Bx23 Hood poping open?

[notamustang]

Just like everything else, shut it off as quick as possible and tell all your friends that it was no big deal /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
You could tear up a mowing deck or 3pt attachment but the tractor will survive sans sheet metal but those are battle scars now.

 

[Mike_C]

>Can these things survive a tip over without any really bad damage?

I was lucky. I did not have the mower deck installed, and it didn't go all the way down. My pickup truck was parked next to where I was working, and the tractor rolled over into my truck. The ROPS slammed into the rear door and I was left hanging by the seatbelt. If the mower deck was installed, I suspect it would have been damaged beyond repair. Even though I did some severe damage to my truck, I was very thankful that it was there to keep the tractor from going all the way down. I'm also thankful for the backhoe, because I was able to lift the tractor back up "on it's feet" by lowering the backhoe stabilizer. If the backhoe was not there, I have no idea how we would have picked up the tractor. Would probably have to have called a tow truck.

 

[TroyR57]

Wow, I am glad you are not hurt, and the tractor only looks a little worse for the ware. Thanks for sharing this with the group, as I am about to get one of these, and this will just help me try and keep it safe. Last year, while using one of the small rubber track, track hoes, I was grading a bank, and using the BH as a lever, to push the limits, of the angle, only figured it out, after machine started to tip. Lets all remeber these are real machines, and to Keep it Safe.

 

[Jinma354]

Thanks for the concern but nothing was hurt except my pride /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif The wife came out and ask what I thought I was doing /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
So far the little BX23 has been much stronger then I thought it would be. Its built with safety in mind but with the FEL and BH on its not real stable on sidehills at least not on the ones in WV. It dug through 25' of at least 3" of blacktop with several layers of rock and gravel Saturday with no problem at all. The final couple feet where I had to tie it in to the other ditch is where I had the problem.
Mike

 

[David_G]

Dannydan
Yes they can survive.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Board/safety/Number/574875/page/5/view/collapsed/sb/5/o//fpart/1
Did not even scratch the paint work.
The stable points of contact where the two tyres, the front bucket and the stabalizer leg. I don't know if the rops touched and then came back.
Not a recommended procedure though.