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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #650 on: May 27, 2015, 09:02:38 PM »
don, that is the most intense bumper i've seen short of a russian dreadknot class train. you remember the original cow catcher square d came with? can you post side by side pics?
I'll see what I can find Darren...But I don't have any head on shots of the thing because it is close the garage wall.
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« Reply #651 on: May 27, 2015, 09:04:55 PM »
Darren, here you are:

Before, and almost after

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« Reply #652 on: May 27, 2015, 09:12:55 PM »
that is awesome. come a long way! now we can all see the crazy amount of change and work put in. love it and well done. carry on!
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« Reply #653 on: May 27, 2015, 09:33:49 PM »
that is awesome. come a long way! now we can all see the crazy amount of change and work put in. love it and well done. carry on!

Thank ya sir! Wilco!
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« Reply #654 on: May 27, 2015, 11:05:42 PM »
Sheesh, that was one ugly cow catcher.
The new refined model is so much cleaner and probably stronger.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #655 on: May 27, 2015, 11:21:05 PM »
Hard to believe that's the same truck.
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« Reply #656 on: May 28, 2015, 01:24:53 AM »
That first bumper was ugly, but I bet it would do the job.

9000 rnds? Must have been 7.62 as 556 would only weigh 270#, about a dressed out soldier. Still, 90 seconds from both could do lots of damage!!
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« Reply #657 on: May 28, 2015, 07:14:05 AM »
Looking good Don...I am looking forward to the next phase. 


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« Reply #658 on: May 28, 2015, 08:19:43 AM »
Looking good Don...I am looking forward to the next phase.
I think we're all hoping the next phase is the Start It Up phase!
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #659 on: May 28, 2015, 08:40:39 AM »
That firs bumper was ugly, but I bet it would do the job.

9000 rnds? Must have been 7.62 as 556 would only weigh 270#, about a dressed out soldier. Still, 90 seconds from both could do lots of damage!!
Yup, Dillon GAU-17 is 7.62 NATO
No really long bursts, not needed
2-3 second bursts unless making a pass and hosing up an area of suspected enemy. That would get them moving or get them shot, one of the two.
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« Reply #660 on: May 28, 2015, 09:41:30 AM »
Looking good Don...I am looking forward to the next phase.
I think we're all hoping the next phase is the Start It Up phase!

Patience and a squirrel

Patience is a gift...

Patience my friend, patience

Patience is a virtue

Just think about or try to envision one of those frosty mornings and you're sittin' agin (Kentucky talk) a big oak tree. Right in between two big roots that make a leaf and loam filled natural chair of sorts. The canvas jacket you're wearing hasn't been washed in years. You don't wash a hunting jacket you see because it might give off a scent...a scent an animal could smell. The feel of that heavy canvas and the smell of years or woodland wear and tear is something of the inner soul. Something you couldn't describe for there are no words for things such as this experience.

The sun is just rising and in the silence of the morning you hear it, a brush of leaves...subtle, but he's there. Like a big airy broom, a medium sized branch festooned with mid fall leaves and nuts has just swished across another. But there is no breeze on this chilly morning, no reason that should have happened. No reason save for one. A big red squirrel is working the nearby oak, a smaller one, but all the cuttings scattered around tell you that that big ole boy is heading your way.

The 12 gage you're holding was your daddy's side by side and you can smell the metal and feel the memories it holds

With me so far?? Hang in there...

Your dad and you sat in this very same spot when you were only 8 years old and you remember seeing the sunlight of that long ago morning shining right through a gray squirrel's tail. It made a different light, almost a reflection, no perhaps a glint, but it was different, and for some unknown reason, everything about that time, that place, burned into your memory. The experience of that moment got in so deep that in the worst of times you would somehow drift back to this day and the memory would bring a inner smile, and provide a comfort. Does God himself give us such memories?

You think about it from time to time since he passed, and the thought always brings you right back to that exact same moment. And over the many long and eventful years, that one constant remains. One chilly morning, one oak tree and a dad and a gun.

