any body wanna build one of these for me?

 

sure.....$2000

 

haha man sorry.. i was thinkin more of like 200 plus cost of supplies...

 

they sell them mass production. there is one sitting at a truck ship here in kc mo

 

I am looking at the cut frame, and frame caps, plus the bracing, and couldn't help but think this is far from a production bumper.
There is quite a bit of work there. Some easy stuffm but more hours than meet the eye.

 

yeah its the same bumper with added support and welded to the frame. I have looked at it many times. I will dig up a pictures from my brothers off his bronco, which is the same but not welded.

 

this one had the frame cut at an angle.. i want to find the same thing but with a little more coverage of the radiator.. like diamond plate the bottom section between the bars connected to the frame... where can i get one that is mass produced?

 

Hey brazzealI6f150 take a look at my bumper in my gallery.

 

$200 to build a bumper is a kick in the face to fabricators. If you want a good bumper that actually has function, $200 won't get you too far. Looking at that pre runner bumper, I feel its made for looks. I doubt it will hold up for any impact...But if your looking for a bumper just to put lights on, you can probably pick one up for $200

 

ha i know it is but im a little tight with my money.. it wont take more than a day to build it if you have all the tools you need.. hell 200 bucks for an easy days work is reasonable to me.. plus i pay cost of materials.. i dont want to cut an angle in my bumper.. i also want diamond plate along the bottom so you cant see the frame or any engine components like my radiator.. i want an cleaner look.

 

> hell 200 bucks for an easy days work is reasonable to me..

When I am all done tacking welding a nice bumper or trailer together, I am willing to pay a professional welder to come over and weld everything for $50 an hour, I would round up the time to a full hour, and pay an extra hour for travel time. And be thankful he showed up for less then 8 hours.

Your $200 would cover just about three hours of my own time. That would be just enough to pull your bumper and then cut, drill, and bolt a straight piece of 8" C-channel to your frame unpainted.

FWIW

That doesn't even look like 2" tubing. Looks like 1.5". I wouldn't make a tube bumper out of anything less then 2" x 1/8" for a small BII, never mind a full sized truck.

>it wont take more than a day to build it if you have all the tools you need

My 2" tube cutter (joint jigger) cost more then $200 ...

My holesaws which you need to do fishmouth cuts are not exactly cheap and they don't last forever even when you use lots of oil.

Nice to dream for $200, getting someone to build it in reality for $200 is another story.

When I need a cheap $200 off road bumper, I haunt my local pullapart salvage yard and look for beat up 70s trucks that were used on the farm. You can usually find 1-2 with 300 pounds of steel hanging off the front or back.

 

shoot, id say theres easily more than one day into that bumper. my dads a certified welder and by the time you do all the cuts, line everything up, do all that stuff, prolly easily 2 days.

 

if your making a new style and custom fitting it to the truck, it will take more then a day. If your familiar with tube bending ect and have made one before it wont take quite so long...

 

Take a lookinto my gallery...not a bumper but one hellova brush guard....1 1/2" gas pipe tubing...completely welded including the beveled edge gas 90's....doesn't do too horrible....you know little stuff...holdin lights,blockin brush.....you know...just little stuff like pushing shot up cars and 8 inch diameter pine trees and half fallen logs....doesn't do too bad at all considering the pipe was free the 90's were free,the push bar was 20 bucks,the 2inch holesaw bit was 10bucks(cut holes through the lateral supports of the priginal pushbar to slide the pipe through and weld it in to give it some rigidity)the spools of wire ran me about 14 bucks total...and only used bout a roll n a quarter...the lights were in the garage as well as the flat black paint and scrap pieces for the light tabs.2000 bucks?You say that's a good deal?I laugh in your face....the stuff I build may not be assembly lined or (pretty) but you know form and function right?form is just fine gives the truck good lowprotection...and function?need I say more?Naw.......You know.....built a deer hoist that slides into my 2 inch reciever outta the same tubing...the very next day...one day to build the gaurd the other took an afternoon to build the hoist.....I weigh 230...my buddy weighs 280..we were both hangin off of the hoist.....didn't bow or give in any way.......not bad for bein what?free......2000 dollars...I got better things I could spend what little money I have on than payin some half a** "mechanic" to attach my "bumper" to my truck.......good luck with that.200 dollars doesn't seem unreasonable...may not be pretty or have robotic welds.......but Made In USA means nothing unless it was manufactured by a human being.....way to support downsizing...I'd build ya somethin for 200 bucks...I live in florida.Just my .02

 

davids88bronco on FSB build custom bumbers like that, but they will be more structurally sound than that one.

Ditto on what 75F350, and the owner of that Bko most likely built his own bumper.

One like that would probably run you $700, but thats including materials. If anything, it would be more expensive. For that cost it is more worth it to me to build a tube bender, make a tube notching jig, and keep the tools afterwards. That of course, is assuming you already have a welder, cut-off wheel/grinder, & a drill press for the tube notching. Or if you have a torch/plasma cutter you could skip the tube notcher and manage... but getting the angles right w/out a tube notcher and with a torch/plasma cutter is a lot harder and not half as clean, therefore not as strong.

Plan on spending far more than $200 unless you have some good friends w/ tools who will take a lot of beer in trade for helping out...