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Dear Mr Fendt

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Please laminate your windscreens

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Not fun at speed on a busy road. Pleased I wear glasses as I was covered in glass.

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ricky_rascal

Member
Location
N. Yorks
Had that happen on a MF. Going down the road and two cars coming other way. The second car flicked a stone of about an inch across straight up into centre of windscreen. Hit like a bullet and smashed screen as in your photo except with the exception of a small hole, remained in place reducing visibility terribly. Strange thing was my attention was towards the cars and saw the stone coming at what seemed quite a slow pace. It seemed to come from the direction of the second cars rear wheel.
 

GeorgeK

Member
Location
Leicestershire
You can get adhesive safety film to stick on toughened glass, kind of a poor man's lamination but I think it works well in keeping the glass in place. You wouldn't be able to see through it very well after the glass had shattered though.
 

ricky_rascal

Member
Location
N. Yorks
You can get adhesive safety film to stick on toughened glass, kind of a poor man's lamination but I think it works well in keeping the glass in place. You wouldn't be able to see through it very well after the glass had shattered though.

On the Fergie it all stayed in place with the exception of the small hole made by piece of limestone that made a hole and landed on cab floor. Wasn’t far from yard so squinted through hole to get off the road to push the shattered glass out. Hard and sharp safe as could see begger all. Noise it made when it hit windscreen fair near made me wet myself - or worse!
 

Sausage

Member
I would think the visibility reason is why they are not laminated. If you were the designer and had to choose between someone and cab interior getting cold/wet/dusty, etc. or risking a full speed crash into another vehicle/person /off a cliff/whatever, due to reduced visibility, what would you choose.
 

Sausage

Member
I’m no expert on this and was only making a suggestion. However whenever I have seen a broken car window they have been cracked and you can still see through them, but with tractor windows they shatter completely on impact. They must be different types of glass. I will freely admit I have not seen large numbers of broken car windows to have lots of confidence in this statement.

Possibly tractor windows are stronger and toughened to withstand the impacts, etc., which leads to them shattering on failure. But car glass is thinner and not toughened and just cracks.
 

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