Grahams
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ROPS didn’t stand up as well as I would have thought it should. Glad I wasn’t involved.
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Brendan
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To be fair it's roll over, rather than pierced
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Brendan
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Just watched the video, but not seen how it got to that stage of the track slipping. They only got the bucket in that garden to try and drag the machine over. Was it a case of being loaded and moved, or while transported?More to it than that, they are trying to work off the back of a beaver tale 8 wheeler parked on sidewalk (big duck) to dig a front garden up.
Look where grass and lamppost are it’s never been driven up the ramps. No chains though and city pads!
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Either way wouldn't have caught me near those cones like them two guys
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V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
looks pretty rolled over to me
Furniss
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His hat stayed on though
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
Trouble with situations like that is the ROPS is designed to work in combination with the rest of the machine. I.e the boom taking some significant impact force.
Direct strike it doesn't stand a chance, hence why loaders and dozers tend to have big external ROPS or very noticeable thick rear cab pillars.
Direct strike it doesn't stand a chance, hence why loaders and dozers tend to have big external ROPS or very noticeable thick rear cab pillars.
Bri963
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It got knocked out of shape but it did it’s job, operator survived. Just for interest, I put a new cab on a 320 a few years back, it surprised me how heavy it was, just under the tonne. There’s a fair bit of meat hidden under the trim.
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Maxus
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I bet he has a new appreciation for contortionists!
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DaveDCB
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No seatbelt and racing around like a prat is my guess!!
GazCro
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Should have had bucket crowded back more by the looks of it
Shovelhands
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Caught the ground as he’s come down off the stockpile I suppose, amazing to do that kind of damage to the machine. You wouldn’t have guessed it would let go where it did! Must have been really motoring!
Gecko
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Looks like the punishment fitted the crime
I'd give the op a shovel and wheel borrow and see if that teaches him the value of the machine
I'd give the op a shovel and wheel borrow and see if that teaches him the value of the machine
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Brendan
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Know a lad that broke the windscreen of a JCB backhoe with his head. Was doing snow clearance in a car park, at speed and hit either a raised man hole or kerb
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DaveDCB
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I hit a huge raised concrete aco 3rd gear full pelt on a 3cx… took the wind out of me that’s for sure!! Seatbelt was always worn when snow clearing after that!! Back wheels must of lifted of the ground!Know a lad that broke the windscreen of a JCB backhoe with his head. Was doing snow clearance in a car park, at speed and hit either a raised man hole or kerb
Canal Navvy
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Snow ploughing is full of fun, always loved it, 
, the most exciting was hitting an island on the A36/A303 junction at top whack on a Muir Hill 121 with a front mounted angle plough 
, the most exciting was hitting an island on the A36/A303 junction at top whack on a Muir Hill 121 with a front mounted angle plough
Gecko
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The plows I've looked at in germany (only place I've taken a lot of notice) all run a plastic strip in place of a metal edge.
A lot more forgiving if you clip something solid.
A lot more forgiving if you clip something solid.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
purpose built tend to here too ..... not a lot of call for it on a Jake though
Lancs Lad
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Saw a car park in hull after that big storm few years back ..they got a neighbours big loading shovel in....let's just say there wasnt many kerbs leftpurpose built tend to here too ..... not a lot of call for it on a Jake though
craig
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The ploughs we used had spring loaded sections on the bottom, about 2 foot long, with thick rubber bolted to them.
Giles
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Lads rd here grab an old rubber track in 4:1 use that to scrape right down to tarmac
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