Insane Heavy Duty Custom '75 Bronco Bumper

[MerganserMaster]

I started working on my Bronco about a year or so ago. It was my uncle's who purchased it from someone who used it for some kind of off-road activities. Because of this it has some modifications done to it. Before it had a "towing" bumper or a bumper with a tongue on it so it could easily be towed from South Carolina to the midwest when my uncle moved here about 20 years ago. Recently I picked up the "original" bumper for it and I just want to hear people's thoughts on it as in my opinion, it is insanely large/heavy duty...

https://flic.kr/p/2pWYkYS

 

[1969]

It’s your Bronco.. if you don’t like it go another route.

Personally I would never put that on mine.

 

[SteveL]

I'm guessing it lived where you get cattle crossing the road at night

 

[Shimmy]

that thing is hideous. throw it in the recycling and put the stock on ASAP. lol.

 

[MerganserMaster]

that thing is hideous. throw it in the recycling and put the stock on ASAP. lol.

Thats what I was thinking, I will probably keep it tho, It might come in handy for tree farm work or deer retrieval. Thankfully I do have a stock chrome bumper from my uncles '67 Bronco that I will put on there for now. For the pins that hold it in, do I need anything special or will just standard tractor/farm pins work?

 

[Shimmy]

Thats what I was thinking, I will probably keep it tho, It might come in handy for tree farm work or deer retrieval. Thankfully I do have a stock chrome bumper from my uncles '67 Bronco that I will put on there for now. For the pins that hold it in, do I need anything special or will just standard tractor/farm pins work?

pins? or do you mean carriage bolts? local hardware store should have the carriage bolts you need for the stock bumper.

 

[bigmuddy]

Your either in TX, MS or AR!?

 

[fluffybunny]

Mine has something similar - a large ranch hand brush guard welded to the frame horns. 1st thing I did was cut that off and had to do some modifications to put a stock bumper back on. Your gas mileage should improve after removal!

 

[Scoop]

Unless you're doing a period correct tribute to your uncle you should ditch that bumper!

 

[jeffncs]

Nope

 

[m_m70]

Looks like a working ranch/farm truck to me. Kind of like it!

 

[MerganserMaster]

Looks like a working ranch/farm truck to me. Kind of like it!

I have three bumpers total (this one, a stock one, and a "towing" one) so Ill probably keep it around if I ever need to take it through brush or what not

 

[Bajabrewer]

You could probably put some legs on it & a couple padded seats & have an awesome garage couch?

 

[MerganserMaster]

You could probably put some legs on it & a couple padded seats & have an awesome garage couch?

Forget tail gating, I can "grill"-gate with this

 

[NewDog]

You could set it up as a sunsetter bar, like they do with the safari trucks in Africa!