Winter Cab Revisited

[Rivco]

That's pretty much the same idea I had at this point. A soft shell cab something I can use to keep the rain, snow, wind off of me but, can take back off easily for summer use. Great minds think alike.... Only difference would be I want to build it around my own ROP'S design.......

I agree Barry....you would be better off to have a local certified welding shop fabricate a rops for you using your design, because the OEM PT rops is an engineering brain fart!!!!. When PT designed the rops they never took into consideration that someone might want to build an all weather cab. The way the OEM rops sits so far back, you would have to install curved bow sprints to attach the windshield to ....otherwise the windshield would never clear the steering wheel if you Incorporated the OEM rops as part of the cab structure!!!!

 

[MossRoad]

If I were going to build a cab, I think I would fab up a windsheild frame that I could insert either a piece of lexan with a wiper in the winter or a piece of expanded steel in the summer for woods work or stump grinding.

Then I would fab up some door frames pinned to the windshield frame on the leading edge and hung from the factory canopy on the top with pins drilled through the canopy in the front and rear. I would use clips to hold the pins in from the underside of the canopy. Then, in the door frames I could insert fabric panels with vinyl windows in winter and expanded steel in summer, again, for woods work and such. I would probably use a steel rod or two to secure the rear of the door frames to each other, bending them appropriately and running them behind and/or under the seat so that the door frames would stay relatively parallel to each other.

For the back, I would use fabric with a vinyl window in winter and probably roll it up and secure it under the rear of the ROPS in summer. The fabric would have snaps to secure it to the door frames and possibly the rear of the seat.

If I saw the need, I might even make a fabric skirt for the winter to enclose the bottom of the cab. However, our winters have been getting milder and milder, so I think the skirt to seal it all off may not be needed as I stay pretty warm in my Carharts.

 

[Barryh]

I agree Barry....you would be better off to have a local certified welding shop fabricate a rops for you using your design, because the OEM PT rops is an engineering brain fart!!!!. When PT designed the rops they never took into consideration that someone might want to build an all weather cab. The way the OEM rops sits so far back, you would have to install curved bow sprints to attach the windshield to ....otherwise the windshield would never clear the steering wheel if you Incorporated the OEM rops as part of the cab structure!!!!

Your right, is was a pain to build my cab around the PT ROP'S. Mostly just hard to get on and off other than that, it worked out fine.

 

[Barryh]

Well another tractor, another winter cab coming on. Looked at all of the soft shells out there, nothing under 300 bucks that I could find. So I bought this online got the idea from someone else. Price was right, will figure how to adapt it to my BX. It might also work for a PT with a little improvisation for you guys wanting a cab.

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[Barryh]

Rather than spend $260.00 for a canopy.

Here is my home made dog crate wire canopy. I'll be putting some plywood under the top for falling tree branch protection. I used two square tube arms off of an old work out station that was collecting dust turned the handles around and bolted them to the rops. It's pretty solid.

Used the plastic dog liner tray that came with the crate on top to keep the rain off. My golf cart cab got here Friday so will be adding that to the mix when the snow fly's. I may add more to the frame but it would take a hard hit right now the way it is. Now I need to hook up my new halgens to the top, one backup light then I'm pretty much set.

A few pics.