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[jeff9366]

I would skip the cab.

The average residential tractor runs eighty hours per year, according to industry surveys. Perhaps you will log 240 hours per year, should you do four hours per occasion, that is only sixty days per year, or a bit more than one day per week. (Four engine hours is a FULL DAY on a recreational tractor with an FEL.)

You will be conclusively retired soon. Just tractor during reasonable weather.

More important to me than a cab would be inside, humidity-controlled tractor storage.

Neither of my two Kubotas have ever experienced more than a sprinkling of rain.

 

[LPSteinmetz]

I would skip the cab.

The average residential tractor runs eighty hours per year, according to TBN and dealer surveys. Perhaps you will log 240 hours per year, should you do four hours per occasion, that is only sixty days per year, or a bit more than one day per week. (Four engine hours is a FULL DAY on a recreational tractor.)

You will be conclusively retired soon. Just tractor during reasonable weather.

Good info and definitely worth consideration. If money was no issue (and in my case I can afford it but it would be at the expense of something else) I would definitely buy it but to state the obvious...I will not be on the tractor all day, every day so it would be an expensive luxury.

 

[jeff9366]

An expensive, somewhat delicate, luxury.

 

[TripleR]

Much of what we get is a "luxury" in one sense or the other. A Grand L is considered a needless expense by many as an MX will do the same things or an L or many Kioti models for a lot less money. Heck, with small acreage, you can get by with a B and save even more money.If you truly are on the fence as to get a cab or not, there are several threads on cab v open station worth reading. I've been driving tractors for over 60 years and never thought I'd want or need a cab, but I've sure changed my mind.

We do have quite a bit of ground though and with your acreage, you should well be fine without one.

 

[LPSteinmetz]

Much of what we get is a "luxury" in one sense or the other. A Grand L is considered a needless expense by many as an MX will do the same things or an L or many Kioti models for a lot less money. Heck, with small acreage, you can get by with a B and save even more money.If you truly are on the fence as to get a cab or not, there are several threads on cab v open station worth reading. I've been driving tractors for over 60 years and never thought I'd want or need a cab, but I've sure changed my mind.

We do have quite a bit of ground though and with your acreage, you should well be fine without one.

In many ways, having a tractor at all is a luxury for me. Several times my wife asked if we really "needed" a tractor. She recognizes my BS pretty quickly so I honestly told her that it was a "want" but that I was convinced the "need" would follow once we had one and saw all that we could do with it. There is no doubt though that many cheaper tractors would work for me...I just decided to kick in a little more savings and get what I wanted.

 

[polkwrangler]

hello welcome from florida

 

[LPSteinmetz]

hello welcome from florida

Thanks!

 

[TripleR]

In many ways, having a tractor at all is a luxury for me. Several times my wife asked if we really "needed" a tractor. She recognizes my BS pretty quickly so I honestly told her that it was a "want" but that I was convinced the "need" would follow once we had one and saw all that we could do with it. There is no doubt though that many cheaper tractors would work for me...I just decided to kick in a little more savings and get what I wanted.

I think many of us are in the same category. I have an M8540HDC on another farm four miles down the road and several more on another farm six miles away, for years I just moved tractors between farms, but when I retired I "wanted" to be able to have one handy.

 

[LPSteinmetz]

Just got an update on my order...mid-March now. I never planned on it taking this long...must have picked a bad time of year to order.

 

[TripleR]

Good grief, I sure would have a hard time waiting that long, but I've noticed inventory is down on a lot of dealers.