2022 - Volume #46, Issue #3, Page #27
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Home-Built Cab Makes Snow Blowing Easier
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“The problem is blowing snow hits your face and it’s always windy here. I wanted to keep the cold air and snow off my face,” Heron says.
He started by removing the plastic bladder to use the steel tube frame of a 275-gal. tote. Heron cut some of the tubing to create openings for windows and a door. He made a cardboard template for a pattern to cut plywood, so the cab fits snugly on his Deere garden tractor. To cover the rounded corners, he made kerf cuts into the plywood, without cutting all the way through. Then he wet it with water to soak in so he could bend it in place.
“I had to experiment to get the depth of the cuts right,” Heron says.
He screwed the plywood shell on the frame and added 1 by 4’s around the openings to staple heavy plastic coverings for the side and back windows and door. Plexiglass covers the front opening for the windshield. The cab secures to the tractor with a bracket on the front and back fender.
“There is also a hinge so I can tip it up and over the back,” he adds.
Besides stopping the wind, the cab captures a little heat from the tractor’s engine, Heron says. He also appreciated the seat his wife reupholstered for him.
“It made snow blowing easier,” he said, adding he may add manually controlled windshield wipers, though he didn’t have any issues with snow on the windshield last winter.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Mike Heron, RR 1 Site 1, Box 1, Main Station, Lloydminster, Sask., Canada S9V 0X6 (ph 306-821-6367; m.heron@sasktel.net).
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