What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage...

   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #221  
I was loading wood chips into the bed of my old truck with the bucket high enough to clear the side when the dang gophers suddenly dug a hole in line with one of my wheels causing me to suddenly dent the top edge of the bed as the one wheel :mad:sunk down.

Are you familiar with the demise of the bulldozer in the movie "Tremors"??
Did it look like that?? :confused2:

Tremors Official Trailer #2 - (1990) HD - YouTube
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #222  
I've had the corner of a house with siding , shift over from frost I guess :rolleyes: and crack the siding while I was plowing.:mad: We have bad frost here.:cool:
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #223  
When I first got my M4700 it had a nice heavy duty steel canopy.

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After a couple months of use my son decided to trim some tree branches and gave is a raised eyebrow.
Note leading left corner of canopy.
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So when I decided to take the tractor from Alexandria, Va to Mississippi I took the canopy off.

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Which was just as well, because my prime pickup bed unloading area is in a shed where the ROPS just BARELY clears.

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And my woods are fairly thick with a lot of vines and a canopy would be a hindrance.

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   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #224  
I have a friend who was cutting land and went between a power pole and guide wire going to the ground and ripped the canopy off. The guy he was helping questioned him why would you go through there? He said I did it the other day with the cut-a-way hare and made it, he said that explains why the chunk is missing from the pole, he hung it with a disc, lol.
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #225  
When I first got my M4700 it had a nice heavy duty steel canopy.

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After a couple months of use my son decided to trim some tree branches and gave is a raised eyebrow.
Note leading left corner of canopy.
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So when I decided to take the tractor from Alexandria, Va to Mississippi I took the canopy off.

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Which was just as well, because my prime pickup bed unloading area is in a shed where the ROPS just BARELY clears.

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And my woods are fairly thick with a lot of vines and a canopy would be a hindrance.

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The tractor loaded on the trailer with bucket forward looks good!

The tractor loaded with bucket aft looks horrible! Seems like way too much weight is on the hitch.
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #226  
When I bought my DK40 it came with a sun roof. Which was great. But a real problem when needing to go between pine trees 3m apart.

On completion of my new shed I removed the sunroof, because insufficient clearance with sunroof. Now the clearance is exactly 13mm, (1/2 inch) and as for the shreaded sunroof... I wear a sunhat instead (you know them cowboy hats).

Trouble with cowboy hats... insects like to take a ride in the shady area. Yesterday it was a persistent grasshopper.
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #227  
This thread went cold lol, any new and funny stories?
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #228  
This thread went cold lol, any new and funny stories?
This is one those threads where you really one want to post one 'awshit' pic/story. Otherwise others will be raising an eyebrow about your pace of learning. :D
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #229  
This is one those threads where you really one want to post one 'awshit' pic/story. Otherwise others will be raising an eyebrow about your pace of learning. :D

This thread has saved me from quite a few of those moments lol.
 
   / What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage... #230  
I put two nice holes in the garage drywall with the 3 pt hitch of my brand new Kubota. Oops. I got them patched and painted before the wife ever even knew. ;)
 

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