Re: Roll over protection for H or M---or any non R

Posted by Rusty Jones on January 01, 2004 at 07:57:40 from (209.195.139.166):

In Reply to: Roll over protection for H or M---or any non ROP e posted by zooeyhall on December 31, 2003 at 20:26:19:

I've been reading the pro's & cons about ROPS, and what i've read so far seems to be good advice.
But, like one person said, a fellow can get himself hurt or killed, right quick, by doing foolish stuff!
We had a local fellow who farmed a large piece of ground, probably 150 acres, mostly flat, only a few gullies, rolling farm land. He farmed the place for quite a long time, but when a developer offered him big bucks for it, he sold, and bought a much smaller farm, rather hilly, and some woods, and a bit of open ground.
Now, he always ran his tractors around with a log chain wrapped around the rear axle housing, with the hooks hanging down, inboard of the rear wheels. This didn't seem to be a problem on his old farm. But the new place, being more hilly, instantly became more dangerous to him.
One day, while traversing a hillside, the dangling hook caught on the spokes of the back wheel, and when it tightened up---over it went! After several hours his wife went looking for him, and found him on his back with the tractor steering wheel crushing his chest! Didn't even have time to jump off--that quick, he was dead!
So maybe ROPS would have saved him--i tend to think it would have, but then again, with the older tractors not viable for ROPS--i say, be extra careful!
Happy New Year!! Rusty Jones

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