[AT] Plows, was Re: Supervision

Steve W. swilliams268 at frontier.com
Wed Jul 1 04:38:59 PDT 2015


Henry Miller wrote:
> The rule is ROPS and a seat belt or no ROPS and no seat belt and be
> ready to jump. Rollover with ROPS and no seat belt has several crush
> to death by the ROPS scenarios that are slightly less likely without
> ROPS.
> 
> Of course as you discovered, most accidents happen so fast you cannot
> jump in time, which is why ROPS and a seat belt is so much better.
> 

And make sure that you have an actual ROPS, I've seen many tractors 
around here that have something that looks like a ROPS but it's only 
designed to hold a sunshade or lighting.

Then there are the folding ROPS systems that the operators keep folded 
down regardless of use....

-- 
Steve W.



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