Here is said basket completely done and painted. It's not near as swanky as a Yakima but it works and was free. It's all 3/8" schedule 40 pipe. Probably made the legs too tall but I think it'll be fine.
Mounted a 6" LED light bar on the mower. Its like 3000 lumens or so.. 12 3 watt CREE's. Looks like the one on the Taco just shorter. Anyhow, was planning to mount it between the bumper tubes but it was about 1/4" too tall. I might cut up the bumper and redo it. But in the meantime its behind the grill.