TED20 Roll Bar (ROPS)

My first post here but have been lurking and picking up loads of useful tips since getting our TED20 (TVO model) a couple of months back. Thanks all - particularly the TVO recipes which seems a bit like witchcraft to me.

We got the Fergie specifically for carting logs and pulling stumps from our very overgrown (ex Forestry Commission)9 acres of larch woods. Hadn't realised that lack of ROPS meant we were breaking UK law! However, I'm now more worried about breaking necks :-)

Can only find one supplier for ROPS and they're quoting �250 - yikes - that's half what the tractor cost. Does anyone have some decent photos/dimensions detailing the fixing points and rough steelwork sizes so that I can get the local smithy to fabricate something from box section and plate that will do the same job?

Will be interesting to see if a ROPS is a hinderance when trailing in and out of woods - all those low slung branches that we can currently avoid.

Great site and hope to be back here often.

cheers

Dave

And thanks Ali for the roll bar - reasonably priced AND delivered - what more could one want! One of the benefits of living in a country you can drive across in one day :-)

Manufacturers plate on roll-bar leg states that it is suitable for TE 20 so I'm confident it'll fit and do the job it was designed for - but hope I never have to see it in action.

Ah weel.....now where's that wire brush and tin of hammerite?