Feathermerchant

Looks really good.
Any idea what it weighs?

sigma pi

how did you laser cut the back up sensors hole?

larryo108

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Wow. That looks amazing. Great work. Completely jealous of your skills. Wish I could do that.

130428

by the time I pay to take welding courses and buy all that steel, it might cheaper to buy prefab

looks great!

berty

Welding aint bad, I welded my bumper! And by that I mean I was jump starting my sisters car and one of the clamps popped off and swung down and grounded to my bumper and made a weld mark.....

XDf150

very very nice great craftsmanship never expected it to look like it does now when i first started looking at the pictures

STingray1300

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone! This was a design-as-you-go bumper, and I had no real idea of how it would turn out. I really didn't want to depart to a "Road Warrior" style bumper, so coming up with my own 'design' was an interesting process.

Thank you! I figure if I had to bill it out, I'm into it for about $250, including the steel, and the welding consumables (gas, wire, grinding discs, etc.). Oddly, the spray job was going to be $200, but the truck shop needed an aluminum repair weld done for a customer, so the owner comp'd me (he lost $)

Thank you! When we took the bumper off to spray it, 2 guys (1 being myself) easily lifted it off the mounts. I figure somewhere in the 100-120lb range.

Ha! I have a plasma cutter, but it wouldn't cut that neat any day! No, I bought a Milwaukee steel cutting hole saw bit (1 1/8") made for drilling stainless sinks/et al. $15, but it made really nice clean holes. I just drilled them slowly. Then I marked the "tab" slots and cut them with a sawzall, and finished them with a Dremel drill.

Hey, that ain't bad; I've seen some welders on structural jobs put down welds that looked about like that. So you're well on your way!

STingray1300

Hey, me neither!

Thank you!

STingray1300

Well, here it is all put together:

Lenn

That looks great man!