Glad you can get your timber cut. I've been trying for a year and unless you have 500 ac to cut, they won't bother talking. Most our timber/red/chestnut oak go to China and its been booming with prices thru the roof.
Same here. Love the cab...really love it. But it's weird not being able to hear/sense what is going on behind the tractor. As far as turning your head...I hate pulling up to an intersections these days at a 45 degree angle. Contortion.
Seems that's the case all over the country. I bought my original tract of land at the end of 2010, following the great recession. Part of my reason for buying was not for habitat/timber/wildlife management but rather to diversify my investment portfolio after watching my stock/mutual fund/401K tank during that period. Rural land went down but not anywhere near what the market did. As it turns out, the market recovered, rural land prices have drastically increased, and timber in my case, turned out to be a nice revenue generator that can go on for generations.
Swampcat, I recall telling my son on my first tractor purchase that I wanted open station to experience the full outdoor effect. Come August/September, I'd have to quit mowing by noon due to the heat and wear a mask due to the dust. After a couple of mowings with the cab, I ain't hopping back on the open station for mowing fields.I have two open cab tractors. Got to admit, I wouldnt mind a cab for spraying. But overall, if someone gave me a cab tractor, I would be looking to trade it tomorrow on an open cab. I do some offshore fishing on occasion. Used to have my own boat, but Katrina took her, so now I charter. I never charter a boat with AC in the salon. I dont want anyone sitting in the salon in the cool and miss the action. If you are going to do that, stay in the hotel. When I am on my tractor, I am the same way. If you need to be in a controlled climate while you are working your land - might as well stay at the house.
Glad that's not the case down here. Logging crew just finished the clear cut. They are now thinning the 110 acres of 22 yr old loblolly. Headed down this afternoon to check the progress on the thinning. 2nd thinning on these pines to a basal of around 50 to 60. I'll take a few pics and post.
I am not going to say it is all fun and games in an open cab. It gets hot where I am - 30 miles from the Texas state line. And I have come in hot and dusty many a time. I have a piece of property 8 road miles away that I drive to on my tractor six or eight times a year - and some mornings can be pretty chilly. I have some time in a cab tractor - I cant hear the equipment, I cant see as well, and I would hate to put it in some of the places I do that are brushy, thick with trees, etc. My wife bought me some ear buds for when I was on the tractor - I wont even use them. I typically dont spend long hours on a tractor - between my two tractors, probably about 250 hrs a year. I live on my place and can usually choose my times of work - I am not going out and work in the rain if I can help it. There probably are not more than a couple times a year when I spend 8 hrs in a day on a tractor. My next door neighbors are cattlemen. They work all day everyday. They cant work around weather. I would have a cab tractor if I was them. Of the 250 hrs a year I spend on a tractor, half is on a little 28 hp JD back in the woods trails bush hogging, spraying, clearing logs and trees out of the trails, spreading seed or fertilizer with a spreader - that kind of thing so much easier on a small tractor than my 65 hp JD. Not even sure you can get a cab on a 28 hp tractor - it would look like a house on top a lawnmower. I do have a canopy on my 65 hp.
I drove polaris for 15 years..... switched to kawasaki mule in 2020......will never go back!!I am not going to say it is all fun and games in an open cab. It gets hot where I am - 30 miles from the Texas state line. And I have come in hot and dusty many a time. I have a piece of property 8 road miles away that I drive to on my tractor six or eight times a year - and some mornings can be pretty chilly. I have some time in a cab tractor - I cant hear the equipment, I cant see as well, and I would hate to put it in some of the places I do that are brushy, thick with trees, etc. My wife bought me some ear buds for when I was on the tractor - I wont even use them. I typically dont spend long hours on a tractor - between my two tractors, probably about 250 hrs a year. I live on my place and can usually choose my times of work - I am not going out and work in the rain if I can help it. There probably are not more than a couple times a year when I spend 8 hrs in a day on a tractor. My next door neighbors are cattlemen. They work all day everyday. They cant work around weather. I would have a cab tractor if I was them. Of the 250 hrs a year I spend on a tractor, half is on a little 28 hp JD back in the woods trails bush hogging, spraying, clearing logs and trees out of the trails, spreading seed or fertilizer with a spreader - that kind of thing so much easier on a small tractor than my 65 hp JD. Not even sure you can get a cab on a 28 hp tractor - it would look like a house on top a lawnmower. I do have a canopy on my 65 hp.
I put 1200 miles a year on my polaris ranger - all on my 350 acres. I dont have an enclosed cab on it. Even took the windshield off - it does have a roof - and I am out in it some in bad weather - hunting.
Each to his own - I guess that is why they make both.
Around here there is lots of negativity towards Polaris, it seems every owner has their story. Their wiring used to be very suspect, 15 years ago my farmer friend bought a new Ranger, a week out of warranty he parked in front of the farmhouse for a late breakfast, several minutes later he looked out and it was engulfed in flames.
I predicted when the shutdown started that the end result of covid was going be the dollar amount of everything doubling. Our elected leaders wanted to do this doubling for a long time, and they will double again if they can. The reason for this is that doubling the dollar amount of everything effectively cuts our national debt in half, so then, they can go and spend, or give away 28 trillion dollars all over again. I mention this not to get all political here, but to point out that this is the new reality, don't expect the prices of land (or anything else) to go back down again.
