ansel cab

What make and model is this tractor? Most IH cabs in the 1960s were built by Excell, by the mid 70s IH were building all their own cabs..

I don't know what that first cab on 06 tractors was called other than tight noise box. That is the one where side walls of cab went straight up inside the fenders. There is a farmer near here still has one of those, basically a standby tractor today, but as he says, at least it's shelter when one of these Great Lakes thunder storms catches you off guard.

The guys working there told me a story about conning a guy weighing 350lbs into operating this 706 one day. He got in and into the seat, but at the end of the day he couldn't get out. They had to take the back window out and remove him that way.

I can also see not many cabs back then crossing the border between US and Canada. They had some funny rules back then on tarrifs and duties. Farm equipment has always been duty free, both directions. They probably considered the cab a luxury. I know I ran into a similar thing buying my first skid loader in 1972. Skid loaders weren't considered farm equipment back then, thus the Case dealer had been charged duty when this loader came into Canada. I paid the duty then applied to get it back, you wouldn't believe the nightmare trying to convince bureaucrats, a skid loader would be a great machine for barn use feeding cows and scraping up manure. To them it was construction equipment and just wouldn't pick up cow manure or silage. By 1976 the skid loaders were coming in duty free. Probably those same bureaucrats couldn't figure out how a farmer could get cold or wet on a tractor.