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Now take that same excavator and put it on a rail car moving at 45-50mph and push it over the same slope. Not going to have the same results.

Thats static. Put 26k in motion and that number goes way up. Put it in an instant 25-30g load and that number goes way up. I can slowly put my full weight (180lbs) on a pop can and it will support me. Stomp on it and...........well you know how it ends.

Be sure to let them know about the flex built into the frame of the deuce. Im betting that when its all said and done, in order to protect the cab and still alow the cab to flex the exo cage will be so far away from the cab and will have so much tubing that it will severly take away from the...

That would need alot of cross bracing and some sort of support at the a pillar (windshield). In a highway roll that point would probably cave in.

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For a cage (interior) to offer proper protection it needs to be tied into the frame. But the deuce (and 5tons) frames are designed to flex and twist making tying the cage into the frame nearly impossible. In a lightweight race car you want a rigid chassis, even in the rockcwaler world the rigid...

We gone far enough from the OP's intentions. Time to get back to talking about ROPS or lock/delete this thread.

A well built headache rack would help in a slow sideways flop, such as the type Gimp is know for. If there is any forward (or backwards if the truck got spun before rolling) motion a headache rack is not going to do much but just fold over. What ever you would build would need to have some sort...