Abstract: A sickle guard having at least one longitudinally extending guard finger for use in a mower having sickle means including mounting means for supporting flat cutter sections for movement transversely of the guard finger, wherein the guard finger has a bottom body portion having an upper ledger surface lying in a horizontal plane and have cutting edges at each of the sides thereof, trash bar means extending transversely at the rear of the cutting edges of the ledger surface and in which the trash bar means has upper horizontal surface means lying in the horizontal plane of the ledger surfce of the guard finger and having cutting edge means at the forward end thereof, and in which the ledger surface and the upper surface of the trash bar means provide for supporting the cutter sections of the sickle means for movement with respect to the guard finger and in cutting relation to the cutting edges of the ledger surface and the cutting edge means of the trash bar means.