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Philbert, we lost a young neighbour when he flipped his tractor carrying a round bale of hay. They had a Massey with a folding rollbar, barn was a little too low for the bar so they usually had it folded down. He was feeding round bales and drove into the bale a little too close to one side, turned into the barn on a slight hill and it flipped over and the bar pinned him. Took hours to die trapped under the bar. His wife found him later that night when he didn't come to the home farm for supper. Had another neighbour that was skidding a log with an old 8n hooked up high, he was driving along the edge of a river back and the butt end of the log manages to hook into a half buried rock. Was enough to lift the front wheels of the tractor, as it came back down he scrambled to hold onto the steering wheel, pulled too hard ton one side and went over the bank. Tractor rolled and pinned him under water, he drowned. Son was behind him and seen whole thing, it was over before he got off his tractor.

 On the other hand I have Steiners and most come with roll bars on them. I take them off right away as we very seldom use them on hills. They are more dangerous when driving under low hanging branches. My wife stood one on end one day when she caught a branch while lawn spraying. Luckily the branch broke before she went right over.

 Gotta use common sense no matter what we do.