Cab or no Cab

[vtsnowedin]

Has anybody ever heard of a person who had a cab tractor, sell that tractor to buy one without a cab?

Eddie

Sell one? No. But I do know farmers that have both and prefer the open station when haying and doing other field work for the visibility and to better hear the implement. Of course you need AC about two days a year here up in the hills so Texans are entitled to a completely different view on AC.

 

[TJP89]

Has anybody ever heard of a person who had a cab tractor, sell that tractor to buy one without a cab?

Eddie

Not get rid of, but I think there are a few on here who have picked up a second OOS tractor for various reasons. But nobody completely leaves a Cab and goes to a OOS.

 

[Sysop]

Not get rid of, but I think there are a few on here who have picked up a second OOS tractor for various reasons. But nobody completely leaves a Cab and goes to a OOS.

There are also those who would never own a cabbed tractor to begin with. What is boils down to for me is:

If you can do your work with a cab without working around it, and you can also afford a cab without sacrificing other needed features or quality of implements; a cab is generally the way to go.

If it is going to create additional work or limit what can be done, it's a bad choice.

If it is going to cost you other features or the cost affects the purchase decision of implements to lower cost implements, it is a bad choice.

Primary goal is for the machine to do the work so you don't have to...

 

[charles todd]

I can honestly say the advantages of a cab far outweigh the disadvantages. They do require more care and upkeep. If you are the type of owner that just uses and abuses and doesn't believe in maintenance; then an open station is a better choice. A pole saw is a cab tractor owners friend.

I grew up on and up till October 2014 had only operated old, worn, open station tractors without a canopy. October 2014 I bought a LS P7010C. This was a drastic change! I'm not as old as some of the others giving advice. I'm 34 and this tractor is for our 50 acre hobby farm. Is it excessive? Probably. Do I enjoy it, definitely! In the first week, I ran over a large yellow jacket nest while bush hogging. It was pretty neat watching them hitting the glass and me looking back at them in cool, dustless comfort.



I still use both of them. But which one gets more use??

CT

 

[nybirdman]

We have it covered,one of each.I would never give up my cabbed tractor.

 

[vtsnowedin]

What if you had to choose between an open station with a loader and a cabbed tractor without any loader?

 

[TJP89]

What if you had to choose between an open station with a loader and a cabbed tractor without any loader?

Would depend on use of course, but in my case there is no question, I'd go with the OOS loader tractor. Loader is more important than a Cab.

 

[vtsnowedin]

Would depend on use of course, but in my case there is no question, I'd go with the OOS loader tractor. Loader is more important than a Cab.

I agree. The first function of a tractor was to pull something such as a plow. A mechanical team of horses if you will. The next function was to run a machine by supplying power, first by pulleys and a belt which soon evolved into the PTO shaft. The next function was to lift objects with hydraulics both the 3PH and the loader replacing the man with a shovel. All very useful functions doing work that needed to be done. A Cab just makes the operator more comfortable and actually detracts a bit from the total work a tractor can do on a gallon of fuel.
But more then worth the cost when it is below zero and snowing with a good stiff cross wind.

 

[charles todd]

What if you had to choose between an open station with a loader and a cabbed tractor without any loader?

This is not a question... And is unfair to even assume a cabbed utility tractor has no loader! Open station with the loader wins hands down. Unless you already have a loader tractor, then the cab is the wise choice.

CT

 

[TJP89]

This is not a question... And is unfair to even assume a cabbed utility tractor has no loader! Open station with the loader wins hands down. Unless you already have a loader tractor, then the cab is the wise choice.

CT

Unless you're OOS is small, and you need a bigger tractor for more loader capacity. vt's right. You get a tractor for its function. The cab does not increase function, unless you count the incentive to actually go do something in nasty weather. I would never give up function for a cab.

Let's ask another question. You're looking at 2 Kioti DK45s, equally equipped, both new, and same money (one can dream). If one has a factory cab, and the other doesn't, which would you get?