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u need to calm down. did i say anything about YOU???? hum. NO. im talking about the PEOPLE THAT DO!!! did you read that part "THAT DO". buddy. aluminum has its places. but there are differnt prices for differnt bumpers and differnt grades. just cuz urs is alum dont mean u didnt get a low grade elcheapo bumper. plus it seems as if anything goes wrong its blamed on poor desine. and in most cases it is. but when ur using it as a tow hook when it wasent desined for that. thats more like human stupidy. i can say whatever i want. i have an opion. not to mention alota people buy there wheeler just to say they have one. or go out and buy the biggest and badest atv out there and add cheap junk just to go around there yard a few times. and tell everyone about it.

I am calm- I don't get worked up over aluminum bumper discussions. You didn't say anything about anyone in particular- you just lumped all "aluminum bumper" people in one category. Your logic is silly. I never met anyone who bought a $6000 atv to look at it in their garage- have you? Do you even know someone, who knows someone who has done that?

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where? i see none on this thread. all i seen was ur wheeler sitting on a tar pad...

the pic is posted in my album.

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must be alum bumpers out there for the people that buy a 6-7k wheeler and leave it sit in the garage. but tell everyone they have one.... just to say they have one.

Why not steel or plastic bumpers as well- these "people" who spend all this money to look at an atv are partial to aluminum only??? Your whole statement is silly-

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i can say whatever i want. i have an opion.

Never said you couldn't- Likewise, I have an OPINION on your comment- which happened to be about people who use aluminum bumpers, posted after I said, I have an aluminum bumper... think about it.

 

what no comment on "but when ur using it as a tow hook when it wasent desined for that. thats more like human stupidy."

 

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Do you even know someone, who knows someone who has done that?

oh and yes i have. no i dont know them personaly. but yes i do, and have seen some.

 

last yr i got my 08 800 x2 , it doesn't come with bumpers so i got them and installed them my self (very easy), well my friend gets his son a new 400 king quad, lets go riding, ok his first day with the new 400 i had mine about a week or so just got the bumpers on the day before we go ride..


well guess what his son smashed into my rear bumper it did over 2500.00 damage to his brand new one day old king quad.....

i had a scratched bumper

if i didn't have that bumper installed he would have wasted the whole rear dump bed plus would have had a direct hit to my frame and axles

buy the bumper protect your investment


atvjumpers

 

it dont take much to add up big money. $200 here $100 there $400 for this. to much plastic.

 

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what no comment on "but when ur using it as a tow hook when it wasent desined for that. thats more like human stupidy."

Sure- I forgot to comment on your other insipid notion...

If a bumper can take a certain head-on impact say...2500 psi, before it deforms, why would it be so out of the question to think it can withstand a force in the opposite direction up to the same psi- all things being equal, like mechanical fasteners, bumper stock, mounting brackets and taking into account leverage from where the hook up is and where the impact occured?

Like I said in my original statement- it was light pressure just to assist my atv until the AWD could grab- not a full-bore winch pull. There's absolutely no reason to think that a bumper couldn't handle that otherwise.

Oh- and FYI- it's "stupidity" not "stupidy"

 

Beer....I think you and Chuck just got off on the wrong foot with this thread. Don't think he meant any lack of respect on his original reply. Kind of looks like it went downhill from there.

Not worth getting worked up over by either party.....Might be worth deleting the whole post and starting over. JMO.

 

I agree-
Didn't mean to take it personal- just came out that way, and before I knew it...
My apologies to the op for getting off topic in a sort'a on topic way

 

i was supose to go look all over for your picture, or just automaticly look in your profile for the picture of you stuck in a mud hole.

its called a BUMPER not a TOW HOOK.... bumpers are made for protecting from impact and not for pulling. where or when have you seen the big mudders go tieing on there bumpers to pull there self out? and if they do they know there bumpers are going to hold the pulling force. plus when there pulling its not self tapped into a alum frame. but i personaly think that day when you got stuck it musta been a little foggy in your mind. and you though it was light pressure. in sted it musta been a light beer to many!!!

and im not gona take spelling lessons from you.. like you spell every word correct. but if your gona be like that you better start checking everyones spelling.

 

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im not gona take spelling lessons from you.. like you spell every word correct. but if your gona be like that you better start checking everyones spelling

Actually- I do spell every word correctly in every post I make / made- check them if you want. You don't have to take spelling advice from me- I wasn't giving it. I find it hilarious that you're calling me out for being stupid- yet, you can't even spell the word!

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bumpers are made for protecting from impact and not for pulling.

Is that a fact, Chuck? You might want to rethink that comment.
If bumpers aren’t for towing, and are only for taking a hit straight on, then explain the premise behind a "step & tow" bumper...which is nothing but a bumper with a low tow rating- but still a bumper. ha ha- a lot of dim stars up in that sky tonight, eh chuck.

Listen chuck- ya lost this one, and I'm tired of you. I have nothing more to ad to this (unfortunate) conversation.