Cabs are for wimps

[MadDogDriver]

gemini5362, your CEO is a keeper!! Love it when they want to keep you alive instead of having your (former) life a part of the Soprano's plot.

For those of us MANLY MEN (or those who really want to be wimps but can't afford it), here's a summer option to keep cool. golf cart mister, 12 volt misting systems

Looks like it'd be a great project, especially with a canopy over the ROPS. It's only about 5% of the cost of a cab, but then again it's about 100 times more than the cost of a cool bandana.

 

[RoyJackson]

As a residential user with less then 5 acres...I can't see much use for a cab, or spending the added dollars.
But if I was working a field, like a real farmer...you betcha I'd have a cab!

 

[Dmace]

BRRR! I could have used that heated cab this past winter! A quick question, doesn't your neck and back get stiff from blowing snow in reverse? I know mine would.

Not at all really. I actually turn and sit sideways on the seat so I am not turning my neck much with one hand on the steering wheel and one on the 3pt lift lever for those pesky rocks that jump out in front (or is that back?) of me.

My only complaint is after I am in there for an hour or so with the heat and wearing just a long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up, I step out of the cab to go in and remember it's only 2 or 3 degrees outside.

 

[LoneCowboy]

Most cabs have rear view mirrors inside and a couple more outside (usually as options), but that makes a big difference, i find I turn around MUCH less on the cab than on the platform (only in tricky spots), saves my neck.

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Boys,
As a previous poster stated, if I was a real farmer I would have a cab, I will second that !

Ive got three old tractors, no cab , no ROPS, and honestly Im constantly being wacked by low limbs around my hedgerows Dont know how a cab would take that abuse I will say on a nice day open platform is the way to go ! Especially with my work tunes and a good cigar !

 

[Kendrick]

Here, I'll save you some trouble. Even if you get a dog house, the dogs will not share.

I think my SO bribed them or something, but it is forbidden turf according to the dogs, their place is their place. I understand that now.....

-Mike Z.

go sleep in the cab thats what you bought it for your comfort...

I have worked on my grandma's farm in 120 deg texas sun. 4wd tractor etc its all the same. cover is the rule cab rules them all... you want dead space try hoeing in tall crops that gives you no wind. the only thing that tops that is a sealed cab. most decent ones have many vent opertunitys that you can match the job and keep the shade a little cooler then sun...

unfortunatly due to rising alergy issues and nastier chems a cab is necessary to survive. being orange and pruned by the age of 40 is not a good life. I survive the nastiest of heat in high humidity in good form i could do it all and just come back to the house dead tird. my choice is not to and if i get a proper cab the wife will proly be stealing hours from me in short order

 

[mjncad]

Mornin Boys,
As a previous poster stated, if I was a real farmer I would have a cab, I will second that !

Ive got three old tractors, no cab , no ROPS, and honestly Im constantly being wacked by low limbs around my hedgerows Dont know how a cab would take that abuse I will say on a nice day open platform is the way to go ! Especially with my work tunes and a good cigar !

Cold water or iced tea while driving the tractor, and a cold beer or two or three after the tractor has been put away works for me.

 

[mjncad]

For those of us MANLY MEN (or those who really want to be wimps but can't afford it), here's a summer option to keep cool. golf cart mister, 12 volt misting systems

Looks like it'd be a great project, especially with a canopy over the ROPS. It's only about 5% of the cost of a cab, but then again it's about 100 times more than the cost of a cool bandana.

The misting system looks interesting, and I've seen similar systems for industrial applications. Thanks for the link.

 

[BTDT]

To me a cab seems like a status symbol, and just runs up the cost of doing business. A lot of the yard service guys are pulling around their equipment in extended/double cab diesel Dodge or Fords. Seems like a lot of overhead cost that they have to pass on to someone. Maybe not so much in the farm industry of the past, but I think the farmers went with open cabbed tractors because they wanted to keep their costs down and maybe that's all they could afford. Now everything is so high tech, and it shows up in the grocery store.

 

[Dirtboy]

For me when I get my first tractor, I will look at trade offs. Like backhoe or cab. I do have some use for a backhoe but when those jobs are complete then what? or do I get the cab and hire out backhoe work? The cost of the cab is about the cost of a backhoe. Im in western NY, can get cold, can get hot, and im surely getting older. I have a relative in realestate that has some cutting jobs lined up when I get this tractor. Cab would help there. I work outside for the phone co., I get enough rain, sun, snow, and cold. Decisions, Decisions. Mike