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Replant
Jun 10, 2012Explorer
Michigander2005 wrote:
Yesterday used sawzall to cut rear bumper off , cleaned it up with angle grinder :)
This afternoon son welded on new one :)
Next project is PVC crapper hose storage !!!
I sawed mine off also but intended to leave the bottom and rear to use as "L" brackets to hold the 5"x5" PVC fence post and end caps that I bought at Home Depot. However when I got the job underway this is what I ended up with:

That rusty mess on the ground is the bottom of the bumper. All that was usable were small vertical sections. To these I mounted PVC "L" brackets that I made from the remainder of the fence post that I cut down.

From Lowe's I bought a 4" wide rain gutter to serve as a hose tray that easily slides in and out of the 5"x5" bumper. It comes in 10' lengths but I use the remainder as a tool tray when working on the RV. I made handles for the gutter out of 3/4" PVC pipe with a cap on each end and used aluminum rivets to fasten them to the ends of the hose tray. Everything is now rust proof. That glob you see at the end of the tray is dead grass or something on the ground not on the tray.

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