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cleddy

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Has anyone ever put a Combine cab on a tractor? I have a Gleaner E Cab with some good windows and thinking WD Allis Chalmers Tractor and a rear door. We had another Home Made Cab on it but everyone made fun of it and said it looked like an Out house! Cleddy
 
Are you going to mount it backwards so you have a place for the steering column or what?
 
Yeah I hadn't thought of that. No it needs to go frontwards to use the windows but this old tractors been modified many times and the steering shaft has a universal joint at the back of the gas tank and sits at a steep angle already. This was just a thought and hadn't looked at how location would go??
 
About 50 years ago I helped build decent cabs for a MM 670 and IH806 which were used for many years ,but don't have a picture. they were a bit smaller than commercial (Year Around etc ) had only LF door and a heater.We hired glass company to fit the windows. For rear mount the old MM U and R cabs might be good to copy. A good fabric heat houser might be an easy choice .
 
About 50 years ago my Dad built some cabs for his MM M-602 and U-302 and they did not look as nice as Commercial Year around cabs but they had good glass and when we were out feeding cow in the winter and
early spring and fall field work it sure was nice even with just heat off the gear train. Ours had some plywood panels and acoustical tile for insulation and noise was not a problem. I heard the early Year
around cabs were awful and many got discarded as they ruined operators hearing. Our Outhouse cab was built about 1960 and just had plain house windows ordered from Sear & Roebuck and just a little better than
a canvas Heat houser Last thing we worried about back in the day was how things looked to other farmers??
 
You know I think it would be easier than you think. Don't take anything out of cab.Leave Steering wheel and hyd in cab. Just steer tractor hydraulically even use combine rear for a wide front. Mount combine hyd pump straight into the belt pulley. Use rest of hyd from combine E to F2. Use clutch and brake pedals also. Just quick thoughts. I might try it. If didn't already have a 6060 with a cab.
 
You spoke of using a Gleaner cab, but I had a Massey 300 that had a cab with a split windshield. There was an upper and lower glass in it. One like that, maybe you could take the bottom glass out and get it down over the steering shaft. Maybe even do some modifying and reinstall it below the column. Find one in a boneyard, do some measuring and see what you think.
 
Thanks for not beating me up too much about this. Gleaner Cab has 2 piece windshield so bottom could be modifyed with Plexiglas which can be drilled. My WD Allis Chalmers is just a old wore out tractor that has been modifyed a lot to attempt to make it more modern. Steering shaft is already about straight up and down. I am just messing around with this because it happens to be My Dad's first new tractor that helped make him pretty wealthy by the end of his life and he gave the tractor to me!!!First cab was pretty crude but It wasn't to bad when someone came and gave us 2 mile ride home from country school in the winter.


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Ya, if you've got a combine cab with a 2 piece windshield, I wouldn't be too quick to toss out the idea for being too far fetched. There's a chance it could be done.
 
My WD9 used to have a cab from a K5 IH truck.And a door from some old car on the rear. 'Wheat Farmer' (who used to post here) gave me the tractor. Showed me pics of the cab. Yes,it was 'but ugly',but got em out of theweather in western Nebraska. His Dad bought the tractor new in'52. Put the cab on in the mid '50s.
 
Believe it or not I have a KB 5 IH truck but hope I can do something better with that cab?? Minneapolis Moline came out with the tractors and cabs that looked like a truck and they are very high dollar now. If I had one I would probably like it but they really don't appeal to me. Cleddy
 
I like the looks of that outhouse looks pretty dang neat to me ! I bet the old man was in hog heaven in that cab in the late fall winter early spring time I know I would be
 
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