HNC Ford Van Front Winch Bumper

[GNTY]

I wanted something strong, with full coverage, able to mount lights, and most of all I wanted something DIFFERENT. I applaud MG for his work on retrofitting the ARB and creating another great option for our vans, i contacted ARB a few times in hopes to get something to work but they were not interested.

HNC out of Vancouver Washington provided me with everything I was looking for. Truck Hardware out of Lethbridge worked with Joel at HNC on this for me to incorporate a number of features that they were already doing on various of their bumper models. After some photoshop design Joel and his team were excited to make this thing come to life. The communication and customer service which followed is nothing short of phenomenal. At every transition point of my bumper being built, CAD design, laser cut, bumper tacked together and test fit on actual vehicle, final weld and powder coat. They were sending updates and pictures to keep me in the loop, not only for my information but for my approval to move on to the next step. Its sure a lot easier to make a change during a build than to change the finished product. Just want to give the Joel and his crew at HNC bumpers a shout out and my recommendation as I don't come across this kind of support from business very often and they deserve to be brought to light.

Heres a few pics, still wiring up lights and winch but wanted share. I'll shoot better pics when its complete.

 

[mgmetalworks]

That looks to be very well made. Is this a one-off or will they be putting this in their product line?

 

[kccourtney]

I wanted something strong, with full coverage, able to mount lights, and most of all I wanted something DIFFERENT. I applaud MG for his work on retrofitting the ARB and creating another great option for our vans, i contacted ARB a few times in hopes to get something to work but they were not interested.

HNC out of Vancouver Washington provided me with everything I was looking for. Truck Hardware out of Lethbridge worked with Joel at HNC on this for me to incorporate a number of features that they were already doing on various of their bumper models. After some photoshop design Joel and his team were excited to make this thing come to life. The communication and customer service which followed is nothing short of phenomenal. At every transition point of my bumper being built, CAD design, laser cut, bumper tacked together and test fit on actual vehicle, final weld and powder coat. They were sending updates and pictures to keep me in the loop, not only for my information but for my approval to move on to the next step. Its sure a lot easier to make a change during a build than to change the finished product. Just want to give the Joel and his crew at HNC bumpers a shout out and my recommendation as I don't come across this kind of support from business very often and they deserve to be brought to light.

Heres a few pics, still wiring up lights and winch but wanted share. I'll shoot better pics when its complete.

Thanks for the pics. That thing is sweet! I like the MKS/Cyclops combo. Those welds are gorgeous. And I dig how it doesn't stick out 3 feet from the front of the van like so many other bumpers. Think I just found my new bumper. I like the color also.

 

[GNTY]

That looks to be very well made. Is this a one-off or will they be putting this in their product line?

She's solid for sure. They have all the CAD work done on this so i don't think they would hesitate to run more. I had them build me two, the bigfoot is getting one.

 

[GNTY]

Thanks for the pics. That thing is sweet! I like the MKS/Cyclops combo. Those welds are gorgeous. And I dig how it doesn't stick out 3 feet from the front of the van like so many other bumpers. Think I just found my new bumper. I like the color also.

Thanks, i agree about other bumpers hanging way out there. The color was a shot in the dark as they do all their powder coating in house and had hundreds of colors to choose from. Wish it was a little darker but its close.

 

[ujoint]

Looks good, quite the light bar mount!

 

[hobovan]

That's a sweet looking bumper!

 

[Bbasso]

I like!
I wonder if they would make it without the light bar thingys that wrap around the corners...
Are prices available?

 

[toyotech]

I like!
I wonder if they would make it without the light bar thingys that wrap around the corners...
Are prices available?

From the looks of it. They should easily be able to make it without the LightBar protection and ARB style hoop.

I went thru the same issue with my tundra as arb wouldn't make a 1st gen tundra bumper so I had one made

 

[radorsch]

Beautiful bumper! How much does it weigh?

 

[djbonsu]

Good looking STOUT bumper! I too am curious on the cost if available?

 

[tgreening]

I'd be interested to hear cost on one minus all the Jungle Gym stuff on the front. Kit form maybe?

The welds I have a love/hate thing going on. They look nice but.... Peoples reasons for doing them that way vary from it imitates tig to its easier to learn than a continuous bead. At least in the beginning. To me those are just a long series of tack welds, with their related risks, and structurally I'd rather see one long nice fillet weld.

Of course in the context of a bumper it probably doesn't matter much and I'm just being a picky dink.

 

[mgmetalworks]

I'd be interested to hear cost on one minus all the Jungle Gym stuff on the front. Kit form maybe?

The welds I have a love/hate thing going on. They look nice but.... Peoples reasons for doing them that way vary from it imitates tig to its easier to learn than a continuous bead. At least in the beginning. To me those are just a long series of tack welds, with their related risks, and structurally I'd rather see one long nice fillet weld.

Of course in the context of a bumper it probably doesn't matter much and I'm just being a picky dink.

Those are continuous bead welds on that bumper... there's just a lot of gun slinging going on. cursive e method, mig-like-tig method, "whip" method. It's called a bunch of things in the auto-fab world. Those aren't "trigger welds" or "stitch" though.

A company called Detroit Speed & Engineering has actually done a lot of destructive testing using trigger/stitch weld methods and their results are no worse off than continuous welds. They do their stuff with stitch welds for aesthetics.

Industrial welding is a different ball game. Lots of rules and regs. No artistic freedoms in bridge member or nuclear vessel welding.

 

[GNTY]

I like!
I wonder if they would make it without the light bar thingys that wrap around the corners...
Are prices available?

Good looking STOUT bumper! I too am curious on the cost if available?

I'd be interested to hear cost on one minus all the Jungle Gym stuff on the front. Kit form maybe?

The welds I have a love/hate thing going on. They look nice but.... Peoples reasons for doing them that way vary from it imitates tig to its easier to learn than a continuous bead. At least in the beginning. To me those are just a long series of tack welds, with their related risks, and structurally I'd rather see one long nice fillet weld.

Of course in the context of a bumper it probably doesn't matter much and I'm just being a picky dink.

The cost is a bit tricky, i went through a third party, they were custom built, came with the LED lights and dealing international with dollars changing daily. Many factors. I do know that all the CAD work and test fitting is done so to reproduce more is no problem for them. They would have no problems removing the "jungle Gym", here's a link to their site http://www.hncusa.com/#!blank/o7826/3d3fa6b5-309f-8c2f-2392-5b4d52dfaef0 and it allows you to add your options to price out. I have no doubt that Joel could answer anyones questions and put together a customized quote to what ever configuration.

 

[GNTY]

Beautiful bumper! How much does it weigh?

Thanks! Its around the 160-170 lbs mark is what i was told.