h10doc
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Is there a after market grill guard for a tc45d. I got a little to close to the trailer and killed my light assy. So were can I get a guard to stop this from happen again?
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Redneck_Randy
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Any New Holland Dealer should have them. I paid $190 for mine. Seen some on Ebay also.
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$25.00 in steel and a welder can produce some fantastic results. Two hundred dollars is alot of money for three pieces of pipe and a couple flat pieces of steel. There are alot of examples on this forum. Good luck.
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h10doc said:
Not sure what the 45 front looks like.. byut my 1920 had a small bumper flange.. i buzzed a square bumper/guard made from angle iron and perfec metal.. hit it with some blue paint and bolted it to pre-existing holes in the small OEM bumper.. Worked great. Looked so good that when i traded it back to the dealer and offered to remove it as it was non-oem.. owner of the dealership said to leave it on.. it was a good addition.. etc.
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I looked at the New Holland Grille Guard and I figured all I would end up doing was to bend it into my grille with the 55DA. It just didn't look sturdy enough so I built my own. It does take some time, but the cost is minimal. Attached are pics of the one I built before and after paint.
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PineRidge
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Osconda that's a nicely built grill guard. Looks like it hinges forward to lift the hood, how does it lock in the up position?
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Pineridge,
In the picture shown with the guard painted you can see two bolts closest to the grille. I have since replaced these with hitch pins. I pull the pins and hinge it forward to open the hood. When I raise it back up I reinstall the 1/2" pins.
I laid out the guard so it would more or less follow the sweep of the front end. I used some foam board (left over wall insulation) to make the pattern for the uprights (1/2" plate). I figured out how tall I wanted the guard to be then started trimming the foam to follow the sweep of the hood. I tried using cardboard but it was too hard to work with.
It would have been nice to have a plasma cutter to cut out the uprights from the plate steel but I resorted to the grinder to clean up the cuts instead.
The brackets the guard is attached are welded directly to the tractor. I was going to drill holes through the brackets to bolt it on instead but drilling the four holes in 1/2" plate meant I was going to have to buy a big drill bit and I was going the cheap route.
In the picture shown with the guard painted you can see two bolts closest to the grille. I have since replaced these with hitch pins. I pull the pins and hinge it forward to open the hood. When I raise it back up I reinstall the 1/2" pins.
I laid out the guard so it would more or less follow the sweep of the front end. I used some foam board (left over wall insulation) to make the pattern for the uprights (1/2" plate). I figured out how tall I wanted the guard to be then started trimming the foam to follow the sweep of the hood. I tried using cardboard but it was too hard to work with.
It would have been nice to have a plasma cutter to cut out the uprights from the plate steel but I resorted to the grinder to clean up the cuts instead.
The brackets the guard is attached are welded directly to the tractor. I was going to drill holes through the brackets to bolt it on instead but drilling the four holes in 1/2" plate meant I was going to have to buy a big drill bit and I was going the cheap route.
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PineRidge said:
Mike, I figure we paid $50 for the grill-guard and $150 for the snazzy latch mechanism.
Heck! The grease zerk on it was worth at least $25 just by itself. Seriously, even if the materials only cost me $50, I would not go through the trouble of design, layout, cutting, welding and painting a grill guard for the $200 I paid for it. It has saved my high-$$$ hood many times.