well for Christmas my dad wanted one of those baskets that slide into your reciever hitch and i'm taking a welding class that i needed to do a project in so this is what i came up. it was almost dark here when i took the pic so other then that what do you think

 

From what I can see, looks good! I have GOT to learn to weld.

 

awesome, looks great, we made on of those for my dads f150, but we had taller sides

 

well he just wanted angle turned up he is a plumber so his bed is always full and when he needs to haul a waterheater he has to strap it to the top of his toolboxes and wanted something a little lower to the ground so i decided to build one rather then buy it and saved a lot of money and gave me some good practice

 

You don't "learn" to weld....you are born to weld. HAHA....hitch rack looks good. Mr. Griggs, you da man.

 

looks VERY good for a school project. kinda surprised it would hold a water heater though, but i can believe it

 

me and my roommate got on it and thats about 450 lbs so a waterheater should be ok the angle is 1/8" thick

 

Looks great, but I would highly recommend a center cross brace.

 

i was thinking about adding a brace from the 2" tube to each side but it has to be graded tomorrow so that can come after the grade but before i give it away

 

cross brace is a must

 

Nice work

 

nice work. how long did it take?

 

looks good.

 

Looks good but lets see the close-up pictures of the welds!

 

looks good.

we have one for the f250, and i will say one thing that has come in handy on it:

d-rings. so we can tie off straps around the things we load up in it.

ours has taller sides. about 3-4" tall, to keep the ice chests from sliding out... it has a big center brace, too, like the guys mentioned.

 

well it took about 30 mins to cut the angle and a couple of hours for the welding then i painted it in an hour or so so that about 3.5 or a little more to fab it up i also had to do some cad work on it so add in about 2 more hours and thats about it


"ours has taller sides. about 3-4" tall, to keep the ice chests from sliding out..."

the angle i use is 1.5 so after the mesh is laid in there it still has 1.25" of a side so its not like its flat or anything

 

here are some the pics didn't turn out that great but

MIG


TIG


And Arc

 

using all the weld....nice work

for some reason i had problems with the mig welding...i couldnt get the temperature or gas right.

im taking a welding class tho soon so maybe i can get better.

good welds tho

 

nice job for starters, but it needs higher sides and tie offs

 

I was going to throw gas in there just for kicks but there wasn't a place that would benefit from it

 

Wouldnt the back of it need some reflective tape? I am not sure how that stuff works, according to the law, i mean.

Looks good. I have a friend who welds and a friend of my step dad welds. I need to learn too. Then i would build a miniture Eiffel Tower and move to Paris, Texas.

 

damn that looks quite professional! well done

 

i'm going to put one of those brake lights that go into the hitch in the hole of the 2" tube so i don't think i need the relective tape, i just haven't got the light yet

 

All in all looks great! I weld a good bit too! pending on how much weight and how big of something you will put on it, it will be fine. welds are great! nice job

 

Looks real good-what are the dimensions? i think im gonna build one for my dad too