Protecting your Truck and Trailer From the Road, Big Bumpers and Stout Mudflaps

Where the dear and antelope play can be a dangerous playground at 70 mph. One of the scariest stretches of road that I tow on is Interstate 70, where it winds thru the Rocky Mountains. Wildlife of the large kind, hang by the road at the joy of tourists, but deer committing suicide roaming across the road at night can put your family at peril. I've seen the damage deer do to trucks. Bambi can total a bumper, but a full grown deer, big horn sheep, antelope or Black Angus can put your rig out of business.

We'd all like to swerve and miss the deer but that can deadly. Sudden movements to the side can create energy that you may not be able to control at highway speeds. As they say an ounce of prevention equals a pound of cure. So I found a "deer deflector" I mean a replacement front bumper and grill guard. Since the object is to keep body parts out of the radiator, intercooler, water pump etc., I wanted the nose off an Abrams tank. Just happened to find one in Hyannis Nebraska at Cow Country Sales and Service.

They call them "Sandhills Body Guard". This is a replacement bumper, grill guard and built in 2 inch receiver. Now I can plow snow forwards. I received a snow plow last winter, but it didn't have an attachment, it plugged into a receiver hitch. So I plowed snow backwards all last winter.

The Body Guard bumper is 3/16" steel with 3 different angles. The grill and headlight guard is 1 1/4 square 14 gauge tubing. Holes for fog lights and tow hooks, even a lower brace for standing on and admiring your engine. Expanded metal covers the grill and below the headlights. Then the whole piece is covered with a coating similar to sprayed on bedliners.  My bumper weighed in at 186 pounds, quite different than the flimsy factory bumper. Two 1/2 inch bolts hold the Body Guard to the truck frame.

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Thanks to Cow Country Sales and Service 877-450-2356 http://www.cowcountrysales.com/