HenRut
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Or for $500 you could go with something like this used by small aircraft owners...
Arctic Air Cooler
Arctic Air Cooler
Hot Seat Cool Seat
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jinman
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When I worked in aviation training, all 32 of our full-motion flight simulators had sheepskin seat covers. I've been in many corporate jets that also had these. No matter how cool it is in the cockpit, sitting for hours in the pilot/copilot seat is gonna put your butt into something approaching bed sores. However, I don't think I'd pop for the cost of these to put on my tractor unless it had a cab and I spent hour after hour in the seat.
And furthermore.....
what tractor has room for an icebox this size. You'd probably have to hang it under the ROPS and clamp the air tube down the ROPS coming out somewhere amongst all the levers and pedal linkage.
The real problem is the vinyl seat material. Remember the days of vinyl seats in automobiles with big windows or even before that when car seats were upholstery but everybody put plastic seat covers over them to protect the resale value.
Going into TSC yesterday I passed a line of lawn tractors with black cloth seat material, similar to modern car seat material, and black vinyl arm rests sitting in the sun. Putting my hand on the seat part found it warm ( being black ). The vinyl armrests were so hot they caused instant reflex.
Maybe the larger tractor designers will review their basic physics some day and switch to a cloth type seat that is light grey in color.
Even though I have a large aluminum canopy on the CNH and a grey vinyl seat and high back, the sweat factor is aggravated even more by the solid black floor, the high fenders, and the high black gas tank that is higher than the seat back. The muffler is under the hood and the fan blows a strong blast of hot air into the cockpit area at foot level; nice in the winter but adds to the heat in the summer. I may add deflector plates.
Best solution in my mind is a "Jinman seat cover" + getting off for a few minutes every hour or so + avoiding the late afternoon sun when mowing east and west as much as possible.
Ron
what tractor has room for an icebox this size. You'd probably have to hang it under the ROPS and clamp the air tube down the ROPS coming out somewhere amongst all the levers and pedal linkage.
The real problem is the vinyl seat material. Remember the days of vinyl seats in automobiles with big windows or even before that when car seats were upholstery but everybody put plastic seat covers over them to protect the resale value.
Going into TSC yesterday I passed a line of lawn tractors with black cloth seat material, similar to modern car seat material, and black vinyl arm rests sitting in the sun. Putting my hand on the seat part found it warm ( being black ). The vinyl armrests were so hot they caused instant reflex.
Maybe the larger tractor designers will review their basic physics some day and switch to a cloth type seat that is light grey in color.
Even though I have a large aluminum canopy on the CNH and a grey vinyl seat and high back, the sweat factor is aggravated even more by the solid black floor, the high fenders, and the high black gas tank that is higher than the seat back. The muffler is under the hood and the fan blows a strong blast of hot air into the cockpit area at foot level; nice in the winter but adds to the heat in the summer. I may add deflector plates.
Best solution in my mind is a "Jinman seat cover" + getting off for a few minutes every hour or so + avoiding the late afternoon sun when mowing east and west as much as possible.
Ron
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What is this HOT thing people are talking about? The Pacific Northwest wants to know. I'm wondering if it will dry out enough to finish last week's mowing.
SPYDERLK
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That works by the phase change principle. A lot of heat must be transferred to change from solid to liquid. They use a solution that must undergo this change around 70F to be able to recharge [freeze] in air conditioning. The cushion then holds your butt at 70° until the "ice" melts.
larry