Need advice on what to do.

[Jrgunn5150]

You're in DFW, you don't even have to travel to get a better cab, they're just sitting in alleys all around you lol.

I wouldn't waste a single penny patching that. 500-1000, get a new cab.

Shop is definitely going to be way more.

 

[Brunc]

That is really good advice. Thank you.

 

[Scruffy49]

Ha, you’re from Spokane. Just looked.
I just moved out here last fall. Medical Lake. Not really. I’m about 5 miles NW of Fairchild.
Funny you mention that. I’m getting ready to put up a shop and the snow load requirement is “only” 30 psf. Pretty typical for normal winter areas, central Midwest like Chicago area where I grew up.
But the propensity for wet snow when the warm Pacific weather stacks up against the mtns here is pretty great.
Just a foot of good ole Cascade concrete could be 30+psf before it gets rained on the next day.
I’m going up to 40-45psf. Especially if I end up going with a roof with no underlayment under the tin.

You moved to the civilized part of the state… Loved being east of the rock pile. Last pic I saw of Mt Rainier it was getting nekkid, quickly. Be glad to send winters back to there, upsets the resident gator population in sw TN…

 

[Brunc]

I think I might do that, find a cab with not so much rust

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I think I might do that, find a cab with not so much rust

Way more accessible to someone with limited tools and knowledge. A guy with hand tools and a few friends can swap a cab in a weekend if they want to.

 

[Dejure]

Right? Never got to be winter in most areas.
Good news is, the reservoirs are all plum full and busting at the seams. And even though they’re dumping water already, very unusual, there’s enough snowmelt left to come to keep em stuffed until irrigation season starts.
Prediction this year is all the water needed for irrigation and abilities to keep the stream flows optimal all year.

It's been interesting, watching the Columbia (a few blocks from me). First there is that snow has been wholly absent here in the desert near Central Washington, rain has been limited, but the water levels of the river have been up a lot of the time. Good thing. Someone has to keep the Pacific Ocean full.

 

[Grit dog]

Way more accessible to someone with limited tools and knowledge. A guy with hand tools and a few friends can swap a cab in a weekend if they want to.

Not only that, but that rust is in places that are somewhere between very difficult and almost impossible to fix properly. While different ball game when the upper cab/ big pinch weld seams are rusted through.
Pretty much a deal breaker or certainly way harder than finding a decent cab.
Rockers, floor pans, cab corners different story.
I had several rust thru spots around the windshield and back window frame (zero rot elsewhere, anywhere, strange). I laid into the first one drilled welds and cut patch piece out of scrap cab parts.
By the time I got done salvaging the patch I had hours into it and hadn’t started the same on the truck.
I was fortunate that the rust came from the outside so rust thru was limited to small visible spots and no hidden cancer inside. Some I cut out and patched, some were small enough to booger weld shut and some became additional drain holes along the bottom of the windshield frame.
If it looked like the OPs truck, I’d have scrapped the cab.