Custom HD Tractor Canopy

[Hollow]

Fabrication is finished! Now to disassemble, finish welding and paint...

Sorry if I'm posting to many photos, I think I got a little carried away.

She even fits in her parking space with about 4" to spare!

 

[Hollow]

I wanted to start painting today but it was to darn cold outside!

 

[murphy1244]

Why so much bracing in the front?

 

[Hollow]

Why so much bracing in the front?

The sweeps are there to allow limbs to slide up and over the canopy when bushhogging. The front posts are just for added support, I probably didn't need them but thought it would be easier to add them now instead of fixing something bent or broken later.

 

[Soundguy]

awe! where's the fun in that

 

[Hollow]

awe! where's the fun in that

I usually say "if its worth doing, its worth over doing"... However I don't always do that and usually end up paying for it later.

 

[barneyrb]

I built something very much like this for my JD990. At the time I too was doing a lot of woods road bush hogging and I wound up adding some angle iron from the fenders to the top and using expanded metal to build sort of an expanded metal cab.

What slides off the bars will have lots of tension and stings bad when it slaps you in the ear, been there and got the scars.

 

[jimmysisson]

Agree with Barney here - get slapped a lot in the woods with my open-sided Curtis. Just have to pay attention, but sometimes you're doing something else and don't have a hand free to protect your ear/eye/cheek!
Still, I like the idea of getting the branches up and over. Just keep your lights under the lid. Nice work.
Jim

 

[barneyrb]

This is a side view of the cab I was speaking of. Yes the tractor is a red 990 (yanmar)

 

[Hollow]

This is a side view of the cab I was speaking of. Yes the tractor is a red 990 (yanmar)

That's a good looking cab you've got there. I thought about doing something like that but I'm afraid it would be in the way more than being helpful. I don't get in the woods much, mostly just for planting food plots before hunting season. Where I bushhog there's a lot of old growth oaks with low hanging limbs that I don't want to trim for privacy reasons.