What is the thickness of the aluminum used on an Aluminess bumper?

[K2ZJ]

What is the thickness of the aluminum used on an Aluminess bumper? I am curious and know some of you here have them. What thickness did they put under the winch? I am assuming that is thicker than the other portions. Also how many have used it in a rockcrawling setting. How well does it take a scrape? I did search but anything with Aluminess comes up from sigs and adding another keyword equals unrelated threads. Thank you.

 

[Blackeye]

We had Aluminess bumpers on the front and rear of our rig.

I can't really speak for the strength of the rear bumper, but the front had two impacts:

1) we hit a full sized deer at 50mph and no damage whatsoever
2) we had a tour bus drive into the front corner of the bumper and the only damage was some removal of the powder coating. The bus was shredded.

Re: specs, I suggest that you contact Dave at Aluminess to ask about the construction specs.

Dave Hoskins
ALUMINESS Products
(619) 449-9930

I hope this helps.

Blackeye

 

[ujoint]

Most of it is 3/16", but the winch plate (bottom & back) is 1/4". Good stuff.

 

[K2ZJ]

Thank you both. 3/16" and 1/4" seems a lot smaller than I would have guessed. That is what most steel bumpers use. From all of the reviews I have read they seem stout, and from their own claim that they use lots of engineering to get the strength to weight ratio.