Did all 350s have a Rops

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rolandj
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Did all 350s have a Rops

Post by rolandj » Thu Aug 29, 2019 6:05 pm

So i know this may sound like a weird question but did all of the 350s have a rops? I have a 1970 350 with out one and i was just curious learning a lot about the machine as i go along.

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Re: Did all 350s have a Rops

Post by gregjo1948 » Fri Aug 30, 2019 3:58 am

Not all 350s have rops
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Re: Did all 350s have a Rops

Post by Stan Disbrow » Fri Aug 30, 2019 4:27 am

Hi,

At the start, none had ROPS. Then, they became an option. By the end, they all had ROPS. This doesn't follow the sub letters, and I don't know the years when the changes occurred. I can tell you that my 68 Straight did not have one, and my 78 C does. So, somewhere during that 10 year stretch ROPS showed up.

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Re: Did all 350s have a Rops

Post by Jim B » Fri Aug 30, 2019 5:12 am

I think construction machines started having ROPS required some time in 1970. I remember some ROPS being installed in the shop of the contractor I was working for in 1971. It was done on specific machines with dealer supplied parts, direction and oversight. They may have been models, that fell under the standard, that were shipped before the standard was in effect and some may have been required if the machine was going to a job with federal money in it. Ag equipment standard became effective in October of 1976.

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Re: Did all 350s have a Rops

Post by rolandj » Sun Sep 01, 2019 10:40 am

Awesome thank you for all the responses. I just was curious if mine doesn’t have one . So I thought maybe mine was taking off so I figured I would ask. Anyone know how I add an image ? I was going to post a pic

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