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Originally Posted by Tobra
Ted, if I were going for something like that, I would fly my brother in law out, buy materials, rent a welder and it would save me money.
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You had better look long and hard at the details on those things...before you say you are going to save money.. Or maybe your BIL should look long and hard before he agrees to do it for you?
I have looked at a whole lot of MFG's of those things and the price structure is all about the same. Which indicates that their is a lot of time, effort and material in those things. If they were cheap to crank out somebody would be undercutting somebody else (Even the used ones don't go cheap). Further the devil is in the design details, lots of welds and lots of cuts.
So head on out there Charlie...and lets see yer get er done.
Or BETTER as an exercise have him look at some of the vids of those things and have him give u an eyeball estimate...(of what it would take to recreate one of those things weld for weld).
There is an old story about David Brown the then owner of Aston Martin. Somebody at a party asked him if he could have one of his cars at cost. Brown said, "Sure." The guy gets the bill and it is for more than the car cost at the dealer, ya see Brown was losing money on every car. Which is to say that the time, effort and cost of recreating one of those things is not worth doing. (If you are into metal fabrication yourself it would be a different story. The
facilities and time would be your own).
Where you could save the money is in the shipping..those things weigh anywhere from a few hundred pounds to over 1000 pounds and Motor freight ain't cheap.
Your best bet is to wait in the weeds hope to get lucky to find a used one.