Thread: My Defender Bull Bar

Good job! That approach angle looks really good! And that design looks a lot more sturdy than most of the tube bars for sale.

Are you happy with it?

Wicks89,

Thanks for your kind words. Im rapped how the bar has come together, been a long process now some colour winch & lights.

Cheers

Looks the goods - looks surprising small from the side. Your comments reminded me of this pic - I agree wholeheartedly - you've done very well.

looks so much like the bar I had on my 110 mantec winch bar with custom A frame of course yours is more refined..you should be proud of that its a good looking bar

that bar really looks legit.
I'm interested in building my own bar too, for the personalised factor but also in an attempt to save cash. But something tells me it's anything but cash saving. Lol.

Can you outline the process you went through to get the bar designed and then built? and roughly how much it all cost?

cheers.

The bar was designed by me.
First thing i did was build a 6mm craft wood full size template to see how it would look on the truck. I then payed a CAD drawer to digitise the bar, bash plate & winch cradle.
Then the DXF file was sent to a laser cutter & folder. The first one was given to Nugget to fit too his truck. This exposed a number of mounting issues that need to be changed, while we where at it we added recovery hooks on both sides of the bash plate.

I must thank Wayne for his assistance with this part.

We also wanted to have no problems with the Traffic Authorities so you need to study the rules!

We still had a few minor adjustments to get the bar to work & these related to the recovery points, every other part went together very well.

As a one of this is not a $ saving exercise if you build what can be purchased of the shelf.
I wanted a personalised front bar on my truck & that goes with everything that i can build on my truck.

Cheers
David

Very nice work on your bar Dullbird, looks great.

Looked is a better word to describe it..the bar and the car is no more..

the A frame was made by a friend who at the time was going under DWE..

I enjoy watch you and nugget build up your trucks you have great skills when it comes to metal Fab and you both have good taste in what looks right on the defender