Drilling and Tapping my ROPS for LED Lights.."OH The Madness"

[GreensvilleJay]

OK, humour me, WHY did you fill the ROPS with spray foam ?

 

[skeets]

To try and quiet it, you are in effect sitting inside a tuning fork

 

[skeets]

Well, that is different in a couple of ways. First, it involves a highly regulated industry. Second, it is insurance through his employer for a death on the job. However even with those issues, there must be more to the story or the family failed to get good legal representation.

EDIT: Of course, the employer insurance may also have very specific exclusions based on violating operating procedures and/or safety requirements/laws. In that case, the decedent undertook the risk.

In any event, I was referring to life insurance that people carry unrelated to their tractor ownership. The point being that negligence does not void your life insurance. Laws vary by state; in Georgia life insurance is incontestable after two years (presuming all premiums have been paid).

OK I got what you are saying. And the rest of the story is this young man was self employed . He was in the process of stripping his own land, for coal to enter into the market for house coal. So I doubt there was any business Ins involved.
All of the nuances of the the Ins investigation were not privy to us. although the lawyers did petition the Government for all of our notes, drawings and finding. It was the brother of this young man that told me about the findings of the Ins company . I do know for a fact his wife had to sell everything , a sad state to say the least

 

[Elliott in GA]

OK I got what you are saying. And the rest of the story is this young man was self employed . He was in the process of stripping his own land, for coal to enter into the market for house coal. So I doubt there was any business Ins involved.
All of the nuances of the the Ins investigation were not privy to us. although the lawyers did petition the Government for all of our notes, drawings and finding. It was the brother of this young man that told me about the findings of the Ins company . I do know for a fact his wife had to sell everything , a sad state to say the least

Well, there is definitely more to the story. If it happened in PA and PA law has not changed, PA has the same 2 year incontestability law as GA.

 

[85Hokie]

OK, humour me, WHY did you fill the ROPS with spray foam ?

What Skeets said - the HST whine travels through the ROPS much like a tuning fork - as you deaden the vibration with foam it cuts out a lot of that whine

 

[skeets]

Well, there is definitely more to the story. If it happened in PA and PA law has not changed, PA has the same 2 year incontestability law as GA.

All I can tell you is what was relayed to me I was enforcement and investigation. Are you a lawyer ?

 

[Elliott in GA]

All I can tell you is what was relayed to me I was enforcement and investigation. Are you a lawyer ?

Yes

 

[GreensvilleJay]

OK, the sound deadening makes sense......probably violates the ROPS Protection Act though

 

[DustyRusty]

Would the ROPS be considered compromised if you were to take it off and inject the foam from the bottom of the ROPS? How about if you used the holes that I have recently heard on the forums that Kubota puts into the ROPS?

 

[Runs With Scissors]

I have to use "ear plugs" when operating the General Lee.

Hell, I use them when the wife vacuums too.

I think, the "years and years" of listening to air tools screaming, jets, and the constant "pops" of the firing line has made me "hyper-sensitive" to loud/whining noises now.

(of course I doubt that all the "The Who" and "AC/DC" cranked up to max did not help things......What a dummy .....)

 

[GreensvilleJay]

yeah 24/7 tinnitus...great...... 'crickets' ALL the time...never a quiet moment.
asked doc in '08 wil I hear them if I go deaf ?
still waiting her answer BUT old trucker friend told me YES..the ONLY thing you'll hear when yo go deaf IS 'crickets'....
already know what I'm doing if/when that happens to me.

 

[85Hokie]

(of course I doubt that all the "The Who" and "AC/DC" cranked up to max did not help things....

And in my 60's I STILL listen to , AC-DC - to ZZ Top .........cranked to max.

just ask my wife ............ cant hear ..........."what you say dear?" LOL