DIY tractor cab.

[Green Acres Homestead]

Save $8000 and build your own tractor cab. I built this for about $500.00. I have a new L2502 Kubota. Here in Canada the cab is $8000 so I built my own for $500. It is a very function strong cab if I do say so myself. DIY tractor cab.

 

[Rustyiron]

Very nice.
I do wonder why "they" don't offer a simple enclosure. No fabric headliner, a/c, heat or radio. Simple to remove doors and glass too! Flat and gasketed for local glass shop replacement.
I guess I'm describing a cab of the 70's.

 

[ksJoe]

Do you have heat?

There's very cheap diesel heaters on amazon. Most of them start around $100, but I caught one on sale for $50 a few months ago. They take 12v to run the fuel pump, glow plug, and fans, but burn diesel for the heat.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Very nice.
I do wonder why "they" don't offer a simple enclosure. No fabric headliner, a/c, heat or radio. Simple to remove doors and glass too! Flat and gasketed for local glass shop replacement.
I guess I'm describing a cab of the 70's.

That’s a good question. I believe my dealer could of sold me one but they are like $500 for a plastic one. To cheep for them to both with. They usually try to sell you a simms cab which are fairly well built but I believe $5000. Maybe the cab of the 70ies wasn’t a bad thing.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Do you have heat?

There's very cheap diesel heaters on amazon. Most of them start around $100, but I caught one on sale for $50 a few months ago. They take 12v to run the fuel pump, glow plug, and fans, but burn diesel for the heat.

I have a diesel heater my wife got me for Xmas. When time allows I am going to rig some framing up so I hopefully will have heat. It’s not really required as it doesn’t get much below -10 celcuis when it snows. The defrosting of the window would be nice but there is lots of air flow so the windows haven been getting to badly frosted over. In time I’ll add that diesel heater and a manual wiper and some fancy work lamps.

Man your $50 diesel heater is a wicket deal. They throw some heat.

 

[cabover4us]

My good friend has a Bobcat gasoline sise by side. He did a cab and doors nice and tight but was having cold engine issues with that 20 Honda twin. He bought the 8000 btu diesel heater mounted it put a dirverter on the output heat to split it 1. Went into cab and 2. Went under unit to go into engine compartment. What a absolute world of difference it made with the operation of the engine and he can plow snow in his Tee shirt.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

With an engine generating heat which has to be dissipated with the radiator, why would you not jut buy a heater core/fan assembly and install it?

Amazon.com

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Do you have heat?

There's very cheap diesel heaters on amazon. Most of them start around $100, but I caught one on sale for $50 a few months ago. They take 12v to run the fuel pump, glow plug, and fans, but burn diesel for the heat.

My wife bought me a diesel heater and I bought a mirror and some work lights for the back of the tractor. I installed them last week. Actually I still have to run the wire for the diesel heater.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Save $8000 and build your own tractor cab. I built this for about $500.00. I have a new L2502 Kubota. Here in Canada the cab is $8000 so I built my own for $500. It is a very function strong cab if I do say so myself. DIY tractor cab.

My wife bought me a diesel heater and I bought myself work lamps and a mirror. I got the work lights and mirror installed and the diesel heater mounted. I still have to run the wire for the diesel heater.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Very nice.
I do wonder why "they" don't offer a simple enclosure. No fabric headliner, a/c, heat or radio. Simple to remove doors and glass too! Flat and gasketed for local glass shop replacement.
I guess I'm describing a cab of the 70's.

That would be so nice but I suspect they would loose sales on their $8000 cab.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

With an engine generating heat which has to be dissipated with the radiator, why would you not jut buy a heater core/fan assembly and install it?

Amazon.com

I suck as a machanic but that is a great idea. I'll take a peak at the link you provided.

 

[Sportsman762]

Very nice.
I do wonder why "they" don't offer a simple enclosure. No fabric headliner, a/c, heat or radio. Simple to remove doors and glass too! Flat and gasketed for local glass shop replacement.
I guess I'm describing a cab of the 70's.

I have one of those "No fabric headliner, a/c, heat or radio, simple to remove doors" cabs on my 1978 Massey 20C. It was built by Sims and offered by MF as a factory cab. Since it was built to fit the 20C-50C it is massive compared to the tractor. I can even stand in it and still have 6"+ above my head. However it is hot as heck in the summer. It is LOUD! You can't hear hardly anything just the drum of the engine.

I fabricated panels to seal it up tight to the tractor as the cab let hot engine air in in the summer, but in the winter the air had cooled so you had a constant breeze. Most folks do not want to have the engine noise magnified in a metal drum, sweat more in summer, and still be cold in winter.

I have contemplated adding a heater to the cab. Currently I have a 12v fan that runs year round: in summer its pointing at me, in winter its blowing on the windshield to keep it clear. I do like the cab when it rains, and it does keep you warmer now that I have sealed it. However I do not think most folks would want one. Look at the thread complaining about how the new Kubota L6070 does not have a door switch for the dome light. Folks want their comforts and are willing to pay for them. This is very few people other than company's buy Ford XL's or Chevy WT's us Americans love our creature comforts. Folks will claim they want basic, but then go and buy the XLT or Platinum truck, the same applies to tractors.

 

[yanmars]

I just bought a 2025 Ford 150 XL with a reg cab and long bed 4x4. Just what I wanted a work truck. Way more stuff than the 2004 Ram I drive now and more than I need or will use.

 

[chim]

With an engine generating heat which has to be dissipated with the radiator, why would you not jut buy a heater core/fan assembly and install it?

Amazon.com

Exactly what I did on my DIY cab about a dozen years ago. With 20MBTU it had about 1/5 of the BTU's as the 2700SF house we live in. Never a lack of heat.