Rops and fops are overrated!
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tom3
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I'm not seeing any overhead protection on that machine? A bar would have been real handy on there.
Wagtail
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OP, you're obviously being facetious. 
workinonit
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A ROPS wouldn't have done much good either. The dead limb would have broken and still hit him in his pea brain sized head. Not much can be done to fix stupid.
Why wear a hard hat because the fall would kill you?
No, I'd rather have a FOPS and a cab. Those trees are called widow makers for a reason. The scary part is anyone under the tree canopy, tractor or not, is in danger around those trees.
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If you copy the video to your photos, expand the clip and look very carefully, the widow maker seems to come out of nowhere. Looks almost photoshopped.
workinonit
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I noticed that from just the thumbnail in the thread. It's not there, then it's there.
Rustyiron
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Darwin's theory at work.
bmg88201
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That video has been photoshopped, that dark colored limb wasn’t there and then is. But old dead trees are widow makers for sure.
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