The Most Comfortable Combine Cab Ever?

12 Apr 254m 9s

At Commodity Classic 2025, Kevin Matthews from XtremeAg, along with Jeff Gray from CLAAS, showcases what might be the most comfortable combine cab ever designed. Featuring enhanced ergonomics, superior visibility, and upgraded seating, making long harvest hours more efficient and less fatiguing. Key highlights include a redesigned operator handle, clear sightlines for safer operation, a spacious buddy seat, and expanded storage options including a refrigerator and drink cooler. With improved armrest adjustability and better field-of-view for backing up, this cab is built for productivity and safety. If you're spending months in a combine, comfort matters—and this CLAAS model delivers.

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00:00:00 Arguably the most comfortable combine cab you'll ever sit in. It's the cloth machine here at 2025. 00:00:05 And I'm gonna be showing it to you. It is bigger, it is more quiet. It has a better buddy seat. You know what? It's gonna make your life easier. 00:00:12 If you're spending two months of your life in a combine, you might as well be comfortable. It makes you more productive. I'll show you inside. 00:00:20 All right, I'm inside the world's most comfortable cab of a combine. I've got Jeff Gray from Claws 00:00:24 and I've got my friend Kevin Matthews with Extreme Ag. You run one of these and you say it's an actual difference maker. Tell me why. 00:00:31 Well, just the ergonomics of the handle right here, it just fits the palm of your hand. So good visibility is ex extremely well. 00:00:39 The nicest thing is the siba system's right here that helps run the machine. I can look right to my lower left side 00:00:47 or lower right side, excuse me. And being able to see the tailing elevators, the augers right there, it's got a good light, shines in, 00:00:53 and actually it stays clean. I always kind of thought it would get dirty and it wasn't. You wouldn't be able to see as well the mirror system. 00:01:01 One big thing is in our small fields, we do a lot of backing up. We're on the road and if you look from where I'm at, 00:01:07 I can look either direction and I can see the very top of the combine all the way down to in front of the tracks. 00:01:12 So that eliminates the opportunity. If somebody happens to walk up and you're not paying attention on the phone, 00:01:18 it eliminates you from running over somebody. It's a little thing, but I will tell you, I've seen it happen multiple times 00:01:24 and that's a bad feeling if you do something like that. Plus when you are pulling in and out of field, you, the visibility to see 00:01:30 behind the header is exceptional. But the one thing that I like more than anything is the fact that they've got a buddy seat in it. 00:01:39 The fri it is got a really good refrigerator under there, but the buddy seat is a like, I mean, 00:01:43 Jeff's a good sized feller. He's, and he's, he's got plenty of room and it's not like your, your daughter or son that's Yeah. 00:01:50 You know, 14 years old riding in here. But one thing people don't realize is every time you ever ride in a combine with someone, when you go 00:01:57 to unload on the go, you gotta get the, the passenger lean forward, lean back, and, and you're sitting here all like that right there, you know? 00:02:04 But this one here, when my auger out, I mean, I'm just, I don't even, it don't, you don't even notice it. You ain't gotta move. 00:02:11 Yeah. The buddy seat in here being nearly the same size as the operator's seat makes for a much more comfortable ride for the passenger 00:02:18 that's in the cab with you. Also enables us to have a much larger refrigerator down here. 00:02:23 And not only do we have a refrigerator here, we've also got a drink cooler right here, up here in the headliner. 00:02:29 Jeff, you know, you can say, oh man, how, how, how code, you have to make it for those guys. But if you're in here for 12 hours a day or 10 hours a day 00:02:35 and you're in there for a couple months, uh, it it does come down to productivity. You can, you can get more done. 00:02:39 Exactly. Absolutely. And, and it's, it's some very long hours that you spend in these things. 00:02:45 I'm just gonna point out that, you know, compared to the 4,400 that I got in when I was about, uh, 10 years old or something like that, 00:02:51 there's probably more glass for visibility just in that panel right there. So you talk about visibility, there's a lot's going on. 00:02:57 You got these huge combine heads and then this huge grain cart. I, I don't feel like, uh, there's, 00:03:02 I don't have any blind spots, you know what I mean? I feel like I can see everything. Here's The one thing that I have really enjoyed about my 8,700, 00:03:09 these cubby holders right here. Yep. You've got places to put stuff. I mean, I can, I can keep me a can of mixed nuts up here, 00:03:16 you know, got some snacks right here, get hungry, got food in the refrigerator, and, um, good Dr. Uh, cup holders everywhere. Um, it, it makes a difference. 00:03:27 This, this arm rests. You can adjust it to your height and what, what you like. Um, it's, it's not a, it's not a one size fits all. 00:03:37 It's a, it is a, it fits each individual person. Yep. I think we're gonna leave it right there. The world's most comfortable combine cab. 00:03:43 You're gonna spend a lot of time in here. You gotta make sure you're comfortable. So you know what, I'm not necessarily comfortable 00:03:47 because Kevin said, Hey, you're not getting the operator seat. And Jeff said, Hey, I'm with Claws. 00:03:50 I'm taking the buddy seat. You're just gonna crouch down here and do the interview. So you know what, I've tried 00:03:54 to hit the horn, but I couldn't make it happen. Yep. Till next time. Damien Mason from Extreme Mag with Kevin Matthews Extreme Mag 00:03:59 and our friend Jeff from Cloth talking about the world's 00:04:02.045 --> 00:04:04.405

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