rops yes Re: Fall off tractor?

Posted by buickanddeere on August 08, 2007 at 20:30:30 from (216.183.151.49):

In Reply to: Re: Fall off tractor? posted by Lou on August 07, 2007 at 13:39:59:

I'll take my chances with a rops in the woods/bush/forest. Not many here haul trees,logs or maple sap.
One time in my youth while running in International crawler. Can't recall the model but it was a turbo six with a hydrostat trans. It was equipped with a four post rops and roof.
With my uncle on the Terrex 82-30, we were pushing down slash/poplar trees. As we were pushing a tree pile together, I heard "wwwwwwwwwhoosh-Twang-Thunk". I didn't even have time to duck or really see it coming. Unknown to us a 50-60ft length of poplar trunk had been getting bent into a spring loaded bow shape. One end let go and swung back at speed towards me. With about the last 2 ft of tree trunk the front right vertical of the rops took the hit instead of myself. The tree hit hard enough to remove paint down to bare metal.
If it had been for the rops, that tree would have done more than just "leave a mark" on myself.
I'll use a rops among trees.

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