If you are going to be pulling with a chain quite a lot, I'd suggest you do what I did. I added some horse panel to my ROP. Horse panel is made up of .25" galvanized rod welded in a 2"X4" pattern. I also added this to my front brush guard to add radiator protection. The reason to put it on the ROP is in case of a chain failure, it should give some protection from the chain slapping you in the back of the head. I cut a piece to fit slightly larger than the ROP, put it on the back of the ROP, then used 6 hose clamps that would wrap around the ROP and horse panel to hold it in place. If you want to keep the folding function, you could probably cut the horse panel in half but I'd think that would weaken it some. I plan on keeping it in place even when I'm using my shredder to protect from flying debris being propelled by the blades. I learned that lesson way back when using an old crop shredder on a ranch I worked on in high school. The Terrain King shredder was broke down so I hooked onto the old crop shredder. While shredding some pasture, all of a sudden I hear "whoosh" and see a piece of 2"X3" angle iron about 2' long land about 50 feet in front of the tractor. A piece had come loose at one end and the blades caught it and sent it flying right over my head. That shredder was never used again by me.