[AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

[Cecil R Bearden]

Here in OK, this winter has really been cold,  We usually do not get 
this cold until the 3rd week of Feb until the 2nd week of March.  We 
have been spoiled to the warm winters for the last 25 years.   For the 
last 4 or 5 days the high has been in the 20's with a wind of 15-25 
gusting to 35.  It gets this cold for a week then we get one or two days 
of 60 deg, then here comes another brutal cold front.   I hate the wind 
in OK, and I really hate it in the winter.   I wear a Carrhart hooded 
coat all the time.  There is always a cold wind hitting my neck.  If I 
turn my back to it, I have a cold spot where the wind blows through the 
Carrhart canvas.  In the meantime, my coat is open and I am sweating if 
I do anything.  This is how you get chilled to the bone around here.   I 
am just so thankful that I have a tractor with a cab and heat this year 
for feeding hay.  In the last 5 years the tractor market for "Open 
Station" tractors around here has really dropped.  A cab on a used 60 to 
100 hp tractor will nearly double the auction price.

Back in '07 after I retired I helped a neighbor farm a hay operation.  
He had 2 late model JD tractors a  100 hp and a 75 hp.  They both had 
cabs with AC and heat.  He was an absentee owner, so I watched out for 
his place and equipment.  He would let me use his tractors for feeding 
and baling and I would keep them maintained and always returned them 
full of fuel.  It was a good deal for both of us...    in '09 he started 
selling out and developing the 1/4 section and I was on my own again.    
I then found out that the tractors my Dad had been using were on their 
last legs.   I had a White 2-105 with a cab, but the air did not work.  
I bought a 7030 AC but the hydraulics would boil after 2 ours of use.  I 
had a 4010 JD propane open station.   I had become spoiled to those 
cabs.   The 4010 was so hot to work due to the heat coming off the 
muffler.  A diesel did not have the hot exhaust.  I built a heat shield 
to deflect the heat away form the operator.   Within the next year I 
traded around and got 2ea 85 HP Belarus tractors with cabs and loaders 
and a TS110 New Holland with cab heat air and loader.   The Belarus 
tractors have a/c but it was installed in the USA and they are not 
reliable.  The heaters on the Belarus tractors need a higher thermostat 
and some re-routing of the heater hoses to get some warmth.   The 
Belarus has such an over sized cooling system, it never gets hot even in 
the summer.    The cabs without air are still so much better to operate 
in any weather because of the constant wind here in OK. My open station 
tractors are finding new homes.

Just a ramble this morning.

Cecil in OKla


On 2/8/2014 7:38 AM, Dean VP wrote:
> I guess the old saying applies here. "Different Strokes for Different
> Folks!" And that is OK!
>
> Dean VP
> Apache Junction, AZ
>
> " . . . The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
> blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure . . . " Jefferson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 6:05 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] test
>
> Ralph, from your videos you  dress about like folks do here when they have
> to work out in the cold on our few really cold days but some of these
> retired folks bundle up like you do to go to the grocery store when it's 45
> F outside.  I guess it's just the way they have always done it where ever
> they came from.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Goff
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 1:11 AM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] test
>
> On 2/7/2014 6:51 PM, charlie hill wrote:
>> John,  I get a kick out of the retired northern folks around here.  On
>> a day that it's maybe in the low 40's I'll be walking around in a tee
>> shirt covered by a heavy cotton long sleeve pull over or a sweat shirt
>> or light sweater and I'm comfortable as long as I'm not out for a long
>> time.  (my daddy always said
>> 40 degs was shirtsleeve weather)
>>
>> Charlie
> Charlie, surprisingly I have a low tolerance for cold. I can be cold sitting
> in the house at 70 degrees with three layers on if I am not active. I am
> actually warmer outside when I am working enough to get the blood
> circulating. But yes, layers are what I use. 3 layers for just sitting
> around the house, might get down to two if I am working.
> Outdoors I will add two more. Insulated coveralls and a parka on top of
> that. Minimum two layers on the legs, more often three if I want to be
> comfortable. I have no fat for insulation and my arms never see the sun even
> in the hottest days of summer. And the last thing I would ever need is air
> conditioning for the house. A furnace, well that is a necessity of life.
> Kind of like a block heater on an engine. Hey, it has warmed up here. Got up
> near 0 farenheit today with no wind and if felt positively warm in the
> sunshine.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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