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add on cabs? for 1960/70s tractors

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swindave

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where the year round, hiniker, ansel or other add on cab brands decent back in there day?
i guess, did they help quite the noise? and cool and heat the cab very well?
just curious!
thank you
 

Hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and loud all year round.

Some were a lil better. Some had heat, a few had air. Some of those even had heat and air that worked! But until the cabs were isolated from the things that made noise and were pressurized to keep out the dust, they were a poor option.
 
Very few had air conditioning, most had a heater, some didn't. They were noisey and dusty but beat setting out in the open in cold weather and hot to be inside in warm weather. For spring and fall field work, you could set on an open tractor with a heat houser and eat dust while cooking one direction and freezing the other way or set in a cab that was warm and out of the wind and much less dust but loud.
 
My new Kubota's cab is a greenhouse. I wouldn't want a cab without AC. You need AC more than heat in winter.

I removed the cab top, added more insulation, painted the top white for AC to keep up on 90 + sunny days.

No cab, you have 360 view. I had to install a camera on Kubota's loader to help me connect front bucket or forks.

Hard to hear radio, noise. NO problem, my hearing is bad.

Built a cab for Kaw mule. Traps noisy.

Built a cab for Jubilee. Bad news. Manifold leaks exhaust.

Built cab for terramite, Noisy.

Despite all the, my face hurts after mowing with Kubota because I'm smiling too much listening to radio, out of the dust, grass mold and in the AC. Don't need an shower after mowing.

Neighbor bought a JD 6 ft front mower with cab and AC. His wife mows with the old JD front mower, no cab.

Like you I looked for add on cabs for old tractors before going to Kubota dealer.

I spent my kids inheritance. So what????
 
Think of a phone booth being shaken by an angry mob with 2 inches of clay dust in it with you. Add heat like a sun baked car in a parking lot, or cold like that car in winter where you live. If windows were open somewhat better but reduced net wind speed. With sufficient heat and/or cool working was a miracle. Getting in or out was just fine for a 16 year old weighing 140, and a conditioned gymnast. Some moments passed during which the operator could admit they were better off with it. New cabs are delicious. Jim
 

In the early to late 70's I sold/installed several new tractor cabs. I installed both Year-a-round & Hiniker brands. IIRC all the cabs I sold had air conditioning. I agree cabs of that era amplified the noise but added insulation in front dash & rubber pads under mounts help alleviate some of the noise.
 
My dad built a cab on the Farmall H, it wouldn't have won any prizes for looks but boy I was snug as a bug in a rug hauling manure in the winter. During the warm months it was removed in sections.
 
Don't forget about the swamp cooler. When I went to high school a kid I knew was bragging that they got a sona I said that was nothing we had one on wheels.
 
First one I drove was my uncles 4020 with a Year-round. It sure looked good at the time, but it was hot. With all the windows open, about all the fan did was blow the dust around. There was always about an inch of dust all over the inside of it.
 
There was a reason they sold... they were better than an open tractor on a miserable day. Today, with new cabs being a lot better, they look terrible. But in 1970, they were the cat's ....
 
The old cabs were a joke. I have two of them. Thinking of getting rid of the one tractor and ripping the cab off of the other. I have ploughed, , chopped corn,, and spread manure with these things. Yes you are out of the wind and rain, but heat, exhaust fumes and noise are your new companion. And most had skinny little doors that are hard to get in and out of, and most dont shut well and vibrate.
 
Early cabs generally increased noise levels for the operator and very few were air conditioned. They earned the nickname: ear beater. During the early to mid 1970's most tractor and combine manufacturers added modular factory cabs that cut noise levels by 20 decibels.
 
We put quite a few of them on AC 180-185 tractors. They definitely kept the wind off, and provided heat in the winter. Other than that, it was negative! Like wise on the combines.
 
They were tolerable in the winter but not in the summer......I worked part time at a MM dealer from 1967-71 and just about every add on cab that we put on got took back off....None that we put on had heat or air...They were echo chambers...
 
They don't do a thing for noise reduction
.In fact they seem to amplify.An echo chamber.Remove the doors and windows in summer,have some shade.In winter with a cold wind,they were great.Some cabs were decent,easy to enter/exit
Some were nothing more than a tin box that you couldn't get in or out of.
 
Here is one I saw at a sale with a sliding door. One guy told me it was a picker cab. He claimed you could leave the cab on with a mounted picker on it. *shudder*


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The little bit I've run a mounted picker, I' d think that would be a great improvement in many conditions... cut down on dust, warmer than sitting out there in November or later... any pictures from the side
or front??
 

Unfortunately no. I really wish I woulda taken more. The tractor was a nonrunning 3020 in very rough condition. Still brought $3200. Young fella bidding against and old fella. Old fella got it.. Sale was 15 august 2020 in Rewey wi.
 
When picking, most corn picker tractors had enough of a load on the engine that they threw a lot of heat back to the operator. On combines the operators were far enough from the engine that it was a much colder job. Many farms had a cab on the combine before they had any cabs on a tractor, even though the tractors were run many more hours per year.
 
I've played with the idea of putting one on my jd 2510. I have two of them and I would only use it feeding cattle in the winter. I keep talking myself out of it. By the time I fix it up the way I would want it it's getting close to a different comparable tractor with a factory cab.
 
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