Couple of years ago a guy and his girlfriend died when they hit a JD tractor with a motorcycle. Broke one of the rear wheels off the tractor. I watched a news cast on the incident and all they could do was go on about how neither were wearing helmets. Now these young people hit a FARM TRACTOR with enough force to break a rear wheel off the tractor. It wasn't a survivable accident with or without a helmet. Same thing applies with tractors. Some accidents far exceed the stresses a cab/ROPS can withstand. There are a lot of people out there who used the single roll bar type ROPS who are alive today because they worked. Yes they may have distorted but they kept them from being pinned or crushed.
As far as ROPS go the US Army in another show of intelligence in the late 80's launched a program to put ROPS on the M151 Jeep (Ford MUTT). This was while they were being replaced by the HUMVEE. Literally they were installing the ROPS on vehicles that would be heading to scrap inside a year or 2. Right after my unit was equipped with the ROPS a driver dies when his jeep rolled and his head was crushed by the roll bar. Wasn't wearing the seatbelt.
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Today's Featured Article - The River Tractor - by Charlie English Jr.. This is a 4010 John Deere that was used to farm on the Diamond Island which is in the Ohio River about 15 miles southwest of Evansville, Indiana. About ten years ago, this tractor was parked close to the bank as the river was washing the bank of the island away.
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