Lx 4020 rops or cab (or 3520 cab)

[MartyTractor]

Considering cab versus open station for LX 4020. Live in SW virginia, Appalachian mountains. Cab with AC and heat sounds nice. Also no bugs or dust and not getting sunburn/skin cancer. Will spend 50-60% mowing 6 acres. Rest grapple work clearing out edge of woods and hoping to get a wood chipper to make mulch. Also tilling garden yearly. Plan to also fence in 10 acres or so with post hole digger. Also have 500 feet driveway to plow when we get snow. Also considered using square baler with the 4020.

I like the middle mount mower as I have many Christmas trees and fruit trees to mow around.

I currently have a BX and feel it’s a little tippy for loader work along my woodline as it’s on a hill. 20-25 degrees steepest hills at most but can go up and down most of the hills and don’t have to do much side hill driving. My concern would be that the cab model is significantly less stable than rops. Anyone have any thoughts. Either way would fill tires and likely get the oversized R14s as the larger tires are also 2.6” wider or so which is basically like wheel spacers.

Looking for people to steer me one way or another. Cost isn’t issue but if someone can convince me the 3520 is just as good wouldnt mind saving money, but doubt it can run a baler. Thanks

 

[BBFarmer]

Get that cab brother! Life is so much better with one... at least for me down here in the dirty south.

 

[S-G-R]

Another cab vote and go with the most pto hp you can afford.

 

[bobnic]

I bought an LX4020 cab last year and kept my BX2370 mainly for mowing and working in tight spaces. I love having the cab on the LX4020, bug free and cool in the summer and warm and dry when snow blowing in the winter. I also have the oversize R14 tires and they are filled. All that said, I would rate the "tippyness" of both tractors to be about the same. An LX4020 ROPS with the same filled tires would obviously be less tippy, but also less comfortable in the heat of summer and the cold of winter.