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Keith Molden

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Heard yesterday that an aquaintance of mine that graduated the year before me (1965) rolled a tractor day before yesterday. Lost his right arm below the elbow, broke both legs and has several broken ribs as well as a lot of other broken bones and internal injuries and is in intensive care. I haven't heard any other particulars of the accident. I know a lot of guys around here that have livestock are mowing their pastures which are usually pretty steep and have a lot of slips in them & with all the rain this year several new ones have shown up, but like I say I don't know. One thing I do know is that he is either my age 69 or a year older so it doesn't always happen to quote some folks, those dumb kids that never listen. It can and will happen to us older folks that do know everything, but our attention isn't what it used to be and our reflexes just aren't there any more. It can and does for me anyway take just a little more time to catch that clutch or hit that brake. I know he and his family would appreciate your prayers.
 
Sorry to hear of your friends misfortune . I have read that the statistics of farm accidents for tractor related accidents among older operators almost mirror the numbers for young operators . Once a man , twice a child they say. Hope your friend recovers , and can adjust to his new circumstance.
 
Keith,
Pray for your friend.
I'm 68. When I was a kid on a dairy farm, I flipped a tractor while loading logs on a truck. I'm here today because the rear wheel of tractor landed on a large log, preventing tractor from crushing me.

I see small tractors and ZTRs with a roll bar that a small pin allows roll bar to fold down. I wonder just how much protection can that really offer? Local guy died after flipping his ZTR into a lake. Roll bar pined in underwater, he drowned.

A guy rolls his jeep. He was killed by the roll bar, it crushed him.

I would love to see actual test showing tractors rolling over on their roll over protection. The ROP is worthless if you don't use a seat belt.

It's scary when I think about how many senior moments I'm having and I still drive and use tractors.

Hope your friend recovers.
 
sorry to hear. Bought my first "big "tractor" last year Massey 135. Bought a ROPS last week off a salvage unit for $150. Well worth it. Had a few moments over the past few months that had me nervous.
 
Hope your friend gets better. Don't take this wrong. But why are people so stupid. We know something is dangerous but we do it anyway. I am just as guilty. Had a man killed down here in a roll over. Two months later I was spreading fertilizer for his wife. She wanted me to drive over the same spot. I almost said you could get killed going over it.But I shut up before I could screw up. I made up an excuse why I couldn't go over it. A month later another man was killed doing the same thing.
 
The key to not getting pinned by the roll bar is to wear the seat belt. Most never do on a tractor or mower as it is inconvenient or restricts movement.
 
I doubt the manufactures test their ROPS. Just looks good. Son works in Fire apparatus manufacturing. They pay $20,000.00 annual usage fee for computer program to simulate fire truck rollover on anything they design that a emergency person might ride on or in.
 
I bet all OEM's test their ROPS, it would be criminal not to.

The problem comes to not wearing a seat belt, or putting on after market ROPS.
 
(quoted from post at 06:52:05 07/01/17) I bet all OEM's test their ROPS, it would be criminal not to.

The problem comes to not wearing a seat belt, or putting on after market ROPS.
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I wonder how many aftermarket ROPS are correctly installed with the manufacturers recommendation or supplied hardware? I know guys who would totally ignore instructions to use grade 8 bolts when they had the right size grade 5 on hand.


For the OP hope your friend is doing OK.

Rick
 
I too pray for his recovery. The way it sounds the recovery will be a long road.

When I was sixteen I helped pull a mortally injured man out from under an overturned Farmall M. He was a big man, maybe 300 pounds and I helped carry the stretcher up a steep road ditch to the ambulance. My knees were so weak I could hardly walk. It made me a careful tractor driver for the rest of my life. Anyone can slip up though.
 

I remember a good friend of mine died while trying to level rock with a roller, apparently roller became stuck in the gravel and he hooked the tongue of the roller high where it should have never been and the tractor simply screwed right out from under him flipped over backwards and crushed him between tractor and tongue...you can never be careful enough around equipment even when we think we know what we are doing.
 
I saw pictures or a video of ROPS testing. They remote controlled the tractor up or down a side hill until it rolled. Also up a very steep hill and it went over backwards. No operator on board. I am sure it is required of manufacturers to do such testing.
 
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