Cab for PT-425

MossRoad · Jun 10, 2004

Since no one seems to appreciate my input, this will be my last attempt to join in with your closed group. 

I think people are interested in all the information about all choices of cabs for the PTs or any other tractor for that matter. Your input is greatly appreciated just as much as anyone else's. We are hardly a closed group, as many of us own several different tractors of many styles and we frequently engage in chatter with the rest of TBN. We even go so far as to reccomend other brands of tractors to potential buyers when the need arrises. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

So please stick around and contribute with posts like the one you just did with the hard cab on the yellow PT. It is great information to share with all of TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

toolz_not_toyz · Jun 10, 2004

It's also important to remember that the folks around here can be a cranky bunch and I think we all like to speak our minds every now and then. It makes for honestly good dialog if not always interesting discussion. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

ccdck20hst · Jun 10, 2004

Thanks TBrown I will check out cabdepot.co. If the cab (for a CK20) might be manufactured in the fall I should be thinking about ordering it real soon to get it by winter! I would expect it to be back ordered. I'd be curious what a cab for the PT425 would look like to and I will check that site for it. Charlie

toy · Jun 11, 2004

Hey Traderralph don't let that be your last post, I have veiwed your attachment several times. As far as I am concerned you are very wlecome on this forum. I have been scavaging parts to make cab for mine for some time and had been working[tinkeringwith it] to see if I had enough materials to build one. Your post was timely for me. The cab in your attachment was nice , it shows that a cab can be put on one. The machine that you showed is a whole lot bigger than the 425[more width in the cab compartment than the 425] . What I had in mind was something that is very light so it would be easy to take off in the summer and put back on in the winter. I really liked the professional job but I will probably coble up something that looks awful but to me it will look good in the winter time and it will be off in the summer time. Like I said at the first your input is very welcome here I may not always respond but I read all the posts. Some of the posts even though I am interested in them sometimes I don't respond but I do gleen information from them. Hope to here from you again, soon!

FOURTEEN · Jun 11, 2004

My first "cab" consisted of a 2' x 2' piece of Plexiglas held in front of my face while using my Stump Grinder!

I have since eliminated that need by reversing the Stump Grinder, but there are times when additional protection would be nice.

Yesterday I was compacting when it began to rain. As I continued, the Canopy kept my head dry, but my hands and elbows got wet!

How about a simpler, home-made cab??

PS: Thanks for your post! All posts have value! Many read, but few respond. My post PT-425 PROS & cons?? has had 3446 Views, but only 79 Replies of which 32 were MINE!!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

TBN is really more like a loudspeaker than a telephone!!

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MossRoad · Jun 11, 2004

My post PT-425 PROS & cons?? has had 3446 Views, but only 79 Replies of which 32 were MINE!!!!! 

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RegL · Jun 11, 2004

( TraderRalph - I have read many posts and learning about a company that makes custom cabs was good news for me. I have a kioti ck20hst (got it a couple of weeks ago after waiting for it since March!) but a PT425 was the other unit that most interested me. I live in northwestern Connecticut at 1200 feet. For this immediate geographic area this is high. During the winter, it is also cold (down to fourteen below zero) and windy (often 40 plus mph) around my place. Since I want to use the tractor to plow in the winter a hard, or soft cab is of great interst to me. Haven't seen any cabs yet for the CK20. It snows in my town much more often than most other areas in Connecticut or so it seems and with cold temperatures and high winds a cab is appealing. Yours was the first post I remember seeing dealing with custom made "hard" cabs. Thanks for the info. Keep in mind that posts stay around for a long time and can be helpful to many users for a long time. Oh yea, when my cubcadet gets tired I would definitely consider getting a PT to replace it. Charlie )

Hey Charlie, hope your not in Salisbury. I want to stay the only guy in town to have a PT. Reg

TraderRalph · Jun 12, 2004

I want to thank Farmall140 for taking the time to send me a personal message, & To all who have responded. Where to begin? I do not want to take a lot of time, just the high points. I was glad to find this group, watched you quietly for a while, then had a couple of questions so I sent 1 or 2 personal messages out (kind of testing the water) Never did receive a single reply. Still followed along when I could, when I saw someone was interested in a cab w/ heat & AC I decided I'd go ahead & send in my 2 cents worth. Well you know what my response was. I felt that no one was interested in what I had to share. But what you don't know is that around the same time my mother passed away & I buried her! When I got back home from the funeral. I discover that a business partner & friend of 15+ years (I thought that this person was one of my better friends, you know the kind, I've got your back covered & he has mine covered. ) was pulling up & going to sneak out on a business deal that we had. It cost me between $75K & $100K. The money hurt but what hurt the most was 15 years of friendship. There is no way I can explain to you online what was at stake with this deal.
So in regards to what my 2 cents was worth, I figured this is just another closed group forum & a waste of my time to try & be a participant.
It has been a very tough time for me since the death of my mother.
Thanks for listening, TraderRalph

Rip · Jun 12, 2004

Ralph,

Sorry to hear about your mothers passing plus the additional situation regarding former business partner/friend. These type of life events can throw one off kilter for a while and distort otherwise non-issues into more than is really there.

I too had a 20 year business parner/friend relationship turn sour about 6 years ago. and it took about 4 years to put it behind me.

I was interested enough in your initial post of the cab that I printed it out right away along with the company that made it when you posted it a day or so later.

I welcome your input, but as some others have mentioned, untill folks get "chatty" with someone (often only after reading a number of their posts over time), most will not jump in right away with a lot of comments.

If you read some of the other forums here on TBN you will notice that the personalities of many of the members varies with the type of equipment they own. So as the PT is somewhat different from the "standard" CUT, so too PT owners can be a bit more excentric (even opinionated!) as well.

This is not a bad thing, just an observation (myself included!).

So please stick around and we will all benefit from everyones comments and experiences with this unusual line of power equipment.

Once again, welcome to the forum...

Rip

FOURTEEN · Jun 12, 2004

"" PT owners can be a bit more excentric (even opinionated!) as well ""

/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Who are you refering to?? /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif Certainly NOT ME!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif There is nothing the least bit excentric about me!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif