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Luckily it's a short drive home, literally 2 miles, but I'd still rock this if it were further. Stole the idea from this guy.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/ifs-to-1-ton-truggy.607661/page-2#post-22726703

 

I saw that setup as well but the weight on the mirror would deter me.

 

I regularly rip off mirrors on trees so the amount of fucks for me to give is pretty low luckily

 

According to a chart online, 1.75x.120 is 2.09 lbs per foot, making a 20’ stick weigh 41.8 lbs. split in half, 20 lbs resting on the mirror. Not too bad

 

Every inch you move the bracket forward reduces that amount as well.

I like it.

I end up taking my aluminum fishing boat to haul 20' lengths of iron.

 

For a trail rig, yea... who cares. But a 40k truck that’s a street queen, that’s a lotta nope for me.

True, 20 lbs may not be much but hit a bump or two then you have more than 20 lbs of force hitting the mirror. Then factor in the density differences between the two objects and the mirror will be a weak link and take the abuse.

I do think it’s a better option than a full overhead rack and way better that having 15 feet of tube hanging out of the rear.

 

Yeah very true. Move the back bracket forward and the tube back so it’s barely on the mirror. Would be almost no weight.

 

@EarSleepTacos Make some brackets to carry the tubes on the underside of your truck. seriously!

 

You know I saw that when I was researching options for transporting tube! Pretty ingenious.

 

Haha! I did pretty much the exact same thing on my F150, side mirror and everything. That mirror was scratched to shit when I traded it in.

 

Haha! Didn’t protect it with a towel or anything?

 

Not 20 footers but I recently acquired this rack that has a soft top that goes over it. Already loving it for hauling metal.

 

Got some links?
I’ve been needing to find a new solution

 

Not really. I just did a google search and poked around a couple of car forums talking about roll cages. Look at the google images too. There really aren’t too many options to transport it.

 

That’s cool. I’d considered building something like that vs buying another softopper but went the easy/light route and just got a used softopper.

 

I have a welder I bought in Australia a few years ago. The plug is the standard household plug they have there with a 3 wire hot-hot-ground. The
plug for my oven and dryer are both hot-hot-neutral. I know that the neutral and ground wires are bonded at the breaker so it would likely work but I don't really understand the why.

Would it be a safety hazard to switch out the plug?

Can anyone explain how a ground wire is different if it's just bonded to the neutral wire at the main breaker?

Also the welder does support 60Hz

 

the difference between a ground and a neutral is that a neutral carries current and a ground doesn’t. The proper term is ‘grounded conductor’ for a neutral and ‘grounding conductor’ for the ground. Neutrals and grounds in a residential setting were landed under the same buss once upon a time, but new installations need a separate ground / neutral buss in all except the main service.
TL;DR
Neutral carries current and ground doesn’t. You don’t want current traveling through a bare wire.

 

Sorry for the rookie question, but I don't burn through that much MIG gas. I just swapped out a tank with Airgas and asked for MIG mix or C25. I'm not so sure I got a tank with C25 and instead only got CO2. Is this common? I feel like I paid for something I did not receive. There is nothing on any of the stickers to denote the presence of Argon. Not really gonna lose too much sleep over it, just want to know better for next time, in addition it would help setting the welder if I knew the exact gas for shielding.

 

I’d go back and get the 72/25 mix if that’s what you wanted before using a lot of the straight co2 gas

 

I intend to do that, but wasn't sure if there were C25 cylinders that weren't marked with Argon at all or only listed the Non-Flammable warnings for CO2 and nothing mentioned of C25? I guess I want to be sure that my cylinder isn't C25 and I am mistaking it for pure CO2.