i wanted to tell y'all about a project that i've been working on for the past few weeks. "tow brackets" for the front of my ford ranger pick up. (i'm not going to use them as tow brackets but as a "hard point" to hang a (removable) ladder rack on.) (and maybe also a "get-out-of-my-way" ram with spikes on it) first pic is of a commercially available tow bracket. costs somewhere around $350. i didn't want to spend that kind of money on it. i'm assuming it actually ended up costing more to build it myself in time and energy... but cost less in materials, and since i had the tools available (except i broke my hitachi jigsaw and treated myself to a new bosch jigsaw and i wanted to say to you guys as a "product review" i'm entirely pleased with it, it's a NICE jigsaw model 1590EVSK). well, so, first pic is the commercially available version. second pic is the back view of the copy i made, third pic is the front view.
i was pleased with the way mine turned out, i mean, they're not PERFECT, but hopefully strong enough to do what i want them to do. i bolted 'em on my truck a couple days ago. next is to make the ladder rack. (i wanna make the ladder rack look as if it was drawn up by the guy(s) who designed this model year ranger. no square straight lines or right angles but smooth flowing curves.)
b.w.