Don’t be afraid to check it out it’s a lot of reading yes but it’s all need to know stuff they won’t exactly teach you in a trade school and yes I wrote all of the lessons so excuse the errors and please if you see a information error let me know because all this information is off the top of my head I’m only researching topics requested by the community

To everyone just joining and growing the community can someone let me know if you guys can post in here or just me ?

is a structural principle that creates SELF-SUPPORTING, stable structures using tension created by opposing natural forces in compression with a continuous network of tensioning elements which looks like like this so the chains on the four corners are all fighting against one another but have enough tension to not be pulled one way or another these four chains maintain its stability horizontally or side to side while the “strength” chain is the one in the center this chain bears the load vertically and as you see the top half is connected to the bottom half from below this creates the tension needed to keep the outside 4 chains from slacking and the whole structure collapsing

You know the old saying…not quite treasure but the possibilities are abundant with these scrap pipe welding practice coupons (coupons are small samples of metals used to practice welding or to perform testing welds) no the pipe welds were not mine for the record

F250 beautification front bumper custom rear bumper custom headache rack by move and side steps custom driver was 400+lbs so sidesteps needed a little reinforcement