I have no customers? I work for 4 hours then come home. 5 days a week. pay myself? still don't understand that one. I guess your saying since you decide to work for your self you miss out on customers.

don't have any customers but I have a shop and some welding matieral. I'll try to figure out a cost of something

 

To some ppl, it isn't worth their time to custom build stuff, or they may not have the time or the capabilities.

Then there is the other side of that. Its a hobby to some ppl. They will spend $50 in material and a day building something they could have bought for $75, pretty much just to say they built it. I like to build stuff during my "free" time, cause I cant really afford to pay myself lol.

 

That's why you work on your stuff during your "free" time lol. I know that's one of the down falls to working for yourself, you don't get a lot of free time. IMOP, there has to be a separation between business and personal time. But I do get that you may not want to spend your personal time doing the same thing you during your business time.

I also get that at times it isn't worth it to build stuff. In fact, I just bought a trail gear battery box for my optima battery. I could have built it, but for how cheap they are it wasn't worth it. I also bought the TG sas kit, but that was because it was cheaper to buy the kit than build it myself lol (got it on sale for $999 shipped).

 

Here are some designs i drew on paper. Now for the mock up version

 

I made a video of my front and rear bumper builds. Pretty simple design and construction because I have basic tools and experience, but might give you some ideas...

 

Does that show up?

If not, try this:
http://s9.photobucket.com/user/pgrag...4d4af.jpg.html

This is a design I'm about to get cnc cut from 3/16th steel.. I can get anything I need made from 3/8ths AR500 lol...

Anyway, this is from the WARN bumper shown by someone above... Feel free to throw me some feedback. Happy to send you the file if you want... it's not finalized, but from the measurements I've taken, it should be a good start to a kit bumper... Once I get the 220v in my garage, I'll be using my lincoln electric 180 to weld it up ...

Sorry to thread jack lol

 

That was a great video. I think the bumper turned out awesome.

 

Thanks man! Turned out better than I thought. Lotsa grinding goes along way to coverup poor welding skills!

 

Hi, don't want to appear as a little boy but I want to build mine to. I have ever weld my roof rack (I will write an article). My question is about COPS, I assume that on the roof they don't really check... Before working on my bumper, my first question is : Can I really do that ?

 

not sure about the cops in canada, but I've seen ppl drive with bumpers made from wood haha.. I'm in Vancouver, WA though...

 

Here's the one I built, Based it off of a winch mount I had bent up that is similar to TG but isn't from them. main structure is 1/4 inch, skin is 3/16, the gussets on the front are 1/2" plate that I integrated the clevis mounts into. Frenched the reciever mount so it is seamless from the front. Side mounts are sch 40 pipe, .190 wall thickness, same with the tube work. Beefed up the frame mounts too with 1/4 all the way around, not just the front. Also added 2 mounts on top to help pull in line with the reciever hitch. Drew it all up in solidworks, had it cut out, and started building.