Custom steel truck bumper and brush guard from scratch.....

[RDrancher]

Nice work on the bumper there AK. Ranch Hand or copy cats are about all I see around here, but I really like how yours fits nice and tight to the truck.

 

[Shield Arc]

AKweldshop I read somewhere all you do is butcher farm equipment!
I' am so impressed with your fabrication skills:thumbsup:. Hard to believe how young you are.

 

[AKweldshop]

Nice work on the bumper there AK. Ranch Hand or copy cats are about all I see around here, but I really like how yours fits nice and tight to the truck.

Thanks.
I don't like a big bulky bumper....

Prolly gonna build another one soon for our 95 cummins.

AKweldshop I read somewhere all you do is butcher farm equipment!


I' am so impressed with your fabrication skills:thumbsup:. Hard to believe how young you are.

Historically not all of my farm repairs have been textbook, but they always get the job done.

Just about every thread I post you jump in and say how impressed you are with me for having all the skills to have done all these projects being how young I am.
Can't you say something else for a change?

 

[Shield Arc]

Just about every thread I post you jump in and say how impressed you are with me for having all the skills to have done all these projects being how young I am.
Can't you say something else for a change?

Well I' am impressed with your skills!:thumbsup: If I was still running work, I'd hire you in a New York second!

 

[AKweldshop]

Well I' am impressed with your skills!:thumbsup: If I was still running work, I'd hire you in a New York second!

That really means a lot, Carl. I know we have nothing but respect for eachother.

One day we need to meet up.
Keyboards don't do us justice.

 

[Shield Arc]

I sure could have used your help on this project in California. As beautiful as your vertical up hill welds look. We replaced 1-mile of pipe tray in this Chevron refinery. Drove pipe piles, welded plates on top of the pile after cut to grade. Then an I-beam frame. All kinds of vertical up hill welding. I fired the entire welding crew, twice. Ended up hiring Pipe Fitter Welders to do the project.

 

[AKweldshop]

I sure could have used your help on this project in California. As beautiful as your vertical up hill welds look. We replaced 1-mile of pipe tray in this Chevron refinery. Drove pipe piles, welded plates on top of the pile after cut to grade. Then an I-beam frame. All kinds of vertical up hill welding. I fired the entire welding crew, twice. Ended up hiring Pipe Fitter Welders to do the project.

That woulda been awesome.
We need to have a voice conversation sometime.
I graduate this june and am considering union career.

One of my best friends has been in the pile drivers here for about 15 years.
He says steam fitters is much better but I like structural stuff.

 

[Shield Arc]

Steam Fitters is a lot better union. But the Pile Driver's union is easier to get into.
In 1982 another guy, and my self welded all the concrete deck panels together for the City of Dillingham dock. I was making $3,050.00 a week there.