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Going to treat my old 1090 Hesston to new guards and sickle/knives. It currently has the 2 piece tie guards with the stamped metal tops. They work fine, but are pretty well shot.
Nobody stocks these anymore around here, so thinking about switching back to conventional style. By the time I replace what I have, cost will be about same, either way. Nobody keeps stub guards either, so for ease of replacement, the conventional style is looking like my best option.
Anyone have a reason to stay with the tie guard style? Mostly cutting brome and some alfalfa, no rocks to deal with around here.
 
Hesston 2pc adjustable stub guards would likely be the best, but also the most expensive too (by roughly double).

Conventionals would be the cheapest route, but bottom of the barrel as far as I am concerned from a plugging perspective.

As far as the stamped metal tops style. In my opinion that style is in between stub guards and the conventionals. In other words, they are not quite as good as stub guards, but are better than conventionals. Price (not sure).

I do have a bunch of brand new stamped metal tops that I would sell cheap if you go that route. Unfortuantely, I do not have the lower portion.

FWIW, I have a Hesston 1120 and I have a mix of 2 pc adjustable stubs, stamped metal 2 piece, and the remaining conventionals. I have them situated such that the conventionals are the first 55% of the bar closet to the wobble mechanism, the 2 piece stamped are in the middle 5%, and the remaining 40% is Hesston 2 piece adjustable stub guards. I like those Hesston 2 pc adjustable ones the best but they are pricey. My machine has had a rough life and I am a shoe string operation so only the broken gets replaced.
 
I run the 700 700 845 Hesston guards on my 1120 for alfalfa and brome. If you're going to replace them I'd highly recommend a whole new set of knives,bar and all,so that the square bar fits in the square slot in the new guards. All new hold downs too and plenty of them. I think I'm running about 9 hold downs on mine.
 
I still use a 1090 and use stamped tops with stub-guards. Tried conventional with my alfalfa/timothy mix and they plugged a lot with the rock guards, so I went back to stub guards.
 
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