Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Everyone who has operated this tractor has been comfortable, even on days as hot as 95°F (35°C). It was slightly cooler (84°F, 29°C) on the day this video was recorded, and those operating the tractor were able to reduce the in-cab blower speed while still remaining comfortable. The original in-cab thermostatic control also works well, cycling the system on and off as needed.
No doubt the system is under heavy load -- there is little insulation in the cab, and tremendous amounts of heat coming from not only the sun, but also the engine and transmission in the tractor. The cab becomes uncomfortably hot within minutes of shutting off the air conditioner.
One person who remembers operating these tractors when new says the system is performing every bit as well as it did back then. Even though I'd still like to get superheat and subcooling numbers from it, everyone who has operated it so far has been pleased with the A/C system's performance.
Oh! For whatever they are worth, I have some show notes! I edited this video using LumaFusion on an iPhone SE 3 and uploaded it with the phone in my pocket while I took a long bicycle ride. Although things started out well enough with the first 1/3 of the video uploading in minutes, this soon proved that we totally aren't living in the future yet. Uploading the rest of it took all day, made the iPhone behave as though maybe its TCP/IP stack was kind of broken and also caused it to get quite hot. It did, however, ultimately upload the whole video after several hours.
Maybe I'm being too critical. Even as recently as ten years ago (relative to the date of this video's upload), I think it fair to say that editing and uploading high definition or better quality video from a cellular phone was still the stuff of the future.
Everyone who has operated this tractor has been comfortable, even on days as hot as 95°F (35°C). It was slightly cooler (84°F, 29°C) on the day this video was recorded, and those operating the tractor were able to reduce the in-cab blower speed while still remaining comfortable. The original in-cab thermostatic control also works well, cycling the system on and off as needed.
No doubt the system is under heavy load -- there is little insulation in the cab, and tremendous amounts of heat coming from not only the sun, but also the engine and transmission in the tractor. The cab becomes uncomfortably hot within minutes of shutting off the air conditioner.
One person who remembers operating these tractors when new says the system is performing every bit as well as it did back then. Even though I'd still like to get superheat and subcooling numbers from it, everyone who has operated it so far has been pleased with the A/C system's performance.
Oh! For whatever they are worth, I have some show notes! I edited this video using LumaFusion on an iPhone SE 3 and uploaded it with the phone in my pocket while I took a long bicycle ride. Although things started out well enough with the first 1/3 of the video uploading in minutes, this soon proved that we totally aren't living in the future yet. Uploading the rest of it took all day, made the iPhone behave as though maybe its TCP/IP stack was kind of broken and also caused it to get quite hot. It did, however, ultimately upload the whole video after several hours.
Maybe I'm being too critical. Even as recently as ten years ago (relative to the date of this video's upload), I think it fair to say that editing and uploading high definition or better quality video from a cellular phone was still the stuff of the future.
