Stock Wranglers rock but there is always room for improvement
One thing Jeep Wranglers do well is off-roading. This is a fact that is backed up by many of the standard options that come on Wranglers. One of which is the available rescue points (I would guess that is what Jeep offically calls them). There are two forged hooks attached to the front ends of the frame rails and one attached to the rear drivers side frame rail. All three of them are well placed and strong enough for whatever is asked of them. With that said, would it not be nice to be able to use a receiver hitch as a tow point? All you need is a device that slips into a 2" receiver and uses the retaining pin to hold it in. Then you just attach a tow strap and go. This device is also not perminitly attached and thus can be used on any vehicle with a 2" receiver. Sounds to me like a great off-roading accessory, where do I get one?

Okay, lets improve
Receiver mounted tow points are not hard to find and as a matter of fact, Warn makes a very nice forged piece that I would love to have. They call it a "WARN Reciver Shackle Bracket" and the only reason I did not buy one is the price. MSRP is $50 with a street price of about $40. Now if I spent $40 on every towing accessory I wanted, I would be broke. So why not just make my own?

The path I took
I had asked a friend for some ideas on where to get some steel stock and it just so happened that he had a 3 foot piece of 2"x2" solid stock laying around. He said I was welcome to have 6" but I would have to figure out how to cut it off. A quick call later and I found out that a local welding shop would cut it off with a chop saw for about $5. Once I had a 6" piece, it was time to spend some quality time in the machine shop located in my building. It took me about 5 hours of drilling and milling and sanding, but when I was finished, I had a custom tow point I could be proud of. All that was left was to paint it and then it will be ready for use.

A few pictures