That squirrel is moving and getting noisier. He must feel there are no predators around because he is now just stuffing on the acorns. You can hear the bits of chewed acorn shells hitting the ground and one just nips a blade of grass about 75 feet away. You think that it's amazing how acute your senses have become that you actually saw that, and you now know exactly where that guy is in the adjacent tree.

You consider standing slowly and moving over to get a good shot. You have one barrel full choke, the second trigger, and one modified. Both have some high-brass #6 chambered, so even right here, at this distance, you just might be able to connect, but he's way up in this 80 foot tree now and covered by a tangle of lower branches. But if you stand you'll ruin the moment. Dad didn't stand. He just waited. And as if led by a God driven magnet, that big gray from long ago came ever closer and closer. I remember the excitement as I anticipated the shot. My dad, the WW2 bomber pilot with his trusty Stevens 12 gage. Oh that coveted gun, with it's mid twentieth century mix of steel and checkered wood that now rests in a large walnut gun case just 6 feet away. It's lost some of it's luster, but the memories it makes causes that thing to be some sort of psychological emotion generator, it has a power all it's own. I have seen the magic of that shotgun pour out on my sons. I have witnessed how their facial expressions changed as they shouldered the thing and sighted down a barrel that their father and grand father looked across in decades past.

No to stalk that squirrel would be wrong. He will come, he will line up and I will get that shot. And he will drop just a few feet from me and know what? I won't rush over to pick up the catch. No, I'll just sit patiently while the last echo of the shot and the thump from the eighty odd foot fall fades and silence of a woodland morning returns like waves washing a sand castle flat. I'll savor the smell as I slowly break open and eject the still warm spent shell and load another.

There are other squirrels out by now and their memory is short. And I have a commanding view over the largest oak in the area above me. No there will be more, several if I'm lucky. And all the while the mist is settling in like a magical healing machine enveloping me and everything around. Filling my soul with it's musty aroma that pins me forever to this spot and place.

While thinking of this morning and that early frosty morning of my boyhood, I hear it...a bit distant, but another branch just moved...

Patience, yes patience, is really a gift my friend
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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #661 on: May 28, 2015, 10:17:18 AM »
Looking good Don...I am looking forward to the next phase. 



Well, I need to get my posterior in gear and find that TV cable and solve the shifter bushing problem, and connect the brakes and fix some binding in the accelerator pedal or cable...

But I'm all into grindin' and sparkin

Eyeing those rear spring mounts, but also thinkin' about that wrap around rear bumper deal...

Then there's the lunar landing module lookin' rear hatch I've been cipherin' on...

Who knows what's coming up next? Heck I don't even know!

Think I'll just go cut grass and think about it
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« Reply #662 on: May 28, 2015, 01:38:17 PM »
"That would get them moving or get them shot, one of the two."

This cracked me up...  Pretty much straight forward, move or get shot, lol....

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« Reply #663 on: May 28, 2015, 01:52:51 PM »

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Patience, yes patience, is really a gift my friend
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Dang that put me in the moment. Reminds me of my youth.

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« Reply #664 on: May 28, 2015, 02:37:16 PM »
"That would get them moving or get them shot, one of the two."

This cracked me up...  Pretty much straight forward, move or get shot, lol....

Or move and get shot!
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« Reply #665 on: May 28, 2015, 05:11:41 PM »
Wow Don. You painted a picture that I could not only see, but feel, smell and remember.
Reminded me of a far to warm November afternoon. Sitting with my dad, sun driving down on us, waiting overlooking the river valley waiting for white tails. The wear of the early morning trek and sit, the numerous bluffs pushed and the hot afternoon sun put us to sleep. An hour, perhaps two, neitherof us really know.
And patience, yes. Just givin ya the gears, there are still a few bones to connect!

