Just dreaming.....

Eldon,it would be nice if someone built a tractor as good as a 175D. Tracy Martin

<<<<<agrees with Tracy too!

that really looks pretty good with that cab on it.

Matt MN wrote: I am assuming that is photo-shopped Looks kinda hard to push the clutch pedal in?

I found the description on his picture says 175 with reduced 8000 series cab.

Eldon (WA) wrote: That does look pretty comfy Eric. I was thinking of something a little more rounded and not quite as tall....

Oops..  Hit the post button to quick.  Here are the photos I married together to create the 8010 cab on the 175D tractor.

About 3 years ago a dealer had a 180 or 185 the someone fitted it with a 7000 series cab. That looked right nice. I think we saw pictures of it here.

Wow! That looks Great. Now, put it on FeeBay for about $12,500 and see what you can stir up!

probly hard to find 6000 series cabs though

 Good one, Lou   !!

As Rfdeere said, a 6080 is what you need!  200 Cubic inch intercooled turbo will eat the 248 Perkins for lunch.  The only thing missing is the cup holder!

Eldon,Ihave owned many pieces of equipment over the years and I had an 276II.This is the only piece that I have ever owned that I could not run for an 8 hour day without something braking on it.I am a pretty good machnic but this thing was crazy!Had trouble with everything,fix something 2 days later same thing loose,broke again,just terrible,good idea just nothing built heavy enuff.Good cummins 3.9,spent 2800 on ac worked 3 hours on and on biggest money pit I ever had.

As far as I can tell, the first cabs JD built (at least for two wheel drive tractors) were the "sound guard" cabs for the '30 series beginning about 1973. Before that, tractors like the 4020 received square cabs from a variety of makers though so authorized by Deere that the parts are in the 4020 parts catalog.

The square cabs because of floor penetrations by pedals (actually the brake and clutch pedals lap over the front edge of the stock floor deck) and the three point arms, tend to trap noise and dirt, rather than separating the operator from those annoyances. Some claimed to be roll over protection but I've not seen any structure to compare to the Deere open air ROPS that I have. They look to me as prefilled coffins in a roll over.

There have been a few of the sound guard cabs mounted on 4020, it apparently takes much work to get them tight enough to reduce sound and dirt over the open cab.

In the summer time, I kind of prefer the open tractor, then if I'm not working the tractor too hard I can hear to birds not just see them.

I was quite happy when my custom combiner offered to haul my corn to the elevator with his truck instead of me dragging wagons at 20F with the open 4020. So if the cab was warm I'd have liked it then. But when he got a semi it was an even nicer ride and he completed the farm quicker not having to wait for me to bring a wagon back. Even though he shut down the combine to make each trip with the semi.

That is to say that the first generation of cabs may not be an enhancement over the open tractor, and that the tractor not designed for a cab may present serious difficulties in installing a later cab and getting it noise and dirt tight. Look at how the later tractors handle the three point rock shaft and the pedals. Likely the three point rock shaft isn't under the seat and the pedals are on top of the operator platform where before that the pedal reached over the edge of the operator platform and the seat was on top the rock shaft operator.

Gerald J.

 There is a 175 with a cab owned by a School District near here. I saw it at a garage several years ago & I wish I would have had a camera. It was a nice set up altho a little crowded, no room for grandkids. Sure would be nice feeding round bales in the winter...Harvey