Long Travel BS Thread

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awesome thanks!

hahah

 

I meant to post this one...

 

ask anthony ( DTF ). he made it years ago.

i was stuck and when my buddy tried to pull me out it popped then got bent haha.

at least im not the only one

 

Holy fuck! That was just from being pulled out?????

 

hahaha mine was from being pulled out too...tiny pull and bam....bumpers done

 

yeaaahhhhh.. haha.



time for a new one i guess.

 

I'm in shock both of those we from just being pulled out!!!!

 

Ah ha! I was trying to figure out how the hell you do that out in the sand. Makes sense. Did you hook the strap up to the driver's side corner of the bumper or did it slide out there when he pulled?

 

The bumpers may bend, but that's not a bad thing Landon. It's good to still have a crumple zone on a non caged and even a caged truck.

 

i swear mine was made out of conduit hahaha...after it bent i was able to rip the whole end off

 

yeah. i stopped on the top of a dune and didnt realize my wheel wasnt straight so when i straightened it, the front tires kinda dug into the sand. my buddy couldnt get behind me so pullled up the dune and just tried pulling me down and yeahhh.. didnt work out as we though hahaha.

after that happened, we were able to push it out

 

From just the force of being pulled out? That's bad no matter what. I get engineered weak points but not this bad.

 

damn repost

 

100% possible to tow from a tube bumper/tire carrier if it's properly integrated into the frame and has strength built into the right areas.

this one has towed a 6500lb boat thousands of miles

pre hitch gussets





gussets

 

Bryan and I started 18th off the line and we finished 5th. The race course turned into a junk yard after the 1st lap.

 

I Pulled My Brother In LawsTaco Out With An Engage Bumper Vs. My Homemade Bumper And His Twisted Like That Too..Mine Held Strong

 

I've yanked people out with my all pro

 

My DTF bumper has been used to pull me out 3 separate times cuz I was trying to crawl behind a 4x4 and it hasnt even tweaked. Plus took out the whole driver side head light and fender to the wheel on a Border Patrol vehicle and still going strong... And slid on the bumper at Superstition. Probably the only thing that kept me from going end over end.... So BIG PROPS to DTF!!

 

Oh damn!? Yeah I built Nate's bumper a million and a half years ago then he sold it to Bryan. My quality is far better now and I'm now using a 220 machine. It was all .120 wall HREW and had some cold lap. I'm really surprised it lasted this long with all the beatings it took on both trucks.

 

nice.



im not bagging on dtf at all though if thats what you think. it was his first or second bumper he ever built. that bumper has been to hell and back quite a few times. if i never wouldve gotten stuck, it never wouldve happened. when i originally go hit head on by a sand rail, im pretty sure that ended up cracking the welds. its a powdercoated bumper and after that, i started to see a little rust gather up where the weld was so it was almost a matter of time before the weld broke. it has my stamp of approval. i beat the living shit out of it.