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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonimus" data-source="post: 29562" data-attributes="member: 12914">I'm not an enginerd, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. I've done a lot of welding on off-road rigs and race cars. Pics and drawings of your ideas would be extremely helpful.I'm not sure whereabouts you camp, but I wouldn't trust any of the stuff up there to hold a welded cantilevered awning. You have to be very aware of stress risers.I would weld up a mount, then bolt that whole mount to the truck. Build it with failure in mind. You want it to fail "safely". If you bolt it, you know where the stress points are and you can monitor for fatigue and replace as appropriate. Then you're also not worried about welding to unknown alloys.</blockquote>