New pickup bed crane

Originally Posted by Bear

You shouldn't have any problems where you're at there tater, but not getting too hot, too fast, isn't really a key to treated steel. If you made a puddle ( which is absolutely necessary in order to make a weld) your temps went well past any heat treated threshold, and if it wasn't treated on the way back to "cool" (which I'm certain it wasn't) there will still be a brittle area along the edges of the weld ; )

I know an old boy who's welded dozens and dozens straight truck frames who'd beg to differ.