Broke my @#$% Window!

[john_bud]

But it does seem to me they could design the 3 point to not make contact with anything above it, ya know? Like I said before, it has hit a tool box and now a window. What's next? The back of my head?

You're right, it's out of control!!

Maybe you can put a lift stop on the 3pt control and have a chart of maximum numbers?

(Or just weld the control in the fully down position - but that might limit functionality a wee bit....)

 

[frenchie4x4]

Sorry to hear about your broken window i know the feeling. I broke my rear window manuvering inside the barn,no implement on the back and I was looking down at hitch while backing up close to a beam.While above me the window hit the beam and exploded like a gun shot. It took over an hour to clean up had to remove seat to vacuum out all the glass.Well $294.19 later I now have new glass,and all you get is GLASS no seal,hinges,latch or handle just GLASS.Oh well it was my own dumb fault this is how one gets good at things we learn from our mistakes. I agree with Andy you connot design something to work with every type/brand of implement. Anyway my tractor looks new again and I DO NOT OPEN WINDOWS IN THE BARN.
Its funny I always thought I would rip the sun roof off in the barn.
Anyways I love your tractor I saw them at our local NH dealer they are sweet Is yours a hydro? I'd like to have one in the the next stall beside my kioti.If i had a tractor for each implement I could save time by not having to change implements. I could just get a bigger key ring
FRENCHIE

 

[HOUNDSTOOTH]

Let's not get to touchy on this subject. Seems like some are gettin' steamed up over this. I am not angry with NH or anybody for anything. Had I been paying attention, this would have never happen. I was simply posting my experiance with you all in hopes of preventing this from happening to anyone else. I understand that NH's engineers cant cover all possible attachments or situations. I engineer fire protection systems for a living and miss things all the time. All I was getting at is, if the center link did contact the glass, maybe one option would be that NH could have the window open more or less to avoid contact with the link. They could see how far the link would rise no matter how it was adjusted.
If it turns out to be the sprayer that hit, case closed. NH did their job and did it well. I hope that it does turn out to be the attachment that hit.
They have re-ordered my new window. FedEX dropped the first one and broke it. haha That's my luck! The new, new one should be here this week. Dealer hopes to get it from the Dublin, GA plant. It's only about 2 hrs from here.
All in all it's a great machine! I should be enjoying it for years to come. Thank you all for your reply's. It's what makes this forum as great as it is. I could have a master's degree in tractor knowledge from reading through all that TBN's members have posted. hahaha

Frenchie,
Sounds like you have a good plan figured there. Not havin' to change imp's would be sweet! It also took me about an hour to clean up the glass. I havn't got around to taking the seat off, but there isn't much left under there. I vaccumed it up pretty good. Oh yeah, mine is a hydro. I almost forgot to answer that. haha Thanks again to everybody!

 

[tawilson]

I've got a Sims cab and the back window doesn't open, and I'm glad. Didn't take me long to put some protection behind it. Course I'm in the woods a lot and I was mainly afraid of backing into a limb. But there's a couple dents in the expanded metal from my winch. Except for a little extra ventilation, why do you need a window that opens?

 

[Skerby]

Could have been designed to open from the top, or have a center slide like pickups... you're lucky to have a small deductible like $200! that's awesome! i respect your posting this info with the fear it might make you look dumb -- not at all, shows you're a great person willing to teach from your experience..
my hat's off to you.. but then again, i should leave my hat off, so many of TBN are true gents in the same regard.. thx

 

[AndyMA]

Could have been designed to open from the top,

If you notice from the picture attached to the original post you'll see that the window does open from the top.

Andy

 

[Skerby]

My mistake, I was standing on my head at the time...

 

[Skerby]

i just looked again.. unless i'm on my head, and to my diction, looks like it's opening from the bottom. like the bottom of the glass is open is what i meant so that if the top opened it would not project to compromise the needed distance. it's like biweekly i guess.. is that twice a week or once every two weeks.. i was ambiguous sorry..

 

[RickB]

Biweekly is once every two weeks. Semiweekly is twice a week. If the windows opened from the top guys would be here crying that their shorts got wet from sitting on a soaked seat after a thunderstorm.

 

[Skerby]

Cost of a broken window, ? $600
Cost of a pair of replacement shorts, $2.00
Picture of Skerby (me) in soaked shorts with a broken window -- priceless