alan627b
Senior Member
Sweatin'/Freezin to The Oldies
We run scrapers all year with open cabs, and it's no picnic...stuffing rags in the gaps in the summer, pull the engine access panel off in the winter.Cover the radiator with cardboard....
When winter approaches, I hit the building sites, looking for plywood scraps or big sheets of cardboard. Then it's over to Lowes for some double wide Duck tape....I even made my own glass rear window out of a storm window, Plexiglass flat out sucks after you clean it once....
Come summer, get out the foil/bubble pack insulation and the 3M adhesive, cover the firewall and the shift tower up. I get tired of having a 6 inch red circle burned into my right leg from having it lean against the shift tower....
put bicycle foam grips on the control levers...
I took one of those inside/outside accessory car thermometers and installed it on my 627B, one sensor inside with me and one on the outside of the cab. Outdoors it was 90F, inside it was 130....
Someday, I hope to work for somebody with more modern equipment!
alan627b
We run scrapers all year with open cabs, and it's no picnic...stuffing rags in the gaps in the summer, pull the engine access panel off in the winter.Cover the radiator with cardboard....
When winter approaches, I hit the building sites, looking for plywood scraps or big sheets of cardboard. Then it's over to Lowes for some double wide Duck tape....I even made my own glass rear window out of a storm window, Plexiglass flat out sucks after you clean it once....
Come summer, get out the foil/bubble pack insulation and the 3M adhesive, cover the firewall and the shift tower up. I get tired of having a 6 inch red circle burned into my right leg from having it lean against the shift tower....
put bicycle foam grips on the control levers...
I took one of those inside/outside accessory car thermometers and installed it on my 627B, one sensor inside with me and one on the outside of the cab. Outdoors it was 90F, inside it was 130....
Someday, I hope to work for somebody with more modern equipment!
alan627b