Hayes HD dump truck...RCP's style

[Cooper]

Nice work! Looks good!! It looks so easy to weld like that,,,,, key word , looks, I've got to learn how to weld aluminum. Still trying to polish a tird for most of my welding!!

[RCP57]

Originally Posted by flatdeck

Reg Amazing metal work.. Better hurry up the sea is calling....


Wayne

Yeah I think you're right Wayne, and if I don't get back to work the guy I'm building a box for at the moment will be calling too!lol

Originally Posted by plow jockey

Awesome fab work. Truck looks great. At the rate your working it should be ready for paint by this weekend. Great job.

Thanks, Yes I am trying to get it done quickly as usual.

Originally Posted by diesel950

wow, looks good

Thanks you!

Originally Posted by Cooper

Nice work! Looks good!! It looks so easy to weld like that,,,,, key word , looks, I've got to learn how to weld aluminum. Still trying to polish a tird for most of my welding!!

Thanks...and it's not!...easy that is.LOL It's not that hard though for the most part. It takes a lot more co-ordination than MIG welding and that's where I suffer. I have a hard time keeping still enough and contaminate my tungsten...It makes me say bad words! Welding bigger pieces is easy but small stuff....

A little update from today. I made up a rad guard. some shutters, trimmed the fenders to there final shape, made the headlight mounts and guards, cut the hole in the front bumper, modified some old Clod rollbar lights that I've had in a drawer for 24 years to work as my headlights and then bolted it all together...









Reg

[JAMMER]

Reg your doing a heck of a job on the cab and fenders it looks real good. Keep up the good work. Ed

[Brian in PA]

Awesome! Reg did Hayes use KW cabs? It likes an early kW cab. Keep it up!

[RCP57]

Thanks guys. Hayes used their own cabs but I believe the design was basically unchanged from 1954-1975 when they stopped building trucks. They did have quite small windows like the early KW cabs that's for sure.