BX2200, Flat Yard, Just Mow... Remove the ROPS?

[JOHNTHOMAS]

It's your tractor do as you please

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I live on a hillside. I've laid a BX on its side one time (Scary). I wear my seatbelt on my home hillside property. I also have several acres of rental property that is flat except for a ditch up front and I usually wear my seatbelt because I've worn seat belts always in vehicles since 1964/65. My covers on my ROPS at home are always hitting the multiple trees on my home property. The ROPS and cover on my rental flat property is no bother but I need the ROPS to hold the cover. If I didn't and it bothered me I'd take it off but NEVER on my hillside property even though it bothers me every time I mow with my F3080.
It's yours, remove it by the bolts that hold it on and set it back some where if that's what YOU wnat to do. If you decide you want a cover to keep the sun off you then put it back on.

 

[r0GuE]

I live on a hillside. I've laid a BX on its side one time (Scary). I wear my seatbelt on my home hillside property. ....

Wow! Were you doing FEL work, or just mowing?

I remember long ago when I first got my BX (my first -only- tractor ever), I was nervous as could be. I used to mow with the FEL on. Then I got more confident over time. I have surmised (perhaps wrongly) that the FEL could bring it over, but it'd be very tough to side-it with only a belly mower and bagger.

 

[ssls6]

I'm really frustrated by the ROPS getting n the way when I mow near smal trees etc. I've been debating just removing it. I had not in the past because I had a FEL, but the FEL goes to a new owner tomorrow.

I've been mowing the same yard for 12 years and there's just now way the BX is going over. In fact, with the ROPS gone, it'd be even less top heavy. Have any of you guys done away with the ROPS? Unbolt it? Cut it? Thoughts, suggestions or links to projects others have done. I'd just remove it, but it does hold the lights...

I unbolted mine at the pivot the week after I bought it. I have a bx2670 I use as a lawn mower (big yard not the smoothest thing) and the ROPS was a total PIA. If Kubota would have made it pivot down and not just angle back, I may have left it on but folded.

 

[Don87]

On flat ground, just mowing and no FEL, I see no need for the ROPS. Just unbolt it and store it as others suggested.

 

[r0GuE]

Just unbolt it and store it as others suggested.

That's where I'm leaning. Has anyone seen a good approach to the treatment o the lights? Do they just disconnect, or should I clip them and cap them? Or is there a kit o hook them to a ROPS stub type replacement adaptor? I guess I could fabricate something.

 

[Don87]

I'm fairly certain that the lights plug in under your fenders. Just trace the wires.

 

[ovrszd]

I can't believe the Safety Police haven't been on this thread in full force!!!!

I mowed one time with the ROPS on my JD2210. Then I unbolted it and it's hanging on my shop wall. I posted a picture of some shop project I was working on one time here on TBN. In the background of the picture you could see my ROPS hanging on the wall. The Safety Police came out in full force and a full page of discussion was diverted to my removed ROPS........ Go figure.

Got a funny story for ya. TRUE STORY. A friend of mine is a parts guy at our local JD dealer. We were sitting around sipping a Beer yesterday evening and he said a customer had came in complaining about his new JD1026. He said there's one spot in his yard that is slightly uphill and everytime he mows there the front tires of his tractor come off the ground!!!! He was angry that this tractor would be that unstable!!!! The salesman said let's go look at this area. So they went to the customer's house for a look. The slope was very gentle and they couldn't imagine how the front tires could lift there. There was a large oak tree that covered the area and the problem spot was under the overhanging branches. As they stood there looking around the salesman looked up and noticed the bark all skinned off the downhill side of one large low hanging limb. He asked the owner if his ROPS was hitting that limb and he answered he didn't know. So they went and got the tractor and placed it in the problem spot. Sure enough the ROPS was hooking the limb and trying to tip the tractor over backwards. TRUE STORY!!!!! That owner probably needs to leave his ROPS on and ALWAYS wear his seat belt...... :laughing:

Sorry for the distraction. Remove the ROPS and design some brackets to hold the lights on top of the fenders. Maybe someone will see this thread and post their solution on a similar tractor.

 

[Don87]

I can't believe the Safety Police haven't been on this thread in full force!!!!

I mowed one time with the ROPS on my JD2210. Then I unbolted it and it's hanging on my shop wall. I posted a picture of some shop project I was working on one time here on TBN. In the background of the picture you could see my ROPS hanging on the wall. The Safety Police came out in full force and a full page of discussion was diverted to my removed ROPS........ Go figure.

Got a funny story for ya. TRUE STORY. A friend of mine is a parts guy at our local JD dealer. We were sitting around sipping a Beer yesterday evening and he said a customer had came in complaining about his new JD1026. He said there's one spot in his yard that is slightly uphill and everytime he mows there the front tires of his tractor come off the ground!!!! He was angry that this tractor would be that unstable!!!! The salesman said let's go look at this area. So they went to the customer's house for a look. The slope was very gentle and they couldn't imagine how the front tires could lift there. There was a large oak tree that covered the area and the problem spot was under the overhanging branches. As they stood there looking around the salesman looked up and noticed the bark all skinned off the downhill side of one large low hanging limb. He asked the owner if his ROPS was hitting that limb and he answered he didn't know. So they went and got the tractor and placed it in the problem spot. Sure enough the ROPS was hooking the limb and trying to tip the tractor over backwards. TRUE STORY!!!!! That owner probably needs to leave his ROPS on and ALWAYS wear his seat belt...... :laughing:

Sorry for the distraction. Remove the ROPS and design some brackets to hold the lights on top of the fenders. Maybe someone will see this thread and post their solution on a similar tractor.

That feller probably needs to hire the mowing out and sit on the porch, it may save his life.

 

[ovrszd]

That feller probably needs to hire the mowing out and sit on the porch, it may save his life.

If you think God doesn't have a sense of humor,,,, just study people....

 

[Piston]

I can't believe the Safety Police haven't been on this thread in full force!!!!

That's because us realists were quicker to reply :laughing: