Should I cab or not. Getting ready to buy

[mwemaxxowner]

Everything causes a ruckus on this site

'Tis the mark of a good forum!

 

[wolc123]

wolc123 yes for you after work but how would it
be during the say from 12 noon to 7 in the evening???
In the cool of the evening when its nice and cool or
sometimes very early in the morning But not very
often here in Texas as at 9 pm temps can be in the
upper 90's

willy

I can't say that I blame you a bit for preferring a cab in those conditions. I am very thankful to have been born up north, where the weather is much more hospitable thru the summer.

 

[DieselBound]

My equipment rental guy has people bust out glass on excavators and skid-steers. Maybe they should quit using cabs on these?

Point is: it's all about the operator. Yes, you can "afford" to be a bit more stupid on an open-station when "in the woods," but that doesn't mean that you should be stupid. "Accidents" are rare; in almost all cases the end result can be traced to an operational error. One needs to adjust to one's environment.

One FACT, though, is that when in the woods opening doors becomes a lot more of an issue: off-roaders' vehicles generally have removable doors for this very reason (can get pinned such that you couldn't get out because a door couldn't be opened up).

One adjusts... Since my dog likes my cabbed tractor she endeavors to help out with the problem of low-hanging branches:

 

[Black Lab Guy]

Just bought a L6060 HST from Hix Equipment in Cookeville. Nice people to deal with. Decided on no cab, I live in a forest of oaks, hickory and maple trees and was concerned about tree damage.

 

[grsthegreat]

Just bought a L6060 HST from Hix Equipment in Cookeville. Nice people to deal with. Decided on no cab, I live in a forest of oaks, hickory and maple trees and was concerned about tree damage.

My dog says hello

 

[WM75Guy]

Everything causes a ruckus on this site

Hey, is the tractor gear or HST?

 

[Williy]

Wolc I know what the north is like was born and raised
in Wisconsin and can remember the winters were 6 to 8 weeks of 35 degrees below zero and the highs were a minus 30 degrees and snow storms were roads with
10 to 15 feet of snow and have blizards of 3 or 4 feet of snow but its not like that any more. Here its hot and dry not very often we have humidity and don't get much rain. But when you have arthritus like my wife she really likes it here. When the temp in Wisconsin gets around 75 to 85 degrees its humid and you feel like a greased pig

willy

 

[wolc123]

Wolc I know what the north is like was born and raised
in Wisconsin and can remember the winters were 6 to 8 weeks of 35 degrees below zero and the highs were a minus 30 degrees and snow storms were roads with
10 to 15 feet of snow and have blizards of 3 or 4 feet of snow but its not like that any more. Here its hot and dry not very often we have humidity and don't get much rain. But when you have arthritus like my wife she really likes it here. When the temp in Wisconsin gets around 75 to 85 degrees its humid and you feel like a greased pig

willy

The closest that I have been to Texas, is Pascagula MS. That was hot and humid in the summer. It was ok for a few days to visit, but there is no way that I could live there. You must be in West Texas, if the humidity isn't bad.

The cold up here in western NY don't bother me much at all. My wife and I are thinking that we will retire even farther north someday, probably up in the Adirondack mountains. My in-laws moved into a beautiful house up there, on a private lake, when they retired. We go visit at all times of the year, usually when our kids have a break from school.

Ice fishing, skating, and snowmobiling, on President's day weekend in February, is always one of our favorite trips up there. Just a notch below swimming in that crystal clear, 78 degree lake water, and fishing for suspended smallmouth bass, over the 4th of July weekend. Tracking whitetail bucks, in the first snow cover on Thanksgiving weekend, is right up there also.

I have been to many of the lower 48 states, Ontario & Quebec Canada, and Cozumel Mexico, and have yet to see anything that rivals the scenery up in NY's Adirondack mountains.

My father in law has a mid sized Kubota CUT up there now, and he just traded it in on a bigger one, yet to be delivered. They are both open-station, because he does a lot of work in the woods. I gave him my old 4 wd pickup truck, and he uses that to keep the roads around the lake open in the winter. He got a big v-plow for the new Kubota tractor for backup.

I will take my 8n with me when we move up there, maybe 10 years from now. I gave my father in law a 5 ft wide 3-point mower that was just right for his old Kubota, but will be a bit too small for his new one. It will be just right for my 8n.

This was daybreak on the Lake up there on this past Memorial day weekend:

 

[Williy]

Have you been in North Chicago in the winter?
The wind coming off the Lake will really chill your
bones!
As we get older the cold affects us differently as
we really don't like to be in the cold at all!

Its beautiful for sure! Northern Wisconsin is really
nice in the summer but the winters was too much
for my wife. Hope your family don't arthritis the
cold is very miserable.

We are south of Big Spring 110 miles west of Abilene

willy

 

[wolc123]

Have you been in North Chicago in the winter?
The wind coming off the Lake will really chill your
bones!
As we get older the cold affects us differently as
we really don't like to be in the cold at all!

Its beautiful for sure! Northern Wisconsin is really
nice in the summer but the winters was too much
for my wife. Hope your family don't arthritis the
cold is very miserable.

We are south of Big Spring 110 miles west of Abilene

willy

The closest I have been to Chicago, was a few days at Notre dame University in the early fall. The weather was real nice then.

My in-laws place is on the NW corner of the 6.5 million acre Adirondack park. That puts them slightly above the Lake Ontario snow belt, which dumps mountains of snow, every winter, just a little south of them.

When and if we move up there, my first act will be installing an air-tight, glass front woodstove like the one we have at home in Western NY. When you get chilled to the bone outside, it sure feels good to come in the house and sit down in front of that for a while.