Welding Bed Rear End Build (Backup Camera, Tail Lights, Tag, Hitch, Spare Tire Access, Bumper)

[@botsbass842]

We need to see a customer reaction when she's delivered!

[@b1g_ben-473]

YEEEEP!

[@dennisshort4015]

At 66years old I enjoy the way you get things done. old school rather you figure it out or you call a old guy..you just keep going...job well done. keep up the good work brother.

[@rbelang8331]

Great job, as I said in earlier vids... You definitely swim against the tide, with a build like that... I mean, everything is so cheaply made nowaday. But that one will outlive all of us!

[@warrenjones744]

Yeah I would have said heat shrink it. It's a good skill to have, you can move some pretty big parts once you figure it out.Good stuff Austin

[@mattdickey5493]

It's coming together now for all the cosmetics like sanding, painting, electrical, and final install. You're doing a excellent job on It. Keep up the good work. And have a great 4th of July.

[@arosswelding]

Thanks! You too!

[@JonesMetalCraft]

That's looking really nice. I like the way you inset the lights.

[@arosswelding]

Thanks 👍

[@bsgmediahouse]

LOOKING AWESOME MAN!!!! It’s giving me so many ideas watching you walk thru your thoughts out loud.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Thanks for sharing with us Austin, lots of word done today on the bed build. It's looking better each videos. Stay safe around there and thanks for the great information. OLD DAWG DREAMING Fred.

[@Eliaslopez-y5c3d]

My grandpa has been welding for 40 yrs and to this day he still does

[@johnbecker2945]

Another great video heat works wonders shrinking and moving metal I have removed many bearing races by welding them to shrink them they just fall out It always intrigue's me how metal reacts to different inputs heat,hammering after heating and cooling it is part of what is so interesting about metal working JB

[@madcapmagician6018]

There was an article i read about bending or straightening plates via heat lines.... It was an article from the Dept. Of the Navy.... Called navy heat lines and its is how the ship builders straightened thick ship plates...

[@melvinmariott8609]

I can't wait to see how you lay out the toolboxes on it.

[@tyvernon9422]

Going to look great! I really enjoy your channel and knowledge you share. As a self taught beginner welder (about a year), your video’s are invaluable to me and I actually go back to reference and verify that I’m doing things correctly. I will definitely be buying from your store, those brass snap welding shirts are sweet!

[@wadepatton2433]

With regard to bending and heat, I think Jody was the guy who re-told the tale about a bending with welding heat that goes about like this: Welding shop notices guy buys a case of big aluminum rods every week, week after week. Never talked about what he was doing. Shop guy finally says, hey--what are you doing with all that rod? Turns out they were welding (running rows of stringers) the underside of the frame rails to get the upwards bow you see in aluminum semi-truck flatbeds. Welding heat was the simplest way at that time--and may yet be.

[@ericchevalier6260]

Love this style of bed. Futur project for sure. Thanks A !

[@arosswelding]

Our pleasure!

[@shortfuse43]

Beautiful job on the bumper and cutouts for lights, etc. Well done, very neatly laid out.

[@User1963sa]

I’m 20 years old I was taught when cutting AR plate to skip on the ends and a few spaces of n the middle to keep the metal from bowing idk of it would work with pipe but just thought I’d share!

[@vpertrailerhd5765]

Awesome craftsmanship

[@wadepatton2433]

I'd like to see what that rig weighs fully rigged out and fueled up. Put a Cummins in it and it'd be a real heavyweight. Great looking bed AR.

[@daltybell]

Looks good! What about adding lifting eyes?

[@branchandfoundry560]

Yep, or tow points like 1x3" solid blocks to attached D rings when needed.

[@donforsyth9290]

Have you considered using a metal cutting circular saw withe the cold cut blade ? Might help eliminate the warping

[@neilheriot2361]

👌, who new flattening a banana could be so easy.

[@williamgarriott2319]

You do good work sir!!! Love your videos

[@arosswelding]

I appreciate that!

[@zackjohnson5247]

Slick as shit! Austin great experience talk, truly some real world suggestions!

[@KC-7mm]

Love the videos especially as a mobile welder and fabricator myself there’s always something to learn. Curious how much the bed ended up weighing

[@botsbass842]

Also i need a link to the lights 😁

[@ShaneRogers-b1t]

That shop chair: did you make that yourself? I really do like it.

