Folding ROPS

[MJB]

For comparison here is a 4400 with the tall folding ROPS. I am going to ask my dealer if I could get both top parts to the ROPS when I buy my tractor if it is available. I am getting a backhoe so I will need the tall ROPS but I was hoping to put the short top section on when I was not using the hoe.

 

[DDT]

When you find a answer for the short type, let me know. I have got mine cut down and it just fits in the garage now 1/2" clearance. So I'll not be fighting trees and other things as bad.
DDT

 

[MJB]

I spoke to my dealer and he said that there is no such thing as a short folding ROPS./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif The pictures I found must have been of a prototype or very early production tractor. My garage doors are 8' tall so I can go in and out with the tall ROPS but I will have to trim a few tree branches higher so I can mow with the bar up.

 

[cowboydoc]

DDT and MJB,
I saw the exact same folding rops this weekend on a JD 4400. I had to look twice at it but it was factory and it was definitely the short rops just like that picture MJB.

 

[MJB]

My dealer may have given up too soon trying to find the ever-elusive short folding ROPS. I was beginning to think I was on a snipe hunt but if you saw one "live in captivity" then they must exist./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif I will ask my dealer about them again next time I talk to him. Thanks

 

[cowboydoc]

If it wasn't factory the guy did one hell of a job on it because it looked just like mine only shorter.

 

[DDT]

Did it look like this?

 

[DDT]

Rear view

 

[cowboydoc]

Yea but they looked even shorter than that. I looked at it pretty close and I sure didn't see where the guy had cut it as even the paint matched but that looks like a factory job and I know you cut them off so could have been a homemade job too.