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Anti roll bars on Vintage tractors

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  • #2
    Sharpshooter82
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    Proper order I think


  • #3
    iverjohnston
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    The Grandfather was killed when the tractor he was on rolled.A rollbar would have saved him. Why would you not fit one? Was there not a girl killed last summer with a Nuffield in Co. Meath? Stupid that vintage tractors can get away without one.


  • #4
    JohnBoy
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    damm right.

    it's not like they're either particularly expensive or somehow ruinous to the look of an old tractor


  • #5
    Sharpshooter82
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    iverjohnston wrote: »
    The Grandfather was killed when the tractor he was on rolled.A rollbar would have saved him. Why would you not fit one? Was there not a girl killed last summer with a Nuffield in Co. Meath? Stupid that vintage tractors can get away without one.

    There was two killed last year on road runs


  • #6
    gobnaitolunacy
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    JohnBoy wrote: »
    damm right.

    it's not like they're either particularly expensive or somehow ruinous to the look of an old tractor

    Whilst I agree about the safety aspect, it's just my luck that I got lumbered with a pre-roll bar tractor that a bar physically can't fit, the rear end castings and housings are absolutely huge, can't clamp anything around them. Even went searching online could I see a SINGLE example sporting one, nothing. Oh well, guess she'll have to be a static ornament to throw sugar at after paying about 2k doing her up.


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  • #7
    ace86
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Whilst I agree about the safety aspect, it's just my luck that I got lumbered with a pre-roll bar tractor that a bar physically can't fit, the rear end castings and housings are absolutely huge, can't clamp anything around them. Even went searching online could I see a SINGLE example sporting one, nothing. Oh well, guess she'll have to be a static ornament to throw sugar at after paying about 2k doing her up.

    Well in your case i would hope common sense would prevail that u have looked for a roll bar but cannot get any to fit the tractor. I have no problem with a tractor thats used for vintage runs or shows not to have a roll bar as this is the way alot them came from the factory 1st day. If your tractor is vintage and is used for farm work then yes it should have a roll bar regardless, and I know alot of tractors probably double up as both in some cases.


  • #8
    gobnaitolunacy
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    ace86 wrote: »
    Well in your case i would hope common sense would prevail that u have looked for a roll bar but cannot get any to fit the tractor. I have no problem with a tractor thats used for vintage runs or shows not to have a roll bar as this is the way alot them came from the factory 1st day. If your tractor is vintage and is used for farm work then yes it should have a roll bar regardless, and I know alot of tractors probably double up as both in some cases.

    Hopefully it won't be a usual govt./H&S one-size-fits-all hatchet job.
    Plainly, machines from the 1910's/20's or 30's would look quite ridiculous with roll bars or something with steel wheels/spade lugs that would never be in a road run.


  • #9
    ace86
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Hopefully it won't be a usual govt./H&S one-size-fits-all hatchet job.
    Plainly, machines from the 1910's/20's or 30's would look quite ridiculous with roll bars or something with steel wheels/spade lugs that would never be in a road run.

    Ya but knowing H&S they will want an approved manufacturers roll bar with paperwork and no homemade job just like the way things are gone with homemade trailers and things.


  • #10
    nashmach
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    Just another case of laws being in force for a number of years and now they are actually being implemented.

    I wonder are there anyone actually making rollbars still for tractors???


  • #11
    gobnaitolunacy
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    nashmach wrote: »
    Just another case of laws being in force for a number of years and now they are actually being implemented.

    I wonder are there anyone actually making rollbars still for tractors???

    In the uk for sure, don't know about here.

    http://old20tractorparts.com/497-rollbars


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  • #12
    iverjohnston
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    Gobnait, just out of curiosity , what model is your tractor?


  • #13
    gobnaitolunacy
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    iverjohnston wrote: »
    Gobnait, just out of curiosity , what model is your tractor?

    Not mine, but identical to this...not much room as you can see.


    http://www.classicvintagetractors.co.uk/vintage-tractor-images/david-brown-tractors/large/david-brown-super-cropmaster-14.jpg


  • #14
    iverjohnston
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    David Brown vineyard model?
    It would, I suppose, spoil the look of the tractor if you were to fit a roll bar to the front of the steering wheel position, like you see on modern Italian vineyard models?

    http://www.agriaffaires.co.uk/used/vineyard-tractors/4079078/renault-r60-v.html


  • #15
    gobnaitolunacy
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    No, a 'regular' DB Cropmaster.

    Oh dear, that would look like s*@£; stuck to a blanket on it.
    There's quite a lot of cast iron and heavy steel on it, comparatively wide and low-set compared to others, it wouldn't roll over as readily.


  • #16
    iverjohnston
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    The Grandfather wasn't crushed when it rolled on him, the air filter "mushroom" of the dexta got him on the throat and he suffocated. Sometimes looks have to take a second place. After it happened, everything here got a roll bar or a safety cab. Hard lesson to learn.

    Course, if you could come up with a good design, lots of DB owners would be interested.


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