Posted by Ron in Nebr on February 19, 2009 at 21:18:05 from (66.252.113.172):
In Reply to: Re: Home-made fenders posted by charles todd on February 19, 2009 at 10:35:42:
Long before there was ever a "correct police" around, around here we didn't do fenders, we did ENTIRE CABS out of angle iron and plywood. From 560's on up to plywood bolted over the rollover protection bars on an 886. Plywood bolted on with plastic sheet windows on the sides and back and a glass window in an iron frame in the front.
Sure...they looked homebuilt. 'Cause they were. And nobody cared- they were a huge improvement over the old "comfort covers" made outta tarp, and an even bigger improvement over snuggling down in a haystack while holding the lines to a team when it was 20 below.
But were they "safe"???? Heck yeah...nobody ever froze to death in them. Usually two guys rode in them until it was time to pitch the hay, and never once did anybody "fall through" those plywood sides. Not everyone knows it, but back in the day before the modern saftey "fuel cells" were put into NASCAR and other racecars, it was standard procedure and even stipulated in some rules to make a plywood box around the race car's fuel tank since plywood is quite hard to penetrate.
Were they "good looking"? Heck no...but nobody cared.
Were they "long lasting"? We took 'em off in the summertime and they lasted for years and years. Still have some of them stacked in the corner of the shop that haven't been used for 20+yrs(since we bought green tractors with factory cabs to feed with) and those old homemade cabs would still bolt on and work today if needed.
Bottom line- if you have some plywood and angle iron around, build a solid frame out of the iron and go for it. Fenders are basically to keep the mud off ya anyways- as for the safety issue, I was 30yrs old before I ever saw or operated an H, M, 656, etc that had fenders on it. And that was just 'cause my brother put the fenders back on our 656 that had been removed the day it arrived new so that it could have that plywood cab put on it....
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