To cab or not to cab?

[jenkinsph]

Need ether for my canopy, don't need it for the cab tractors.:laughing:

 

[AKfish]

My great uncle had an old IH 806 gasser with a cab that I used to feed his cows with. No loader - 3pt forks that were sometimes a PITA. Drop the bale and then get stuck.. right against the bale...aarrgghh!

And he had an IH 560 with a FarmHand loader with grapple to feed big rounds with - open station. A lot easier to pull the bales outta the stack with the loader and just drop 'em where you needed to.

But...when it was blowing and snowing - I made darn sure that I was the first one up in the morning to feed the cows - 'cause I didn't want to get stuck with the 560! :thumbsup:

AKfish

 

[JasonMac]

I've said it a million times before... you'll never see me without a Cabbed Tractor ever again.... ever! Yeah, I like the open air too.... and the ticks, dust, snow, pollen, rain, slush... I love all that!!!

seriously, I'm not a wuss... but I could never "not" have a cab ever again...

I can jump in my tractor, and do something quick for 5 minutes in a dusty enviroment with a suit on, come out just as clean as I did when I got in!!

I can run out and blow snow for ten minutes, and not get slushed!

I can till or plow, or mow fields and not get dusted, then jump out and head to the wedding I'm almost late for!

I can work at Night with all the extra lights, I can listen to my radio.. I can answer the phone and keep driving... on speaker phone... I can keep things dry inside of my tractor, tools... Say if I have some tools out, and it's going to rain.... but I'm late heading somewhere, instead of putting them away, I can just temporarily throw them in the tractor while I'm gone... because I'm going to need those tools when I get back...

 

[Cretebaby]

i vote for a cab.:thumbsup:

 

[radman1]

If you ever had a bottle of ether fall off you dash and discharge inside your cab, as my buddy did a few years ago, causing him to nearly loose consiousness and roll his cabbed tractor and towed corn-picker and wagon into a deep roadside ditch, you would sure wish you had an open-station. I doubt that old boy will ever buy another cabbed model. He still has nightmares over that mess of broken glass, twisted sheetmetal, and cob-corn. Just goes to show that for every horror prevented by a cab, there is another caused by one.

I think that is the most obscure reason not to get a cab I have ever heard. If he had the bottle of ether outside of his cabbed tractor and ran over it, he would now have a good reason to have the cab.:laughing:

 

[wolc123]

A cab is a confined space where a discharged bottle of ether would quickly cause harmful levels of chemical in the air. A bottle discharged outside would not cause such high levels.

 

[Rod in Forfar]

I bought a used 35 hp tractor last winter with a dealer-built cab. Loved it for snow blowing. Come spring I couldn't wait to get rid of the thing, so my mechanic lifted it off and built a copy of the top half of the ROPS so that I could install a canopy. Much better. Now I can get on and off the machine for the many small jobs around the property its use entails at this time of year. The door on the primitive, unventilated cab was a bit narrow for my girth, and it rattled incessantly.

At first snow it will go back on, though.

 

[Nuru]

I ditto the vote for a Cab:thumbsup: and just do not carry ether or any other noxious chemicals in the cab. I have spilled coffee with no impact to my tasking:laughing:

 

[Nuru]

I can get a cab on the desired tractor I want or I can get one without. Any reason not to get one? It's about $2500 more for the cab with heat and air. I like the open air feel of tractors and for me this would be the only downside, but I can see during hot days like we have now (and cold ones) where a cab would come in handy. Is this a no brainer...get the cab?

Yep get that CAB, and if you want the open air feel, open the rear window and turn the air on full blast:thumbsup: on a hot day.

 

[Spudland_Dave]

Originally Posted by
If you ever had a bottle of ether fall off you dash and discharge inside your cab, as my buddy did a few years ago, causing him to nearly loose consiousness and roll his cabbed tractor and towed corn-picker and wagon into a deep roadside ditch, you would sure wish you had an open-station. I doubt that old boy will ever buy another cabbed model. He still has nightmares over that mess of broken glass, twisted sheetmetal, and cob-corn. Just goes to show that for every horror prevented by a cab, there is another caused by one.

Well, couple things to think about....

A) We havent used ether on engines in 10+ years...if she dont start "naturally" there's usually something amiss. Thats all besides the point...like Nuru said, dont carry noxious chem's in the cab. That would be true with my road vehicles as well...I'm not about to special order a cabless GMC Truck :laughing:

B) I bet that cab saved his life...kept him INSIDE the machine while it was rolling.