Front grill guard basket

Kenster

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A few years ago I read on this board about a basket someone rigged up that hooked onto the front grill and would hold a couple of milk crates.
My buddy is itching to try out his new welder and asked me if I had a project for him. (Aren't friends wonderful?)

Below is a picture I saved from a few years ago. I can't tell if the bottom is made out of angle iron (bed frame?) or just flat iron. My friend said he could use a steel mesh for the bottom, supported by cross pieces of flat iron.

Other than trying to figure out the best way to do the bottom, I think he's got it figured out. I just need to get the measurements to him.

Thanks for any suggestions or pics for other ways to do this.

Ken

Basket2-1.jpg
 
For light duty such as you are wanting, there is no wrong way to do the bottom....I would make the basket as light as possible with available flat steel or very light angle iron so it is easy to lift on and off the tractor. Hope you guys have fun building this useful project!
 

I just found the original thread from 2008. My bumper is just like the one in the pics. An issue I see is that the hitch sticks out and will be in the way, hitting the side of the crate, or actually the inside corners of both crates.

I guess we could cut a slot in the milk crates so that the hitch could fit in there. My buddy said he could just build the box with mesh walls all the way up and I wouldn't need the crates, but that would make it heavier. Plus, I want to be able to pick up the crate and take it into the woods where the tractor can't go when I'm cutting wood.

Original thread:

http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=nboard&th=644336%3E
 
Try making the basket wide enough to space the milk
crates apart enough to miss the hitch. Another
alternative is to make the basket stick out so the
crates are sitting beyond the front of the hitch.
I wonder if you have enough ground clearance to
have them sit below the hitch?
 
(quoted from post at 15:59:04 01/07/13) Attach the hooks lower on the back frame so that the bottom of the carrier sits on top of the hitch.

AJ, I thought about that but the hitch is actually on the third horizontal bar (second from the bottom) so the 'box' would have to be quite high to sit on the hitch.

My milk crates are 13 inch square so if we go 30 inches wide, we'll have a gap in the middle to accommodate the hitch. That ought to work.
 
What A great idea!! Always trying to figure out how to carry stuff like chains etc. I'm starting on one tomorrow. I'll use bed rails. Pretty light and very strong. Bottom and sides will be expanded metal. I built my own grill guard out of leaf springs and the hitch bolts on so it is removable.
 

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