Finally I got a real camera with real results
First, an old pic to show what we started with. Dustin pointed out the winch could potentially shift the prerunner bumper so we plated it across to the tubes at the area with the arrows.
Then we got this big ol' sheet of 5/16" (about $60) and even after we were sure our design was going to work, it needed to be tweaked at least 3 times to fit. That wasted a lot of steel but it's my first real project that I'm designing and it's really tough to work into someone elses design.
Here is the "shelf" that we built. Dustin burned an entire roll of flux melting this stuff in there. I'm still a novice welder, as a matter of fact I got really bad flashburn just from setting tack welds. I learned my lesson here.
You can see where I rotated the front clutch mechanism. I lucked out on placement as you will see shortly.
I cut 2 of these freehand with a grinder, thinking that it would mount between the lights to mount my fairlead. I was disappointed when my fairlead showed up as wide as it was.
Here is where the wire controllers ended up. I also spliced wires off so the "in-cab" is already wired in.
He shoots, He scores!
I wasn't kidding when I said "hidden"
and here is the access to the clutch lever. It swings perfect.
The disappointment for the night, I was thinking the fairlead could mount in front of the light mounts but I just don't see how that can work. Any reason I cannot run the smaller ATV style fairleads like Izwack mentioned or will that be an issue with reeling in the cable. If I mount like this I'll probably catch on the lights on any type of a side pull.
