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Built your own tow bar?

blazinchuck

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yeah, but what about the tabs connecting the tube to the spring hanger? I believe you would have been better off with a chain running through a heavy pipe to keep the distance apart from both trucks. Besides, I've never seen anyone flatten a pipe with a hammer...maybe fence post-not pipe,Chuck
 

roundhouse

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Sep 5, 2003
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yeah, but what about the tabs connecting the tube to the spring hanger? I believe you would have been better off with a chain running through a heavy pipe to keep the distance apart from both trucks. Besides, I've never seen anyone flatten a pipe with a hammer...maybe fence post-not pipe,Chuck

The pipe didnt bother me at all.
I WAS skeptical of the weld quality of the tabs.



I tried to break the welds and couldnt, so apparently the booger welds are stronger than it looks.

Would have been alot better to flatten the pipe at 90* on the other end, so it wouldnt need tabs at all.
 

FerrumCampitor

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May 2, 2005
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761
Loc.
Hutchinson, MN
I made my towbar from 2"x2" square tube and a channel coupler (hitch) from a local trailer place that's made for 2" tube. I have a brush guard welded on the front bumper of my bronco so I just drilled holes in the uprights of that, and slotted the ends of the 2x2 on boths sides to go around the uprights, and put bolts through with saftey pins to keep the loose nuts from backing off. Used it many times with no issues. Even almost broke a htich off a tractor once while moving the bronco with the towbar with flat tires but the towbar held strong.

If I had to do it on a bronco with a stock bumper, I'd weld up some tabs to bolt around the bumper using the existing bolt holes in the frame.
 

texastreasures

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Feb 24, 2006
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Towbar

An old timer friend of mine built his own for his 68 heres a pic for some ideas.
 

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