Build My Own ROPS

[Tall T]

Hi,

Does anyone have or know of any plans whereby I can build my own roll over protection frame? Mostly I need to know how it is fixed to the tractor. I'm also wondering if they are ever U-bolted to axles.

I like the folding style, for parking where overhead clearance is limited.

I've also been thinking, that now that I have 4 garbage pails of nasty calcium chloride from my tires sitting here, calcium water that I don't intend to put back in when my tubes are fixed . . . I'll go overkill on the steel tubing or C channel of a roll bar to add a bunch of weight back to the rear axle.

Thanks,
Terry

 

[kylemorley]

Plans can be found at
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aginjury/crops/

find these plans unecessarily complicated, with extra braces and
lots of bolts. Commercial ones are usually just a hoop with a bolt-on mounting plate on each end. I've always assumed the reason
the niosh one uses so many bolts is to eliminate the possible
variation between farmer welds, but the niosh one uses welds
too, so it is hard to say why they made it so complicated.

Everytime DIY ROPs come up someone starts screaming about
liability. If this bothers you, the niosh plans may offer a bit of
CYA protection. Otherwise it would be easier to duplicate one of the
commerical ones, using the niosh plans to figure out what size
and thickness of tubing to use (and buying the best welding you can afford).. I think you are unlikely to find DIYplans for a folding bar, just too complicated to do right.

 

[Tall T]

Thanks for all the good advice.
I can do all my own welding, gas and electric and have a pretty good steel collection.

Just found a simplified folding ROPS in a video.

 

[Tim Daley(MI)]

As mentioned above in your post about the tractor jack, go to the 'other' n tractor site for instructions in the HOW-TO's forum on building your own ROPS for an N...

Tim 'PloughNman' Daley(MI)

 

[Tall T]

I searched the How-To's up and down -- in Miscellaneous and General -- and couldn't find ROPS plans. Maybe they thought it wise to remove them due to liability issues. (?)

All I really need are some tractor mounting ideas for the head frame posts. The rest is pretty much improvisational fun.
for one thing, mine would perhaps have to be a little higher and flare out width wise cause I am 6'7".

Thanks,
Terry

 

[kylemorley]

[Here's some installation instuctions that might be of use, if I can just get it to upload.

Ferguson group here has had some good ROPs threads. Here's one with some good detail shots but no dimensions.
http://forums.yesterdaystractors.com/ttforum/viewtopic.php?t=509508&sid=bca3c4eb979bb627f6c94d0c5e51bb35

 

[Tall T]

Right on Kyle, thanks!

I can see how the bases of the head frame rest on the axle and are held there via existing bolts or longer versions of the same.

Terry

 

[Tim Daley(MI)]

Check back this week on the 'other site' as we will be uploading a ton of info on ROPS for Ford Tractors...
Tim 'PloughNman' Daley(MI)