300 foot tractor rollover--driver survived

[slowzuki]

He's just as lucky he didn't get tossed out and end up killed from the tractor rolling over him. Neighbour jumped and got tagged by the rollbar on his open station but just missed getting pined.

 

[dieselcrawler]

My mother in law was killed this summer past when her suv went over a road bank. She was not wearing her seat belt and was crushed and pinned by the suv. Had she worn it she would have walked away with minor injuries. But it was only one and a half times over... nothing like the horrific roll that tractor went through. I will wear my belt on the tractor and in the truck all the time but that is one of the rare cases of "really lucky" to have both 1-not been wearing his belt, and 2-got thrown and not crushed/pinned.

I'd take my chances staying in the tractor though, belted in.

 

[DT86]

not sure where you got your information that a ROPS is designed for only a 90 or at most 180 degree flip. The ROPS standard is established around energy absorption and was developed by testing many machines being rolled for multilevel turns down steep slopes.

I guess I should have said "I would imagine..."

 

[aczlan]

I'd take my chances staying in the tractor though, belted in.

Especially in a cab where you have limited egress options.

Aaron Z

 

[Dr_Zinj]

I'd say he kind of over-stressed his ROPS on that one.

 

[freewookie]

What the heck was he doing to get himself into that situation. I was brush hogging my ditches the other day and decided I'd come back with the lawn mower because of the pucker factor. My ditches don't look anything like that hill.

 

[Sysop]

That hill looks frighteningly similar to mine, larger overall, and with less trees; but nobody has ever dared take a cabbed tractor on mine due to the increased top-weight and higher center of gravity created by a cab.

 

[Rhino35]

I agree! I wonder how often google satellite updates the photos?

 

[Farmerjonathan]

I would guess the road is down below the tractor (bottom of the picture) There is one front wheel assembly on the other side of the road and also looks like cultivated fields which aren't in the first picture either.