Makeshift headlights

[Yosemite Sam]

This thread could probably go in "What did you do with your Cub today" but amongst all this gibberish I have a question.

One of my 123's is pretty-much and "Old Beater" I bought it and two others on epay from a guy in Florida, who said they don't run... But they all had 3 point hitches and they were pretty cheap.

Anyway this 123 runs out pretty well, it smokes some until it's warmed up, but it runs and drives OK. We push snow with it and drag something around with it once in awhile and that's about all the "run time" is gets.

Keeping in mind that it doesn't get used very much but when it does it's normally after dark. I wanted headlights for it, but couldn't justify the cost of "factory" headlights for a tractor that isn't used all that much, especially one that looks as bad as this one does.

I thought I would try to build something to mount headlights on, on this "Old Beater" without drilling any extra holes, (I hate when I go to buy a Cub and it's been drilled full of holes) I already had some new lights here that have been laying around for nearly 20 years. I thought I could bolt a couple of beam clamps on the back edges of the grill casting just below the hood, then bolt a piece of angle iron to the clamps letting it stick out far enough past the hood on either side for the lights to bolt onto. When I went to put the clamps in place I noticed that someone was there before and had already drilled holes in the casting. So I just kinda went with what was already there...

So the question is: Is there anyone else out there who has put makeshift lights on their Cub and if so would you mind posting pictures so I can maybe get some better ideas than the one that I came up with?

Here are some pictures of what I did and how it came out. One of the pic's is of the beam clamps that I didn't use.

One other thing... I don't want to hear anybody laughin about my headlight mounting system!