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Ethan and Randies horses

heres the custom brush guard/bumper I made yesterday for my a-90 special.what do you think?

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bmsgaffer

I like it! I have been trying to come up with a design for one, so its good to see someone elses ideas!

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DennisThornton

Need a close up of how you mounted it.  Or maybe with it off...

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DennisThornton

Some nice sharp bends!  How'd you do that?

Did you lengthen the tractor?

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Racinbob

That kinda looks like one of those step bars that go into a trailer hitch receiver. Gives me some interesting thoughts.........:)

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Ethan and Randies horses

it was extended 14 inches.the bends on the pipes?if so I cut them on the metal cutting bandsaw at an angle then welded then ground down

heres how it is mounted that curve was cut with porta band then sanded

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Kegler

Very nice! If you needed extra weight those could be filled with something (sand, lead, concrete) before final assembly.
 

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DennisThornton

Cutting them first was sharp and by golly you certainly did a nice job grinding the welds on the pipes!  
And Kegler had a nice idea of filling them with lead!

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Ethan and Randies horses

yea I never thought about filiing it great idea! Thanks Dennis I ground them with an angle grinder then sanded them with the belt grinder.

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DennisThornton

Is the tractor stretched?  It looks loooong!  But everything else in the background looks normal...

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Ethan and Randies horses

yes it was stretched 14 inches I just replaced the old transaxle with a hydro tore the gears out of the old one

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DennisThornton

That's pretty awesome!  Who did the hood?

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JC 1965

Looks great.      :thumbs2:

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Ethan and Randies horses

we did cut it in half added a piece of sheet metal and welded it then did a lot of body putty and sanding

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Kegler

Looks good!
 

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DennisThornton

I owned a body shop for 15 years.  That's major surgery!  Oh most anyone can cut up two hoods and weld them together, but dealing with the warping and having it look good is another level!  Now the REAL test is also making it look good on the INSIDE!  The trick there is to try to used NO filler, just hammer and dolly and a little flat filing!  Tough!  Time consuming!

No matter what the inside looks like I'm impressed!

Great job!  And I'm guessing you won't need any additional weight in that bumper with the front end WAY out there!

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Ethan and Randies horses

it has three strips of sheet metal inside to keep in from bending in

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DennisThornton

Does the A have the same hood as the B and C?  Never had an A or B but just learned that the Bs used the same hood as the Cs so I'm thinking maybe the As as well?

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Ethan and Randies horses

the  a 90 specials were made from extra inventoy parts and most of the ones ive seen have the late 60s and early seventies hoods.I have two c 120 and they boh had difrent hoods.

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Don1977

If you add 1/2" spacers behind the mount you can still use the mule drive,

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