A guard finger attachmentapparatus for attaching a crop accessory toa cutting header where guard bolts attachingguards to the header are offset fromguard fingers of the guards where the cropaccessory is adapted for engagement with aheader attachment member and a guard fingerwhen the header attachment member isaligned with the guard finger. The apparatusincludes a plate attachable to the headerby guard bolts, and header engagementmembers attached to the plate and configuredsuch that when the plate is attached tothe guard bolts, the header engagementmembers are aligned with correspondingguard fingers.
