To Cab or Not To Cab: BX25D

[chim]

4shorts, thanks for the link. I would lean toward the hard cab. still leaves me with a couple potential issues.

1) Operating Rear PTO Snowblower with manual chute rotation: the rear cab would need to be removed and this defeats the purpose.
I have read some briefings on guys fabricating window motors, etc. for the chute rotation. Honestly, I'm not that handy and not that I'm made of money but would assume just buy a bolt on hydraulic or electric rotation device....provided of course it could be wired into the cab.

2) Heat Loss: I saw in the thread that jetsetter dedicated a good amount of effort to 'insulating' areas from the foot pedals to the operating shifters, etc... is this really necessary? how much heat loss are we talking about? I plan on getting a heater with the Curtis cab and would imagine that a little heat loss from these areas is no big deal?

3) Noise: This is a big one. I operate my mower all the time (4 acres of grass cutting on a BX is a 2+ hour chore). I also run a Cyclone Rake and that puppy puts out some noise. Snowblower, etc so I'm a noise maker. Can I get some more detail on noise levels and sound deadening that folks do in the Curtis cab? I saw one photo in 4shorts' link that showed that someone turned their BX cab into a Bentley interior... nicely done...but again I'm not one to tackle a custom interior.... any snap on easy solutions here, is it really necessary? I always wear ear protection anyway

really appreciate the insight guys. PS: my wife is almost in my corner on this one!

1) No experience with a 3PH blower, but there are several chute rotator builds here that look nice.

2) I built a cab of steel and glass. I made an effort to not have any large gaps to allow cold air into the cab. The heater I used is a simple square box with a 2-speed fan:

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I've been in the cab at night wearing a flannel shirt / no coat with temps in the teens and had to turn the fan off for periods because it produced more heat than needed. The jet guy did an exemplary job sealing nooks and crannies on his tractor. I didn't go to that much trouble. To put things into perspective, the tractor heater output is 20 MBTU (almost 10 times the output of a 600W 12V heater). My high efficiency gas furnace is 100 MBTU and easily heats our 2,700 SF house.

3) My cab is noisy. One of the projects I didn't get around to this past summer was adding rubber vibration isolation to avoid all metal-to-metal contact between the tractor and the cab. This won't be too difficult and I have a plan, but not the time. It isn't a simple matter of putting rubber pads between things.

 

[Minotbob]

A side from the price difference. You have to decide whether you want a cab in the summer or not. I have a soft cab on my BX24 and it is plenty for me in North Dakota.

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

I take the Sims cab off my BX 2200 each spring I leave the front section, about 18" on the tractor year round and then attached to it in the fall. I do this by myself with the use of a winch mounted at the ceiling. I made a jig that attaches to all 4 corners of the cab and use it to lift the cab onto the tractor. I use the same winch to put on the front snowblower lift device. I did all of this yesterday it took me 3 hours to go from summer mowing to winter snowblowing. The Sims cab is steel and has a glass front and rear windows, with plastic doors, one opens the other is a not movable, it snaps into place.

They are calling for 8-12" of the white stuff the next 24 hours. The cab also has a heater I snowblow with a long sleeve shirt on, nice and warm.

 

[Smokey1]

Just finished putting a Curtis Hard side cab on my BX25. This has a soft rear window. No heat yet, don't want to take a chance of messing something up with 12" coming tonight.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Search my posts. I put a window motor on mine and po s Ted a thread.

Can anyone point me to a detailed step by step on installing a wiper motor to convert a manual chute rotating crank to a powered chute rotation. This is for my b2789 rear pto blower. Thanks!

 

[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Search my posts. I put a window motor on mine and po s Ted a thread. [/QUOTe

Try this
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/51158-bx2230-curtis-cab-snow-blower.html

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[NY_Yankees_Fan]

Try this thread

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/51158-bx2230-curtis-cab-snow-blower.html

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[NY_Yankees_Fan]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/51158-bx2230-curtis-cab-snow-blower.html

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[NY_Yankees_Fan]

How to hook up the window motor to the chute starts on the 2nd page on the above link. Sent from my iPhone using TractorByNet

 

[gwdemos]

Thanks all for the links consolidating all this info has been helpful as ive always been one ro read the instructions before putting together my kids toys Particukarly helpful from Steve with the wiring detail and his cab pics Well let me ask this for you hard side Curtis can owners... The windows slide fore and aft. Could I just extend the manual crank on the rear pto blower reach out the window and grab the crank handle? QUOTE=NY_Yankees_Fan;3578745]How to hook up the window motor to the chute starts on the 2nd page on the above link. Sent from my iPhone using TractorByNet[/QUOTE]