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Melvin Ware

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Just wondering if anyone makes a "brush guard" to fit a Farmall M tractor? Some of the brush & briars around here grow 7-8 ft. high during a summer. Want something to lessen the chances of poking a hole in the radiator when bush-hoggin'. Tried covering the grille with screen wire but it soon gets ripped off. May have to fabricate something better. Any suggestions appreciated.
 

Might be better to use that bush-hog a little more often, and keep the brush and briars from getting that tall in the first place, OR, use some 2,4d with brush killer early in the spring and alleviate the problem altogether.
 
I agree with Rusty.
A corn picker snout with a heat houser to keep things off the rear sheet metal would work, but it would be pretty ugly. Jim
 
see if you can find some 3/16 thick expanded steel. kind of looks like a wire mesh. then fab up some brackets to bolt it to the bolster on the sides and the mount in the center of the grille that attaches to the bolster, not the sheet metal. i have a piece of it as a cover on my 240 u that i bush hog with.
 
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This grill guard won't get ripped off. I believe that IH made it. It came off an I-9. I put it on this tractor for front ballast. It is made from 1/2" plate. It's similar to a TD-9 grill guard. Perhaps you could find something in a construction salvage yard.

My brush hog tractor is a SMTA. I made a V shaped frame out of heavy wall 3x3" square tubing. The apex is about one foot in front of the bolster. Both sides sweep back to the outside of the rear tires. It will clear 3-4" trees. Anything bigger will push the tractor sideways. Those are too big for the hog anyway.
 
Melvin, I guess some dont realize not everyone cant get out there 10 times a year to keep something cut. I like Wardners set up, but something like that may be hard to come by around here with the lack of salvage yards, but I have seen a couple around that used a piece kinda like that with the brackets going back to the holes in the frame rails for support. I think the peice came off of a small dozer or something and was welded to the brackets. Ive also seen one that was on a smaller scale with a piece of steel, dont know how thick, with a bunch of holes drilled in it, and small 1 X 1 angle iron welded to it and then bolted to the grill bolts.
 
(quoted from post at 14:45:35 10/27/10) Melvin, I guess some dont realize not everyone cant get out there 10 times a year to keep something cut. I like Wardners set up, but something like that may be hard to come by around here with the lack of salvage yards, but I have seen a couple around that used a piece kinda like that with the brackets going back to the holes in the frame rails for support. I think the peice came off of a small dozer or something and was welded to the brackets. Ive also seen one that was on a smaller scale with a piece of steel, dont know how thick, with a bunch of holes drilled in it, and small 1 X 1 angle iron welded to it and then bolted to the grill bolts.
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10 times a year is excessive. 2 or 3 times is sufficient, and if you keep that brush and briars trimmed back, eventually it will die out and the grass will take over. An ounce of maintenance is worth a pound of cure.
 
Hey guys - thanks for all the great suggestions! Since there's apparently nothing ready made for this purpose, I'll see what I can put together. May prowl around the local scrap metal yard to see what's available there. Thanks again for sharing your ideas.

By the way, I probably need to get one of the rectangular grill inserts that goes in the front grill of the Farmall M. Was just wondering how this attaches to the main grill?
 
(quoted from post at 07:35:33 10/28/10) Hey guys - thanks for all the great suggestions! Since there's apparently nothing ready made for this purpose, I'll see what I can put together. May prowl around the local scrap metal yard to see what's available there. Thanks again for sharing your ideas.

By the way, I probably need to get one of the rectangular grill inserts that goes in the front grill of the Farmall M. Was just wondering how this attaches to the main grill?
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The grill insert has a "wing" on the backside. You loosen a screw, position the wing so the insert can be put in place, then put that wing into a vertical position and tighten up the screw from the front. Many of these were lost because either the screw was not made tight enough, or it just palin loosened on its' own accord and the insert just fell out where it was then ran over by the tractor and destroyed.

If being correct is not an issue, just find a piece of window screen and wire it on over that opening.
 
the insert has a tab and a machine screw in it. you loosen the screw, turn the tab a little, then insert it in the grill and tighten the screw. oem and steiners both sell the grille insert. if someone has cut the bottom off the grille, steiners has a weld in patch panel to repair that. there was a bracket that clamped around the steering shaft in the bolster for the swinging cultivator, when attached, the grille didnt come off easy, so lot of guys cut the bottom of the hood.
 
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