Regret a cab tractor?

[grsthegreat]

when i shopped for my cab unit, i measured my lean too and then had to go find a tractor that fit. also only have a few inches to spare.

my only regret on getting the cabbed unit was selling my old 1996 JD870 open station. i should have kept the little guy. there are times i need a smaller tractor.

i could not convince the wife to keep old JD

 

[jayhawk238]

I've been on a search this year for a 4WD tractor and was on a path to an open station version. Various members on TBN have swayed me to the cab version and I'm almost there. With 4WD I believe I will use the tractor year round instead of storing it during the winter like I do with the JD 2020. Just to give me a view of something I haven't thought of, has anyone gone back to an open station after getting a cab tractor?

I blew snow for over ten years with a open station with a rear 3-point blower. Longest 10 years of my life. Finally decided if I was going to continue blowing driveways I was going to be in a nice warm cab and looking straight ahead and not over my shoulder with a front mount blower (my tractor has a mid-mount PTO). That's when I got my 2004 Kubota HSC L5030. I will never go back to an open station. The air conditioning is also a HUGE benefit in the hot dusty summer months running my other implements. Get the cab. You won't be sorry!!

 

[DonaldP]

The best accessory to buy with your new cab tractor is a pole saw.
The worst bad habit you can develop with a cab tractor is moving it any distance with a door open

 

[grsthegreat]

I blew snow for over ten years with a open station with a rear 3-point blower. Longest 10 years of my life. Finally decided if I was going to continue blowing driveways I was going to be in a nice warm cab and looking straight ahead and not over my shoulder with a front mount blower (my tractor has a mid-mount PTO). That's when I got my 2004 Kubota HSC L5030. I will never go back to an open station. The air conditioning is also a HUGE benefit in the hot dusty summer months running my other implements. Get the cab. You won't be sorry!!

Ive been in idaho 28 years…never heard of featherville before……

 

[Texasmark]

Only thing I regret is that I'm 6'5 and bump my head on the AC panel more often than I would like. Otherwise about as perfect a machine as I could ask for. Later models moved it so there is much more headroom, even on this vendor's smaller tractors.

 

[Texasmark]

I just bought a pole saw that attaches to the bucket this year. We'll be seeing how it works after the leaves finish falling off the trees. I do have high expectations for it to be a super tool.

 

[LouNY]

My only regret is that I kept putting it off for so long,
as a luxury and not a necessity.

 

[ruffdog]

We just had a beautiful cool Fall day that was perfect to mow the field of oaks and other trees. Normally I mow with the Toolcat with all the luxuries but decided to use the wife's Deere. It doesn't ride as good as the TC and doesn't have a radio but I was outside in perfect weather. I understand that harsh weather is a pain....I get it....but on a perfect day, give me the open air!

 

[DieselBound]

Someone mentioned that a cabbed tractor is nice when you mow hornets nests. Insects in general! Mosquitoes and horse flies. I'd also have to battle blackberry canes. Though I did the "stupid" and busted a door on my Kioti (over 600 hrs before doing so) I have no regrets.

Cabbed tractor has allowed me to do more work when there's rain (and if it's really hot out - A/C!).

I still have my open-station B7800, so when I feel I need to have the fresh air (with bugs, sun and blackberries; oh, and tree branches) going through my scalp I can do so. ALWAYS jobs for this mighty-mouse!

With over 1,000hrs on my open-station and over 700hrs on my cabbed I feel I have a reasonable understanding of both: of the positives and negatives (but, really, are there negatives with owning a tractor? try living without one!)

Finer work requiring a lot of on/off the tractor is in deed where the open-station rules (in this pic the Kioti was just raising the building for repositioning rollers and tracks; the B7800 was doing the very slow push- I'd have to repeatedly jump off to check progress):

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No one says that once you buy a tractor you're stuck with it. If one buys a car or a truck and finds it less than suitable you don't just go "oh well;" no, you'd look to trade it in/sell and buy something else. And keep in mind that situations change: I now have far more to mow than originally, so a larger tractor and larger mowers were essential (and more continuous seat time required more protection- cab).

 

[finn1]

We just had a beautiful cool Fall day that was perfect to mow the field of oaks and other trees. Normally I mow with the Toolcat with all the luxuries but decided to use the wife's Deere. It doesn't ride as good as the TC and doesn't have a radio but I was outside in perfect weather. I understand that harsh weather is a pain....I get it....but on a perfect day, give me the open air!

I have a convertible for that!

 

[amhicks21]

at work i use 2 cabbed (l6060 and lx3310) and 2 open station (l3200 and b2920) with about 6000 hours of tractor experience. my only complaint with cabbed tractors is having to clean glass regularly and the morning glare in early spring and late fall. ive broke a few flashers on low branches and i miss the rare occasions when there is a nice summer breeze but i'll take the cab any day.

 

[ruffdog]

I have a convertible for that!

Maybe that is how tractor owners should look at non-cabbed tractors....as "convertibles"!

 

[Cahaba Valley Farm]

Maybe that is how tractor owners should look at non-cabbed tractors....as "convertibles"!

 

[bdhsfz6]

I've owned 7 Kubota tractors over the last 40 years and all were open station. I do a lot of woods work and have more than a mile of tree line which would quickly tear up a cab. I use my current open station MX5800 HST to do excavating, mow 7 acres in Summer and plow 1.5 miles of private road in Winter. I also do grading work on the road year round. Without a cabbed tractor, during very cold weather, I would use my pickup to do the plowing.

Last year, I picked up a new L6060 HSTC tractor with a cab. I now mow in A/C comfort, plow in a T-shirt and will never be without a cabbed tractor again! I use the MX5800 for the excavating and woods & tree line work. Having a second tractor with a cab is something I should have considered years ago!

Plowing snow in a cabbed tractor has the side benefit of no longer beating up my expensive pickup doing the task.

To answer your question, no, I don't regret buying a cabbed tractor but it's handy to have both.

 

[chinawall]

I've been on a search this year for a 4WD tractor and was on a path to an open station version. Various members on TBN have swayed me to the cab version and I'm almost there. With 4WD I believe I will use the tractor year round instead of storing it during the winter like I do with the JD 2020. Just to give me a view of something I haven't thought of, has anyone gone back to an open station after getting a cab tractor?

I have a B7800 open Kubota and 394 TMY with a cab. TYM has a front end snowblower...cab is I use the Kubota in the summer...like to be in the sunshine!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

About every 4 years I trim the limbs around all of my fields, hay fields, cow pastures, fields that I plant winter rye in and that allows me to work worry free with the cab tractor, but when I trim I cut as high as I can with my Milwaukee pole saw so it's not a yearly chore.

 

[ruffdog]

I have my wife drive me around the field in the carryall. I wear a harness and can cut with a chainsaw.

 

[wolc123]

Maybe, after I retire from my day job in about 10 years, I will develop a little more appreciation for cabbed tractors. Right now, you couldn’t pay me to own one. 45 hours week in a heated and air conditioned office is way more than enough for me.

I live for the after work and weekend “outside time” on my open station tractors.

 

[tjandrews]

Our late '60s IH 424, hauling in pumpkins for our farm stand in 2013. My grandfather's 1952 Case SC is behind it. Also, our John Deere 4600, blowing some early season snow out of the driveway in 2016. Like I said earlier, each has its advantages and disadvantages.

 

[Little Red Tractor]

My situation (in and omong trees) makes the cab a poor prospect. A winter approaches, it does look more attractive. A couple hours of plowing would be more comfortable inside.