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Tractors with and W/O cabs?

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BANDITFARMER

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Over the years I have owned 2 tractors that had cabs on them all the rest didn't have one including the 6 we have now. I'm getting older now and after yesterday about freezing clearing snow most of the day, I'm thinking its time to put a cab on one of the tractors so I can have heat! How I have to figure out witch one? I wonder what an Oliver 1550 utility would look with a cab on it?

Anyway another question is how many of you guys out there still run open station tractors as your main tractor? And how many wish you had a cab on it?

I know guys that wont own a tractor without a cab and know plenty who could care less if it had one or not. After 45 years of being out in all of it I thinking it may be time to have one. Ware do you stand? Bandit
 
Have been looking for 970 or 1070 case with 8 speed trans. Want it with cab heat and air. I am getteing tired of running round baler in 90 degree heat and the dust is really getting to me as I get older. A white 2-105 or similar would be ok to. But I think I can buy the Case for a little less money. Plowing the drive hauling/moving round bales in winter would be nice with heat.
 
In '07, after 30 years of putting up with it, I bought a new tractor, which I never had, with loader and 2 things I never owned: Cab and 4wd........for the reasons mentioned on the cab and the 4wd for several reasons. Was a wise choice. Still have a couple of open station utilities, but when I want the senior citizen comfort on a particular job the cab gets her done.

Mark
 
I'd be happy with a heathouser. Cleared snow for years with a Case 400, and nearly froze several times. It really sux when the cold gets all the way to the bones. You have to spend the rest of the day in front of the wood heater to get thawed out. I don't blame you one bit for wanting a cab.
 
I took this pic. up at the farm this morning. You can draw your own conclusions
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I would prefer at least 1 with cab and at least 1 without. Currently all three have cabs. The tillage, sprayer, and pull gravity wagons tractor the cab is nice. Round bale feeder loader tractor has a cab which would be fine but the door is off and next to nothing heater so no big advantage. But I would love to have a nice open cab planter and side-dressing tractor. Just like the better visibility and freedom to stand up on the platform. But its hard to find a nice "new enough" open cab tractor these days. Both of my row crop tractors are nice low hour early 1980's and came from older retired neighbors that part-time farmed. They both have cabs and it seems very hard these days to find a nice 90+ hp open cab tractor of that vintage. And if you find one they're normally former loader tractor that is beat up.
 
I enjoy the fresh air. But when the wind and snow blow,I really appreciate a cab.Doesn't even need a heater.Just being out of the wind helps alot!Just find an old YAR(or similar) and adapt it to your 'favorite' Oliver.Done that before......
 
An idea for you, an older gentleman I once knew had a 1655 or 1755. He would contract mowing road ditches with the town. He had bolted the top from a Bronco or Scout on top of those big square fenders. Made a nice big shelter on that tractor.
 
If it doesn't have air conditioning,you're better off without it. A heat houser will keep you warm in the winter. The best advantage of a cab is in the summer with the air,not the winter with heat.
The compressor went bad on the White a few years ago. That was a miserable few weeks before I got that fixed.
 
It's pretty easy guys. Being uncomfortable to downright miserable comes naturally, no training or practice required. So I opt for comfort whenever I can. Ain't got a cab? I ain't interested!

Rick
 
Before Dad fixed the WD9 and later we had the 7110. We were playing with skin cancer. Playing with an open station is different than working with a cab.
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After 20+ years I made the switch from open station to cab with heat 4 years ago on the tractor I use for snow removal. Now I just can't understand how it took so long for me to wise up!
 
I got my 1st I with cab in July of last year, air doesn't work but the heat sure has been nice this winter. will have air fixed next summer.
 
here in NE Wyoming I want a cab on every thing I can lol much better to be a bit warm a couple days then to freeze! my two-cents
cnt
 
Last summer I was at an auction and there was a MM Super U302 diesel that someone had put a fiberglass top off something on it. It worked but this was a hillbilly special! It had 23.1x26 combine tires on welded up rims to fit it and with the fiberglass top (it had a radio speakers and a fan bolted to the top). The muffler was under the tractor with the help of some 90* elbows (Out of the hood) and strait pipes down the side to the muffler under the tractor. The front had 285x16 truck tires on welded home made rims. It was a sight to see. But hay it worked and still brought $1950! Bandit
 
My main tractor is a CaseIH 7240. I wish I had another just like it. Just because I don't like depending on one tractor for all primary and secondary tillage. Until the last couple of winters, I have been able to get most, if not all, primary tillage done before spring.

