Rough cut mower gaurd

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jimmychew

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Cub Cadet 1200
So last year I inherited this Land Pride rough cut mower and promptly beat the **** out of it hammering it into every hidden stump and bolder that I could find hidden in the fields that hadn't been mowed in about 5 years. The peanut butter steel guard and the housing were all beat in and I regularly had to pick the mower up with the loader and beat it back into shape with a sledge hammer.

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Yesterday I picked up the 8" x 96" x 1/4" piece of steel that I had cut and rolled for a new guard. Todays project was to install.

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The curve was a bit off...

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...so I put it in the redneck press brake.

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That's better.

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I also added chains at all four corners to make it easier to pick this thing up with the loader.

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Trimmed the corners off. You can also see the skids that I added to the front to keep the front of the mower from diving into the ground when the tractor falls into a hole.

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Survived the first outing! :thumbsup:

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Curious, why didn’t you go with a rear chain guard instead? Seems like the rear bands will always get bent up backing into stumps and whatnot. Of course, yours is now a lot beefier than the original band, but they still keep material from flowing out from under the mower.
 
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Thanks for the comment there Tractorable. Would chain guards prevent the mower from riding up and onto stumps and stones while mowing backwards?
 
 

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