What good is a ROPS

john in la · May 1, 2019

If you do not use the seatbelt?

rustred · May 1, 2019

come on ? get up there I cant hang on any longer!

K Effective · May 1, 2019

Guy down the road about a quarter mile from me did the same thing, but rolled it sideways onto his leg. I forget how long he was pinned under the mini excavator, seems like six or eight hours. Didn't have or couldn't get to his cell phone. Crushed the leg in multiple places, he ended up in one of those tension braces to pull it apart as it healed.

He went out and destroyed his other leg on a snowmobile a few years later, trespassing across a neighbors field- hit a hidden plow furrow and flipped it.

Not a neighbor I associate with much.

Russ from MN · May 1, 2019

It's nearly impossible to make everything idiot proof!

Stephen Newell · May 1, 2019

Problem is, the more they try to make things idiot proof the more idiots they make.

docmirror · May 1, 2019

I will opine that even without the seat belt, the machine did not go completely over on top of him. Guessing he's got some bumps and bruises but as long as it didn't flatten him, no seat belt is a benefit, not a requirement.

Traditional Farmer · May 1, 2019

Another reason to like my hydraulic tilt bed trailer,no ramps.

SVcummins · May 1, 2019

If only he?d have turned it around he could have used the hoe to push him on or to help him off

rustred · May 1, 2019

ya , was thinking the same thing. kinda standard procedure.

WGM · May 1, 2019

Perhaps you should review your OSHA manual
before you make a statement like that.

BAnNC · May 2, 2019

Not only more idiots but new and IMPROVED Idiots!

FBH44 · May 2, 2019

Just makes me wonder what his big plans were for that stepladder????

showcrop · May 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 20:07:06 05/01/19) I will opine that even without the seat belt, the machine did not go completely over on top of him. Guessing he's got some bumps and bruises but as long as it didn't flatten him, no seat belt is a benefit, not a requirement.

Doc, unbelievable.

timcasbolt · May 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 04:07:06 05/02/19) I will opine that even without the seat belt, the machine did not go completely over on top of him. Guessing he's got some bumps and bruises but as long as it didn't flatten him, no seat belt is a benefit, not a requirement.

I'm guessing you've never been required to take forklift training. Last place I worked, you'd lose your job for not wearing the seatbelt.

Stephen Newell · May 2, 2019

That's why idiot is the new national pastime.

GEO-TH, In · May 2, 2019

Some people on Yt say they don't want a seat belt so they can jump off when things go south. SOOO just try jumping off when things happen in a split second, can't do it.

pete 23 · May 2, 2019

When doing pre delivery on cab equipped new tractors, I always made sure the seat belt was visible and that it was adjustable and locked up correctly. Next time you would see the tractor, the belt would be jammed in behind seat, never used. Freedom of choice.

INCase · May 2, 2019

if you read the tractor safety standards (at least from 25 years ago) the rule was no ROPS no seat belt (so you could jump or get thrown clear). with a ROPS you need a seatbelt. yep the ROPS is no good if you are thrown off or even pinched by the ROPS. it can only protect you if your in the seat.

mb58 · May 2, 2019

Several years ago I was an inspector on a job where the contractor was building a new road. They had a 17 year old driving the self-propelled sweeper which had a 4-post ROPS with a piece of 1/8 inch sheet metal for a top. The boy had been warned to stop clowning as he liked to go fast and swerve from side to side. He went around a curve that hid him from sight of everyone and in a few minutes one of the workers came along in a truck and saw the sweeper laying on its side. With no set belt on, the young man was laying on his back, crushed across the chest by the sheet metal top.
Ironically, he had been fired earlier, but his mother came to the contractor and begged them to re-hire him because the young man had gotten a girl pregnant and needed a job.

495man · May 2, 2019

(quoted from post at 05:36:33 05/02/19)

(quoted from post at 04:07:06 05/02/19) I will opine that even without the seat belt, the machine did not go completely over on top of him. Guessing he's got some bumps and bruises but as long as it didn't flatten him, no seat belt is a benefit, not a requirement.

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I'm guessing you've never been required to take forklift training. Last place I worked, you'd lose your job for not wearing the seatbelt.

And I see on some newer lift trucks the seat belt is no longer black, but a bright color so it's easy to see if it's being worn or not from a distance.....

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