Kari: I definitely think you should have a ROPS canopy for around the woods. Over the years I had 3 tractors with cabs, very nice if your clocking 1,000+ hours per year and someone is taking the time to clean both cab and glass weekly. Two of my tractors ran around the clock on custom work, rain or shine, in summer. Cab is almost a must under those conditions.
My third tractor stayed at home, baled hay, mower conditioner, etc. I always figured the worst dust one could get in a cab was hay or grain dust. I found my operators didn't want that tractor for baling hay. I had a tractor about same size without cab. In the end we removed doors and back window for haying. I realize cabs are much tighter on new tractors today than back in 60s and 70s, however cabs just don't lend themselves well for some work and haying is one of them.
Since I retired I had an oportunity to run a tractor mounted eastern Canadian blueberry harvester for a guy. He had 3 of these harvesters, one on an open station IH 484, second on a Ford 4610 with cab and the 3rd on a 80 hp Kubota with cab. These blueberry harvesters take a bit of getting used to skills. He gave me the Kubota, told me not to try and follow the 484 as he'd had dozens of operators, and no one could match the 484 or the guy that operated it. I thought to myself, "NOW THERE IS A CHALANGE IF I'VE EVER SEEN ONE." I decided to get a few days in hone my skills then one day I saw my chance to follow the 484. When he was fully loaded, I followed him to the waiting truck to off load our product. We both had same number of boxes. I turned to the owner, and before I could say anything, he said, "you didn't beat him." I responded, "Oh yes I did, the fact I was following 484 every trip I made around that small field was 28 feet shorter than his round." He agreed I was right, and knowing I had years of tractor experience, sat me down and asked why they had never been able to do this before. I said the single biggest reason, not many people can do precission tractor work from the confines of a cab.
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