Brush Hog Guard - Chains Or Belting - What To Use

[Soundguy]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Chains are the ONLY way to go, in my opinion. It takes a bit longer to build, but they will outlast 10 sets of rubber guards. BTDT)</font>

I think that's a stretch. I've seen lotsa life out of rubber guards. lots of our heavy equipment at work use large rubber matt/panels as rock guards. Including our big soil stabilizers and asphalt millers / reclaimers. The rubber is holding up fine on units from the 80's Besides.. the 'full cover' from the matting helps keep dust and small particles down. I've been pelted in the back by small 'BB' sized debri that made it effortlessly thru a 5/16 chain guard on a friends mower.

Here are 2 views of a guard i made for my KK hog. used angle iron and truck mudflaps.. and some assorted small nut/bolt/washer hardware. Works perfectly, even on an open back, low to the ground tractor like an old ford where your backside is at a good low angle inline with the front of the mower. The mudflap keeps the 'thrown' dust way down.. so you stay much cleaner. Chain guards don't work to keep dust down much at all.

By the way.. for the original poster... this guard cost less than 20 $ and took about an hour to assemble. .. No welding. Just drilling and bolting together. Attaches righ to the hardware alread on your KK hog.. slight modification will let it fit a howse mower..

Soundguy

 

[RalphVa]

The guard in the chute of my TroyBilt shredder are strips of reinforced rubber (e.g. rubber like that on a tire sideway).

Like shown on the last post, I think they have to be in strips. Solid rubber guards would get ripped apart, similar to the SOLID STEEL one on my Gravely bush hog. It got bent and out of shape in backing against stuff. Eventually the blades rubbed against it and dug holes in it. It just replaced it last fall. I've chains on the front of my LX4, put on by the dealer.

Ralph

 

[have_blue]

Good heavy chorded rubber shouldn't get shredded by anything normal. If you're mowing an overgrown field of angle iron, you might nick it a little. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif