Ice Chunk & Hood Don't Mi

[EdwardB]

After 180 inches of snow in NW MI, there's not much room to pile the snow. An errant ice chunk did in my hood. Got the new one and am working to put it together and install on the JD 4410. A couple of tips. First, the hood was outrageously priced. The replacement foam, gasket and decals were worse. I opted to carefully peel them off and reuse. It can be done! Go slow and the adhesive stays with the foam. On the stencil, use double sided carpet tape.

 

[Red Horse]

After 180 inches of snow in NW MI, there's not much room to pile the snow. An errant ice chunk did in my hood. Got the new one and am working to put it together and install on the JD 4410. A couple of tips. First, the hood was outrageously priced. The replacement foam, gasket and decals were worse. I opted to carefully peel them off and reuse. It can be done! Go slow and the adhesive stays with the foam. On the stencil, use double sided carpet tape.

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Well be thankful you didn't get a piece of plastic in your face. Nice fireplace

 

[npalen]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/244239-hood-guard-use-front-end.html
An old thread on hood guards for FEL's. There seemed to be two camps with one saying hood guards were a good idea and the other saying that a good operator doesn't need a hood guard. I beg to differ with the latter.

 

[pmsmechanic]

eBay has decent prices on decals and the foam.

 

[Looking4new]

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/244239-hood-guard-use-front-end.html
An old thread on hood guards for FEL's. There seemed to be two camps with one saying hood guards were a good idea and the other saying that a good operator doesn't need a hood guard. I beg to differ with the latter.

I extended the top of my bucket by a foot, just so I would avoid that problem. Right after I got the Kioti I had a full bucket of pit run gravel and a large rock (3" dia) fell off the top and onto my hood. The very next week I had the top extended.

 

[Egon]

A quard added to the top of the bucket may be advisable.

Metal frame with expanded metal for the fill . Don't know how the pictures will be oriented.

Not painted and looks ugly but does work.

 

[Looking4new]

I just carried on with the same angle as the top of the bucket....Welded the 1/4" checker plate and then welded 2 grab hooks to either side of the top and a big slip hook in the middle. Radiused the corners, too.

 

[grsthegreat]

my old JD870 went thru 2 different plastic pieces out front of the metal hood. as i recall those pieces were very expensive...and were not even painted. i had to paint them myself. no decals either. Really chapped my hide.

 

[s219]

I busted a plastic front hood piece on my small Deere, and it was ridiculously expensive to replace. I would've left it alone if it wasn't so jagged and cracked.

Since then, I am not a fan of plastic body parts on tractors, and that was one reason I shied away from Deere when buying a bigger tractor. Maybe the plastics have gotten better in recent years, but they feel/look the same as on my old Deere from 2002. Oh well, at least it hasn't faded that I can tell!

 

[Zebrafive]

I am in south west MI and this is the first year I can remember running out of room to put snow. Sorry about your hood.