Backhoe bent rops
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twinsticks
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Well maybe with a full load going backwards down hill full speed hitting the wood shed in that spot could bend it .. I think a bx 23 plus a full bucket weighs around 4000 pounds hitting the rops with the height of could do it something has to give ... My dealer now tells me he has heard of other ones bending from what I do not no... I will be installing it with his help.. Hope no other damage to it we will see...
Dead Horse
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Who's help, your dealer? I hope so.
I hafta say you (and several other softies here) are better men than I.
Once your sister's boyfriend pulled the stunt he did, fubaring your tractor, sneaking it back to you, denying he did the damage and dragging out paying for it, I gotta say I would have absolutely NOTHING to do with that spineless weasel ever again........
My tractors are prized personal posessions.......... I do not take lightly to someone hurting one of them.
That ole boy is telling some serious untruths about what happened to the R.O.P.S.. They are very stout and would need a serious impact to begin to bend one... Once bent though, they need to be replaced period. The R.O.P.S. has been compromised and will not perform as intended.
The way I see it, he owes you a new one.
I am a multiple Kubota owner since 1994...nothing wrong with the old ones...just keep buying bigger ones.
The way I see it, he owes you a new one.
I am a multiple Kubota owner since 1994...nothing wrong with the old ones...just keep buying bigger ones.
rdsaustintx
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Horse, do you even have a brother-in-law? Near as I can tell, being contentious weasels is the whole reason the good Lord put them here.
Redbug
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Twinsticks...I'm glad the bum budged. But, it's not over... till it's over. Hopefully, he really will pay for the parts. If not...I would pay it and chalk it to a learning lesson in the school of hard knocks. It's only money...and it showed the true colors of the people involved.
After that...I would give the cold shoulder to the sis, too. Birds of a feather flock together. She knows what happened and showed that blood is not thicker than water. She's no better than him. What comes around...goes around.
When you get it fixed, run it and see if anything else is amiss.
If it is all OK, I need to borrow it to help clean up some debris at the back of my best friend's property. We don't have a gas station nearby, so please bring some extra diesel for the job. You need to drop it off before next Saturday... that's when we need to start. You are going to be a good friend.
Sorry for the sarcasm...I've been burned too. I'm watching to see how things turn out.
After that...I would give the cold shoulder to the sis, too. Birds of a feather flock together. She knows what happened and showed that blood is not thicker than water. She's no better than him. What comes around...goes around.
When you get it fixed, run it and see if anything else is amiss.
If it is all OK, I need to borrow it to help clean up some debris at the back of my best friend's property. We don't have a gas station nearby, so please bring some extra diesel for the job. You need to drop it off before next Saturday... that's when we need to start. You are going to be a good friend.
Sorry for the sarcasm...I've been burned too. I'm watching to see how things turn out.
KubotainNH
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This is how I do things too. I borrowed a friends JD and when he got it back he had a case of beer, full tank of gas, all Zerks lubed and some of it's issues were fixed. Hopefully this one ends well.
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either it was on a trailer and hit something with low clearance or really backed into something at full speed.
EE_Bota
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I have said a few things, and told one story, but I have not said my opinion on how I would handle it. Here is how I would:
Regardless: I would have a proper ROPS. <-period. I would never loan him anything again. <-period.
If he will pay, I would accept it, and if not, I would pay it and fix the ROPS, and forgive the entire thing.
In my worldview, that ROPS is small potatoes. I would drive it out of my mind, and think...and yes, pray about the larger issue for around three months. And then at the end of that time, I predict (but do not know for sure) I would have a talk with Sister:
"The ROPS is not even a blip on my radar screen. What concerns me is what it taught me about the fellow you are dating.
I wish a kind, honest, moral, thoughtful, and reasonable man for you. If you continue with this fellow, I will do my best to be as friendly and normal as possible at all family gatherings, and regardless, I will always love you.
Please do nothing on my behalf, but look at all available signs, symptoms, and information and do the best you can for yourself and for your future."
After that talk, I would do my best to forget, and be a man of my word to my sister.
As time rolls on, if they marry and you become an uncle, never forsake an opportunity to be their children's favorite uncle. Teach them good lessons for living and keep them close. View it as an opportunity, not an obligation.
It seems like a lot to ask, I know, and I would not find it easy. But if being right were easy, we would all be right all the time, and problems like this would never develop to begin with.
Regardless: I would have a proper ROPS. <-period. I would never loan him anything again. <-period.
If he will pay, I would accept it, and if not, I would pay it and fix the ROPS, and forgive the entire thing.
In my worldview, that ROPS is small potatoes. I would drive it out of my mind, and think...and yes, pray about the larger issue for around three months. And then at the end of that time, I predict (but do not know for sure) I would have a talk with Sister:
"The ROPS is not even a blip on my radar screen. What concerns me is what it taught me about the fellow you are dating.
I wish a kind, honest, moral, thoughtful, and reasonable man for you. If you continue with this fellow, I will do my best to be as friendly and normal as possible at all family gatherings, and regardless, I will always love you.
Please do nothing on my behalf, but look at all available signs, symptoms, and information and do the best you can for yourself and for your future."
After that talk, I would do my best to forget, and be a man of my word to my sister.
As time rolls on, if they marry and you become an uncle, never forsake an opportunity to be their children's favorite uncle. Teach them good lessons for living and keep them close. View it as an opportunity, not an obligation.
It seems like a lot to ask, I know, and I would not find it easy. But if being right were easy, we would all be right all the time, and problems like this would never develop to begin with.
BleedGreen
Gold Member
On the subject of BILs...
I have six sisters. All of them have been married at least once, some of them twice, and one of them three times.
Out of the entire herd of BILs, past and present, I have ONE that is worth a d*mn.
I have six sisters. All of them have been married at least once, some of them twice, and one of them three times.
Out of the entire herd of BILs, past and present, I have ONE that is worth a d*mn.