My attempt at a homemade roof rack.
 

Here's my rendition of a roof rack.
It took me two nights after work and the better part of today to finish it up- had lot's of fun except the materials were not cheap.

It's 48"x48" top and 51"x48" bottom.

1" square mild steel tubing, and welds are from a lincoln 110 flux core mig.

Paint is Roll bar/ nerf bar rattle can paint by HVT.

I did not want to weld the rack to the rain gutter mounts so I ended up using some 1-1/2" exhaust clamps to clamp the rack to the brackets- they worked out pretty good.

I will be stuffing it full with three climbing tree stands this weekend for a hunting trip with my bud's.


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Why wouldn't you want to weld it? Looks pretty solid though, good job

I got tired of welding and already had it painted. LOL.

Plus I will be building a ladder rack and this can be easily removed/ swapped.

Sounds good, where are you gonna put your ladder? I gotta get onto making a rack myself, I've had drawings laid all around for the past month or so...

where did you get the gutter clamps

60 bucks for clamps? Jeez, how thick is the metal? I'll make some in metal shop haha

all great inforamtion he could have used BEFORE HE BOUGHT THE CLAMPS. ( in my best adam sandler impression)

I love Adam Sandler, but my Wife can't stand him-dunno why ha, ha.

Anyways I'm ready for the hunt this weekend and already put some scratches on my new roof rack paint-oh well if you're gonna use it, use it.

Not a big deal but you can see the wood cage I added to the hitch basket years ago.
Had I had my welder back then I most likely would have used steel.

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I hope to see the monster buck I saw last weekend.

Where did you get the 1" square tubing from and how much did it cost? Do they have 1" round tubing? I need a short piece to make a light bar for my front bumper.

looks sweet dude,