Yesterday I got my new right rear window glass from a nearby (50 miles) Branson dealer. Really nice, helpful, guys. Cost was $252 and freight was $42, 9 day ship time; not bad. Over a hundred bucks cheaper than I estimated. Done deal.
I made and tested a shield, sheet steel-suction cup mounted, for the lower part of the door (door handle down), but have yet to install the shield on the mower. I used some scrap parts I had lying around. For the door I used the steel front of an old dishwasher I cut to fit and painted up to match the tractor real nice and for the mower I modified an old railing I made for a Chevy bed trailer, years ago, and a piece of old corrugated tin. I decided that the acrylic needed to be シ" so that when a rock hit it it wouldn't bend into the glass and break it anyway and for that it needed to come in a 4x8 sheet.....around 250 bucks....no deal. Time to "Improvise, Adapt, Overcome.".....Clint Eastwood, USMC (motto?), Granada Island invasion movie.
I figured it'd be better to put the main shield on the implement so that it's a permanent part of it and no additional work when hooking it up.
Will post pics when I get the mower shield installed.....will be a few days.
I'm posting this because I know full well there are a lots of 3 pt. drum and disc mowers out there in use and anybody using one has the possibility of crashing your glass if cabbed or crashing YOU without. I guarantee you that the 3" rock that crashed my glass would have hit me right in the right temple and knocked me out or worse! As it was small pieces of safety glass hit me in the cheek and the ear muffs.