Welding Tips and Tricks

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:27 am**

After scoring some free drops from my steel supplier and having a piece of 2 1/2" square tube in my pile I had to build a hitch for my truck. It bolts on where the ball bolts to the bumper and to the bumper/frame mount. I drive a Chevy S10 so it won't be towing much. I TIG welded the whole thing. I primed it tonight and am picking up the two bolts needed tomorrow then paint it black and bolt on my truck. Will update tomorrow.

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:20 am**

Matt,
When the guy gave you that free metal he probably didn't realize that you were going to use it to build a trailer hitch for your truck so you could come back with a trailer to haul more free metal. Kinda like feeding a stray cat. I'm guessing soon you'll being on here with a post asking if anybody knows a good steel supplier around Gassaway.

Len

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:24 am**

Plus now that you have a hitch on your Chevy, every time you look in the rearview mirror you'll find a Ford trying to catch a ride home after a breakdown. I used to happen to me all the time, it's a curse.

Len

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 2:59 am**

Tig snob alert !!!

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:03 am**

Braehill wrote:Plus now that you have a hitch on your Chevy, every time you look in the rearview mirror you'll find a Ford trying to catch a ride home after a breakdown. I used to happen to me all the time, it's a curse.

Len

LOL

That happened to me recently.... the curse of having a car trailer. I called it a Ford, but it was really a Mercury.

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:36 am**

I'm not a TIG snob it's just that my mig welder is too small to handle 1/4" and I didn't want to open my only can of Excalibur 7018 and the only other rods I had were some wet 6013 so I opted for TIG

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2015 5:39 pm**

Finished and on the truck

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2015 5:24 pm**

AKweldshop wrote:Tig snob alert !!!

Sounds like someone is jealous!

-Jonathan

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 7:56 pm**

Matt, you cant seriously be thinking about hauling anything with that hitch. It will never hold anything, what is wrong with you!!!!!!

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:09 pm**

It is to display hitch covers and a place to hook a chain in case I need pulled that is mainly it. I guarantee it will hold up to whatever the truck can move. It is only a 2wd 4cylinder truck so it will power out before it breaks.

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:16 pm**

This thing is bolted in three places, two are indirectly bolted to the frame one is where the ball bolts to tow with anyways so I know it isn't going to break and anything that truck can move and stop safely will never break that hitch!

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:28 pm**

Matt I was just teasing you since you defended it so hard on the Facebook page lol

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:30 pm**

I figured that out after I posted lol I don't see why people are so mad about it I see nothing wrong with the design and I ran 2passes into each joint so I know it's solid

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:32 pm**

Matt,
I say bring it up and we can hook your "bumper hitch"

to mine and we will see if it holds up.
-Jonathan

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:34 pm**

Hey I will take you on!!!! I hope your GMC has a strong frame! lol

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2015 10:44 pm**

I tried it out today, did good!
http://youtu.be/Tj2D3mRuRVA

Posted: **Mon Mar 16, 2015 10:08 pm**

To all my haters look what I found at tractor supply

at least mine bolts to the frame in 2 places

Posted: **Tue Mar 17, 2015 8:14 am**

I like your new signature

...I got my popcorn out to watch this thread but no one is taking the bait

I'm an old Ford guy who saw the light and upgraded to Chevy....Ford just plain sux!

Posted: **Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:24 pm**

exnailpounder wrote:I like your new signature ...I got my popcorn out to watch this thread but no one is taking the bait I'm an old Ford guy who saw the light and upgraded to Chevy....Ford just plain sux!

I'll have you know I pulled an 8000# camper (plus about a ton of our possessions in the truck and the camper) from the middle of Iowa to the south end of Louisiana with an F-150 with a friggin' 4.2L SIX-CYLINDER gas engine! It would do 70 on the interstate, too! When my wife told our (ASE) mechanic buddy, he refused to believe her, and she popped the hood for him.

Every maker has trucks that suck, and every maker has trucks that triumphs. It's the luck of the draw.

I drive a Dodge Ram I bought sight-unseen (Okay, my wife and a friend went and checked it out for me) from craigslist four years ago.

Steve S

Posted: **Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:43 pm**

I plan on testing the hitch this weekend. I have over a grand worth of deliveries and projects and I need some extra space so my neighbor is loaning me his 4x8 utility trailer. Unfortunately tonight we were rebuilding my trucks rear end so hoping that holds lol

Posted: **Wed Mar 18, 2015 6:46 pm**

mcoe wrote:... we were rebuilding my trucks rear end ...

Cosmetic surgery? Liposuction? Got "hail damage"?

Steve S

Posted: **Wed Mar 18, 2015 8:45 pm**

Otto Nobedder wrote:
exnailpounder wrote:I like your new signature ...I got my popcorn out to watch this thread but no one is taking the bait I'm an old Ford guy who saw the light and upgraded to Chevy....Ford just plain sux!
I'll have you know I pulled an 8000# camper (plus about a ton of our possessions in the truck and the camper) from the middle of Iowa to the south end of Louisiana with an F-150 with a friggin' 4.2L SIX-CYLINDER gas engine! It would do 70 on the interstate, too! When my wife told our (ASE) mechanic buddy, he refused to believe her, and she popped the hood for him.

Every maker has trucks that suck, and every maker has trucks that triumphs. It's the luck of the draw.
Was that downhill...muhahahahaha?
I drive a Dodge Ram I bought sight-unseen (Okay, my wife and a friend went and checked it out for me) from craigslist four years ago.

Steve S

Posted: **Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:45 am**

Lipo the hitch made my rear end look too big

Posted: **Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:03 pm**

mcoe wrote:Lipo the hitch made my rear end look too big

Does my drop-hitch make my arse look fat?

LOL!

Posted: **Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:13 pm**

Otto Nobedder wrote:
mcoe wrote:Lipo the hitch made my rear end look too big
Does my drop-hitch make my arse look fat?

LOL!

NO....its your FORD.....bwahahahahaha!

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