In 1970, I drove a new to me John Deere B with mounted cultivators home on the gravel back roads from Pinckneyville, Illinois. I wondered why the steering shaft was sliding forward and backward through the rear support when I hit a bump, but being young and invincible, didn't take time to stop and check. I looked it over good when I got home, and it was busted like yours on both sides, and the sheet metal was wrinkled from the stress on the nose piece. I traded a big sack of turnips to an old local welder to come out and fix it for me. We used that $50 tractor around here for years with no issues.
As to how he fixed it - all I can remember is that he had a Ford flathead V8 powered welder on his truck. He probably vee'd the cracks with a grinder, but I can't remember it. That is what I would do today, if I couldn't find a good replacement, and I'd look pretty hard for one before I broke out the grinder.
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