Largest Cab

John C. said:

And I thought rat terrier and a rottweiler mix conjured up some pretty funny images.

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This was Sugar - one hell of a dog. She was getting treated for cancer at Auburn University's vet school at the time, she took life in stride, whatever it threw at her.

Peter B Morgan said:

I am planning on buying a brand new, or nearly new full sized excavator. I am thinking something like a 200 series machine.

I know it is crazy, and yes as I age I get even more crazy, but I like to bring my dog. I can do it in some equipment, but not my current Komatsu pc150 LC6.

Does anyone know which models and makes have the largest Cab?

Are any capable of giving my best friend a seat?

Advice much appreciated

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Have you considered a road builder option with a forestery cab?

John C. said:

There isn't a whole lot of difference in any of them. The Komatsu line likes to use the same shell for all their excavator cabs.

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Don’t the forestry cabs have a lot more room then the standard excavator cabs?

What you are speaking of as a forestry cab is generally known as a rear entry cab and it adds tens of thousands of dollars to the initial price of the machine. They are usually only installed on machines with a four foot cab riser and 30 ton machines and up. They came about because someone perceived that it was a safety hazard for any person to have to climb a ladder to get into the cab. In my early research into the hazards of logging shovels, I had never found one instance of anyone falling off the cab side of a logging shovel. Go figure?

John C. said:

What you are speaking of as a forestry cab is generally known as a rear entry cab and it adds tens of thousands of dollars to the initial price of the machine. They are usually only installed on machines with a four foot cab riser and 30 ton machines and up. They came about because someone perceived that it was a safety hazard for any person to have to climb a ladder to get into the cab. In my early research into the hazards of logging shovels, I had never found one instance of anyone falling off the cab side of a logging shovel. Go figure?

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They do side entry forestry cabs for Oregon for processor or road builder applications, I know Deere has them as a factory install because of Oregon and BC.

The forestry cabs that are side entry for both Cat and Deere, that I have done inspections on, were the same size as the excavator cabs. They were EROPS and FOPS cabs for forestry. All that I have inspected had a sloped roofs for debris to fall off of onto the house. The factory install puts the extra cost of the cabs into the base price of the machine. Somewhere I have a photo of a Cat that went several hundred feet cartwheeling down a hill that the operator was able to walk away from once he figured out that the bells he was hearing wasn't a pinball machine in tilt mode. If he had had his seat belt on he probably wouldn't have had to go to the hospital at all to be checked out. If all you saw of the machine when it was hauled to the dealer's lot was the cab, you wouldn't have thought it had been in an accident. The fact that the boom was torn off and the hydraulic tubing was hanging off the front of the machine made me wonder how much blood was in the cab. Turns out none, to everyones relief.