[AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

[charlie hill]

Cecil,  I've often wondered about using a worn cotton pickers as a
platform for mounting forward looking stuff.  I dreamed of getting on,
stripping off the picker, bin and processing stuff and mounting a brush 
cutter on the
front but a snow plow would work good too.  Cotton pickers have a lot of
hydraulic capacity because a lot if not all of the picking equipment is 
hydraulic.
As best I can tell without any direct experience, the drive train, 
hydraulics and
engine outlast the picking equipment.  Looking at them sitting dead on 
dealer lots
around here makes me think there is little to no market for used ones.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil R Bearden
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 11:06 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] test Now cold and tractor cabs

If you could find an old swather frame and mount the snowblower in place
of the header, you could have a blower that would keep you neck from
hurting....

I need to find a self propelled swather, my neck and back hurt so bad
running a pull type swather or any other implement.

It is so much easier to look forward..

Cecil


On 2/8/2014 9:49 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 2/8/2014 8:52 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>> Here in OK, this winter has really been cold,   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.
> Agreed on that Cecil. A cab makes life much nicer if you have to spend
> many hours on a tractor, winter especially. I'm still using the open
> Cockshutt 40 on the snowblower simply because it is my only tractor with
> 3 point hitch. Looking at updating to something newer and more
> comfortable one of these days. Lucky it has been an easy winter for snow
> here. Only bladed the driveway a couple of times and snow blower with
> one quick pass.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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