DarkBlack
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C'mon Rick,
Read the whole thread, don't just spread your fear.
Read the whole thread, don't just spread your fear.
Anyone ever had their ROPS top part cut down?
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DarkBlack
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I used to scratch build/weld race car chassis 10X more complicated than a tractor ROPs. I don't know how I survived without some Korean tractor guy designing/welding it for me.
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If you were building a ROPS from scratch would it look like the factory ones??Mine wouldn't. It would be much stronger and triangulated to withstand lateral forces.I used to scratch build/weld race car chassis 10X more complicated than a tractor ROPs. I don't know how I survived without some Korean tractor guy designing/welding it for me.
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GuyyUOTE=DarkBlack;3730596]I think you fear lawyers too much.[/QUOTE]
Big difference between fearing something and understanding the possible unintended consequences of one's actions. Guy comes here looking for guidance, he's likely to get a range of input. Then he gets to sort through it.
Big difference between fearing something and understanding the possible unintended consequences of one's actions. Guy comes here looking for guidance, he's likely to get a range of input. Then he gets to sort through it.
DarkBlack
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Ovrsz'd
Like I posted before, I'm not that impressed by my factory one. I agree, if I built from scratch, it would be stronger/lighter/safer.
Like I posted before, I'm not that impressed by my factory one. I agree, if I built from scratch, it would be stronger/lighter/safer.
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Really? We both responded on page 1 and several times since. I'm just not refusing to ignore the body of information on the topic simply because I disagree.
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He'd say the refrigerator needs additional bracing so if there is an earthquake anyone getting a beer out of the fridge would still be safe if the ROPS fell on it. :laughing:So no flashing lights on the 2210 now? Mmmmm........ wonder what a lawyer would say?
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when i was like 10 or 11 years old, strapped into a 4 wheeler (buggy style) with 5 point harness and roll cage. went down into pasture, turned to quick, rolled it, G forces alone pulled my hands off the clenched steering wheel. were one hand got snagged between roll cage and ground as it rolled a few times....
16 days after my 16 birthday, i got 16 stitches, rolled S 10 pickup truck, again G forces and just simpy rolling the last couple times towards the end of the rolls. your body is at the mercy of the G forces and what ever way the vehicle, 4 wheeler or like is rolling.
near calls on flipping tractor backwards onto myself, near calls with riding lawn mower and having it roll down the hill on its side.
the extra height of a ROPS, can help in a few ways, more so if it means "rolling a bunch more times down the hill", vs not. to short of a ROPS, and the tractor acts like a 55 gallon plastic drum, or garbage can, it just keeps on tumbling down the hill. taller the better.
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once a year maybe twice a year. all trees get cut for low hanging branches.
normally means, pickup truck, someone driving, while someone in back with pruners cutting branches, and tossing them in a trailer, pulled behind the truck. initially a few trees had some scares, from bigger branches taken out, but yearly to semi yearly, cutting 1/2" up to 2" diameter branches, is not during any noticeable harm and/or given any ugly looks to the trees.
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you have city slickers, and then ya have country folks. stop trying to be a city slicker. and adjust your garage at cost, or build a shed *chuckling*
golf balls to strings, to ropes, or like (something soft easy to see, and nails you in the head) as you drive up to the garage door. and it just hands on the outside of the garage from some make shift hook.
lots of folks hang a string / golf ball inside there garage so they now when to stop the car/truck vs running into rear of garage. well this is more of a "HEADS UP" ya about to run tractor into garage with ROPS up check.
16 days after my 16 birthday, i got 16 stitches, rolled S 10 pickup truck, again G forces and just simpy rolling the last couple times towards the end of the rolls. your body is at the mercy of the G forces and what ever way the vehicle, 4 wheeler or like is rolling.
near calls on flipping tractor backwards onto myself, near calls with riding lawn mower and having it roll down the hill on its side.
the extra height of a ROPS, can help in a few ways, more so if it means "rolling a bunch more times down the hill", vs not. to short of a ROPS, and the tractor acts like a 55 gallon plastic drum, or garbage can, it just keeps on tumbling down the hill. taller the better.
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once a year maybe twice a year. all trees get cut for low hanging branches.
normally means, pickup truck, someone driving, while someone in back with pruners cutting branches, and tossing them in a trailer, pulled behind the truck. initially a few trees had some scares, from bigger branches taken out, but yearly to semi yearly, cutting 1/2" up to 2" diameter branches, is not during any noticeable harm and/or given any ugly looks to the trees.
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you have city slickers, and then ya have country folks. stop trying to be a city slicker. and adjust your garage at cost, or build a shed
*chuckling* golf balls to strings, to ropes, or like (something soft easy to see, and nails you in the head) as you drive up to the garage door. and it just hands on the outside of the garage from some make shift hook.
lots of folks hang a string / golf ball inside there garage so they now when to stop the car/truck vs running into rear of garage. well this is more of a "HEADS UP" ya about to run tractor into garage with ROPS up check.