OK What Do I NEED To Know

[Blackbird_BX]

Luckily the person I built my garage was a John Deere dealer and must have been thinking tractor when he did, so the doors are tall enough to drive the BX 24 into the garage with the ROPS up even with a ROPS umbrella mounted. Ok, I had to rig the umbrella mount upside down for maximum clearance and it brushes the weatherstripping at the top of the door, but I still haven't figured out how to lower the ROPS

 

[Surewhynot]

The ROPS on my BX1500 will clear the door just fine, but the L3240 is a bit high. I just have to fold up-fold down each time I use it....and I am sure I will get lazy when I am cutting some day and leave it down. I have flat land so no tipping, just have to watch my speed on those turns

 

[davitk]

* calling all safety police *

I intend to shorten the top of my metal thingy just enough so that it can be left in the up postion all the time. Okey dokie?

 

[LBrown59]

I do it like this I put the BX1500s in 2 of the stalls with the lower doorways.
I park the BX23 with the taller ROPS in a stall with a higher door way.

The ROPS on my BX1500 will clear the door just fine, but the L3240 is a bit high. I just have to fold up-fold down each time I use it....and I am sure I will get lazy when I am cutting some day and leave it

 

[Surewhynot]

My pole barn does not allow for a high enough door and the new garage 24x40 with 9' high walls will not be high enough either, allowing only for an 8 ft door. Even my horse barn entrance is not high enough to allow for the ROPS. Perhaps they didn't have ROPS in 1889 when the place was built?

 

[patrick_g]

The ROPS on my BX1500 will clear the door just fine, but the L3240 is a bit high. I just have to fold up-fold down each time I use it....and I am sure I will get lazy when I am cutting some day and leave it down. I have flat land so no tipping, just have to watch my speed on those turns

This is a less speedy version of the, "hey everybody, watch this!"

Pat

 

[patrick_g]

* calling all safety police *

I intend to shorten the top of my metal thingy just enough so that it can be left in the up postion all the time. Okey dokie?

Fine with me but I am no longer allowed to carry a SP badge since I was drummed out of the corps.

You didn't say how high your metal thingy is or how high the round thingy above your shoulders sticks up. If you and the tractor were upside down and by some stretch of imagination your seatbelt were fastened, how far from the metal thingy or from the ground would the round thing atop your shoulders be? Would shortening the metal thingy enough to clear the entry allow your round thingy to get under the metal thingy when upside down?

If yes, then consider updating your will, listing who gets what, and such. Not prying into your personal information but if you are perhaps somewhat vertically challenged then a shortened metal thingy may be as safe or safer for you as an unmodified one is for the next guy.

Pat

 

[Surewhynot]

OK Patrick, I promise to use the ROPS and wear my seatbelt when using the tractor. I did manage to put the tractor on one wheel while lifting a tree limb...thanks to all of you who said..drop the bucket and all will be well...I did and it was! Lesson learned.!

 

[gemini5362]

This post is a pure hoot. I remember the post where we talked about shortening a drive shaft for a brush hog. There was page after page about how unsafe it was to weld that etc etc. Same thing with page after page about being unsafe to modify a trailer unless you are a certified welder. You are talking about modifying your ROPS and no one is saying anything about the actually doing that. I am not a safety police member if as pat says you can do it and leave yourself a safety margin so it will keep your head from getting crushed and you can weld then do what you want. Personally I would probably just fold it down and then make sure I folded it back up when I cleared the doorway.

 

[patrick_g]

OK Patrick, I promise to use the ROPS and wear my seatbelt when using the tractor. I did manage to put the tractor on one wheel while lifting a tree limb...thanks to all of you who said..drop the bucket and all will be well...I did and it was! Lesson learned.!

It is your wife/family/friends to whom you should promise.

I now have nearly 900 hours on my Kubota and haven't had to drop the bucket to avoid eminent roll over for about 2 days now.

Seems I had a dozer and articulated scraper moving dirt and I was doing my bit around the edges where the big tools didn't fit. Soft dirt in a pile driving tilted, turned wheel up slope but dirt under outside wheel didn't hold and had to drop the bucket to stay upright. Would have been a gentle roll over and was only a few feet from level ground but I hope to never go inverted in a tractor, ever. Like a fire at sea, it could ruin your day.

When you are working a tractor not just driving it around you get into situations close to the edge of the envelope and little safety rules like ALWAYS HAVE A HAND ON THE JOYSTICK IF THE TRACTOR IS IN MOTION can literally be a life saver if not just a rollover preventer. I work my tractor quite hard and frequently get into potentially dangerous situations where you need to pay attention and try to reduce the odds against you.

I took off my box blade (really HD for my size tractor, weighs about 1300 lbs) and put the PHD on. Then I needed to take a round bale out to the stock. I had the pallet forks on instead of hay spike but no big deal. Without the box for ballast I sure could tell the difference in stability and took extra precautions to not do anything to break my conditional stability. I will be putting the box back on now that I am through auguring holes for a while. The tractor is just soooooo much more stable with the box mounted.

Filled tires would be almost as good but my particulalr cab Kubota is not supposed to use filled tires.

Pat