I've only been chilled to the bone once or twice in the last 30 years, once almost killed me. With my intolerance for the cold, plus allergy and related breathing issues, I couldn't farm without the luxury of climate control.
 
The 2 tractors that do heavy tillage and some utility work with baling round bales in summer and spreading them in winter have cabs, and it like that.

The planter tractor, nibble little loader tractor, and the old occasional use tractors are cab-less, and I like that.

Paul
 
I really prefer to be able to hear the engine like with an open station, but with my breathing problems I really think a tractor with a cab and air would be great. All of mine are open and the high heat and dust really affects me in the summer. We don't use the tractors in the winter enough to worry about a cab with heat. We use the skid steer more than them in winter. Just don't know if I want to spend the money or go in debt for another tractor when I have 10 now. Keith
 
Lots of cold stories today, Ford way back in the N series tractors had a heated seat. I have only seen a few of these at shows, seat was cast of aluminum and had a channel under it which ran engine coolant through it. Had a valve to control the flow. Keep your butt warm and would at least help a lot. Joe
 
My open station tractors generally get parked for winter except grinder tractor,(MM G900). Daily hay feeding & snow moving manure hauling tractor,JD 4230 ,has cab. Cab heater takes long time to heat up, even when plugged in all night. WWouldn't't go back to cabless tractor for chores. Still like open station for planting, hay rakeing, moving hay in summer, etc. Caught pneumonia in high school freezing my self hauling manure in winter. No use being glutton for punishment. Thanks.
 
OHHH Man that is COLD!!! Yipes. Saw some of those times when I was a LOT younger. Nothing like going out with a load in the sh%%t spreader and when you blink your eye balls your lids stick!
 
Ron , I've dealt in a few of them tractors and even more if I could find good ones. Seems for some reason I've always found that 90% of 8 speeds are open station. I have yet to find a cab tractor without power shift Might be just my part of the country but if I could find factory cab / 8 speed 970 / 1070 in good shape I'd be getting them. You can't beat them for value per $$.
 
I remember when I bought my JD 4230 with cab. My dad had been putting out hay for the cows every year with his JD 2020 (open station). His first comment was that the 4230 would really cut deep ruts getting the big round bales out and delivered to the field. But the first time the weather got cold and rainy and he used the 4230, he never went back to the 2020 open air. Why suffer? Ruts can be filled in next summer right?
 
I know what you mean about Pneumonia I've had it 4 times in my life. 1st time in high school cutting beans on a AC 100 sp combine, That was a miserable winter. The other 3 times were at work because of the work I was doing over the years. I really think it time to get a cab on something as I am getting older, My mind is willing but I got a pretty beat up body over the years so maybe its time to rethink this idea. Bandit
 
The field tractors have modern equipped cabs and i love every minute i use them. Never will I go back to spending days and days sitting out there in the open. I dont like a cab on a yard tractor or loader tractor. However the loader tractor does have a nice warm cab that is wonderful for pushing snow. I just wish that cab was not on it in the summer but staying warm in the winter trumps the annoyances that bug me otherwise.
 
Soon tractors will be like cars. Most will be climate controled. Hate to not have one today. I guess we have 4 with cabs.
 
In my youth i worked 10 years for custom outfits that only had open station tractors loaders and cats
I vowed to have cabs on every tractor i would own.
I got close,..of the 6 tractors and 3 loaders i own only one tractor is open station.
Guess what?....I only bought it cause it was cheap and it hardly if ever gets used.
 
I built this cab for my Case 440 in my shop this winter. Sure beats being out in the cold and snow. Pics taken back mid January, before winter really got here. The tractor is going to set rite in the shop today with this weather. The snow is drifting back in as fast as it is plow out.
Loren
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Heat houser may be a good compromise. Can add it for a couple hundred bucks and then take it off in summer if needed.

Someone else mentioned that in summer a cab W/O AC is a detriment and they are right.

