irishman999

I see it as... any room for improvment in my project here is very welcome, if somethings crappy i would love to change it. I'm glad people take the time to post something. I'm drawing the line at tube bumpers, personally i can't stand the looks, and they remind me of pipe organs, I'm not throwing mud and I'm not a hardcore off roader. If your a hardcore off roader this bumper isnt for you and your probibly going to build your own kick a$$ bumper. This started a while ago when i was shopping around for a bumper for my truck, i didnt like anything i saw and wouldnt pay the money for it. I pictured in my head what i wanted and sat down with some graph paper and some beers and drew the plans, priced the material and baught a bunch of tools. My bumpers done and i like the way it looked and figured maybe someone else would want one. Everything i saw was to big and bulky, or it looked like it was designed to tread water so i wanted to get my own style. Instead of having a poll about how much you would pay for it i should simply asked if the style is anything anyone liked haha. Its not so much about money, i just have some free time and tools and a wanted to learn more. I understand the shockload on my D-rings, what could anyone suggest for testing the shockload of this bumper to make sure its safe?

Thanks everyone for your informative feedback, thats why i like this site so much, the experts. Those pictures are terrible, i took them with a cell phone haha. I will work on getting another digital camera so i can take some beter ones and some shots of the inside and hopefully try this again.

The bumper shell is 1/8th inch plate steel, the flat edge around the top is 1/4 inch thick 1 inch angle iron, inside is a 2"x4" 1/4" thick square tube that ties the two mounting brackets together and is all tied into the bumper through the inside supports. Its built kind of like an airplane wing. The D rings come from my local industrial supply, they are probibly the strongest part of the bumper, we use them on our equipment trailer at work to hold down a 25,000 pound backhoe (we tie off to 4 of them). I'm hopefully going to be doing some extensive testing in the next week.

Painted gloss black including a pair of cheap but effective off road lights and D rings. Sturdy plate steel construction with a square tube frame inside for rigid strength. Shipping included how much would you pay for this bumper?

Good call, i decided today i want to try something diffrent with the grill. First off whats the best advise for blacking out the chrome strip? I'm a huge fan of the first hummer and the old school jeeps and noticed they all have a similar grill style. I also noticed no one is really doing much with the grill on these jeep trucks. Since this morning i've been working on a plate steel grill for the jeep truck that has the large oval openings like a hummer or forward controll jeeps, I was going to try and get a tubing bender and build something to protect my grill, instead i want my grill to be more armored.

I got these lights from "harbor freight" for an excelent price and i honestly expected them to immediatly burn out and catch on fire but instead they work excellent, i know they won't perform as good as a good set though. i even painted my D rings.

thanks dude, today I'm going to repaint the whole thing black and wire up the lights, minus the weld on D rings and the off road lights its 100% Home made :banana:

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