[AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

Sat Feb 8 08:18:07 PST 2014

Cecil that boiling common to 7030's or was it a problem just with
your particular tractor?  I never heard of that problem before.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 9:52 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

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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