ROPS damaged?

[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.