Building a ROPS?!

[JerryG]

Here is the site that had the ROPS that wasn't attached correctly and a boy died. I don't re-read this thread, if someone has already posted it Sorry. BTW it is a PDF.

 

[CarlGlas]

Excellent information, thanks Jerry.

From looking at the pictures and then thinking about the ROPS on the MF GC2300, it seems to me that they are only bolted to the body and not to the frame, where it seems to me would be a sturdier placement. Actually, with the sub-compacts and quite possibly the smaller compacts, i.e. 1523, etc. as well, a front ROPS wouldn't be a bad idea either.

 

[CarlGlas]

Correction to the above post. The ROPS on the GC2300 is connected to the frame via 8 bolts. But, you guys probably already knew that. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[kenmac]

already posted Jerry ,10 down from the top.

 

[BearKiller]

If you do build your own , be careful, don't let this happen to you . /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif R.O.PS. are designed , engineered & tested to handle the weight of your model tractor. It's more to it than just welding pieces of steel together hopeing it will save your life in a accident. Good luck to you if you choose to go the home made route.

I was reading this thread and studied/read the above posted link about the tractor back-flipping.

I will say this :

No factory supplied ROPS that I have ever seen (and in our business I get to see every kind imaginable), however mounted, nor however well engineered, would have fared any better in the situation pictured.

There was tremendous rotating torque/leverage applied to everything around the tractors axle, which was attached to an anchor in the earth.

The home-made bar did not bend and I doubt any of the so-called ROPS I see would have done any better.

That is just my opinion and no one needs agree; just look over the picture and read what was being attempted when the accident occurred and draw your own conclusion as to whether a factory system would have performed any different in the given situation.


I am sure that tractor was putting out a lot more force than the benders used to shape the factory units are capable of producing.