Originally Posted by Blacktailer
... He survived but had quite a ride. I counted seven times that he went over. Luckily I hired him to cut some trails on my ranch instead of trying to do it myself with my ancient Cat which doesn't have a roll cage. We rolled it onto it's tracks and it started right up.

When we bought our farm 27 years ago, the old attorney doing the title work asked me two questions: "Did you buy a tractor with the farm?" ... "Yes" ... "Does it have a roll bar?" ... "Yes" ... "O.K. we will proceed..."

He had handled three estates the previous year in our little county due to tractor flip overs / roll overs without ROPS structures. Refused to do work for anyone buying a tractor or equipment without a ROPS structure...