Rolled my new BX23 on its side this weekend!

[JustGary]

<font color="blue"> "driving flat on the driveway to get the paper in the morning" </font>

HarleyBob, are you that good with float and curl, or do you have to get off the tractor?

I had a two-wheel experience on a rental many years ago, going down hill with a bucket load of rocks for a seawall. I had it *way* too high and started the slightest turn. I just happened to have my hand on the control and instinctively moved real fast to drop the bucket while I turned back downhill. Lucky for me it happened to be the right thing to do.

- Just Gary

 

[theboman]

Not wearing a seatbelt saved you? It nearly got you killed.
I'm SURE the ROPS were not folded.... The tractor rolls and the ROPS is to keep the weight of the tractor off of the operator, note it's pretty darn tall.
If you'd snagged your clothing on a lever you'd be dead on in the hospital. The seatbelt keeps the operator in the seat under the ROPS.
Sorry, but you were lucky, that's all.

Having experience running other compact hydraulic equipment should have taught you by now they are all dangerous and let the safety devices do what they are supposed to do.

Sorry to sound like a dad, but I am now and there's a difference in being safe and being hardheaded.

 

[orangebluegreen]

There’s a million ways to get hurt on machinery, most of it “feel, experience, and luck”. I think my old Ford TLB was so heavy it would be near impossible to flip, you could easily lift the wheels off the ground digging but were never close to rolling. My CAT dozer had other entertaining rides in store....the suspension seat combined with a totally rigid machine on tracks will wait until you are half way past a small hump before all at once the front drops and tries to launch you off the seat, seat belt a must. The most dangerous thing I have encountered is pushing 3-6” saplings that bend, if they pop over the top of your loader or blade they will whip back at you with enough force to easily kill. Pushing over trees can cause the roots to rise up and lift the machine with it. Or grading near an open ditch you can easily slide sideways on a tracked machine and fall in, especially if the tracks are not cleated...same can happen to a tire machine if the ground caves next to you.

I have always been on larger machines and never been close to flipping them and have little experience with these smaller ones. I am used to a machine being big enough to tear down whatever I pull without hesitation or in my lawn mowers case, small enough to slide the tires. When dealing with these CUT’s there is a lot of traction to weight ratio which I found when using a L2350 recently. I found if you pull on a tree or post with a chain and are not in a straight line it will try to tip the machine. My small garden tractor will just slide the rear tires and self align, not the CUT’s however. I imagine one could flip a machine quite easily like this. I've been full speed ahaid mowing with a garden tractor and caught a root with the deck that slid me sideways and stopped the machine dead nearly throwing me off. I imagine with more tire traction and the same happening the machine would go over.