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Yeah, looks like some sort of frame-mounted outrigger to me.

Thinking in terms of creating an escape-pod isn't crazy at all. I've referred to the rollcage I'm planning on building inside the cab of may deuce as a safety-capsule when explaining what I'm trying to accomplish. Only trying to maintain the integrity of the space within the cab, in order to...

Here's a link to a great example of what I was talking about, just for anybody else that might be interested. Lots of other cool stuff in that build-thread too. Top-notch fab-work right there....

Yeah, working off something like that hoop that you posted a screen-shot of above, I'd probably mount that directly to the frame, making sure that the size and shape of the mounting plates are optimized to avoid concentrating the type of stresses that we're talking about. The I'd probably look...

Oh, and on the subject of rectangular tubing: nothing really inherently wrong with mitered corners like those, but those butt-welds should absolutely be gusseted - and it wouldn't be a bad idea to go ahead and weld a flat plate in between each mitered joint. Not sure how best to explain exactly...

I think that might be the best way to approach a project like this for most people. and something like that could be built to survive a low-speed flop, but a single unsupported hoop like that isn't going to do well in any type of rollover at speed. Really needs to be triangulated somehow to keep...

Haven't been online much lately. Don't know anything about what, but gather that someone got hurt/killed? Sorry to hear that. Here's a link to an old thread about rollcages. There's been a LOT of bad information posted in this thread, and I'd like to help get this back on track. Please start by...