Heathousers work much better on rear entry tractors like a 77 Oliver or two banger JD etc.

jt
 
Oh man is a heated cab nice in MN winters. I actually prefer open stations in the summer, and use the 4020 open station most. Dad uses the 6070 AC with cab and air to rake hay, but his health isn't the greatest so the heat takes a toll pretty quickly. The air is not working in the 886 IH the last few summers, so I just open the windows and bale that way. I'm fine with it. Heat I can take, cold I cant. Heater works great in it for moving snow and hay in the winter. What is really nice in the winter though is cab, loader, and mfwd. Our second winter with that tractor, and I would sure hate to go back to anything else!
 
Can't beat a cab for winter use. Makes it a lot better when you're blowing snow with the snow blower and it keeps the wind off of ya. Summertime, I like the open tractors.
 
I couldn't buy a hard cab for my Terramite or Kawasaki Mule. So I decide to make one out of wood and plexiglass.

Just getting out of the wind is nice. What isn't nice is the noise that is trapped inside cab. You really need to wear ear protection, it's that bad.
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If the cab will not have air conditioning, make sure you can remove the doors and windows for better ventilation and less noise in summer.

A heat houser would be an easy compromise, they work well if the engine is working hard enough to make some heat.

You will probably be happiest by trading tractors for one with a nice factory cab that is quiet and air conditioned. There was a reason sales of those uncomfortable ear beater cabs died up in less than ten years.
 
(quoted from post at 10:43:17 02/19/15) I built this cab for my Case 440 in my shop this winter. Sure beats being out in the cold and snow. Pics taken back mid January, before winter really got here. The tractor is going to set rite in the shop today with this weather. The snow is drifting back in as fast as it is plow out.
Loren
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would not start up my tractor for that itty bitty snow
 
None of the 10 or so tractors that get used every year have cabs. I been thinking off and on to try and build a removable one for the JD2440 for using the loader in winter.
 
I don't have a cab tractor now but all of them have a canopy top. There are a few days that I would like a cab in the winter and a cab on the baler tractor would be nice. The problem we have down here is a working AC on a cab tractor is a must have. I would only put 150 hours or so on a cab tractor and keeping the AC working can get expensive on an older tractor.
 
For years we watched as the percentage of units sold went from 2 wheel to 4 wheel at about 10 $ a year. Ever thing over 40 hp slowly went the way of 4 wheel drive up to about 84% total now the same thing is happening with the open vrs. cab.
Ever year seems a greater percentage are cab tractors. A two wheel drive open station 100hp tractor would sit on the lot for some time now before it was sold.
 
All of the field tractors are cab tractors. The chore tractors are open station. I prefer it that way. You get on and off so much to open gates and being able to see the bale on the front and the bale on the back easier. If it is pouring rain or bitter cold I will use the 7800, but I hate doing that. With duals on it that thing just isn't handy in that respect. I will put up with an awful lot in an open station if it is chores. I always grind feed with the Farmall M narrow front loader tractor. I can get it backed up to unload easier with that narrow front and I'm not going to be sitting in a cab while it is grinding anyway. If I am going to be standing by the bin there's no reason to over power it with a cab tractor.
 
Nothing better than an open air tractor when the weather is nice heck I dont mind of its hot but when it gets so cold you got a scarf carhart bibs and coat and still cold that cab is nice even with no heat
 
Seems once hit that sixties (years old) mark the north wind gets colder every year!!! Moved lot of snow with 450 IHC as wife works in hospital and has to get to work and can't wait for county road crews!!! Two years ago picked up a 1066 IHC with cab (heater) cheap!! Yes that year round cab is very noisy but much easier to put in ear plugs then try to keep warm with 40 mph wind and snow beating you in the face!! Have yet to regret it!!
 
Get some 1" at least, open cell, firm foam rubber and rubber cement. Will help a lot.

That's one of the things that the "Sound Guard" cab on my 4230c had that I noticed which my current tractor doesn't have. The entire interior of the cab that didn't have a specific function was covered with it. Really helped the noise.

Mark
 
Dad built his first cab in 1945, still have it but needs repair for the 1944 model tractor. Second cab was built in 1961 and have cab but no longer tractor, third cab was built in 1985 no longer have that tractor. They were taken off in spring and replaced in fall.
 
Has anyone tried to put one of those heated seat kits into a tractor, w/ and w/o a cab? I could see where this would be helpful.
 
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