hornets from the nest I just ran over beat themselves silly trying to get at me!! Just the year prior I had to abandon ship on my non-cabbed Case 580 when I whacked a hornets nest while digging the trench for a water line. Still got stung a few time before I could get clear! The weed torch was sweet revenge, however