Tailgate transplant
I was backing up the truck to
unload another cube
of cinder blocks the other day when this tree came out of nowhere
and slammed itself into the tailgate.
The tree barely noticed the
bump and went back to sleep when it became obvious that nobody was hurt.
I'm thinking instead of
having the dent pounded out and the locking
mechanism repaired I
should just maybe find a replacement tailgate at a junk yard like Tracy
recommended in an earlier comment and save a little time.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Repairing this will be a lot of effort; I'd say you'd have to
Unless you know how to weld and/or have a lot of time on your hands, getting a secondhand tailgate sounds like a better option.