Some picts of the work in progress. I actually have it done but need to grind and paint.

Hope to install it tomorrow.

Will post more picts then.


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Looks good !!! How much time/money have you put into it so far?

 

About $45 for steel and about7 hours.

I took the bumper off finally to weld the two pieces together. The way we built it, it had to be tacked together on the truck then removed and welded the 2" receiver tube in and added gussetts on the ends and bottom.

When it's on the truck, the back of the straight tube is just outside the bumper. It's real low profile and I'll paint it silver to blend in even more.

The design is Cumminalongs but he hasn't built one yet. I guess he's waitin' for me to work out the bugs and there were some changes to his original design. I'll give more details tomorrow and I could probably get anyone some dimensions if they want to build it.

I have picts of the wood mock-up we made prior to fabrication. I'll have more here tomorrow if I can get it and the bumper back on. Its supposed to get into the low 20's and teens around here tonight with wind tomorrow. I wanted to have it on for the weekend trip to the mountains if I don't freeze my a$$ off working on it tomorrow.

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Thanks for the update!

 

I like it, a project we can build, the only thing I wonder is , what happens to the cooler behind the mount where it blocked the air coming through that opening.

 

Lookin' good brother.

That's almost exactly what I had in mind.

 

It only blocks a small portion of the cooler so I don't think it will have any affect.

In fact, my truck didn't come w/ hooks and it had two plastic trim panels which covered part of the opening.

 

Yeah, yeah....make me look like even more of a slacker.

All my spare time has been eaten up working on the wife's new hutch for the living room.

Hell, she got pissed at me last weekend. I had been out working for about 4 or 5 hours and just got done running some of the glue and couldn't really do anything else until it cured. So I figured, sheeit, it's nice out, I'm taking the bike out. So I go for a about a quick 30 min ride. I get back and she's all huffy and puffy. I'm like good god woman, I only borrowed my sack for a few minutes.....

 

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All my spare time has been eaten up working on the wife's new hutch for the living room.

/quote] Yep, them honey do's take priority!

 

Looks AWESOME bert !

Thanks for keeping us up to date and fro the pics. Keep em comming !!