Farmall H? with JD? cab

I bought this tractor the other day, brought it home tonight, hoping the cab will fit on my 4320. Can anyone ID it? Any opinions are appreciated.

That cab might be a Year-a-round. You have a major Winter project getting that cab mounted on a 4320 with cold air blowing out of air vents. Do you have JD cab mounting brackets & floor filler plates?

There are better cabs out there than that one. Better stretch before you try and crawl in or out.

Thanks for the possible ID Jim, and no, no floor plates or brackets, but I do have a Victor cutting torch, a Lincoln stick welder, a Hobart wire welder, with the desire to make it strong and look nice. But for winter, the main project is converting the barn on adjoining land we just purchased into a shop. I have to put doors on it before I can pour a floor, then move my automotive machine shop into it so I can really get into maintenance and repairs on hay making equipment.

Yeah Matthies, but this is the one I got, and I been in tighter places than that.....

That is an Excel cab, made in hesston, ks. The company still exist.
Very similar to the Diamond cab fitted on ih tractors (56 and 66), and also made by excel.

A much better and cheap cab would have been one off an off brand tractor, like a white 2-105 cab.

How cheap is cheap, I paid $300 for tractor and cab...all the glass is there except a couple of small pieces and what went missing with the doors, which the seller is trying to find. and its already patina green, like the JD 4320 I plan on putting it on.

That's not bad at all. There was a time
those cabs brought $20 at auctions. When I
was thinking of putting one on a tractor I
couldn't find them at auctions anymore and
people who are selling them are trying to
get $1,000 or better for them.

(quoted from post at 23:29:36 12/01/21) That's not bad at all. There was a time
those cabs brought $20 at auctions. When I
was thinking of putting one on a tractor I
couldn't find them at auctions anymore and
people who are selling them are trying to
get $1,000 or better for them.

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Yeah, "Pickers" ruined it for everybody looking for a good deal, the internet is making it worse, everyone thinks their stuff is gold plated. The best way to get a deal is to go out and just drive around hoping to find someone who just doesn't care, they just want it gone, and have cash and a trailer behind your truck. If not they have time go on internet and see insane prices people are trying to get and then they jump their own prices. I am not buying anything but parts I can carry after the first of the year, got enough stuff to keep me busy for the rest of my life.

Where are you located, DRwagon? Do you have a friend who has a 20 series with a cab already installed? If so, I suggest you go drive theirs for a day. You may decide that the cab is not worth installing.

Around here in SW WI, they were very popular for hauling manure in the winter when new when there was no better alternative. There were even a fair number of 30 series tractors with aftermarket cabs that guys looking to pinch a few pennies put together instead of paying a little more for a sound-gard cab. They figured out real quick that those were pennies that should not have been pinched. Those 30 series with aftermarket cabs are pretty much all gone. I have not seen one in a few years.

Nowadays, aftermarket cabs generally DECREASE the value of a 20 series tractor at a sale. They do so because they greatly decrease the comfort, utility, and looks of the tractor. A ROPS and canopy will do everything a cab will do without the noise, heat, and clumsiness. It will likely keep you cooler than any scabbed-on AC unit you install in a cab.

Of course, ROPS and canopy will not do you much good in the winter, which is why I asked where you are from. The only small benefit a cab like that will benefit you is as a wind block when it is cold out, and provide heat if the heater unit works. . If you are not running the tractor much in those conditions, all aftermarket cabs suck. The drawbacks greatly outweigh the benefits.

DITTO what rockyridgefarm stated. I think you will not like the aftermarket cab after you go to all the trouble to mount & get air conditioning functioning.

At best, those aftermarket cabs provide shade in the summer and a windbreak in the winter. For summer use leave the doors and windows off to let most of the noise and heat out and let a breeze in.

Excel cab.. Need pieces ,might try.. Haas Equipment LLC.. in Madison, Minnesota.. If need, give
call,, Doug Haas.. 320-598-7604.. Has internet sight too ,look up. One place showed a lot of old cabs off
John Deere in his yard.. Maybe find some parts that maybe hard for you to build.. You made a good find.
Will be a good project..

Hauling manure in the winter, if the sun is shining and it's 30 degrees, I still have to run the AC on low. Being all bundled up
from being on the open loader tractor, just running the fan and moving air around isn't enough. The wife's greenhouse should
generate heat as good as a tractor cab does.