Mobile heavy equipment glass in Bristol, Connecticut
Cab glass replaced at the jobsite, yard or farm. ZIP 06010. Call (860) 506-6682.
ClearCab Equipment Glass brings the glass truck to Bristol: flat stock, pattern cutting gear and setting materials, priced from the rates published on this site.
Bristol is where our truck starts every morning, so a machine down here usually gets same-day glass. The city sits on some of the rockiest ground in Hartford County, and rocky ground is hard on cabs: bucket spill over the top rails, thrown stone from a neighboring machine, a branch dropping across a skid steer door during a lot clearing off Perkins Street.
A lot of the machines we service in Bristol are rentals. If you rented an excavator or a skid steer and gave the glass back broken, you already know the yard will bill you dealer rates plus downtime. Getting the pane replaced before the return usually costs less than half of what shows up on that invoice, and we can meet the machine at your site or at the yard.
We also cut flat glass to pattern, which matters for the older Case and Deere machines still working Bristol sites. When a 25 year old backhoe needs a door pane, no dealer stocks it. We pull the pattern from the frame and cut laminated or tempered stock to fit the same visit.
What breaks cab glass in Bristol
Bristol frost heave is real: machines parked all winter on Chippens Hill come back in March with stress-cracked lower panes where the glass took up the twist the frame picked up. If a crack showed up over the winter with no impact mark, that is usually the story, and the fix is a fresh pane set on new channel rubber, not just sealant.
Where we work around Bristol
Regular stops include the Redstone Hill Road equipment corridor, Route 6 through Forestville, the Southeast Bristol industrial parks off Middle Street. Nearby crews also call us out to New Britain, Plainville, Southington.
Bristol crews ask us
Can you meet a rental machine at the yard before I return it?
Yes. We do this weekly. Book the glass a day before your return date, we meet the machine at your site or at the rental yard, and you hand it back with clean glass instead of a damage invoice.
How fast can you get to a Bristol jobsite?
We are based in Bristol, so a machine down inside city limits is usually same day. Flat panes we cut from stock on the truck; curved OEM windshields need a part ordered first.
Do you replace polycarbonate skid steer doors?
Yes. For demolition and land clearing work we can set polycarbonate instead of glass in the front opening. It costs more per pane but shrugs off the limb strikes that Bristol lot clearing dishes out.
My excavator pane cracked with no impact mark. Is that covered by anything?
Bring it up with your insurer, some inland marine equipment policies cover glass with a low deductible. Either way, get it swapped before water gets into the cab electronics under the floor.