Anything welding

going to waste a lot of gas if you're using cfm instead of cfh

 

Widened my personal flatbed trailer over the past two day and built drive over fenders. Actually took more work/time than I was thinking it would. Roughly 54 square tubes and 6 tube caps. Fenders will get plated with diamond plate in the future and the rest left open so I can still have access to my stake pockets

 

Looks great!

 

to all the bumper guru's and those who have more common sense and real world experience then I do, I ask for your input ( or anyone's input really )

I'm at the point where I have to tack things up on my bumper build, but I'm wondering about the recovery points, See below



They don't go all the way through, they are just 3/4" thick and welded to the surface of the bumper which is 3/16".
is that sufficient? or should / would it be better to extend those recovery points and weld along the inside plate of the bumper, See below. ( red is the mount extended along the side plate which happens to be 1/4" thick. The green is where I would weld it.


so to go from this....

to this.....


I don't have any of these recovery points cut yet, so now is the time for me to decide on what I want to do.

**Edit**
I can imagine I would use this to winch off of ( snatch block or something ) or possibly use to yank some one out of some where. I do have a bolt in recovery point on the lower bar opposite the factory tie down if my two options above are not good.
thank you for your time.

 

I'm not saying it was right.. just what I gleamed from the cryptic table on my Chinesium machine

 

I’d run them all the way through.

 

I like your thinking, I wouldn't trust them. I know a certain short hand for emergency company uses plates that go through and are part of the mount to the frame.

 

I hate to admit this took me longer to "read between the lines" then I care to admit!

Time for bed I guess, lol

Thanks

 

Thanks man!!

Haha thanks man. Yeah, this cart will definitely help lugging around gear. Milk crates full of fittings, pipe, sand bags, apple boxes, etc...

haha I imagine a super low profile cart would be great for the Co2 tanks haha

 

You are fine surface welding as long as you are confident in your penetration. Unless you are using extra, extra long web strap recovery equipment, there is little need to worry.

 

I just never saw the need for welding 3/4" or bigger hard points to 3/16" or 1/4" steel .

Over the years I used 3/8" or 1/2" what I had handy I only ever had one bend that was a 90 Degree pull with a chain and it took several Yanks to bend things.

I only saw The Aftermath not sure if I ever got the complete truth .

 

Extending them and being able to weld more surface area is always better. This is how the majority of major manufacturers do their recovery points. But I’m sure it would be fine for surface welding as long as you’re running 240 and know how to get serious material penetration. If you are skeptical on your abilities probably best to expend them to get more weld surface area

This

 

As long as it works for what you need.

Far to much yellow to scary for me I have enough nightmares from Yellow Welders

 

Thanks Everyone for commenting,
I should have mentioned that I'm running a 120v Lincoln Migpack 140 setup for MIG with .030 wire, where as I don't have formal training I think I'll run them through to get more surface area.

 

Picked up this Furick #8 kit from Weld Monger during their sale.

 

The bed rack is nearly done...




First coat of paint curing, and will be doing the second coat and some touch up in spots I missed this week.

Will be going on the truck on my next off hitch. And the roof top tent is scheduled for delivery Tuesday. And a shakedown trip with it all at the end of the month.

Tick tock.. tick tock.. nothing like a hard deadline to move a project along

 

Latest project. Wanted somewhere for our spoiled dogs to be comfortable while out exploring..., and some dust free storage for whatever else we are bringing.

 

Had to swap to my backup tank today and had to make this:

 

Bwahaha!