FOURTEEN
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2004
- Messages
- 1,028
- Location
- Efland - Triangle of North Carolina.
- Tractor
- 2004 Power Trac PT-425
PT-425 PROS & cons??
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/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I am sooooooo glad that I got the PT-425 with the ROPS Canopy!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Yesterday, while doing some trail maintenance, I bumped into a dead tree, which was 8" in diameter and 38' tall with no branches. After a two second delay there was an extremely loud boom directly over my head!! I soon learned that the 2" by 32" top of that tree had snapped off and landed on my PT-425 Canopy!!!!
If I had purchased a PT-180, or PT-422, perhaps today someone else would be writing, and it could very well be my obituary!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Most folks only think of ROPS for roll over protection! Some folks think: "Flat land, don't need it!". Many CUT just have a simple bar ROPS with, sometimes, a cheap plastic sunshade!! There are other dangers, however, and the solid steel protection of the PT-425 ROPS Canopy may have been literally a life saver for me!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I am sooooooo glad that I got the PT-425 with the ROPS Canopy!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Yesterday, while doing some trail maintenance, I bumped into a dead tree, which was 8" in diameter and 38' tall with no branches. After a two second delay there was an extremely loud boom directly over my head!! I soon learned that the 2" by 32" top of that tree had snapped off and landed on my PT-425 Canopy!!!!
If I had purchased a PT-180, or PT-422, perhaps today someone else would be writing, and it could very well be my obituary!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
Most folks only think of ROPS for roll over protection! Some folks think: "Flat land, don't need it!". Many CUT just have a simple bar ROPS with, sometimes, a cheap plastic sunshade!! There are other dangers, however, and the solid steel protection of the PT-425 ROPS Canopy may have been literally a life saver for me!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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