...If you weld in a length between cuts.
Started the day by grinding rust off of all the steel that I wanted to use today. I am sick of grinding rust. I think that this will be the last of the rusty steel that I will use, the remaining steel is 1x1 square tubing that will probably be cheaper in aggravation by just buying new steel to finish.
I cut the dented end off the short half and took the cutoff from the other half and lined them up to be welded.
Then welded them together and ground the welds off flat.
The steel is shiny, so it reflects light really well; it looks allot more wavy in the picture than it does in front of you, and will look fine with some paint on it. It will also be camouflaged somewhat by the gussets that I will be putting in later. I then cut it to the correct length and there is only 5/8" actually left of the additional piece.
After all of that I welded in the front and the side top rails, and it started to rain. I decided to put the Jeep away before it got so wet that it dripped all over everything else on the floor, after skidding it back on on half of the garage floor. Realized that it was time to feed the dog and determined that I had enough of this for today and called it quits.
