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Mith

Thanks for the xtra trip to get the picture. One of my favorite memories of our trip to England/Scotland was the walks through the gardens. It has a similar look to here in the northwest but the older gardens there have much more character.

Bonehead
 
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Junkman, thanks, pretty nice dog too innit /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Bonehead, you dont get too much an older garden than this one, she is 90, lived there all her life, parents, gparents ect too. Did you go around Hampshire much?
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( . The top of the ROPS/cab hit a branch and the tractor tipped right backwards. D )</font>

This is where a ROPS becomes a saftey hazzard rather than a safety feature.
 
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Ohhh thats what them signs mean on the highways here in Minnesota that say "Look up and stay Alive"

Man glad your ok and you didn't tip all the way over.

murph
 
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I work in the woods clearing brush and I always wear a hard hat. I have taken a couple of licks on the hard hat that I know would have given me a nasty cut and/or bruise. My head is worth the $6.75 the hard hat cost a Lowe's (my wife may not agree with the aforementioned statement at times).

Bill Tolle
 
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Bill, thats why i built it in the first place, to aviod being hit by branches and brambles
i have a picture
it hit right at the top left corner and wayhey, over the back /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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Mith-

What is that rope for around your seat? Is that a rope seat belt?
 
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yea I tie myself to it so if I fall off the tractor dont run away without me, it drags me with it /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
naaa, its just cos I was pulling out roots and pulling trees down earlier. There be lots of junk in those brambles and I use it to tow stuff out. Its just round the seet to stop it getting caught, notice its round the towball.
 
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Mith, don't have much time but let me say that what you experienced is one of the scariest things that will happen to you on a tractor ... and it happens sssooooo fast. It happened to me while mowing at the house just after I got the Kubota. The few times that I'd mowed under that particular tree, I'd always managed to nudge the offending branch out of the way with the ROP. On this occasion I was probably a few inches closer to the trunk and it didn't move. I was going pretty slow round the tree and all of a sudden the front of that tractor reared off the ground and I was staring at blue sky. Luckily it was HST so all I had to do was remove my foot from the peddle and on to the reverse but it did scare the **** out of me. I don't think it would have flipped the tractor all the way over backwards, probably just raised the front enough to allow the ROP to slip under the branch, but the landing would have been pretty hard. Right after that I instigated the 6' rule ... no branches on any tree lower that 6' above the ground or else the chain saw comes out. My wife wasn't too happy with that at first but I sure was. Life is a little easier and safer now.
 

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