Woo, time for pictures.
Here is the front rack before I removed it.
Chopped it up.
Welded in extensions on one side.
Welded in the extension on the other side and got it back on the mower.
Put the batteries on it.
And a nice zoomed out shot. It does look a little funny now IMO. However, I really couldn't find a better place to put it. If I would have put the new battery in front of the old one, it would have stuck out farther than the bumper. You really don't want to be bumping batteries into things, and I really don't want the mower longer than it already is, so I went sideways.