Lights

Scrambler82 · Oct 6, 2014

A couple of holes will not lessen the effectiveness of the ROPS !

Next, if this bothers you, the holes that is, after deburring, take a flat washer with the correct size hole and weld it over the opening, reinforcing the ROS.

The only problem I would have is water getting in the ROPS, seal it up !

woodlandfarms · Oct 6, 2014

Scrambler, this has been beaten to death. The issue is not falability, most everyone concurs it does not effect capability. But as it has not been tested, no one can say for certain, at least in the eyes of the law. Should a rops fail, and have been drilled in, there is no merit to a law suit. Even if the bar fails somewhere else, those two holes will get the case thrown out.

Great idea on the cotton ball. We used to pull wire with a plastic trash bag around the string and a shop vac when pulling through pvc pipe. Never thought of the cotton ball. Brilliant.

Marks481 · Oct 6, 2014

MossRoad said:
On the subject of fishing wires.... tie a tiny piece of cotton ball to a fishing line,stuff it in the hole and use a vacuum cleaner to suck it out the other end.... use the fishing line to pull the wire. Some old dude showed me that and I slapped my forehead and said "OUCH!" :duh: It was so simple.

Yep, my Dad taught me that trick.

But the pain is that all portions of the roll cage are completely sealed. I had two holes: 1/4" at the top, and maybe 3/8" through the pad that bolts to the PT. Fishing through that lower hole was an exercise in patience.

Marks481 · Oct 6, 2014

woodlandfarms said:
Should a rops fail, and have been drilled in, there is no merit to a law suit. Even if the bar fails somewhere else, those two holes will get the case thrown out.

I am an engineer, not a lawyer, so am not really worried about any impact on a future lawsuit.

I understand the safety factors involved, and know that catastrophic failure of the ROPS isn't going to be the cause of death in a rollover.

"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer -- born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."

oldpilgrim · Oct 6, 2014

here's the led's i mounted on my ROPS. I got them from Amazon for about $16 each. I mounted them on a short piece of angle iron bolted thru one of the ROPS/canopy brackets....easy. I ran a separate wire from the fuse box thru a new switch I put in the dash.

18w each..boy do they light up the front of my tractor.

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I didn't realize how dirty the tractor was until I took this pic. It'll get a bath this afternoon.