ROPS damaged?

[newtarheel]

The following is purely hypothetical. Let's say a may tries to drive his Kubota into his garage while the ROPS is fully extended. (As I say, this is purely hypothetical. This would never happen to me. And, furthermore, would never happen to me TWICE.) Now the ROPS top is jammed into the garage-door frame. The only way free is to back out. The door frame is left a little splintery and the ROPS now has maybe a quarter-inch of extra play in it, though it is not bent. My hypothetical question is: Is the ROPS damaged to the extent that the man needs to have it repaired? I present this question purely out of the spirit of open discussion.

 

[dqdave1]

Where is the extra play coming from? Tighten it up and don't worry about it; IMO

 

[DieselPower]

As long as there is no structural damage to it and it's only "loose" I would have to agree with dgdave1, tighten it and keep on tractoring.

 

[DAP]

You haven't stated which ROPS you have: Folding or Non-fold ... if the later, I would think the hinge pins/bolts could possibly be tightened. I noticed in a recent VERY cold spell, the pins contracted in the cold and loosened up substantially.

If you have the non folding ROPS, I would have it checked out THOROUGHLY. NOONE can afford to have that part of their tractor fail.

 

[Podunkadunk]

The following is purely hypothetical. Let's say a may tries to drive his Kubota into his garage while the ROPS is fully extended. (As I say, this is purely hypothetical. This would never happen to me. And, furthermore, would never happen to me TWICE.) Now the ROPS top is jammed into the garage-door frame. The only way free is to back out. The door frame is left a little splintery and the ROPS now has maybe a quarter-inch of extra play in it, though it is not bent. My hypothetical question is: Is the ROPS damaged to the extent that the man needs to have it repaired? I present this question purely out of the spirit of open discussion.

Funny post, kind of like "Doc, I have this friend who has these bumps....."

LMAO!

I sure wouldn't ever have thought I could pull into the garage with the ROPS up, but after reading all these posts lately, I pay extra attention now before I go be-bopping in.

 

[Stef]

Now the ROPS top is jammed into the garage-door frame. The only way free is to back out.

First, I'd have removed some air from the rear tires to free the rops before backing out.

Is the ROPS damaged to the extent that the man needs to have it repaired?

A ROPS is a very solid metal structure. I really don't think that a garage door frame would damage it. Retighten the hinges' bolts and you should be fine.

It happened to me a couple of times to touch the bottom of the garage door with the rops of my former BX23. No harm done though. Yeah, it happens.

 

[gordon21]

Newtarheel: Your hypothetical friend should go to Lowes or Home Depot and buy an 8' garage door. Bad events come in threes and he has hit his door only twice so far.............

 

[Dodgeram]

Newtarheel,
If you would have substituted a hypothetical "orange" tractor, I would say you've been spying.
First time wasn't so bad, as I was barely moving.
The second time, I believe I shook the whole house
I checked the ROPS out, and it appears OK.
One more time and I raise the header (if I still have one left)

 

[rickster]

OH NO! I hope my friend doesn't hit the garage twice!! Once
was enough! I hope

 

[Fjord]

My ROPS has a bit of play at the folding joint that I never really noticed until I was driving over some bumpy frozen ground and it was flopping back and forth a bit. Is it possible that the play was there all along but the hypothetical man just never noticed it until he gave it a critical inspection after the "incident"? I plan to make some little wedges to take the play out.Not for any functional reason, just so I don't notice it on bumpy ground.

 

[newtarheel]

Stef had a good idea: Let some air out of the tires. Problem was, my B7800's tires (OK, OK, it was me) are ballasted and -- wouldn't you know it -- both valves were near the ground. Which would mean, I think, that ballast juice would have gone everywhere, thereby adding humiliation to humiliation. Nope, the only thing left for me is to try to figure out how to blame the John Deere people.

 

[Stef]

Here's a little story to ease your guilt.

I have a 16 foot wide garage door. I wished to remove the loader in the garage but I didn't want to put it in the middle of the place and monopolize all the available space so I dropped the loader on the left side (when you're facing the garage from outside) very close to the left door frame. At that moment, the tractor was only equipped with the loader.
I don't remember exactly what I did afterward but the important point to note is, I had the mid-mount mower on when I decided to put the loader back on. So there I was approching the loader when suddenly I heard and sensed a little shock. I looked down at the left door frame and realized that my beautiful mower had gouged a nice groove in the aluminum capping the frame. The shock wasn't violent, it didn't break the aluminum but gouged it a bit and left a nice orange stripe.
I was mad about me that day especially about the fact that I'd changed that piece of aluminum a year ago because the previous owner damaged it (I don't know how though). So the story continues...
I changed some doors around the house last summer and the delivery guys were talking to me while unloading the doors in the garage. One of the guys noticed the orange stripe on (or should I say "in") the left door frame. He asked me what happened and I told him the story, not without a little bit of shame of course. And you know what the guy said (he was kidding me of course but I felt very stupid at that moment)? Wow, you have a 16 foot wide garage door, it wasn't wide enough?

The point is... those things happen.

 

[638]

If you have a front end loader on your tractor, you can do what I did when I JAMMED my tractor in the doorway. Dump the bucket and then raise the front end of the tractor with the bucket. That will free up the ROPS and allow it to be folded down. Worked for me.

ron

 

[Gomer]

Exacltly why I did this!

 

[Stef]

Exacltly why I did this!

Could you tell me how it's supposed to protect you now that it has been shorten? If you have a foldable rops it means you have a backhoe, so the rops doesn't interfere when you use the backhoe?

 

[Gomer]

No-I don't have a backhoe, the dealer I bought mine from gets all with foldable rops, and it is 1 inch higher than a rigid rops so I can't hit the top of my garage.