This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO 3471:1994. 1 Scope This International Standard establishes a consistent and reproducible means of evaluating the load carrying characteristics of Roll-Over Protective Structures (ROPS) under static loading, and prescribes performance requirements for a representative speci- men under such loading. It applies to the following seated design operator controlled machines as defined in IS0 6165:
- crawler tractors and loaders;
- graders;
- wheeled loaders and wheeled tractors and their modified versions used for rolling or compacting, dozer-equipped wheeled tractors, skid-steer loaders and backhoe loaders;
- wheeled industrial tractors;
- the tractor portion (prime mover), of tractor scrapers, water wagons, articulated steer dumpers, bottom-dump wagons, side-dump wagons, rear-dump wagons and towed fifth-wheel attachments;
- rollers and compactors;
- rigid frame dumpers.