Another tractor rollover

[LBrown59]

Not all tractor rollovers occur out in the field......

My neighbor (Danny) across the road was driving his Yanmar 2020D (no rollbar) with his rotary mower attached to the 3-point hitch down the blacktop paved road right in front of the house when he met an oncoming car. The road on his side only has a 3 foot grassy shoulder that drops off almost completely vertically about 12 feet down into a creek bed. Be careful out there!

I got one like it in front of my place too.
The state needs to fill it in and bring it and the road ditch up to where there is only about a 1 foot drop off

 

[johndeere_2210]

woodchuckc,

I can only imagine how you must of felt running over there and to realize everything turned out OK. Great ending.

 

[woodchuckc]

We called the county road department the next day, and they sent someone out to look at the site. There are actually 3 of these washed out places on the road shoulder within about 100 yards, and they said they would send out a crew to work on them. Last week they sent out a dump truck of fill dirt / rocks and used a bobcat to kind of level it off. I predict it will last until the next time we get anything heavier than a sprinkle or shower of rain.

I talked to Danny this weekend (he actually lives in Chattanooga and just comes down every few weekends). He was doing fine - had a little knot on his jaw and a pretty good bruise on the back of one arm. He didn't seem too enthused to get back on the tractor, but he did take the hood and exhaust manifold off to see about getting them fixed.

As a side note, I got to put another couple of notches on the tractor fender for a 49" long timber rattler and a 32" long copperhead this weekend that I got with the rotary cutter!

 

[roermo]

sounds like a wild time in your neck of the woods,
Keep safe.

Roger

 

[jbrumberg]

roxynoodle: I am trying to play this unfortunate accident out in my head-

Scenerio 1:
The operator was probably trying to pull/drag something heavy from a point on his tractor higher than the drawbar. You can use the lower lift arms with a cross bar but they must be at the same height or lower than the drawbar.

Scenerio 2:
The operator was going up a fairly steep slope with a full bucketload suspended at maximum loader height.

Just trying to think it through Jay

 

[roxynoodle]

I don't know either how it happened. That was all the information on the news and in the paper. They just said he was using a loader and the tractor rolled over backwards. Maybe he was going up an incline with the loader too high?

 

[Todd_C]

A man was killed a few weeks ago in Roanoke County, VA when his tractor rolled over and crushed him. The tractor was reported to be a older Mitsibishi without ROPS. My neighbor who is an EMT/firefighter just purchased a MF 231 without ROPS and I have already been on his case about getting ROPS.

 

[jbrumberg]

Todd_C:

I have seen roll overs. They appear in slow motion to vicarious/peripheral observers; it happens a lot quicker to those in the driver's seat. Please encourage your neighbor to look into "after market ROPS"; but do not assume responsibility for his inaction. I hope you do not post an obituary Jay

 

[LMTC]

Again, we currently have OSHA certified ROPS for almost all the grey market Yanmars, with models for the 1510 and F/FX18 due app. 10/12.