What's a good front brush guard...

For rolling through a 3m tall blackberry bramble? I've got a 200m long, 3m high wall of prickles that is blocking access to my stream. Ideally I'll wrap up in a heavy coat, face mask,and gloves so I can push through with the mower and then come back through a few times lowering the deck each pass. My 2N has a good guard on the front but it doesn't go more than 3/4 of the way up the grille. So far I've been able to take down a swimming pool sized bramble but it was much younger than the one I'm looking to eradicate now.

I'm willing to buy or build.

Edit; Looking for first hand experience on what works for my particular circumstance not "buy the one from this site" please. I did a quick search and found some designs but most were along the lines of "I just built this" and not "I built this and it works really well".
 
Here is one I built for a friend and is on his IH 300U. The bars are 1 inch round stock so it is heavy and strong enough to take down small trees
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Didn't the Feds use that bumper on their trucks when they were busting down door in the old prohibition days.

kirk
 
I've never done anything like that with an N. However I have done so using batwing mowers on larger tractors and other 3 pt
mowers on tractors with live PTO; I put the tractor in the lowest reverse gear possible and very slowly back mower first into the
"brush" because I can feel it out better and stop before I cause major damage to the power unit. I always stay on my toes when
doing so with my foot hovering on the clutch and my hand on the mower lifting controls just in case I find something I don't
intend to or something goes wrong.
 

This property is a jungle of blackberry patches and I wanted to open up an old road that was all grown over. I turned my landscape rake 180 and backed into the blackberries. Once I was well into the stuff and without having to worry about the tractor's grille or sheet metal, I turned the rake around and pulled all the blackberry canes out with a few passes, stopping to unclog the landscape rake with a hay rake.

After that I used my homemade drag to tear up the roots.

To pull all the dead and sharp blackberry canes out of a patch I want for picking, in early spring I raised the rake backed into the patch, lowered the rake and with a snapping and crackling, all the easily broken dead canes pulled right out.
 
I've been using this to pull berry brushes out. Since I logged a couple of years ago the barberry have been taking
over. Hard to keep the barberry, bitter sweet, Atlantic, blackberry, Russian olive under control. This means war and
having some tractor implements does help.

Kirk
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Are you looking to protect yourself or the paint? When I am out shredding I am apt to be pushing against all manor of limbs and branches and berry bushes. The sub frame of my loader along with my ROPS is what protects me. If you are looking for personal protection You want to secure an upright on each side just ahead of your running boards, and for real heavy duty you could secure another at the rear axle just outside the fender.
 
Kirk,

Man, I would give my eye teeth for that ripper of yours!!!
what a beaut!

Terry
P.S.
About that twisted link on your draw bar . . .
I have one of those and I've been wondering exactly what they were designed for. I've used mine for rope, but I'm still guessing at uses. (?)
 
I'm with Tall T, I use my back blade first to knock them down, there are stumps hiding in my blackberries.
Then I mow them.



Gary (Or)
 
Got a few good ideas brewing in my head. I think I'll be fabbing one up that has a slight curve that covers the grille and with wings to the sides to help keep the wires from getting snagged. Also thinking about having a couple bolt on extensions that'll just be straight bars to keep the canes from tangling the tires up.
 
Kirk,is that a 800 series attached to it? If so, how does that multi shank ripper pull if you use it with this tractor? Looks handy for subsoiling, scarifying etc., but with so many shanks, one would think you need more tractor, given the single shank ford subsoiler of that era, a later one which I have but never used, actually looks to have never been used. Usually see similar multi-shank rippers on crawlers for the same purposes, graders too, to loosen hard packed gravel road wear surfaces when re-grading. I've run multi-shank rippers on crawlers and even the big single shank parallogram 4bbl type on D8K's, unreal what those can do with hard rock until you have to drill and blast. I used to enjoy ripping frost to open cuts for mass excavation in the winter.
 
Kirk, it's a good thing New Jersey is so far from Kansas or you would be missing a few implements. I really like that ripper and I have made numerous references to your snow plow. You've got some very nice attachments.
 
Billy,
Actually is hooked up to a 2n in photo. Was using it to pull bitter sweet out this week. Kind of back on to the bitter sweet and barely sink the teeth in to rip it out. if I sunk them all the way in the little 2n even with wheel weights does have enough HP to pull it. I usually pull it behind my 950 or 4000. It comes in handy for breaking up clumps and roughing up for deer food plots
Hey since you somewhere up state NY are you going up to the ford show in the finger lakes? Should be a good one.

Kirk
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On the ripper drawbar I hook the barberry bushes with that choker cable and hook to the twisted cleatis and rip them
out. a couple days in the sun and it;s bye- bye barberries. Also use it for pulling my horse drawn planter.

kirk
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