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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 09:09 PM
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what is the cheapest winch bumper made for a 93 cherokee
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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 09:40 PM
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Homemade
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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 09:53 PM
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like stated homemade or ebay
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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 10:21 PM
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Check out the detour's backbone! Search in the xj wright ups for it. I think its like $250 or so
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 03:35 AM
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X3 on the homemade. I have $30 into my bumper, although it's more of a winch mount than a bumper at the moment.....and it's ugly as sin, but I've stalled my Warn 9000lb winch on the 2nd wrap several times, so I'm confident on it's ability
And I'm a function long before form kinda guy anyways.

If you're unable to make one yourself, or have a friend that will work for beer and pizza, the cheapest method would probably be to find a local fab guy to build you a non winch bumper with receiver hitch (I can get them locally from the small fab guys for less than $200), and use a hitch mount style carrier to mount the winch up.

I HIGHLY recommend AGAINST that setup, but it would probably be the cheapest.
I can get winch bumpers from the local fab guys for around $400-$450, and for the safety and convienence aspects, I think it would be well worth it, assuming that I didn't have the ability to fab myself Which really, given the stress that a winch could potentially put on a bumper, if you're not 100% sure of your abilities, saving a couple hundred bucks isn't worth it IMO.
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 10:03 AM
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http://ironscorpion.com/zen/index.ph...cd167bee507ec5
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 11:56 AM
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thanks grizzly for that link
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 12:27 PM
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With that Iron Scorpion kit, yes it's only $200 bucks but you're going to have to throw in shipping costs and then pay whoever is going to fab that up for you, assuming you don't own or use a welder.
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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 12:59 PM
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I have a little over $100 in materials in mine, but I bought the steel at the worst possible time, when they thought it was a rare as gold!! LOL!!

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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by kitsapfreerider
Homemade
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