Well then, how about explaining how a few holes in a piece of 2x3 tubing radically weakens it on the vertical plane, when you have it standing up. I am all ears
then welding said "passing through" tubing to both sides plus adding reinforcement plates to both sides as well. i'm not picking sides here. in over 50 years of playing, plus 42 1/2 years of machining stuff for a living, i have seen text book "proper principals" fail miserably and "hill billy engineering" succeed way beyond anything should be allowed to do going against "proper practices.
