Started on a new front bumper today. Using 2" OD .12" wall tube. Here's a couple pics, they're miserable quality because I forgot my camera and took them with my cell.

Had to clean up the tube first as it was a bit rusty from sitting around in the shop for far to long.

Once that was done I bent an 85" piece into this:


and here's a couple pics of what I accomplished in the 3 hours I worked on it today:




It's far from complete now, needs quite a bit of bracing and some new skid plates but it's a start.

 

Looks cool!

 

nice start

 

Looks like a good starting point

Lucky guy, having those kinda tools on hand!

 

awesome!

just going for a tube bumper with a skid and lights, or are you making it into a winch bumper too?

 

What bender are you using?

 

It's mostly for skids. I ordered a couple crappy 100w halogens that I'll probably mount on it as well but that's more of an afterthought.
I like to go fast and a winch would just weigh me down

It's a JD squared.

 

haha, right on

just curious, cause it didn't look like there was a whole lotta room for a winch there behind it

like others said, great start!

can't wait to see the final result

 

Man that looks nice!

 

i got a random pipe bender lying around in my garage, along with my welder... just gotta go get the 2" pipe and make a bumper

looks good xD. Give it a lil mini stinger and maybe some eyebrows like DIRTCO's bumper.