Todays shop time.

[cmyoung2]

Junk yard trip, or visit a large truck shop that does brakes and axles. Scrap prices make it doable. The problem could be how much other stuff you can find.

Ii like it. If I had 100+ lb round things to weld post mounts, I would have done the same.

 

[KubotainNH]

For anyone planning on building a new shop I would consider vertical receivers mounted in the floor before pouring the concrete.

This is in the one in the concrete pad outside my shop痴 front door.

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It provides limitless options from temporary vise or grinder stands to an outdoor welding table. The crossbar anchor points are used for comealongs, straightening, pulling track etc.

That's pretty cool. I'm contemplating pouring a concrete pad where my shade tree shop is (right outside my walk out basement), this would be a useful addition.

 

[Big Barn]

View attachment 543676made some quick wooden swords with my boys. It was a fun Sunday afternoon project.

Kevin how's your home gym coming along? I can't find it but somewhere on TBN someone posted a cool fix for tractor floor mats using recycled rubber mats from Tractor Supply or somewhere like that.

They were 4'x6'x3/4" and only $30 each. They're great for barn stalls or gym flooring/ cross fit mats. I used the same ones stamped "Made in Canada on the underside ".



Just a thought.

 

[kevinwak]

Kevin how's your home gym coming along? I can't find it but somewhere on TBN someone posted a cool fix for tractor floor mats using recycled rubber mats from Tractor Supply or somewhere like that.

They were 4'x6'x3/4" and only $30 each. They're great for barn stalls or gym flooring/ cross fit mats. I used the same ones stamped "Made in Canada on the underside ". View attachment 547198



Just a thought.

Living out of the temp gym in the garage. Basement is framed and I am currently wiring it up on days off. Was going to install the shower base last weekend but discovered I ordered the wrong one.

 

[Gordon Gould]

My wife has been after me to put our house number up at the far end of our very long driveway. I was puttering around with that in mind today and ended up with this. I used 1/4" chain and the numbers are about 8" tall.





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[dragoneggs]

My wife has been after me to put our house number up at the far end of our very long driveway. I was puttering around with that in mind today and ended up with this. I used 1/4" chain and the numbers are about 8" tall.

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I like it!

 

[daugen]

Nice job Gordon.
Did you use a lot of clamps to keep it in place, I assume horizontally, while welding?
Natural or painted?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nice job Gordon.
Did you use a lot of clamps to keep it in place, I assume horizontally, while welding?
Natural or painted?

Thanks. I laid it flat on the table and used upright magnetic clamps to hold the straight sections and corners. I didn't realize my clamps had a lot of plastic sandwiched in them. Caught them on fire For the curved sections I moved a piece of 2- 1/2" pipe set on end along the curve as a guide. I would leave it natural but the wife wants it painted so I'll go with that.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

This is what happens when you put a 2' pipe on a bench vice, again, this time I wont fix it until someday I get bored. Since I had this 4 year old Christmas present sitting around, decided now's the time to bolt the new vice on, of course I could only make use of one hole since the new vice has a different bolt pattern. I had to drill 3 more holes and since this is already a project, I tapped the holes instead of nut&bolt.

 

[dragoneggs]

Sooo, lemme see if I got this right; you mount your (not light) roll-around vise to your roll-around table, and somehow they BOTH become immobile....

All kidding aside, I have that exact HF bender - also don't want it bolted to the floor. HF used to offer a "bench mount" version of that, don't remember what they did for a die rack but I'm tempted to cut mine down and just mount it on a receiver tube (but I haven't "receiver-ized" my 900# weld table yet, good thing I have about 20 StrongHand weld clamps for those "temp" jobs - AND a 12,000# backhoe with 7 receivers to choose from :laughing: ) ...Steve

Yep, I am a bit surprised but it works great! I modified a HF 24in clamp, cutting down the aluminum rail to suit. The table is so dang heavy that it doesn't 'go' anywhere.

Finished both stands with casters and just need one more HF clamp now that I know I'm good to go!



I love the fact that I can wheel them up to my 4'x8' steel table and quickly clamp them or wheel them out of the way when not needed.

Someday I might come up with a more elegant connection but that likely means drilling holes in the pedestal stand and also means I need to decide where on the table cross frames I want to position the vise or 'pepper' that with holes along its length.