Compacts and Cabs??

[JasonMac]

About $6000.00 total shipping & installed, I know it costs almost 3 times what the Curtis Cab costs, but it is a very High Quality Cab, and it is worth it too me because of the amount of time I actually use my tractor especially in the winter. And it looks like a factory Cab, It just looks good, lots of space, and lots of extra options, and is pretty quiet inside, the noise is very muffled, no annoying rattles, it's just tight.

 

[Dave___in___CT]

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Dave...

 

[Ole_Hickory]

Can you get air conditioning with the cab ?

 

[JasonMac]

Yes, both Laurin, and Jodale-Perry offer AC in their cabs. I was going to get it but they told me they were coming out with a better unit later in the spring, so I waited, but now I just haven't got around to getting it yet, and so far I haven't really needed it. I remember when I first got the cab, I think it was you who asked me about AC then, and how it worked. I still don't know exactly how it works, but I just know they do. It could be purely self contained off electrical, not really sure.

 

[EastTexFrank]

Since you use your tractor mainly during the winter, a heated cab may be a good option. If you use it during the summer at all without A/C and it gets hot where you are, you will be miserable.

I use a MF 275 at the family farm with a cab and no A/C. The A/C has been broken for years and can't be fixed. I've been trying for years to convince everyone to get a new tractor but as long as I'm willing to use it, the rest of the family are willing to let me. Just to prove a point, I took a thermometer with me while bush hogging a couple of years ago. It got to 95 degrees outside (in the shade) and the thermometer went offscale at 120 degrees and that is with the back window removed and both side windows open. Maybe I should have used an oven thermometer. The amount of heat generated by the sun coming through the glass in incredible. It makes the tractor a mobile greenhouse and it's impossible to work for more than a few hours without getting sick no matter how much fluid you drink. I've got to the age now where I just shut down mowing for about 4 months. In fact, I'd rather use the open station JD with the conopy during the summer and mow in the morning or the evening. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Having said all that, I live in Texas and don't have to move snow although it can get a little chilly feeding hay during the winter. Oh for a tractor with cab heat and air. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[JasonMac]

Thank god my cab has never got that hot before. That would be unbearable. But for the amount of glass that I keep on for the summer is tinted so that must help quite a bit. But with the rear window removed and the side windows open I haven't had it bad at all this summer. But the Northeast is a lot different than Texas.

 

[Glenn9643]

My MF dealer is now selling McCormick tractors, and has some of their utility sized tractors in stock. I looked at the McCormick web page for information on their CUT's and while the info is sparse it does say that they are available with factory cabs.

 

[green4710]

I went to Jodale's web page, and I dont see any A/C offered for a cab for a 4710. Is this correct? If I could get A/C with that cab, that would be a neat setup. The cabs look great and look like a factory option. It would be nice to have a cab with air con when out bush hoggin, so many bugs, etc to deal with.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I don't mind working without a cab or A/C early in the AM but at night the bugs get the better of me, too. It would be nice to have a cab but for me to have a cab it would have to have A/C.

I can deal with cold (I can dress for it), but this summer heat and humidity can get the better of me. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Bird]

Yep, Frank, I've mentioned before about a neighbor of mine in the hay business who had 3 air-conditioned John Deere tractors and he said there's just two problems with that. One is that it's so miserable everytime he has to get out to work on the haybine, rake, or baler, and the other is that you just quit for the day immediately if the AC goes on the blink because even with doors open there's no way you can stay in there in the Texas sun in the summer.