No Grill Guard ---No Headlight

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Here's a pic of my new homemade grille guard. )</font>

Hey! That's a great lookin' grill guard, Oscar. It looks like it's pinned in the back so it will pivot forward to allow the hood to open. Am I correct? I think I'd go ahead and add expanded metal to the guard over the lights too. I plan to do that to my factory grill guard this spring before I do much more limb handling. Actually, my rock bucket grapple is shaped so that my front end is mostly protected, but I still get that random limb that just happens to penetrate and poke things it shouldn't. I think expanded metal like in the middle of your grill guard would prevent that danger.

 

[Osconda]

Thanks for the compliment JINMAN. I thought about adding the expanded metal to the sides also but wasn't sure how that would affect the light dispersion. I might add a few pins to each side so I can add some removeable expanded metal sections. I can then remove them when working at night, which doesn't happen very often.

Yes, your right about the pins to tilt it forward. I went ahead and welded those brackets to the frame cause I didn't want to drill all the 1/2" holes in it. The center uprights are 1/2 plate and the square tubing in the center has 1/4" walls. Not sure what the smaller tubing is... maybe 1/8". Anyway the darn thing weighs about 60lbs.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I thought they were plastic also but found out they are glass. I had a 3 inch tree branch in my grapple snag while backing, and it kicked back into the side of the headlight. unfortunately these are not a stock item and had to be ordered from New Holland. )</font>

Not cheap either I bet.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( NH brags about the efficiency of the new lights. I have to wonder how the grille guards and loader arms interfere with that.

It almost seems the old round flood light style lights might be a better solution after all. -- Cheaper by far, easy to take off when not needed to protect them from damage, easily replaced when you break them. )</font>

My old bolens tractors have round sealed beam headlights.
Light up in front of you more like car headlights do.
Much better than the headlights on my BX23 and the bolens has a gen. wirh enough gusto to keep up with the battery headlights and starter instead of a week knead puny dynamo like the BX has.

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[dqdave1]

Liked your pic of front plow. Is it a myers power angle blade. It looked like all you did was fab the mounting hookup. Did you use the truck mount and adapt it? I assume you used your joystick from FEL to angle and lower/raise blade. Looks greeat and a good solution to a front blade.