yea its all preference, just like filler size etc

 

thats like the perfect bumper design.
Im considering borrowing the idea.
can I ask how much the total cost was?
including hours.

 

Most of the material I had sitting around, should be under $200. Time? I'm some what of a perfectionist, so A LOT. If I end up being able to build a few for people, I'm hoping to get it down around 5 hrs

 

Holy god of TIG welding

Im fairly good with a TIG but damn son u make me feel about 2 inches tall lol. I do find it alot easier to weld aluminum though, maybe thats just me.
I wish I wasnt broke and jobless or I would deffinitley buy one of these from you. Awsome build man.

 

I'll just try to knock it all out on a saturday. I'm more worried about functionality and strength than perfection. but thanks for the overview I cant wait to try it out.

 

Cool, look forward to seeing it

 

love the welding, looks fantastic. I will say this must clearly be a glorified brush guard. It will surely fold up on an impact. No to mention your tie ins should really go much further back if you intend to use this for recovery.

 

Ahhhh that's the comment I've been waiting to hear. I'll address the recovery point concern first; I'm aware of the weak point in the stock mounts. If you read the start of this thread you would know that they're not intended for much recovery. That being said, I have lifted the front end off the ground with those points using an overhead crane to do my front brakes. As for strength, I'm not saying it's the strongest bumper out there, but with all the angular structure built into it I guarantee it's multiple times stronger than the stocker. And if there were a major impact, yes it would tweak, just like any bumper. And that's just what a bumper is supposed to do, after all I could just throw a piece of I beam up there, that surely wouldn't budge... But the uni would. So in the end I'd rather build a new bumper than buy a new car.

 

No worries, makes sense here. I built a tubular bumper to address the weight concern on mine and even with consideration to bracing, I'm sure a hard drop would tweak its shape. I only asked b/c of the recovery points. I've built some large boom structures for agricultural equipment completely out of aluminum so I can attest for its strength. What I notice as a failure often is when an aluminum eyelet is used with a steel pin. If it interests you enough, check out Konnex. They mfg. spring tension bearings that work great for bridging the connection.

Just a thought. You are obviously quite the qualified fabricator so I intend to take nothing away from your capabilities.

 

Very impressive...look forward to you getting some of these on site for sale.

 

Heres an aluminum bumper a friend is doing for a wrangler made of a 4x4 square tube but as you mostly for looks then function he did run some round tube in the corners as a lil protection