You Have a Cab?

[1 Old Man]

And can you name that snake with 2 photos?

They are all Cobra Headed Python Constrictors to me!

Looks like a little rat snake to me.

 

[rockinbbar]

I never thought of turning them so they are "sideways" I'll give it a try!!

Eddie, I was going down the road today and thought about you, and my mirror orientation...

The left mirror I just swung over, and rotated the mirror to focus. (From the photo it really looks like my post where the fire extinguisher is mounted blocks my view...but that's just the camera angle. I can see behind me fine.)

The right mirror I took off and moved to the other side of the exhaust pipe and refastened it, then focused it. Been doing heavy shredding in and around trees every day, and those mirrors are still pointed the direction I aimed them.

Hope the photo helps some.

 

[rockinbbar]

I've never quite understood the "it'll be worth more when you sell it" argument. But then, I've never kept a new car or truck less than 10 years and tractors are more or less permanent for me.

It's nothing more than fact, is all...

You pay more for a cab tractor, and it's worth more on the used market, no matter how old it is, than an open station model of the same ilk.

I have followed that philosophy with 4 wheel drive on a pickup for a long time, and the same holds true. The values bear out that philosophy pretty well, even over time.

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, I was going down the road today and thought about you, and my mirror orientation...

The left mirror I just swung over, and rotated the mirror to focus. (From the photo it really looks like my post where the fire extinguisher is mounted blocks my view...but that's just the camera angle. I can see behind me fine.)

The right mirror I took off and moved to the other side of the exhaust pipe and refastened it, then focused it. Been doing heavy shredding in and around trees every day, and those mirrors are still pointed the direction I aimed them.

Hope the photo helps some.

Your mirrors brackets are different then mine. I can't go in any farther with my mirrors because the loader will hit them.

I tried spinning them sideways, but that was a lot worse. Seemed like a great idea. Oh well.

I adjusted them just outside the pillars, but as close to the pillars as I could get them and still see the mirror. I think that's as good as it's going to get for me.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I don't have to mess by trees often, but clamped a pair of smaller (flat glass) mirrors to the grab handles to better see the outer edges of blades and mowers.

They're quite a bit farther in than the factory mirrors and have never been knocked out of position.

 

[KDubU]

The only reason I have an open station is because a cab wouldn't fit in my garage.

I took a saw to my garage to make it the extra 2” it needed.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I actually had my barn built to clear a cab... So if I change my mind, it will fit.

Likely the next tractor will be a Farmall 856 open station though.

 

[LouNY]

Here you go cab and hydrostatic and 100hp.
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[EddieWalker]

I know that I'm repeating myself, but having gone from three tractors without a cab, and recently getting a tractor with a cab, I'm still amazed at what I can get done with the cab.

I got home on Friday at 3pm. It was 96F and very humid. The type of air that hurts to breath when you are in the full sun. I had two choices in what to do, stay inside my house and relax, or get in the tractor and mow for a few hours before dinner.

I kept the AC fan on level 1 the entire time. I listened to the radio, and I cleaned up an area that I hadn't touched since Spring.

When I was done, I felt great. No bug bites, not sweaty, no fatigue, and best of all, I was very productive on a day that I would not of done anything if I didn't have a cab tractor.

 

[chim]

I've been doing some cleanup and organizing that's been long overdue. It amounted to trimming dead lower branches of some pines I planted 34 years ago and removing lots of stuff that they grew over and concealed. This generated at least a dozen loads of biodegradable material that had to be hauled to the fence row and dumped. I'll admit to driving very slowly on those trips with the A/C running

 

[verne86]

i have a 855 JD and looking if theirs a fix for fueling up with the cap on because you have to open the hood to fuel up

 

[Williy]

With an open station tractor you could of had him in your
lap!

willy

 

[bdhsfz6]

You don't get that "new tractor" smell if you buy one without a cab!

 

[Oldbinder]

It gets real old plowing snow with no cad

 

[IndyIan]

Here you go cab and hydrostatic and 100hp.
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Neat machine, it has foot controls for the loader and a lever where the loader stick usually is for moving front or back... I would practice with that for a while far away from anything valuable! Also no pto on the rear (front?) 3pth, so I guess you have to take your loader off to do pto stuff?
Maybe not the machine for a 1 tractor farm, but does some neat stuff.

 

[tacticalturnip]

Yes I have a cab tractor and this is why.View attachment 1057320

Is your cab door covered in post-it notes.

 

[Williy]

verne just cut a hole in the hood

willy

 

[oldtimer 66]

Is your cab door covered in post-it notes.

Yes

 

[tacticalturnip]

Yes


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Those are great.

 

[Linda White]

I got a cab for my tractor several months ago, it helps me a lot, especially on rainy days. I hope my cabs remain safe and sound despite the sudden hail.