After market cab for B3200

[MessickFarmEqu]

If resale is a consideration, a factory cab does bascily nothing to help sell a machine... a factory cab you will get your money out of.

 

[mark2610d]

If you elect to go for the aftermarket cab it would be like putting a camper top on your pick-up truck and then calling it a suv.

With aftermarket you get, "no factory air", more dust, more air leaks, no factor fit, less noise control, and no resale value.

Both the truck with camper top and the suv will both give you coverage from the elements but which would be better and more comfortable to travel in?

Don't get me wrong, aftermarket cabs are great for when your model tractor hp range does not have a factory cab option (nothing beats holding back the cold wind snow blowing with it 10 deg outside).

However, if you looking at 30hp range then the factory cab would be miles a head with not much more cost. The factory air alone is worth a extra 1k in my book.

The other day I was mowing and it was 98 deg outside (high humidity) and 62 deg inside cab at seat level.

 

[lawn_king]

I wouldnt say aftermarket adds nothing to resale, i got a few dollars back on my curtis cab, but nothing like you would get for the factory cab. Im amazed at how quiet the new factory cabs are, super quiet, very little vibration and comfortable. Well worth the 5 grand!

 

[WayneB]

I don't need a new tractor or one bigger than I already have, but if I ever considered a trade up, the only one that comes to mind is the 3030HSTC.

If I was in your situation I would hear what Lawn Boy has to say. He has owned a bunch of cab tractors. Number two lives in an area where he has used it when the temps are way down there and the snow is way up there! He makes a living sitting on his tractor and has a bunch of hours inside the cab.

I believe for aftermarket the Curtis Cab has a good name. If one buys the soft side cab the doors come off easily for summer time use. You can get an optional heater and driving lights and I am not sure what else Curtis might have for the aftermarket cabs. The hard side cab doors are much nicer with sliding windows which work nicely if you want to talk to someone, at least you do not have to fling the door open!

Without the heater it will be in the 2000 to 2500 range then you will either have to install it yourself or have someone do it for you.

There are add on cabs that look more like golf cart covers than functioning tractor cabs and some of them sell for as high as $1600.

I have a Femco Weather break with a sun shade type top which works to keep the snow off from me and the heat from the motor does come up into the cab, but with that said it certainly is a poor man's approach to a cab. I am not sure how much I have invested in it, but it would approach $800.

I am looking at a Curtis Cab retrofit for my B-7500 right now and the pricing for a soft sided deluxe is $1500. The hard side is around $2500 (this has the nicer doors and I think better back window shield, but I am not sure) With either the hard or soft side cab you can add a heater unit and also the lights offered by Curtis.

Here is a link to the page I saw the pricing: Curtis Tractor Cabs for Kubota Compact Tractors

 

[kuboman]

If you are so inclined you can install the factory b3030 cab on the b3200. They are the same physical tractor.

 

[WilliamBos]

Is this what you ment to say or did you want to say a non-factory cab does basicly nothing ......??????

I think he meant non.

I vote the factory cab route.

 

[EHR]

Most aftermarket cabs use flat glass whereas a factory cab uses alot of curved glass. The is a huge price difference and the issue of availablity 4 years down the road.

 

[WilliamBos]

Most aftermarket cabs use flat glass whereas a factory cab uses alot of curved glass. The is a huge price difference and the issue of availablity 4 years down the road.

I have only had 1 broken windsheild in 21 years of driving, sorta a moot point.

Most manufacturers do not change their cab glass very often. And support will be there.

 

[EHR]

Sorry, here in New ngland we have small fields with alot of trees on the border. The gentleman with his 80 hp John Deere mowing my field made the comment. He had broken the third drivers door glass and at $1400 he was going to wait until he put the tractor for sale before replacing. The same glass from flat plate instead of curved would be a couple of hundred.

If you search the threads here you will find comments on ten year old Curtiss cab doors not being supported by Curtiss. In the past you will also she post about less than 5 year old curved factory glass not being supported anymore.

No stink fight intended...

 

[WilliamBos]

Sorry, here in New ngland we have small fields with alot of trees on the border. The gentleman with his 80 hp John Deere mowing my field made the comment. He had broken the third drivers door glass and at $1400 he was going to wait until he put the tractor for sale before replacing. The same glass from flat plate instead of curved would be a couple of hundred.

If you search the threads here you will find comments on ten year old Curtiss cab doors not being supported by Curtiss. In the past you will also she post about less than 5 year old curved factory glass not being supported anymore.

No stink fight intended...

LOL. I have no worries. 1500 series has been cabbed for a while, and the 1600 series is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Keeping warm, dry & cool in the summer is
Worth the investment. Not going to lose any sleep worrying.