Thanks for the story, and build on!
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #666 on: May 29, 2015, 03:35:26 AM »
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« Reply #667 on: May 29, 2015, 06:37:43 AM »
Build Thread Trash-up Installment 25b: 

Vertigo- Dr. said that I'm fat, eat too much salt and I have a tiny hole in my eardrum!  He did some manipulation tests, hanging my head off the table several different ways and times, making me keep my eyes open- I think he just thought it was funny watching my eyes rattle around trying to find level!  Almost puked and broke-out in nausea induced sweats. Looking at a Fit Bit to tattle on me to myself on what I'm NOT doing enough of and log it so I can't fudge the numbers.  :(

FitBit= home monitoring device invented for those convicted of being outta shape! LOL-
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« Reply #668 on: May 29, 2015, 07:29:58 AM »
Sounds like you are making progress, does he think that losing weight will help the ear problem or did he just want to make you feel bad?

Half of America is overweight but I don't see them all woozy and vomiting from it.
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« Reply #669 on: May 29, 2015, 09:03:31 PM »
Have a few things to show on the DTT (Don't trash thread)

If anyone remembers, I was building and commenting on a truck I called SquareD, anyone remember?  ;)

OK, for those who do

Let's pull that heavy bumper off:
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« Reply #670 on: May 29, 2015, 09:05:09 PM »
Without the winch, it's heavy, with the winch it becomes the immovable object you always hear about. So now you know what it looks like!

With several hundred pounds off the front end the springs came back a little
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« Reply #671 on: May 29, 2015, 09:06:02 PM »
It's a beastly thing!
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« Reply #672 on: May 29, 2015, 09:08:53 PM »
After using a wire brush on it to clean it somewhat, the sparks went flying everywhere. Almost caught Ranger on fire, but he had been playing in water so the sparks just went out when they hit him!

What kind of a dog will just sit there in a shower of sparks? He doesn't seem to mind very much!

I welded the inside first, skipping from side to side
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« Reply #673 on: May 29, 2015, 09:10:50 PM »
Here is where it starts to get really strong. I am identifying spots where I can add in a strip of .250 steel to box in a section and tie it to other areas. Here is one such area
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« Reply #674 on: May 29, 2015, 09:12:51 PM »
And another.

The steel at the outside wing is now over 1/2" thick!
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« Reply #675 on: May 29, 2015, 09:14:01 PM »
Up to this point I used an entire spool of wire!
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« Reply #676 on: May 29, 2015, 09:15:33 PM »
Another piece of 1/4" steel reinforcing critical areas
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« Reply #677 on: May 29, 2015, 09:18:45 PM »
I'll be grinding on this for awhile (Days??)

But from here on is where I make it or break it. So far it fits, is strong, does the job, and I like it.

From here on I get a chance to make it look good or like something Frankenstein built with his spare body parts
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« Reply #678 on: May 29, 2015, 09:19:42 PM »
And that's it for another build (welding) day, numba 260
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« Reply #679 on: May 29, 2015, 10:13:00 PM »
Looking good Don. 
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« Reply #680 on: May 29, 2015, 10:24:20 PM »
Thank ya!
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« Reply #681 on: May 30, 2015, 02:16:36 AM »
Sweet and I like the reinforcements,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Adding a bar on the lower tube outriggers would match the center upright nice.
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« Reply #682 on: May 30, 2015, 10:44:46 AM »
Sweet and I like the reinforcements,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Adding a bar on the lower tube outriggers would match the center upright nice.
Where were you thinking?

I wanted to go around the headlights with something but with the 1.75" die and it's larger radius, I couldn't get a bend I liked in there.

Open to suggestions

Like a sketch or something...

And I will be adding more reinforcing along the bottom and inside as well. I hear they are puttin' a bit more plastic reinforced metal in those Kias!
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« Reply #683 on: May 30, 2015, 11:18:52 AM »
The only suggestion I would have is from a strucural perspective.  That top outside edge relies solely on the bending strength of the tubing where it adjoins the center rib up top and the bumper at the lower attachment.  That makes it a weak point in a Kia removal exercise.  In looking at the original bumper pic when you first picked it up, it seems that a horizontal tube between the outer and inner verticals is impossible without obstructing the light or turn signal.

