great job, i was concerned the (high?) carbon steel would be over kill until i seen where you were putting it... looks like you plan on shoveling some.
321 stainless... im not a metal guru, but whats different about it? 409 was crap stainless last i checked, 304 / 316 are the most common i've slapped my hands on and used on a lot of sanitary lines. is it lighter weight or more rigid? better for vibrations or stresses?
I'm with everyone else here, that is a bitchin setup.
My concern , like others is how you mounted that roller. It looks as though your gonna rip it right off the first time you use the winch. Your mount is great, but the way the cable angles up from the mount the fairlead will take all the stress and either rip off of fold up into your bully bar. Because of the angle unless your towing a truck higher than yours there will be a great deal of downforce put on that fairlead. you always want the roller directly in front of the winch. I'd think you could easily make a small frame to go in the front of the winch to bolt the roller to. with the roller and winch in a straight line the roller takes almost no stress.
I haven't used the winch on anything serious... a tree stump, a car that parked smack dab in the middle of our culdesac like an idiot forcing me to do an 8 point turn. It does stress the plate that the fair lead rollers are mounted too but I have a solution. I'm going to put my welding and metal fabrication skills to the ultimate test by making myself a fab fours/road armor type bumper with the prerunner bar. I already have some material but I'm still in the planning stage and my free time is almost non existent since I'm trying to by a house. I'll post pics once I really get going.
great job, i was concerned the (high?) carbon steel would be over kill until i seen where you were putting it... looks like you plan on shoveling some.
321 stainless... im not a metal guru, but whats different about it? 409 was crap stainless last i checked, 304 / 316 are the most common i've slapped my hands on and used on a lot of sanitary lines. is it lighter weight or more rigid? better for vibrations or stresses?
321 has a higher resistance to heat (not a property that I care about since all stainless steels have an extremely high resistance to heat) but has a very high resistance to cracking (a property I very much care about). In truth, though, it was free material so that's why I used it. I used mild carbon steel for everything else.
ah that will be nice, i know i spent a bit of time trying to keep up on brittle cracked out stainless at work... once its cracked, 304 is useless. just matter of time til it grows somewhere else.
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