BX25 SEAT BELT FAILURE

[Artisan]

I can't quit laughing at the 2 posts that say the buckle worked as advertised.

BS. If car is burning, and you are upside down, and not as strong as me
or mindfull as me to look for a tool to help,
you would be DEAD. Utter nonsense.

The buckle failed and no one can tell me otherwise.

 

[Artisan]

PS, the buckle now fails full time, even at rest.

It is a pos, period.

 

[RNeumann]

Go put 240# of pressure on any vehicle seatbelt- it will have the same issue. Heck go buckle the seatbelt in your car and pull on it as hard as you can while trying to unbuckle- it will be difficult to impossible to remove. That is the nature of the design. I've been in the profession that deals with the scenario you describe above for many years. It's the reality of the design. We have seatbelt cutters everywhere- on our person, on our extrication tools etc. Google seatbelt cutter- you will find several. The little plastic ones that look like a letter opener work fine.

The seatbelt needs replacement because of bent internals. It's normal for that to occur as well.

Seatbelt Worked! Should be the post title.

 

[Wagtail]

Well, laugh away Mate. You're not keeping me up at night.

Here's my experience, though. I wrecked on black ice once and the ute flipped on its driver's side. I was unhurt but was (of course) lying on my side with my full weight hanging from the belt buckle. It would not disengage until I lifted myself up enough to relieve the pressure. After that, it came undone.

Just as it is designed to do.

I'm sure that you can come up with scenarios (such as a your non-ROPS equipped burning car example) where you'd be screwed. That's why emergency response personnel/vehicles carry seat-belt cutters... the majority of the time, if you're injured, staying in the seat is the safest thing to do.

There are different 'buckles' for different uses. What are you going to recommend? A 5-point harness?

 

[RNeumann]

TheFireStore Branded Deluxe Seat Belt Cutter

 

[Wagtail]

PS, the buckle now fails full time, even at rest.

It is a pos, period.

Well Mate, seeing as you're going to need to replace... you could research a replacement passenger aircraft type 'lift' buckle. Perhaps that will suit you.

 

[4shorts]

Sorry to hear about your roll over. Very scary thing to experance that's for sure. I've spent some time working with seat belts over my lifetime and I'll try and explain how they work of at least how I was trained on how they work.

First of all a seat belt has one goal in mind when you clip it on and that's to keep you in the seat.

Your tractors seat belt is a simple design compared to most used in today's vehicles. Your tractors seat belt has an internal ratchet system and an inertia switch in it that will lock the belt and you in place once that switch goes out of its normally level position. Once activated the only way to release it is to let it retract a small bit. If it don't find that slackness it won't release the ratchet and it can be very difficult to even release the latch to the the stress that on the system.

It's a sample but effective system because if you were upside down in your tractor and water was under you and you were unconscious at the time of the roll over you could possibly drown if that belt let go so your seat belt worked as designed and be thankful it did. If it hadn't you might have been crushed by the machine when you rolled it. It did its job. Your alive, be thankful for it.

Insidently. It's not well known but in the case of an accident where a seat belt was used by an occupant that seat belt should be replaced to insure you'll be protected in another event. I've seen situations where a belt actually had to be cut off to get occupants out of their seats. Weather you agree with me or not I just wanted you to read this. Be thankful yours did what it was supposed to do and we can sit here a read that your safe and sound.
Keep safe out there.

 

[Wagtail]

It's not well known but in the case of an accident where a seat belt was used by an occupant that seat belt should be replaced to insure you'll be protected in another event.

I thought that that might be the case but I didn't want to speculate.

The thought that it was the case (replace if it's been 'engaged') was like that of a motorcycle helmet... once 'used', even if it looks OK, the chinstrap is cut off, the helmet is discarded and you buy a new one. The internal "integrity" is gone.

 

[4shorts]

I thought that that might be the case but I didn't want to speculate.

The thought that it was the case (replace if it's been 'engaged') was like that of a motorcycle helmet... once 'used', even if it looks OK, the chinstrap is cut off, the helmet is discarded and you buy a new one. The internal "integrity" is gone.

Exactly.

 

[Streetcar]

[QUOTESeatbelt Worked! Should be the post title.[/QUOTE]
Great quote. Seat belt worked as designed. It was heavily loaded and now should be replaced