You Have a Cab?

[Slowpoke Slim]

I'm very thankful for my cab. Factory heat and A/C means I can be at it any time it's needed. We get both kinds of weather here. Hot and cold.

When it's -40 F, the wind is blowing at 40-50 mph, it's 5 am and the driveway must be opened, well we just call that "Tuesday" up here. That's winters.

When it's +100 F and 90 % humidity, there's no breeze and the pasture must get mowed, that's "Saturday". That's our summers.

The most extreme temp range I have seen so far is -45 F in winter and +105 F in summer. Those are ambient air temps, not this "wind chill" or "heat index" bullcrap.

Opening the driveways I do in winter usually only takes a couple hours (depending on how many neighbors need help). But mowing fields, I may be at it all day for a couple days in a row, depending on how big the fields are. I'm comfortable in each extreme and thankful for watching the blizzard of snow fly past the windshield while I'm sitting in heated comfort wearing just simple pants and a sweatshirt and drinking my coffee. I'm also thankful for climbing out of the cab at the end of a summer day of mowing not feeling like a wet noodle, or covered in dust, dirt and pollen. Also great fun when I encounter a wasp nest and they just fly around the cab glass looking for a way in.

 

[Williy]

Our tractor has a cab. No problem with heat, cold, dust, bugs etc

To replace cab windows IMHO Lexan would be your best bet!

Lexan is stronger than Plexiglass:
Impact resistance: Lexan is 250 times more impact resistant than glass, while Plexiglass is 17 times more resistant. Lexan can withstand impacts without cracking, and instead bends to resist them. Heat resistance: Lexan can withstand temperatures up to 240°F, while Plexiglass begins to lose its form at 195°F.
Chemical resistance: Lexan is highly resistant to acids and chemicals, such as gasoline. Flammability: Lexan has a low level of flammability.
Lexan offers a tensile strength of up to about 10,100 to 10,200 psi (pounds per square inch

Lexan costs more that plexiglass but its worth the extra cost!

willy

 

[grsthegreat]

Well, i broke one window in 14 years.

 

[J&K]

Have both but I use Cab tractor most of the time. Tired of hot weather and eating dust and feels good staying out of elements in winter. Several hours when wind is blowing 90mph and wind chill below zero.

 

[KennyG]

You all are starting to make me feel sorry for those that have no good weather.

 

[Oldbinder]

Old age and extreme weather dictated that I get a cab. After many Winters sitting on a tractor with no cab plowing snow I finally got a tractor with a cab.

I went from this…

To this….

 

[chim]

Main tractor (L4240HSTC) has a cab. Nice being warm in Winter and cool in Summer. Nice having glass between me and the bugs, dust and pollen.

Other tractor (Ford 1210 HST) is open cab. Recently made a carryall for the 3-point so it gets used mostly as a Gator now to haul stuff around. Until now I carried weed eaters, saws, blowers etc on the deck of the Kubota's finish mower. Sometimes stuff fell off

 

[JeepHead]

No cab for me as I primarily use mine in the woods and would not want a cab for that. I have used my brother-in-laws cabbed tractor and much prefer my open station to be more in tune with what I am doing.

 

[ssgp2]

I have two OS tractors. Would like to have a cabbed tractor for A/C, insects and dust, but the places I mow, a cab would be in the way and ain't worth the cost at this point.

 

[joeyd]

I have an open cab on my tractor but I only use it about 20-30% of the time for snow removal. I use my full cab and heated SxS for most of my snow moving.