Sickle guard

In a unitary forged sickle guard having at least a pair of horizontally spaced apart longitudinally extending guard fingers for use in a mower having sickle means including:

• mounting means for supporting flat cutter sections for movement transversely of said guard fingers, wherein said guard fingers each have a bottom body portion having an upper ledger surface, the ledger surfaces of said guard fingers lying in a common horizontal plane and having cutting edges at each of the sides thereof,
• trash bar means extending at the rear of said cutting edges of said ledger surfaces, said trash bar means having a machined upper horizontal surface lying in said common horizontal plane of said ledger surface and having cutting edge means provided by the machining of said trash bar means at the forward portion thereof said cutting edges of said ledger surface and said trash bar means being integral thereto to provide a continuous cutting edge, and
• wear plate means extending transversely of said guard fingers, said wear plate means having an upper surface lying in the plane of said ledger surfaces,
• said ledger surfaces and said upper horizontal surface of said trash bar means along with said upper surface of said wear plate means providing support for the cutter sections of the sickle means for movement with respect to said guard fingers and in cutting relation to said cutting edges of said ledger surfaces and the cutting edge means of said trash bar means.