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You want to be careful about your load getting away from you. Fortunately, this guy only took home some scrapes and bruises after the fire department came and got the log out of his lap.
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I don't think they had this in mind when they developed ROPS, but seems it did its job - Roll Over Protection System....protection from logs rolling over the tractor onto you!

I notice the step is also banged up. From a different incident maybe??

Good to hear this one has a happy ending. Would've been bad if the operator ended up like the steering wheel. That's a real eye-opener for sure! Thanks for posting.
 
Oh my. Lucky to be alive.
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I made a brush guard for my front bucket. It bolts to bucket.

Planning to buy pallet forks. I'll add a brush guard to it.

I get accused of making death MACHINES . I always keep safety in mind. Just some on YT over react making Fake news.
George
 
I knew a rancher south of me who was killed the same way. Hauling a round bale to feed on forks and had it lifted high so he could see. Hit a ditch and it came on on top of him.

Always keep that load as close to the ground as you can.
 
I wonder if the design team had that situation in mind? A lot of roll bars are positioned farther behind the driver.

Watching a log that size roll down the loader arms would not be a good sight. Holding the clutch down until help arrived could have been a challenge too.
 
George, If your bucket has the quick tach option buy a separate set of pallet forks and don't look back. Likely you will use the pallet forks more than you use the bucket. The increase in visibility from the driver's seat so you can better see what is happening in the pallet forks area is worth the purchase price.
 
The FOPs system was designed for situations like that, as seen on forklifts and skid
steers. 2 post ROPs. was designed to control rollovers, sideways and rearward. A 4
post ROPs/FOPs would have protected him.
 
Taught to never raise the load so you could see under it when moving with a narrow front tractor. We had a "bridge style" farmhand on a narrow front Farmall H for years & never tipped it. Stacked - not bailed - 180 acres of alfalfa (usually 3 times) every year that I was in HS. jal-SD
 
Nope..he needed the next size up in the Pampers department. I don't ever want to get that close! That is just downright terrifying. Just that short piece of log has got to be a couple hundred?
 
One of my hay customers did something similar with a round bale. He picked it up with loader bucket mounted forks, raised it high enough that it rolled out of the bucket right down the loader arms and pinned him in the seat. Had to be transported by helicopter to the hospital with serious neck and back injuries.
 
More than 20 years or so, My brother and I were moving an old swing set with a dexta and freeman loader, praise the good Lord we were both off the tractor. He couldn't help but tweak the lift of the loader as it was almost at it's limit in terms of height. Of course it wasn't chained to the bucket. It was a nice after supper visit with wives and young children around, our Dad had past a few years earlier. My Dad was a father of nine, I'm the 6th my brother the youngest. The swing set came as a set up to use as a hoist so was built for it. It came down the arms of the loader bending the steering wheel up. It would have killed him against the wheel of the tractor had he not gotten away, all that in front of his children. Only God is good, lesson taken in, allelulia.
 
I have been telling him that from the day he bought the tractor but he is dead set on using adapters to the bucket. Bought the quick attach then won,t use it , BUT last time we talked about it I do think he may be coming around.
 
Should have never lifted it that high without the log in grapple and even then when you get something like that high enough it has a chance of coming back on you you?d better be watching what?s going on at least with a grapple he could have rolled the bucket down a little so it could have rolled away instead if towards him .
 
JM
I have my eye on a set of 48 inch forks that I'll use to lift objects to loft in pole barn. I'll add a brush guard to it. Or I could spend an additional $200 and get forks with brush guard. Waiting on floor to cure and getting ceiling sprayed. Yesterday, my roof temps were 57 while outside temps were around 20. It was at noon and sunny. So it might be possible to get ceiling sprayed on a cold sunny. The wheels of progress turn very slowly.
geo.
 
Had a friend get killed when he was using forks to lift hay bales with his Kubota,bale rolled off the back of the forks and landed on him.That's why I use a hay spear to handle round bales.
 
Vet had a 4000 ford with loader, was trying to load a round bale. Bale rolled down loader arms over him off the back of tractor. He didn't make it.
 
I had missed the hooks you are So Correct, I was looking at the carriage bolts and the "guard" he made,, those hooks are a Bad accident waiting to happen,, so much for his safety rant
 
I have a friend who rolled one of his super heavy round bales back onto the tractor seat. He somehow became distracted by something and didn't realize the loader was moving up. He felt the tractor shake and saw the bale moving toward him and managed to roll off of the left side in front of the rear wheel. It mashed the steering wheel down to the dash, the fenders down to the tires, broke the hydraulic valves off of the mount and ruined the seat. He was a wiry young man then and quick as a cat or he would have been seriously hurt or killed.
 
way back in college, i was helping a guy put in a new corral at his "ranch." I say "ranch" b/c he was an engineer by trade and decided that he wanted to be a cowboy. The corral posts were big 'ol juniper posts that he wanted to replace with rail ties and powder coated panels. He went out and bought himself a brand new little john deere with a loader.

I think he had hired too many of us kids to help, b/c i ended up standing around for a bit, watching him try to pull these massive posts out of the ground with the loader, occasionally lifting the front wheels off of the ground. I went to my truck and grabbed a hi-lo jack and tow chain and started at the other end pulling posts by myself. I think i had 6 or 7 pulled before he even noticed me. He got a little peeved that i was out-working a tractor, but he kept at it. I ended up pulling well over twice as many posts as he did.

Then came the fun part. he put pallet forks on the loader and wanted us to stack these posts on it to haul to a burn pile. Well, they put way too much on there, i told them as much. he then drives off and starts to go up and over a berm that was diverting water away from the corral. When the tractor peaked over the top, the back end came up and dumped most of the load off the loader, and the back end came crashing back down. He was lucky that he didn't end up with any logs in his lap.

He was definitely a book smart guy, but had to learn to respect his machinery the hard way. I had to chuckle a bit at the thought of an engineer being oblivious to weight and leverage.
 
I wish I still had the pic around of what happened when a guy tried picking up a 5000 lb drop ball with a front shovel.

S
I still don't know how he got it picked up, but it got out of the bucket and thankfully fell back on the right side of the machine instead of on the cab.

Still it crushed the fan cooling the hydraulic system, the cooler itself, and put a massive swag in the hydraulic tank....among other things.

That was about 12-15 years ago, and the machine is still sitting in the same spot, because it can't be run, and it's too big to move in one piece.
 
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