Overdue project

[Harry]

Phase one complete today. I’ll have to do multiple posts as this progresses. This is a movable stand for a large vise or maybe my beverly shear. Instead of mounted on a table the stand will provide access all around what ever I have in the vice. The base is a big tractor weight that I picked up in a bundle deal when i purchased the end cap weights that I installed on the 646. The post is a scrap pipe left over from a job I did for a plating company. It was a hydraulic line that a employee over charged a line. Can you imagine the pressure on this 4” schedule 89 pipe. I cut the flanges off and welded them on another pipe. Then they bent another one. So I did a second one. I took the least bent pipe for the post. The top plate was something that has been on the weld table for years. A sleeve inside the tractor weight goes inside post so no welding on the weight. Top plate was drilled and tapped fir 1/2” bolts. Next post it should be completed.

[myerslawnandgarden]

Nice work, Harry!

I can only imagine what a vice like that would cost new today.

Bob

[Harry]

Nice work, Harry!

I can only imagine what a vice like that would cost new today.

Bob

Bob this vice was given to me by a neighbor. I tried to sell it a few years ago for $100. No bites so I decided to keep it. I have an old Holland on my weld bench, a big Sears on my other table and a small vice on my Tig weld table. A movable one on a post should work great.

[Eugen]

You're inspiring me to build one too, I've been thinking about one for a long time.

[DavidBarkey]

Looks great Harry . I have been wanting to do a similar idea ,only with a 2" trailer hitch receiver imbedded in the concrete floor of the shop . then i can insert post with a vice , bead roller , large hand shear , tubing bender ,winching point for pulling dead machines into the shop ect . Then I can keep all them on rolling cart out of the way until needed .

I guy makes these for when you pore the floor

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imagine this being held in the floor

My plan is to do this when I expand the shop into the lean too on the back of the barn . An over head winch to lift them on and off the cart and in the floor . hopefully before this fall .