The top benefit of having a cab tractor.

[searcyfarms]

great looking TW10 Big Barn...........those are good tractors!!! Never drove one with FWA tho I bet you can pull a lot bigger eq with that due to the FWA and Weight, a combo that has since changed in our newer tractors.

 

[oosik]

I've always ( 36+ years ) had open station tractors. I guess its because while our summers can get beastly hot - humidity is most often well below 20%. I don't mind being out in the cold in the winter either - I have the necessary cold wx gear.

HOWEVER - if I had to bush hog on my property - I would be in a new cabbed tractor in a heartbeat. I've seen the dust, ash, pollen, crud, corrosion that is raised when a bush hog is used in our area. It is fearsome. Without a cab - I would most certainly need a full Haz-Mat suit to combat the airborne crap. It is easy to understand how the older farmers in our area have almost all developed one form or other of some type of breathing disorder.

Dusty, grease stained ball cap - week old beard - friendly smile - bib overalls - Mucks - some form or other of inhaler in their breast pocket of their bibs - old style farmers of the Palouse.


Its still very easy to raise the volcanic ash from the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens on my property - just drive out now during the summer dry period. That cloud behind my tractor is mostly volcanic ash.

 

[RayfromTX]

I wish I could have gotten a cab for the hot dusty summers but the amount I work around trees even in my cattle pen area just wouldn't have let me get in where I needed to. I can't afford two tractors so I just have to suffer the summer inside the AC and work when the temps are more moderate in the evenings and mornings. I would really like the protection though.

 

[Diggin It]

I don't have most of the issues mentioned above. However, I would like to find a way to protect electronics. I found I had trouble backing in to the BH and seeing the hitch line up. Took a few tries to get it right. I thought about getting a cheap back-up camera, but I have no place to mount the monitor where it would be out of the rain or direct Sun.

 

[Turbys_1700]

At the age of 58 after living on the farm most of my life I finally got a cab. Dad got one years ago to bush hog with. Comfort and safety are the benefits. More cost and upkeep. Air conditioning compressors, filters, and lines are added expenses but well worth the cost IMHO. The only downsides are care in not crashing a windshield or cab. Just have to be more careful. Very few folks trade cab tractors in for non cabbed. Around here the heat and HUMIDITY are brutal. That in addition to yellow jacket nests make bush hogging tough. The cab is a blessing that I appreciate.

 

[TripleR]

I wish I could have gotten a cab for the hot dusty summers but the amount I work around trees even in my cattle pen area just wouldn't have let me get in where I needed to. I can't afford two tractors so I just have to suffer the summer inside the AC and work when the temps are more moderate in the evenings and mornings. I would really like the protection though.

My brother built some protection for mine, if I need ote, it can easily be added.

 

[LouNY]

All of the above mentioned reason are good ones for the cab tractors,
I'll just roll them all into one;
I can climb out of the cab and not feel whipped whether I have working in it for an hour or 10-12 hours
regardless of the weather or the job.

 

[finn1]

Blowing snow without a cab is brutal.

 

[oosik]

Man - I don't like the sound of blowing snow. Two hours ago - around 5:30am - it was 34F here. When I had my other tractor and would use the 3-point blower - very in tune with the direction of the wind. Now the only winter "gotcha" - after a heavy snow all the small pine trees bend in on the driveway. If I don't use my "snow beater" I will get dusted unmercifully. Snow duster = 3" diameter plastic pipe -strapped to an arm of the FEL - whacks the pines way out front - dumps the snow before it gets to me in my open station tractor as I plow the driveway.

 

[cat fever]

I have my wife to blame (LOL) for having a cab tractor. When I was looking, it was at 35-45Hp open station tractors. She was insistent that I get a tractor with a cab. I do have asthma and I can't thank her enough for insisting I get a cab and ended up with a 66HP tractor.

I don't deal with many hornet nests. (to my knowledge) but the dust can be terrible at times.

I do wish I could have two tractors, one cab one open. But for now I am very happy to have a cab. Loading this hay I didn't break a sweat!