RTV ROPS - beware

[Paystar]

I'll just say ... those pics don't exactly make me want to rush out and buy a Kubota.

Lets see how your Kioti or any other brand fares after MULTIPLE barrel rolls, LOL

It's a ROLL OVER protection. Not a CATOSTOPHY protector.

 

[PuffyC]

It's a ROLL OVER protection. Not a CATOSTOPHY protector.

In this case it was neither.

 

[WilliamBos]

Lets see how your Kioti or any other brand fares after MULTIPLE barrel rolls, LOL

It's a ROLL OVER protection. Not a CATOSTOPHY protector.

Yeah, the Kioti would not of survived either.

 

[wawajake]

The way I read "between the lines" about the accident is......I rolled my modified RTV off basically a cliff , and its open cab was destroyed, ....I now want to blame Kubota for it not surviving . (Of note though, surprisingly it started and drove still after multiple rollover)

 

[bdog]

It wasn’t a cliff. The trail it was onwe created with a dozer last week. The Kubota drove down it two times before flipping on the third. The slope wasn’t straight down it had a slight sideways tilt to it. I think what happened is a front tire fell into a small hole and the rear end starting coming around and that was it.

I certainly don’t think the machine should escape something like this unscathed but I would expect a rops to hold up better. The driver got up and worked the rest of the day. If he would have been belted in I bet he would still be in the hospital or dead.

Attached are some more pictures. The roof tore off some more due to the wind in the drive home.

 

[RoyJackson]

It wasn’t a cliff. The trail it was onwe created with a dozer last week. The Kubota drove down it two times before flipping on the third. The slope wasn’t straight down it had a slight sideways tilt to it. I think what happened is a front tire fell into a small hole and the rear end starting coming around and that was it.

I certainly don’t think the machine should escape something like this unscathed but I would expect a rops to hold up better. The driver got up and worked the rest of the day. If he would have been belted in I bet he would still be in the hospital or dead.

Attached are some more pictures. The roof tore off some more due to the wind in the drive home.

I'm no metallurgist, but it sure looks the wall thickness on the ROPS tubing is thin (less the 1/8th)
It looks like the wall thickness on my Gator's ROPS is around 3/16" (.187") thick

 

[bdog]

I wouldn’t really call it modified either. It had a sun shade canopy and the tweels both were added by the dealer at the time of purchase. Modified to me would be if we had a lift kit or welded something on to or drilled holes in the rops. We did not. The canopy was clamped on.

 

[bdog]

It is very thin. To me it looks about like 14ga.

 

[ruffdog]

Different manufacturers follow different certifications or maybe none at all. It seems the RTV meets the OSHA and SAE standards while other's don't.

https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...rd-for-recreational-off-highway-vehicles-rovs

https://www.kubotausa.com/docs/defa...pdfs/rtvxseriescompspdf.pdf?sfvrsn=59c30ffc_2

 

[ruffdog]

...also, the standards for tractors are different than the ones for UTVs.