After Market Cab ?

Necessary for continuing? I’m 44 been farming since I got out of high school and the two tractors that get the most hours are open station still.  To this day I’ll say unless cab has GOOD air conditioning your better off with no cab.  Grandpa milked full time till he was 76 and baled for uncle and I till he was 95 or 96 he never owned a cab tractor and probably combined never drove a mile in a cab tractor of ours.  He drove the Gleaner K but door was tied open with baler twine.  I was 26 about to turn 27 when I bought the 8030.   I got an uncle that was in his mid 50’s before he had a cab tractor.  

my Dr. advised me to get a cab on the tractor, says i was breathing in to much dust. that was in 1979, in 1980 i bought the 7010 with the factory cab. my Dad had never had anything with a cab on it. one year he wanted to help during planting, i put him in my 7010 with the air conditioning. sent him out to disk. i had the open tractor with the planter. there were days i couldn't get him out of that tractor, he liked it so much he would disk the same field twice! lol. i got him to stop and i'd open the door, the radio blasting and the air cond blowing! also a big smile on his face! was alot different then than it was when i first brought that new tractor home....he looked at it and flat told me he never had a cab on any of his tractors! 

Farming these hills more than 50 years here with 5 different tractors.  Still no cab, but one does have ROPS!

The early cabs without AC weren't user friendly (noisy, hot in the Summer, hard to enter and exit, usually not air tight or dust proof)! I had a 185 with Year A Round cab with heat and no air, was a chore / planter tractor - removed cab because it wasn't easy to enter/exit.

That warm circulating engine coolant floor heater felt great in the older combine cabs on those harsh days.
Our chore tractor was usually first to be outfitted with a heat-houser in late October & it stayed on until late April.
Other tractor that hauled grain wagons from combine to grain dryer would be setup with heat-houser as needed, if harvest was late or prolonged.

Left plow all winter.

I never thought the Hiniker or Year-a-round cabs were that bad on a 190 or 200. They offered protection from the wind and some heat, in summer shade and you could open windows or completely remove them. Cab tractors I think became more popular as farms grew bigger and guys worked longer hours at night, My grandfather hardly ever even used the lights on the tractor, if he couldn't get it done in the daylight you had to much work. Only remember dad out plowing for him in the fall late a few times. Other things that made a cab necessary was chopping haylage on a windy day. Just like other luxuries you didn't need a radio now you wouldn't sit all day in a tractor without one.

I bought an Oliver 1800A last month as a Christmas present for my father (We'll both be running it in our straw business). We're both glad to have that cab- not only do they offer a wind break and some warmth in summer, but heaven forbid, if we're in an accident, I'd rather have a cab than nothing

I have never found that I wished to have a cab on a tractor. Doing things in rain or snow would be the exception. There is nothing any longer that I need to do with a tractor in inclement weather. 

Well, the only reason I'd want a cab (never had one YET) is because of the ground hornets, yellow jackets and wasps that I encounter when brush mowing. Merciless little savage bastidges... I've nearly lost my sight because of them more times than I can recall. Once I ran the brush mower over what I thought was a very large ant mound, and maybe once upon a time it WAS, but it turned out to be a ground nest for yellow jackets, I have never seen such a nest or such an enormous population of them in one nest. It was literally a long cloud of them pouring out of the beheaded mound. Slapped the tractor in hi gear and fled the scene but still got stung dozens of times.

X whatever on a crappy cab being worse than no cab. The first cab we got was an Ansel on a smaller Deere, though our biggest tractor at the time. WHEN the air conditioning worked, it sure was nice but I can count on one hand the full days I put in with working air. Several years ago, the doors were taken off and the AC capped off and a different belt put on to no longer drive it.

When I bought the combine, I asked “Does the air work?” “I think so” was the answer. Well that would be a no.

When I bought the 7045 Allis, asked, “Does the air work?” “Yep”. Well, it was a rather cold early spring day, it seemed to be blowing cool air... but turns out, NO! The way the side windows open, that thing is a brutal hot box in the summer. We actually have a little fan rigged up to give a little breeze. The cab fan works, but blows hot air on you. I have a buddy that’s a certified refrigeration tech, he hasn’t figured out what’s wrong with it yet.

I feed cows in northern Michigan with an open station tractor. You can dress for the cold but you can only take off so many clothes and it’s still hot. Air would sure be nice!

What is this “radio” thing of which you speak?

My 190 has the early leg slasher split door cab. In the summer I pull the hinde pin and hang the door in the barn the Windows lock full open so it's like riding in the shade. All the tractors at the farm have working AC and heat. You can't drive one without it. Only window that opens is the rear. We change out the cabin air filters every summer. Keeps you out of the choking dust chaff and chemicals. Since tractor cabs have been used for many years now. Farmers lung is a thing of the past. My WD 45 with the snow blower has an aftermarket cab. Fortunately I have another one to use for everything else.

I can sort of remember the radio in the Ansel cab working for a while. But that thing was such an echo chamber and so friggin’ loud in there it was pointless. Better off with a Walkman and ear phones. I didn’t have too many 8 tracks to try and see if that worked!