[@jamesrogers6376]

A cordless circular blade saw or a simple sawszall wouldn't warp it from being cut. Prolly be quicker in the long run.imho

[@williamthomas9463]

Is that the actual receiver tube or just an access to the factory frame mounted rear hitch? If that’s the actual receiver tube, then I hope there’s going to be a lot more to it than what you’ve shown us so far.

[@rrudd8755]

Wilkins truck parts is a mm 211 tonkawa I-35.

[@stacymichelle9864]

finishing out my first welding truck over the next week. What size fire extinguisher do you recommend for a welding truck?

[@GoVols]

About the banana in the pipe: If you had welded a piece of angle iron inside the cut lines, would that support from the angle iron have prevented the bow from the heat of the torch? May be less work to grind off the spot welds on the angle iron vs. all of the grinding from the MIG welds. Not second guessing you, but trying to learn from your videos (and your mistakes :) )

[@kbakeritsallaboutnobody.5761]

I was born in Blackwell and Wilkins is in Tonkawa.

[@Cedarsquarewelding]

Can you post a link to those lights? Can't find any clear lenses that will shine red and white

[@zackhoovey8939]

Guess not

[@paulusmarc]

Bon Boulo😄😄😄👍👍

[@dominicr2733]

whatd you use to sand welds smooth? ol flap disc? ive been loving these 24 grit sanding discs with the rubber backer

[@tomthompson7400]

ah frenched tail lights ,,, thats sleek

[@vpertrailerhd5765]

I am an aluminum mig, stainless steel and aluminum tig welder with structural steel welding. Mobile and in shop with alot of fab experience. Do I fit with the "inner circle"

[@arosswelding]

Absolutely

[@davidcrumrine1165]

Next time, stick a pipe in the hole for the clearance light and then set your light inset on the pipe or rod to line it up if nobody is around.

[@z3phyrdok]

Sweet! I'm the 811th person to like this video

[@nickjames4208]

Is that welding bed for your truck Austin

[@Cedarsquarewelding]

Hey A Ross. Can you post a link to those lights please?

[@Eliaslopez-y5c3d]

I’m wondering why do all of the custom welding bed not have a headache rack on them

[@arosswelding]

To my knowledge, that is just an aesthetic thing with the Pipeline style welding bed. But there are lots of pipeline welders I have worked with over the years that have headache racks on their welding rigs.

[@Logan7P88]

How many hours do you have in this beauty?

[@arosswelding]

I’ll end up having around 150

[@jtr6554]

What about license plate lights?

[@branchandfoundry560]

Exactly what I scrolled down for 👊

[@darcybarkhouse4732]

Any idea what the bed weighs?

[@jakobhale305]

I was wondering what that gray thing his torch was attached to that he used to cut the pipe could anyone tell me please and thanks

[@arosswelding]

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[@noahgavin8646]

You ever gunna head back out to the pipeline yourself?

[@fztfabs65]

I’m surprised you don’t have a metal saw when your doing straight cuts. Then you don’t have any clean up and it doesn’t bow on you

[@Grunttamer]

He is a freaking surgeon with that torch though

[@branchandfoundry560]

I have the Skil Outlaw metal cutting circular saw. Great as it is, long pieces almost always bow when I cut them with that saw too. Wish I knew why & if there's a way to prevent it.

[@fztfabs65]

@@branchandfoundry560 I mean it’s not so much cause of the heat, for sure a little bit I guess. But mainly cause of the tension and pressure from when it’s formed. So when you cut it apart that pressure and tension releases and causes it to bow a bit. And it probably doesn’t bow as much as it would when using a torch

[@branchandfoundry560]

@@fztfabs65 Thank you for that explanation, I really appreciate it! Great to have a community that helps each other here.

[@Grunttamer]

@@branchandfoundry560 to test it out, next time preheat with a torch till it’s like straw colored and then let it cool slowly before cutting. I think that might relieve the stresses

[@TheGamingKing64]

Plasma cutter

[@dailylife6432]

Where did you resource you circle tool for the torch at.

[@arosswelding]

www.arosswelding.com/shop/circleburner

[@johnschmidt2964]

So heavy. I don’t get it.