Dear Mr Fendt

[Boysground]

Please laminate your windscreens

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

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[Boysground]

Just to add, I have a new JD on order and laminated windscreen is only an option. Have spent the money on that as we run a front mower and have lots of flints

So Mr JD can also make them standard. Really it should be a requirement on all tractors

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[Muddyroads]

Surely they should be standard from a safety perspective?

 

[Wombat]

 

[Barleymow]

23 minutes in for those cant wait

 

[Boysground]

Mike was still complaining about the windscreen in his gen 6 recently. I agree with him.

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[matthew]

Time was when you could actually speak to Mr. Xavier Fendt, and voice any concerns about his tractors. And he listened.

 

[ricky_rascal]

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.

 

[Chuckie]

Their doors are also crap , they shatter at nothing

 

[Martyn]

Please laminate your windscreens

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

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Did you hit a pot hole or anything?

 

[Boysground]

Did you hit a pot hole or anything?

Van was coming the other way, can only think it flicked a stone up.

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[Martyn]

Van was coming the other way, can only think it flicked a stone up.

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Ouch

 

[GeorgeK]

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]

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!

 

[roscoe erf]

Strange really my 1972 Hymac has laminated glass would have thought it would be standard by now

 

[Mouser]

As said if it stays in place it's very dangerous as no visibility. Rather have a shower of glass than drift into oncoming traffic while slowing down.

 

[Sausage]

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.

 

[davidroberts30]

So why are car windows laminated then

 

[Sausage]

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.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Surely they should be standard from a safety perspective?

Front and rear should be laminated I agree. I met a guy who had lost his eye from a tiny fragment of glass flying into it from an incident similar to that described in the OP.