[alan]

Has anybody rigged up a heater in a cab on a water cooled tractor? If I end up with a 332 with a cab I may got for the height of luxury and try to have a warm cab this winter.

Was a cab heater ever offered from Deere?

 

[shivelyt]

Alan,
The college where I work borrowed a new John Deere 700 garden tractor from the local elementary school a couple of winters ago to blow off sidewalks. I was in it all day with no coat because it had a small cab heater in it. It was a heater from Deere but I don't know much about them. I'm sure it was electric heat.

 

[JDF/ SwampFox]

Alan, Water heaters are quite common in water cooled tractors like a 332. You will have many chime in here telling you how sweet they are, if I had a need for one, I would install one on my 322. They do a wonderful job too I have read.

 

[Sandpiper]

Alan, your options are almost endless. Deere offered them, as did Cozy Cab and I am sure the other cab makers. After that route, you will also be able to find generic ones through farm supply stores and beyond that, you can look in the auto wreckers for a rear heater out of an older suburban or some extended full size vans.

Keep in mind, bigger isn't better in this case. Space inside the cab is limited and you'll find that very little heat is required to make it warm.

Greg

 

[gary_in_ia]

Our 455 at work with a Cozy Cab has one with two small muffin fans, it works ok but as diesels are cold blooded we replace the radiator screen with a piece of card board with a hole in it. The colder it is the smaller the hole. If you work it hard with the snowblower it will run the water temperature up to the redline with no problem.

 

[rcrose5]

alan, they had one where I used to work. In the winter out blowing snow the maint. guys were in t shirts only. Based on that I would have to say that they are the best thing since sliced bread.
Rob

 

[alan]

The local small equipment dealer sells "Brand CC" tractors (using "tractor" a bit loosely) and they had a customer ask them about putting a heater in a cab. They never could get it to work right. My gut feeling was that the crew of aces in the shop weren't getting it plumbed right. They had the heater mounted up high and I dont' think they ever got water to circulate fast enough to purge the air out of the heater core. That episode was why I was asking about heaters, thought maybe it was a good idea that couldn't be made to work. Now that I know it can be done I'll do some serious searching to se what is available.