Government mower

[mjncad]

When I worked for NREL, I had a paving contractor comment to me, "You guys have so many rules that you don't follow; yet you expect us too."

Unfortunately he was right, and I agreed with him totally.

 

[zythinl]

HA I was working for a mowing company for about a year and my boss had the bright idea to take the ROPS completely off the mower and we never had them.
the funny thing was that it made the mowers unstable so then he welded some weights to the back of the mower to fix that:confused2: i never quite understood it myself

 

[rd_macgregor]

These guys are definitely government employees. Whoever does their job orientation does manage to convince them to stop the mower whenever pedestrians come near; they're very good about that. The smiling guy is doing so because he stopped mowing when he saw me taking pictures, then smiled when he realized it was HIM I was taking pics of!
BOB

 

[xtn]

Is it possible that the tool box is on little pivoting mounts, such that it will always swing upright regardless of the ROPS position?

xtn

 

[rd_macgregor]

Is it possible that the tool box is on little pivoting mounts, such that it will always swing upright regardless of the ROPS position?

xtn

I thought of that solution, too, but no, that would make too much sense for a government operation!

 

[DANOCHEESE]

Should'nt you as a good citizen report this violation. You know about a issue but choose to post it on an internet site instead of investigating this with the powers to be.

Get involved it is your goverment

 

[Bird]

Did yall see that the safety deflector is held back by a bungee cord?
If you run over a stick or rock it can bounce off that tree and hit the operator. It happened to me, so I know it's possible.:laughing:

I happened to notice one of our city mowers today, a Kubota F series machine being operated with the deflector pulled wide open. The discharge was toward the street, but he was on the other side of a borrow ditch, so it was blowing down into the ditch.

 

[Qapla]

Is it possible that the tool box is on little pivoting mounts, such that it will always swing upright regardless of the ROPS position?

Even if it was, it would hit him in the head if the ROPS were raised.

Hey ... at least he is wearing "ear protection"

 

[Taylortractornut]

We had a county mower mowing in front of a daycare with the boom mower mowing the tops of the trees with kids in the play ground. A few years ago whe nwest nile was the big scare the city would come around the county with a lawn mower in the back of a ranger with a malathiaon drip in the muffler. They came through by the same daycare and fogged out the same play ground.

 

[crazyal]

Before I worked for the large company I'm at now I worked for a contractor who occasionally did work there. To do work for them you had to go through a class taught by them. It was kind of funny. If you were on a ladder or lift more than 6' off the ground you needed to have a harness attached to two different points. However if you were on a 6' ladder it was ok to use the top two steps (the ones that say no step). Their logic was that you were standing on them and there for it was a platform not a step. Never understood it but the lawyers did.

I wouldn't know but they may have done an assessment and determined that the ROPS was not needed because of the (lack of) slope of the land and the difficulty of getting under the trees. Are ROPS required yet in Canada for commercial mowers?