MRCONCDID
Silver Member
I will be the first to say I am cheap, some things I just can't seem to want to pay for or at least not as much as they want for it.
Heres what I did.
I need/wanted a hard canopy.
shopped around and for a alluminum on for 325$ ouch and a tin one for 200$
fiberglass for 400$
I have some skills so I made one for 8$ insted
At the local salvage yard (heaven) I found a
4x4x1/4 road sign made of alluminum paid $6 for it
1- 10ft piece of 1 in round pipe and bent it into a squared-U
1-10ft of 1inch pipe insulation foam and some self tapping screws 2$
welded 2-2 1/4x2 1/4x3 box to my ROPS up and down
slid inside a piece of 2 in about 10in long and drilled for a bolt or pin.
welded 1/8 triangle to the 2in and the round pipe were they met for a gussett
painted and wrapped the round pipe with the insullation and screwed through the sign/insulation into the pipe, the insulation is for any sound or vibration.which I have none!
so now I have a alluminum 4x4 canopy with a steel frame and so far on a trailer I have had it up to 75mph with not problems and it is really tuff on tree limbs too.
side note my sign says "men at work" on it and it faces up the reflective coating should help with the suns heat and you could grind it off if you wanted to. I like having the "men at work" sign just incase the wife thinks Im out playing and not working...again
I have 2 orders for the cheap canopys one for a zero trun and the other for a deere. being cheap is begaining to cost me.
Heres what I did.
I need/wanted a hard canopy.
shopped around and for a alluminum on for 325$ ouch and a tin one for 200$
fiberglass for 400$
I have some skills so I made one for 8$ insted
At the local salvage yard (heaven) I found a
4x4x1/4 road sign made of alluminum paid $6 for it
1- 10ft piece of 1 in round pipe and bent it into a squared-U
1-10ft of 1inch pipe insulation foam and some self tapping screws 2$
welded 2-2 1/4x2 1/4x3 box to my ROPS up and down
slid inside a piece of 2 in about 10in long and drilled for a bolt or pin.
welded 1/8 triangle to the 2in and the round pipe were they met for a gussett
painted and wrapped the round pipe with the insullation and screwed through the sign/insulation into the pipe, the insulation is for any sound or vibration.which I have none!
so now I have a alluminum 4x4 canopy with a steel frame and so far on a trailer I have had it up to 75mph with not problems and it is really tuff on tree limbs too.
side note my sign says "men at work" on it and it faces up the reflective coating should help with the suns heat and you could grind it off if you wanted to. I like having the "men at work" sign just incase the wife thinks Im out playing and not working...again
I have 2 orders for the cheap canopys one for a zero trun and the other for a deere. being cheap is begaining to cost me.