Barring that, a gusset of some kind from the back side of that outer vertical to the trailing edge of the bumper where it turns to go back along the fender would be the only suggestion I would have.
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« Reply #684 on: May 30, 2015, 11:30:13 AM »
Here are some thoughts on paper.

Gusset around the side and/or carrying that lower horizontal tube over and up to meet the top most tube.  The lower horizontal option would only give you minor strengthening and potentially block lights or turn signals.
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« Reply #685 on: May 30, 2015, 11:32:59 AM »
I would vote for the gusset and the connecting of that second horizontal to the top rail.  My redneck engineering says a doubling of strength at the outer corner based on halving the leverage point to attachment.
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« Reply #686 on: May 30, 2015, 11:35:24 AM »
I struggled until you put it on paper. Those additions I would also agree to add significant strength.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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« Reply #687 on: May 30, 2015, 11:37:41 AM »
A picture is worth a thousand words..... :-)
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« Reply #688 on: May 30, 2015, 11:45:02 AM »
Gotta say, that outward bound gusset looking all mad-max has got me thinkin'  8)

I ordered another stick of the DOM, isn't in yet. Figured I needed it for the rear bumper tire rack anyway...
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« Reply #689 on: May 30, 2015, 12:01:40 PM »
Little better drawing.  I don't think the lower brace is worth even mentioning but the other two...
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« Reply #690 on: May 30, 2015, 12:46:21 PM »
Since you're drawing

See that section of grill running down inside of the headlight and parking light?

What would it look like with a new vertical there along with a lateral which passes just under the headlight, connects to the vertical, then another horizontal coming off the stub on the middle horizontal?

That along with something like that corner gusset would "Grid up" and tighten up everything considerably
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« Reply #691 on: May 30, 2015, 12:52:53 PM »
Since you're drawing

See that section of grill running down inside of the headlight and parking light?

What would it look like with a new vertical there along with a lateral which passes just under the headlight, connects to the vertical, then another horizontal coming off the stub on the middle horizontal?

That along with something like that corner gusset would "Grid up" and tighten up everything considerably

I think I might have been experiencing a Vulcan Mind Tap - is this what you'z thinkin'?
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« Reply #692 on: May 30, 2015, 01:05:31 PM »
Something like this?  You would graduate from Kia to Tundra's
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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #693 on: May 30, 2015, 02:37:31 PM »
who left the box crayons open for these 2 to play with?!

just kidding guys, sometimes you have to get a little old school to have it make sense.
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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #694 on: May 30, 2015, 02:44:53 PM »
who left the box crayons open for these 2 to play with?!

just kidding guys, sometimes you have to get a little old school to have it make sense.

Don't forget Nate- an Art Teacher can send you some to play with.  'Course where you're at, they'll melt!

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« Reply #695 on: May 30, 2015, 02:48:26 PM »
it is dry as a bone here.  we don't get much in the way of moisture being in a desert environment and at an elevation of almost 4000 ft.
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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #696 on: May 30, 2015, 04:48:34 PM »
Nate, I'll have you know it was a Sharpie!!  That's like middle school and not grade school....

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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #697 on: May 30, 2015, 05:56:13 PM »
I like some of the upper tubes I see already, but here is where I mean on the tube supports.

Cap them like the pushbar uprights.
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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #698 on: May 30, 2015, 08:46:25 PM »
I like some of the upper tubes I see already, but here is where I mean on the tube supports.

Cap them like the pushbar uprights.

Copy that, those other plates will get a 3/16" X 3/4" strap welded on top to make an "I" beam out of them

As for more tubing...thinking about it

I do like the idea of that exaggerated gusset RN came up with.

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Re: SquareD Part 6 Starting to finish!!!
« Reply #699 on: May 30, 2015, 08:52:12 PM »
Capping the mounts will look good and the gusset will help for sure.

As for the upper tube, I'm sure you will think of something.

How are you going to grind all that covered up?
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