Are cabs useful under say 30-35 hp?

[Volfandt]

Or maybe it's because as a Marine I believe in the therapeutic value of pain!

Pain, it's just hurt leaving the body, or someting like that
OOOH-RAH!

I don't know, theres something about being alone in the back 40 mow'n the tall stuff with a machine hitting on all the cylinders........................
IN AN AIR CONDITIONED CAB JAMM"N TO THE EAGLES greatest hits
Or Skynard, CCR etc etc etc

 

[BTDT]

My thoughts would be yes. If you need/want it. It might not be practical, but my thinking is it's like caliber of a gun. Is a gun under 12 guage useful, a rifle under _____ (fill in with caliber of your choice), I would say yes.

 

[patrick_g]

Needing more tractor and sacrificing a cab to get it is just a management decision, not a statement about cabs not being a good thing. Luckily in my case the CEO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) won the cab argument and I got one whether or not I wanted it (didn't at first.) Now I think it was about the best argument I ever lost!

I have been accused of using my little Kubota for a bulldozer (or tank.) I have broken a window and a mirror (preventable with caution but short on caution sometimes during the last 5 years.)

In a situation where you have a high probability of breaking a door glass you have a high probability of getting injured by what would break the glass if it were there. I have taken some pretty heavy hits and not lost a glass when I thought for sure it would shatter (tempered glass.) Just lucky I guess but I broke the small rear vent window because I stupidly left it angled open while crashing through brush. Easily preventable with brain engaged.

Sounds like a situation where you want to go romp around on a dirt bike but leave the helmet behind because you are likely to take a spill and you don't want to ding it.

Pat

 

[Boondox]

In a situation where you have a high probability of breaking a door glass you have a high probability of getting injured by what would break the glass if it were there.

Pat

There are other options for personal protection. Have you ever seen that one inch metal mesh used on golf carts to protect occupants from errant slices? Having something like that on my mini excavator in the woods sounds like the best of both worlds.

I like your management decision analogy. If I got a cab I'd want AC, which means the KX121 since the 91 doesn't offer AC...which means $12k more than I have to spend.

Pete

 

[gemini5362]

Needing more tractor and sacrificing a cab to get it is just a management decision, not a statement about cabs not being a good thing. Luckily in my case the CEO (She Who Must Be Obeyed) won the cab argument and I got one whether or not I wanted it (didn't at first.) Now I think it was about the best argument I ever lost!

I have been accused of using my little Kubota for a bulldozer (or tank.) I have broken a window and a mirror (preventable with caution but short on caution sometimes during the last 5 years.)

In a situation where you have a high probability of breaking a door glass you have a high probability of getting injured by what would break the glass if it were there. I have taken some pretty heavy hits and not lost a glass when I thought for sure it would shatter (tempered glass.) Just lucky I guess but I broke the small rear vent window because I stupidly left it angled open while crashing through brush. Easily preventable with brain engaged.

Sounds like a situation where you want to go romp around on a dirt bike but leave the helmet behind because you are likely to take a spill and you don't want to ding it.

Pat

Pat I love your post. I had almost the same experience. My wife told me in no uncertain terms she did not care if I bought a new tractor. I could buy it as long as it had a cab. I disagreed with that statement and went through the real men dont need cabs argument. I wound up losing to superior logic and I agree it is one of the best arguements that i have lost.

 

[MossRoad]

Folks that have cabs and no broken glass probably have a different definition of "crashing through the brush" than I do.

This old gal went crashing through the brush on many occasions. I don't think she had a piece of glass that wasn't cracked somwhere.

If you want to do work in the woods and be safe, get something like this that is low, wide and has good protection agains falling objects and snapping branches. As I mentioned before, had I kept it, I would have replaced the glass with expanded steel and installed roll up vinyl window curtains inside.

She served us well and is now resting comfortably as an organ donor in that great scrapyard in the sky.

 

[patrick_g]

So, except for the flat on the right front what was wrong with it?

If you really get serious about crashing through brush then expanded metal windows are more practical than tempered glass but if you have the HP and or the $ I might suggest Lexan fixed in place and caulked instead of pull down vinyl. Then you can have bullet proof AND A/C.

Pat

 

[MossRoad]

So, except for the flat on the right front what was wrong with it?

All the pins, bushings, hoses, tires, etc... were rotting off of it. Plus, it was too large for our needs. It accomplished everything we wanted it to accomplish. I was going to fix it up to sell it and went to the scrap yard to get parts. They suggested that instead of them selling me the parts I wanted, I should sell them the tractor. They gave me the price that I would have gotten less the time and parts I would have had to put into it, so it was a good deal for both of us. I am using some of the money to build a back hoe for our smaller tractor.

That tractor is a late '70s International 2500b tractor loader. C200 4 cylinder gas engine. 50PTO HP. HST two range tranny. Very powerful tractor and easy to operate. Two direction pedal under left foot, two brake pedals under right foot. Foot throttle under right foot. Differential lock under right heal. Hydro dump valve under left heal. Really layed out well with the operator in mind.

 

[patrick_g]

Good deal! Better than inventing time and $ for nothing.

You doing a "Cad Digger" from plans or kit? Or are you doing DIY homebrew hoe?

Pat

 

[MossRoad]

Good deal! Better than inventing time and $ for nothing.

You doing a "Cad Digger" from plans or kit? Or are you doing DIY homebrew hoe?

Pat

I found some free plans on the Internet and modified them for my needs. Here's a link to a very long thread in the Power Trac forum regarding the progress, which has stopped for the winter.

One other thing to think about when getting a cab is if you ever want to get a backhoe, will it work with the cab that you have chosen?