Two more tractor related deaths

playsafe

rod

All these laws seem to do is run up the cost of it and create "economic opportunity" for people on the side lines.

Like that old Frank S. song sez- "Everybody has a right to be wrong...". Or, at least they used to! IHank

I got about 25 acres of gullies and brush and about 12 acres of flat farm land. The flat land gets tilled and equipment run around on it. The rest is kept off of by machinery.

Anybody that operates equipment on a hillside is asking for a disaster. Stupidity, or give it any name you wish, tillage and equipment operations are just plain (insert your term here). We know the outcome, but not when!

I'm lately seeing it in a perspective as maybe Nature's way of culling the gene pool of the idiots that cause severe soil erosion problems.

Please, think it thru, IHank

I understand re: cost. But being the N rookie I am, I considered the cost another form of life/disability insurance. It's not foolproof, obviously (read: wear seatbelt and heed operation safety warnings from these guys on yt), but I thought the cost small compared to an injury that might have been prevented w/ a rops. It doesn't take long to run up $400-500 in lost wages. And I don't heal so quick anymore.

I've seen talk on this board re homemade rops, too.

fwiw Kim Hartshorn

Now they have to ship it to the dealer, carry stock in inventory, the dealer has to carry it, more overhead for all concerned. Liability premiums or allowance, &c, &c, &c. Their cost on the dealer's floor might be $250-$300.

Last I checked, I think that they were asking $450-odd for this. Maybe there's some unmentioned profit for someone, but I don't think it's in the proportion you suspect.

llater,

llamas

Figure in state tax on the rops and shipping to your place. It gets up there real fast.

Then there's the labor for installing it: cheeseburger.

I was told the rops are sold to me at cost, which is the cost to manufacture it..this includes labor. I got mine through the manufacturer because it wasn't worth it to the dealer to order and get it shipped up my ways and handle it all for no charge.

The Ford 1500 is a much smaller tractor than the N and actually had in later models a stock rops.

If you check the Saf-T-Cab site there seems to be no particular reason for the pricing of the units except perhaps demand.

I still find it hard to believe that the major manufacturers would not make out ahead on insurance premiums by making ROPS much less expensive.

Where have you been since 1960?

Government-required seat belts installed in cars.

Government-required air-bags installed in cars.

Now we even have fines if you don't wear the seat belts.

Government has been involved in this process for a long time.

and especially since the manufacturers are participating in rops programs of some kinds that seems to imply that they are aware of the safety factor involved in a rops. Seems to me they could more likely be sued BECAUSE they are not supplying them at low cost...than because of the slight possibility of a rops failure.

IMHO Kim Hartshorn

Fwiw, a ROPS on my tractor would immediately render it useless. Orchards and ROPS do not go together.