Different strokes for different folks, nothing wrong with that. The reasoning, not that I was really thinking much about it as I made them, was here Utah, where you have 100+ weather the month of July and half of August, everybody goes doorless. They go doorless as well any time in Moab/ That being said;
1. The first thing that general takes a hit down there are your doors. From the oscilation back and forth crawling the slickrock. There are some real narrow places.
2. I have full OEM doors and really don't care to ding them, plus the fact that the tamarack here can really scratch the crap out of your rig.
3. Also around here you get more flops then roll overs. Those tube doors will keep my legs in the vehicle.
4. It gives me a place to rest my arm
5. I'm 6-3 210 so more shoulder room the better.
6. Why not just buy soft or hard half doors??? Because I can build tube doors cheaper and soft doors will get shreaded by the tamarack.
7. Then there is always the creativity factor that I just flatout like seeing what I can build which I think is why I built them in the first place but really can't remember to be honest at this point.


The funny think is, not that I had or have any intention on building them for sale, the first day within 3 hours of me posting this on a Utah site I had 7 orders. Still not going to build them though.

Sunder - you got any pictures of those latches? It looks like apparently the one I chose needs a little more R & D.