Are any of you guys using fenders on your motor graders? Are there any aftermarket manufacturers you have had luck with?
Are any of you guys using fenders on your motor graders? Are there any aftermarket manufacturers you have had luck with?
Home made fenders on our laser grader, remains pretty clean machine.
We've got fenders on our volvo G976, and i love them.
No mud or water around on the grader at all.
We had to make som modifications to the rear ones, to be able to use chains.(more room)
But thats the only thing.
I've bent and made some holes in the front ones, but nothing u can't repair.
There is another thread here about fenders.
http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/...ead.php?t=7405
And some pics of ours in the Volvo 900 grader thread.(page 2 and 4.)
Fenders here too:
http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/...ead.php?t=5429
Ours are original Volvo fenders.
Last edited by MKTEF; 12-22-2009 at 01:58 PM.
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Mudguards (fenders) Been around for a while
Aussie outback, to keep the wet black dirt off. No snow here
Cheers Russ
That grader is so new it's still get paint on the cutting edges.Originally Posted by bigrus
Aussie outback, to keep the wet black dirt off. No snow here
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Champion Compact Grader in Sweden
The two 16m's at the mine where I work have fenders (mudguards in Oz). They have a fold down ladder at the back and have hand rails.
Byran, how does the rear fenders attach? Reason I'm asking, if you need to install wheel chains there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of room between the fender and tire. Do the fenders detach easily?
HEF Junkie
There were just some formed brackets that bolted to the tandem box. Pretty easy to remove. I haven't ran into the issue of chains and fenders together but then again we only have a couple dozen units across Europe running fenders. Could easily form a new bracket raising the fender off teh tire more.
greetings
l'm a NEW member here - but with a background of 23 years as a Parts Manager at Champion Sales Co in Ontario Canada. Our service dept made and installed fenders on dozens of customers graders. There were NO suitable commercially made available. We built them similar to what is shown in the pics, from checker plate and angle iron. We tried an aluminum set - but were too light and cracked easily and early.
We ended up settling on a basic design of mounting front and rear using square tubing - small welded to inside of tandems, a larger ID welded on fenders, with a tightening bolt set-up, so that the fenders could be lifted off with a chain hoist when necessary. We had a support in the centre that mounted with the sockethead bolts that hold the centre sprocket cover plate in place. Worked very well. Rubber flaps on either end were optional, but usual on the rear. Chain clearance was never an issue for our customers.
Many customers did not want fronts, only rears - but we also did fronts -- usually mounted rigid - too flimsy otherwise.
Sorry - l have no diagrams, pics, etc -- they disappeared with folding of Sales Co.
If you raised them it would probably interfere with being able to fully open the door. Better to take them off anyway when running with wheel chains. If you broke a cross chain you could damage the fender quite quickly.
I really like this design though.
Looking at the pictures of the back lights..they are mounted on extended braces. Looks like they are hinged so you can fold them in. Or are they just hooked up so you can remove them if required?
HEF Junkie
Graderfan.....this is the best pic I could come up with but it is a version of the fenders you guys were making. You even made a smaller set for the compact graders.
yep - that's pretty much them.
in the "old" days the lights were mounted much better/more visible on the sides of the rad, so not an issue.
Only once in a "blue moon" would somebody pop a door off - the door would have to be swinging as the grader moving, and hit a bump to tip up the tandem - then wow - l gather it would be quite a sight to see the door flying - but usually operator failure - door should be open or closed -- not in-between.
Very little issue with chains breaking - another benefit of going for strength NOT lightweight, etc. Strength for vibration, operator access to engine/fuel/etc and overall cleanliness -- of course fuel economy, etc not an issue.
We did most of the fenders in Carleton Place, Ontario -- sent a bunch to Goderich Sales Co - then they started building for the factory -- factory didnt want to do small numbers / custom fab.
I was wondering why the lights were down on the fender. You can see the mounting holes on the side of the rad where they were normally mounted. Maybe this was a EU machine and instead of the arms to extend the light pods out and downward they were able to mount in the fender? Sounds good to me!
I believe these are factory fenders on this 24H.
Cat,5X4 and a good cigar now we're hauling
And my overload permit starts after sunset.
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