Cutting a ROPS - opinions

[jimainiac]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I hear if you cut your ROPS, it won't void your warranty ,but it will make you go blind /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font> I'm just going to cut mine a little, 'till I need glasses...

 

[daTeacha]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I have the non folding ROPS on my B3030. The folding ROPS is standard but .... Now, with the shorter non folding model it is ....)</font>

Which returns to the question about ROPS design. If the things are so carefully engineered for each application, why the height difference between the folding and non-folding versions on the same tractor? Do you suppose they both have the same inherent strength, exactly? If not, then mods to the stronger one which end up making it the same strength as the weaker one shouldn't change culpability one iota.

 

[brewdog]

TRUE CONFESSION: I have a NON-folding ROPS. 6 years ago, I took it off and had a machine shop cut 4" out of it so I could drive it in my car garage for service work. They cut it near the top about a foot down from the radius, removed the 4" section and inserted a smaller square tube inside the square ROPS tubing as a "pin" and welded it back together. The joint with square tubing pin is stronger than the tubing itself.