Why do people insist on having cabs full of crap

[Dan7626]

Here the diesel tank is next to the workshop door, so every time I fill up I blow the cab out with the air line.
The boss is very particular on cleanliness of the kit and gives us all a fee minutes in a morning to clean them out, he even supplies window cleaner and interior cleaner.
It's nice to have a bit of pride in your machine, a few minutes here and there and it's not a big job to keep on top of it.

 

[M-J-G]

Put all of the sh!te inside or on top of the culprit's car.

Has worked very well for me in the past.

 

[dowcow]

I'm a dairy farmer... My proudest moment was when I gave my cousin a ride this spring to show him the GPS. He asked if it was a new tractor, or new to us. Nope, had it for years... and he said "But it looks factory fresh?"

It isn't always that clean, but I do like to keep on top of it before it becomes a health hazard. My cousin just happened to get on one day after a rainy day had found me with the teat wipes giving everything a good wipe down. Usually I just remove the crap and give it a brush down and a blast out with the airline.

 

[Gerbert]

All contractors I know here have their tractors all clean as a whistle on the inside. All full time drivers have their own tractor apart from some youngsters.
Most tractors have carpets and almost everyone drives on their socks.
Thought it was commonplace for full time contractors...
I myself try to keep them tidy enough. Yeah , sometimes you take a chainsaw along, it leaks, or have some shït stained boots, you know the deal. But I have a brush in all tractors so I am able to clean up a bit and drive on my socks when I want.

 

[Dry Rot]

Ye gods! What a lot of pansies! How on earth do you find a bit of baler twine for emergency repairs? Let alone a piece of fencing wrire when you've run out of clips?

Carpets? Little brushes? Curtains maybe?

Don't you know that a bit of mud protects the paint work from flying stones?


(There's a clue in the screen name).

 

[puppet]

I thought someone would pick me up on that! I get about 10 a day when rolling etc.

We reseeded an acre and lifted 2 tractor buckets of stones

 

[bert]

At my mates 21st his tractor was running the generator, a couple of us at the end of the night grabbed some fancy cheese pulled the curtain down round his tractor seat and shoved the cheese in, did the curtain back up so you couldn't tell we had been in, think it was a few days before he found the cheese which had mashed up round everything. He said it smelt very strongly for a few weeks, good job he has a good sense of humour!

 

[Walterp]

Some seriously tidy people on here - wonder how they'd cope with the livestock farmer habit of stuffing several wet and dirty silage bale wraps in behind the seat after Winter feeding?

Basic Problem: there is no exterior pannier to hold the detritus that many farmers collect during their working day: alkathene sticks, stones, string, horseshoes, discarded pullovers, net, string (did I mention string already?) and bits of wood.

One day, someone will invent one that is easy to use yet doesn't get in the way of either the rear linkage or front loader.

They will clean up.

(So to speak).

 

[Weasel]

Some seriously tidy people on here - wonder how they'd cope with the livestock farmer habit of stuffing several wet and dirty silage bale wraps in behind the seat after Winter feeding?

Basic Problem: there is no exterior pannier to hold the detritus that many farmers collect during their working day: alkathene sticks, stones, string, horseshoes, discarded pullovers, net, string (did I mention string already?) and bits of wood.

One day, someone will invent one that is easy to use yet doesn't get in the way of either the rear linkage or front loader.

They will clean up.

(So to speak).

Know of a farmer who's cab is full of net Wrap, even around the pedals. It's a 2 year old tractor and has a smashed door. Bent exhaust and no steps. He broke the plastic off the loader leaver, it has two soft tyres.

 

[farmerdan7618]

Never was keen on having loose stuff in the cab, then a local farmer was killed when some net fell on the joystick whilst he was unwrapping a bale. Doesn't take much to keep it clean, and anything really needed can usually go in a pocket somewhere.

 

[BLG]

About a year ago a tractor in my area was hit up the arse by a truck doing about 90kph who’s driver had fallen asleep. The tractor ended up up side down on the other side of the road but the driver was only lightly hurt. Apparently he had his seat belt on and had no tools in the cab to fly around and hit him on the head.

 

[v8willy]

All contractors I know here have their tractors all clean as a whistle on the inside. All full time drivers have their own tractor apart from some youngsters.
Most tractors have carpets and almost everyone drives on their socks.
Thought it was commonplace for full time contractors...
I myself try to keep them tidy enough. Yeah , sometimes you take a chainsaw along, it leaks, or have some shït stained boots, you know the deal. But I have a brush in all tractors so I am able to clean up a bit and drive on my socks when I want.

Not sure but I've a feeling that's ilegal in a truck at least, fairly sure you can't have boots or shoes off for the risk of getting under the pedals, can't have shoes with no back in them either.
Used to pull boots off in Truck as my feet sweat badly in winter, mostly on limiter anyway so feet not needed much.

 

[puppet]

Not sure but I've a feeling that's ilegal in a truck at least, fairly sure you can't have boots or shoes off for the risk of getting under the pedals, can't have shoes with no back in them either.
Used to pull boots off in Truck as my feet sweat badly in winter, mostly on limiter anyway so feet not needed much.

The police here have warned silage racers to get their shoes back on.

 

[puppet]

Some seriously tidy people on here - wonder how they'd cope with the livestock farmer habit of stuffing several wet and dirty silage bale wraps in behind the seat after Winter feeding?

