Tipping over

[Bird]

<font color=blue>I've thought about parking my 670 on a side slope, getting off (uphill side) and giving the ROPS a good shake to see what would happen, if anything.</font color=blue>

Roy, when I first got my tiltmeter, I did that with my B2710 on and 18 degree slope; couldn't push it over by hand, but like you, I don't even like 10-12 degrees, and decided for myself that 15 would be my limit.

 

[chrisjbell]

I haven't tipped mine, although the one about carrying a load in the bucket reminded me of the time that I got up on two wheels (dropped the bucket fast enough to stop the rollover).

But to answer your question, yes, tractors are unstable on hills, especially when you are sideways. I don't know the limit, though. But be careful, use your ROPS and seatbelt.

...Chris

 

[gotrocks]

My 2910 is not a year old yet and I was scooping out a spot to start a compost pit. Scoop with FEL back up, dump,....after several trips I was backing and got close to edge of the fresh pile and the "trap door" fell out from under the left rear tire. I had my hand on the FEL lever and dropped it at once, shut the engine down, got the shovel and started diging under the right rear. When it leveled some got on,started and made sure I packed the fresh soil before getting close to the edge again.

Now, another worse story. Before 2910 my son was on the old Satoh S650G brush-hogging on fairly level ground. I was looking at him when he backed up "too fast" and the right rear ran up a tree trunk and the tractor - brush-hog and he rolled over away from the direction I was viewing. I saw him jump and when the tractor ended up on it's wheels and I had run closer he was below the terace and OK. Thank you Lord.

If he had been traveling a little slower this would not have happened.

As Andy Griffith says on an old 33 1/3 amlbum, "If speed was everything that counted, rabbits would rule the earth."

Dear God watch over all who read this. Keep them safe. Thank you.

 

[Hawkflyer]

Never tipped over a tractor, but I did flip a Euclid pan truck over backwards once. Things that large go over fairly slow, so I had time to bail. It was about 8 feet to the ground from the cab, and it took a moment to get reorganized after I hit the ground.

It was almost like watching things in slow motion as the truck continued on over backwards, and did a kind of pirouette, fell over on it's side and rolled down the hill. It stopped on its side.

The boss brought a D-8 over, hooked up a cable and rolled it back up on its feet. We started her up and back to work. Whole thing took about 20 min. I think he told me it had been rolled twice before.

Fact is you can flip anything under the right conditions. Have fun, but be careful out there.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Almost stood up my buddies brand new dump truck once...Talk about changing your shorts! We were making an arena for his horses, adding some fill to level the space we were working in. I had about 9 ton on the back, and was making the first trip. We both neglected to check the chains on the tailgate. He had been skidding stone the day before and had the tailgate set to only open about 1'. I backed up and started to raise the box when I felt a strange lifting sensation...and about this time dale comes charging across the road yelling at the top of his lungs. If I hadnt jammed the clutch when I did I would have stood the truck right on the tailgate. Worse yet I would have gone right over the top down the bank! As it was the front wheels came about 1' off the ground! Changed my pants and had beer!
Hey! Change the oil while yur under there!!!!!!

 

[john_bud]

<font color=blue>
Good tip (move the wheels at the widest setting and to load load them) I'll give that a try. Is it hard to do or something I should let the dealer mess with?</font color=blue>

Tawoo,

My neighbor and I re-dished and swapped side for side and set to the widest setting the loaded R-4's on my L3410. If you have a GOOD floor jack, a flat hard surface (concrete) and a strong, patient helper, it is not too hard to do in about an hour. Oh and air tools help too!

Just don't even think that you can stop a loaded tire from going over after about 1/4 to 1/3 tilt.

John Bud

 

[riptides]

Go read this thread <A target="_blank" HREF=http://http:http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=safety&Number=125554&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=/>Rollovers</A>

Wear your seat belt, Wear eye protection and hearing protection if needed.

-Mike Z.
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[theboman]

The "pucker factor" is something most have experienced on a tractor. Slow and low and think about what you're doing on top of the tractor that is bigger than you.

 

[JimC]

I thought I had done it this morning, I was using the FEL to move my box blade so I could get my disk out to put the garden away.
I had ran a chain from the center of the back of the FEL to the ends of the box blade like I allways do and after I had picked it up about a foot, one of the end chain hooks came loose.
A tilt meter would not have helped. the pucker factor came into play and my hand which never leaves the control lever jamed it to full down. After I recovered and it took a while, I carefully redid the conections and moved the blade out of the way. No problem putting it back when I was through with the disk, I did check every thing a little better than I had the first time.
I even had thought about adding a rear weight on the 3 pt.
got to work on that even if it takes a little longer to put it on and then take it off every time. I did rearrange the way I store the implements in my shed so I don't have to shuffle them around so much. Maybe a bigger shed???

 

[chrisjbell]

A bigger shed is always a requirement, isn't it? /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

But it doesn't sound like anything could have been done to prevent what happened to you. I had a similar experience when I had an FEL bucket full of gravel on a slight slope and hit a hole. Like yourself, I've established a habit of keeping my right hand on the FEL control - good thing, too, because the tractor continued to move sideways until the bucket hit the ground, then it leveled out.

So keep the hand ready on the control!

...Chris