World's Heaviest Workbench?

[Ifixcars]

Nice piece of steel! The price was right too! I would take a DA or sanding disk to the top of it and clean it up to shiny steel. That would make welding easier and keep engine parts cleaner.

 

[joes_427_vette]

The cat either heard the wrong numbers or is dyslexic. Don't be too hard on him. At least they were all the same size. Great picture !!

 

[TOMDUALLY]

That looks good, but it ain't the heaviest. Mine is 4' X 10' with 1/2" top, 4" pipe legs and a band of 8" channel all the way around and across the center. I wish I had the casters on it like yours, I have to drag mine with the tractor if I want to move it any. Later, Nat

I would have to agree with Nat, I've seen his and I don't believe that you could turn his over with the 'come-along' set up that you used. IT'S HEAVY!!!

 

[CATMAN]

Suggestion for your vise; I would normally put a vise on a corner and make sure that the rear stationary vise jaw extends or is postioned outward of the table perimeter. This way if you want to clamp a long vertical piece of wood or metal into to the jaws, it clamps the item without that item hitting the tabletop. It is really frustrating when someone as mounting a vise too far inboard on a surface and you want to clamp something with the long vertical piece hanging downward. I hope you understand "my explaination". Also the corner position gives good support because you have the table support right below it. Note: with the wheels, you won't be able to perform much bending of metal using the vise. The best setup that I have used, was a big stationary vise on a thick table welded to the support I-beam of a large buiding in the center of our old shop. It was very helpful.

 

[river rat]

The castors looked suspect to me, too, and I SURE wouldn't wanna get a corner of that thing on me! Also, if you are welding something toward the middle of the table, aren't you apt to get some warpage withoue a lengthwise stiffener under it? 3/4" is a heck of a lot of steel, but heat can do funny things to it, too.
Great use of a road plate, though, and I sure wish I had it in my shop! As far as the width - heck, leave it, if it ain't eating anything; there'll be times you'd pay good money to have it back if you took it off or cut into it. If you don't have to use it, you don't have to!

 

[Nat]

I'd bolt one vice as said earlier with the back/fixed jaw at least even with the edge of the top. The other vice I'd leave it so that I could clamp it anywhere I wanted to , more flexible like that. I think the casters are OK. One thing I did to mine was run a ground from next to the welder out to the table and fasten it there. I can clamp the ground from the welder leads to the ground that goes to the table and only have to move 1 lead as the ground is already grounded. Later, Nat

 

[Brad_Blazer]

My bench top is only about 24" x 27" but the bench weighs more than 400lb. It does have a lower 12" shelf that juts to the right and I have my vice mounted there so the top of the jaws is about even with the table top. 1" machined flat black oxide top on 4 columns that sit on a 1/2" plate about 5" lower. The vice shelf is 1/2" plate and there is a 3/8" base plate 4" off the ground. The sides are covered with 12 gauge sheet. The frame is 2x2x.25" tube. It was a surplus machine base I got from work a few years ago for next to nothing, $3 I think.

 

[Renze]

My workbench is either 3/8 ir 1/2 inch plate, with 4" C channel all around it and some crossbars underneath. I could only put it into position with the front loader which could barely lift it. I expect it to be 700 kg.
It was built as a glue table, to glue stainless sheets to wooden cabinet panels, so it was a bit low for me to use as a workbench. I removed the upper rails that once held the pneumatic glue press cylinders and used M30 threaded rod as adjustable supports to level it out on the rough floor.
I dont use an anvil, i can just bang on the workbench as much as i like... and i do like it...

 

[TwinWillows]

I thought the legs looked long in the first photo but chalked it up to the picture. Looks like you've fixed it though.

 

[Jagmandave]

It may just be the pic, but the table looks like it bows down slightly on the long dimension, maybe a stiffener under there would be a good idea?

I think it's great to have a nice heavy work table like this, but being 4' wide, all it's gonna do is collect stuff on the back half till it's full - don't ask me how I know!

I think I would have narrowed it on the long dimension to about 30"..............