New custom bumper & winch "with pics"

[FSJ Super Swamper]

Finally found someone to build me a custom pipe bumper. The bumper was built entirely from scrap metal in his shop, & it cost $100 which "FLOORED" me. Its welded solid to the frame & the only way its coming off is to cut it off or rip it off. Enjoy the pics...
http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4128/1000057vt2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
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http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/993/1000319hw4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[j20brett]

wow...that, my friend, is BEAST! i like it!

[Slick Willie]

Is that tube 1/4" thick? Not too shabby for $100! :thumbsup:

[landbruiser1]

Thats alot tougher than the one I just made, looks awesome.

[Lindel]

I like it!

[Heep80]

I defently like the diamond plate on the corners.. looks pissed! :thumbsup:

[jeepfan93]

Holy battering ram Batman!!!!!!

[Brad W.]

that looks pretty similar to what I build for my jeeps, only mine are square. I like it!

BTW-- that's not a battering ram... THIS is a battering RAM (pun intended)

http://www.fullsizejeeps.com/jeeps/files/Users/BCW1284/b2500_002.jpeg

[FSJ Super Swamper]

Nice Deer Killer Brad!!!

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

Yea, I wouldnt want to be on the recieving end of that! I think Im gonna build one like that eventually when I get everything else squared away. I can get ahold of all sorts of scrap metal for free to make a bumper and my buddy is real handy with a welder. Sweet Wag too, inspiration (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=inspiration&spell=1) for mine!:thumbsup:

[Brad W.]

Nice Deer Killer Brad!!!

Exactly!!! we have our fair share of wildlife around here, and i've had several run ins that would have been a whole lot worse without a big truck and a bigger bumper. this just happens to be my biggest one yet!

I drive the state highways and backroads alot around here, and at night it can get hairy, and sometimes that hair has antlers! :rolleyes: :D
Yet other times it has teeth, fleas, and eats baby cows... those either get run over or shot, sometimes both, depending on how much ammo I have left... :fsj: :drivin:



I really dig the minimal stuff on your bumper though, you dont need deer killers on trail rigs, they just get hung up on rocks. What you've got there will mash down aspens real nice when having a day in the woods. It's got basically everything you need on the trail, and it doesn't hang out or down too far, or weigh the rig down like an anchor.

I usually do square on mine as a personal preference, just because I like the look. I'd be all for round if I got a smokin' deal like you did. Just FYI, make sure those shackles have the mounts welded on REALLY good, i've seen those break when done wrong. Just something to double check, with a good weld they are just fine.

[FSJ Super Swamper]

here is the front bumper

[Brad W.]

huh? no link...

[Tad]

huh? no link...

It's a stealth bumper :D

[Brad W.]

It's a stealth bumper :D

real punny :p :D

[Heavy_Metal_Thunder_81]

that looks pretty similar to what I build for my jeeps, only mine are square. I like it!

BTW-- that's not a battering ram... THIS is a battering RAM (pun intended)

http://www.fullsizejeeps.com/jeeps/files/Users/BCW1284/b2500_002.jpeg

No, around here we call them deer strainers :thumbsup:

[Tad]

http://www.fullsizejeeps.com/jeeps/files/Users/BCW1284/b2500_002.jpeg

Cool as that looks, that's a whole lot of mass to be dragging around.

How does someone park a rig, on a place that clean without leaving tire marks?
If I cut my tires even 1/4 turn on my old *** concrete, those marks are there for weeks.

[Zorm]

Kewl, so 10" of lift, can you shoot pictures of your lift and those front shackles, where did they come from?:fsj: :thumbsup:

[Brad W.]

Cool as that looks, that's a whole lot of mass to be dragging around.

How does someone park a rig, on a place that clean without leaving tire marks?
If I cut my tires even 1/4 turn on my old *** concrete, those marks are there for weeks.

thats why its on the tow rig, not the trail rig! :D

seriously, stop hijacking his thread with my deer thumper. :o

I use the dodge to push dead cars around all the time. I also haul rock for money, somtimes I gotta mow down a small aspen or some brush to get to the rock outcrops. I used it frequently this summer to rip out some 15' and 25' anchor poles for an old HAM antenna on the house next to mine. I'd pull em one way, push em back the other, then pull em again and they'd come right out. They were all 4' or more in the dirt with concrete around them. they were made from old drill stems, so they were some stout metal, let me tell you what. It also keeps my intercooler safe when I go off the highway into a 10ft snowdrift at 40 mph, which happens alot around here. I suppose that could be why my alignment is messed up...


It also works very well to move my idiot neighbors flatbed superduty when he parks me in. :drivin:

[Brad W.]

btw- I had enough power to bend one of those poles 45 degrees during a pull... it was a little farther in than I thought... the chain was about 8" above ground level, binding on a welded on bracket on the pipe. big creak and the pole bent, lol.