Basic Problem: there is no exterior pannier to hold the detritus that many farmers collect during their working day: alkathene sticks, stones, string, horseshoes, discarded pullovers, net, string (did I mention string already?) and bits of wood.
(So to speak).

Apart from stones (there is always a selection nearby) and horseshoes all the other items are useful or essential on a livestock tractor.

 

[Ali_Maxxum]

Usually keep mine pretty clean, tidy and clutter free! I really don't understand how people can sit in dust, sh1te filled cabs for long days and nights. I usually only do 2 big cleans in-cab on our 2 main tractors, I put 1000-1200hrs a year on mine and then about 600 personally on the other.

Everything has its place, phone/tablet chargers, pair of sunnies and some shop money. I've got a tall Case's own storage box behind the passenger seat which I keep; a full set of mower blades in, some spare pins and clips and the tool for changing them, radio, CB and front linkage hand books, air line fitting, air line, tyre gun, windy blowy outy gun and a folding Silky saw! It's all in that box out of sight and safe out the way. It has a cardboard mat which I actually make quite tidy tbf

Each machine has 2 pairs of gloves on it for hitching/unhitching kit. Oily steering wheel/controls are a massive no no! Went driving a tractor on silage in a contractors fleet one day, oily controls, sweaty hands, my jeans were black by the end of the day! Our alpine tractor is a bit grotty, we had it in 2010 and that was sort of before I had a main role so I just look at it and lose the will to live, plus up to 3 of us drive it.... all that will change when we have a new one. Had a new digger in march and that's got pretty dusty inside, I don't drive it much but drives me a bit mad when I do so that'll have a damn good wipe down soon.

This time of year dust is inevitable, I fully accept that, mines gotten quite dusty but I can still see what colour the interior is. Shut the door every time I get off, small whip of wind will have all that dust barrel rolling in the cab till it settles again, in which time you're breathing half of it in. Making sure you haven't got hay wrapped around your boots and taking half a bale in with you is simply avoided. Any wrappers, bottles or cans are taken out at the end of every day and go in the recycling!

Even during sh1tty times of year it can be kept clean, use gloves, then take them off before you drive it, scrape your boots on the steps before you get in, seat cover on all the time, occasionally washed cos the farting and general body smells can make it a bit 'fresh' in there... plus its also a good advert for when you sell it at near 10yr old with near 10k hrs and the seat is like brand new!

I do draw the line with taking boots off, think you need good contact with the pedals myself, plus it can't be very comfortable?

Fully appreciate it's difficult with stock, been there and done it! Wrap and net went on the front frame and never ever in the cab though, tools went in a tool box on the r/h side of the floor. If everything always goes back in it's place you should never have to go and look for it. I don't hang about but when I'm rushing I'll just slow down a little bit and make sure things are right, because not only can you lose stuff as a result that's also how accidents happen, rather spend a few extra minutes making sure things are just so than hours fixing something cause I was rushing trying to save those few minutes!

 

[Gerbert]

I do draw the line with taking boots off, think you need good contact with the pedals myself, plus it can't be very comfortable?

Yeah I guess the legality of it is different in countries. I heard you aren't allowed to drive on your socks in Germany (in trucks anyway, dunno about tractor).
If I am on the tractor all the time (not on-and-off constantly) I get my wooden shoes so I can easily kick them off.
This sticker is quite commonplace on tractors and excavators:

It says "clogs off" (with the last part in dialect).
People tend to tiewrap a bit of carpet on the pedals or just wrap some tape around. I don't have a problem with the pedals on my JD's.
Honestly it's quite rare to see someone driving on their shoes/clogs at a contractor, must be a cultural thing

 

[Lofty1984]

Yeah I guess the legality of it is different in countries. I heard you aren't allowed to drive on your socks in Germany (in trucks anyway, dunno about tractor).
If I am on the tractor all the time (not on-and-off constantly) I get my wooden shoes so I can easily kick them off.
This sticker is quite commonplace on tractors and excavators:

It says "clogs off" (with the last part in dialect).
People tend to tiewrap a bit of carpet on the pedals or just wrap some tape around. I don't have a problem with the pedals on my JD's.
Honestly it's quite rare to see someone driving on their shoes/clogs at a contractor, must be a cultural thing

Only time I drive in my boots is on the road if I’m not in and out then socks all the time

 

[dowcow]

You guys actually wear clogs day to day? I have a set I bought as a souvenir the first time I went to the Netherlands, and they are fairly comfortable, I only wear them as outdoor slippers to trudge around the garden if it is wet.

There is a big crack on the windscreen of our telehandler which I'm pretty sure arrived at the same time the dash board was being used as a convenient place to keep a top link pin. I've also gone over a bump before and had a water bottle bounce under a pedal. Scruffy cabs full of junk will lead to damage and accidents.

 

[Gerbert]

Alot of people do. I prefer decent laced boots but I always keept them handy for a quick run.

 

[J 1177]

The 6480 cab is kept tidy as is the nh but the 5130 loader tractor is the typical livestock tractor, full a staples, adjustable spanners, mole grips, string, empty bottles of pop and two coffe mugs. Funnily enough this it the tractor I'm out around the land in to do repair jobs, poor old lass