Seat Belts for a Jinma 304

crazymike · Mar 4, 2006

When plowing snow in my truck I'm guilty of not wearing a seat belt. You are always going back and forth.

Many times my truck has stopped dead in it's tracks without me. This usually results in pain.

The same goes for tractors. I've been scraping a driveway, etc... and you snag something. BAM. Without a seatbelt you can easily be thrown in front of the tractors path. If it dislogdges from what ever stopped it, you're toast.

Seatbelts are proved to be 99+% effective when used with ROPs.

Search google for ROPs + death + seatbelt. You will be hardpressed to find anyone killed in a ROPs equipped tractor who was wearing a seatbelt. There might be a handful of cases, but it's a tiny, tiny percentage.

greg_g · Mar 4, 2006

( wearing a seat belt in a cabbed tractor is less of a deal )
that was my point; cabbed tractor owners/operators are less likely to use seatbelts as well

//greg/

tat2z1969 · Mar 5, 2006

its always better to have your face punched thru a cab winshield than wear a seat belt. geezzzz

crazymike · Mar 6, 2006

( its always better to have your face punched thru a cab winshield than wear a seat belt. geezzzz )

Nobody says it was better, but you have less a chance of dying. I still wear mine for the most part.

That said, when doing flat field work your chances of coming to a dead stop are very slim.

Om a CUT you are crazy not to wear a safety belt. Your rollbar does nothing.

The number one killer in farm related injuries is tractor roll overs. Using a ROPs/Safety belt is 99% effective against death/major injury in a roll over. It's a no brainer.

tat2z1969 · Mar 6, 2006

( ( its always better to have your face punched thru a cab winshield than wear a seat belt. geezzzz )

Nobody says it was better, but you have less a chance of dying. I still wear mine for the most part.

That said, when doing flat field work your chances of coming to a dead stop are very slim.

Om a CUT you are crazy not to wear a safety belt. Your rollbar does nothing.

The number one killer in farm related injuries is tractor roll overs. Using a ROPs/Safety belt is 99% effective against death/major injury in a roll over. It's a no brainer. )

I was being sarcastic, I wear one all the time on the flat or not, never know when you will find that ground hog hole. I don't wear one going thru a gate, probably should, but I don't. Other than gates I wear one all the time, I have seen what happens to people who take the rolling roller coaster ride and end up under the tractor dead.