Massey Cab Mounted On Deere 4020

Massey Cab Mounted On Deere 4020 TRACTORS Cabs 32-5-33 Wilbert Loewen wanted a cab for his 4020 Deere tractor to make feeding cattle and pushing snow more comfortable. The Neepawa, Manitoba, resident recalled an old FARM SHOW article about someone modifying a cab for their Deere. He went looking and found a 1135 Massey cab in good condition at a local scrap yard. He purchased it for $300 along with new lights and flashers for the front and back. He used scraps of iron he had on the farm to modify it to fit. "I had to flip the rear mounts and shorten them," Loewen says. He removed the Deere seat, cut holes in the floor of the cab for the pedals and reinstalled the seat. He made brackets for the front and mounted the cab on rubber blocks to reduce noise. He cut along the sides to reposition the back wall to keep it on the frame and cut and ground down welds that were in the way. "Bigger tires would have been a problem," Loewen notes. His 18.4-34 tires only give him an inch of clearance between them and the cab. After his son painted it, the cab looked like it belonged on the tractor. "It has been excellent," Loewen says. He hooked up the heater that was built in the cab, with rerouted lines off the Deere engine's oil cooler. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Wilbert Loewen, P.O. Box 2151, Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada ROJ 1HO (ph 204 966-3270).

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