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The plastic canopy on my 16 year old Kubota is pretty much falling apart. The steel supports are like new but the plastic itself is missing many chunks and has a bunch of cracks. Does anyone sell them without the steel supports?
 
Don't know that I'd recommend it, but on another forum, there is a guy that flipped upside down one of those plastic shallow kiddie pools on top
of the rollbar/canopy frame.

Lots os shade with that - LOL!
 
Showcrop more than likely that canopy came from a place in Big Pine Tennessee and yes there is a different style made from diamond looking aluminum, but most folks I sold those do did not like the noise. 15 years is pretty good life out of one of the fiberglass ones.
 
I had the local steel supplier cut and bend one for me, I welded some square tubing around the edges, and attached it
to the ROPS. The posts in the front can be easily taken out if I want to take the loader off. I should've done this
right away when the tractor was new, but I waited 15 years until I got hit in the head by a tree branch!
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A plastic truck bed liner cut down and turned upside down worked well for me.
Came out of a midsize truck.
 
You could try Femco, Inc. in McPherson, Kansas (femcomfg.com). The website has a downloadable catalog that shows ABS plastic canopies for several different tractor brands, including Kubota.

RickB at the Ford Forum directed me to a source that sold FOPS (Falling Object Protective Structures) when I needed one for the M7040. The Kubota dealer didn?t show one and couldn?t find a source. I checked the source website but it?s no longer in existence. The canopy has a heavy foam liner, and noise/vibration isn?t a problem.

RickB still posts at the Ford Forum.

Kubota did have a FOPS-rated steel canopy for the RTV900.

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Femco
 
Why not use a plastic 55 gal barrel cut down the middle? It would be cost efficient, tough, and should hold up to the weather well.
 
I attached galvanized metal to roll cage to keep the sun, rain,
and from getting smacked with branches when clearing brush.
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You could remove it and get a fiberglass repair kit at your local store and buff it up with a powered wire brush and add a coat of fiberglass then paint it. It will last for several years and isn't too hard to learn to do. If you do decide to do that, make sure you get some latex gloves. Fiberglass resin & hardener are pretty darned hard to get off your hands and won't come out of your clothes so wear some old coveralls or old clothes you won't care about throwing away. Oh, and work in a WELL vented area.
 
(quoted from post at 04:39:43 08/25/17) You could remove it and get a fiberglass repair kit at your local store and buff it up with a powered wire brush and add a coat of fiberglass then paint it. It will last for several years and isn't too hard to learn to do. If you do decide to do that, make sure you get some latex gloves. Fiberglass resin &amp; hardener are pretty darned hard to get off your hands and won't come out of your clothes so wear some old coveralls or old clothes you won't care about throwing away. Oh, and work in a WELL vented area.
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Keith, .I might do that. I think that the non oriented mat may work better than the woven. Or maybe the woven for most of it and nondirectional for the edges.
 
Hope this link works. Saw them at the Clay County fair a few years ago.

http://www.loaders.com/Canopies/Cool-Cap-Tractor-Canopy

Best of Luck, Mike
 
Terry I will see , google something like Wells supply from Texas but I will try to get you some information.
 
Show crop the go to place is Tel-Trax White Plains Tenn 865 674 6296 they make all kinds of canopies .. If they will not sell direct to you they can hook you up with a dealer near by..
 
(quoted from post at 08:09:12 08/25/17) Now, why didn't i think of that. How
did you attach? Nice!
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Cut the tarp to fit and folded the edges and with grommet tool I put them on edges and cable tied around the pipe. The rear PVC is slid thru thin wall pipe that is attached to rops. The braces is conduit and flattened and just tucked in that bracket that is part of rops.
When the blue tarp rotted I just glued the next one to the PVC. Where the PVC comes thru the conduit I drilled a hole and put a clip/pin thru. I can remove it in 1 minute.
 
I've always wanted to find the top from an AC Roto-baler- pretty zooty looking, and even the right color!
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I built my 2 post canopy and the cab for my 831C and 440. The roof panel on the 830 was formed to my specs by my steel supplier, and the cab frame and roof for the 440 was a ROPS frame for a Cub Cadet side-by-side. There are lots of options out there, just use your imagination.
Loren
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The auctioneer walked past a golf cart canopy and so I asked a man, who was the owners son about it. He said take it. That is the right price in my book.
 
I made a sled for my niece out of one of those. Have 2 roto-balers sitting in the fence row. Before my time but my mom says it makes a better sled than it ever was as a baler.
 
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