home made tools and equipment...

[Hank Turd]

Originally Posted by bkap

Holy crap thats awesome...

[FiddyFour]

Originally Posted by bkap

When I built my garage, I put four tie downs in the floor...

your shop floor is much prettier than mine

lol floor envy

[1939fiat]

I drilled and put 4 lag bolts in the floor..Have a portable hand winch that can be used on our trailer or pinned to the floor.

beats the hell out of pushin crap in & out.

Rick

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Originally Posted by bkap

When I built my garage, I put four tie downs in the floor, using 1" nuts welded to round tubing with scrap metal rods and such welded to that as support in the concrete. The plugs are from 1" all-thread. There are four, in a 4' x 8' rectangle. Works great for pulling frames, etc., although I haven't used them as much as I thought I would. Especially since I stopped crashing circle-track cars.

[bkap]

Originally Posted by FiddyFour

your shop floor is much prettier than mine

lol floor envy

Yeah, but I didn't show the rest of it...

[bct]

new shop stool

PADDED!

[plym49]

Originally Posted by bct

new shop stool

PADDED!

That is so wrong.................

[dallas1]

lmfao

[29bowtie]

Originally Posted by bct

new shop stool

PADDED!

These days it needs to be heated too! Damn, I wish someone would turn up the heat around here.

[Voh]

Here is a hanger I made for the air tools. Real simple, yet SUPER functional!

Here is a hanger for the clamps + some background art (most from the HAMB)


And the last one is the Vice stand. Semi wheel split. 4" vertical pipe with 1/4" wall and then a 1/4" plate on the top. It has holes cut for mounting my bench grinder when needed.

[FiddyFour]

Originally Posted by Voh

And the last one is the Vice stand.

how do you hold that thing down when you're really busting the hell out of something?

[Cosmo49]

Originally Posted by FiddyFour

how do you hold that thing down when you're really busting the hell out of something?

It's also offset, you have that anchored into the floor?

[dawford]

If Von doesn't have it secured to the floor he could gain some stability by rotating it 90 degrees and leaving it cantalevered the way it is.

I have had vices that I used to hold projects for welding grinding and drilling that were mot secured any more than that.

My favorite vice however is one that weight about 50 lbs. and is mounted to a 150 lb cast iron base that is broad at the bottom. I have still tipped it a few times when trying to straighted or bend material.

Dick

[dirty old man]

No offense to Voh's work, as it's real nice. But the worry about stability isn't too imporant, considering the choice he made for a vise. It's not gonna hold anything much if any tighter than the unsecured mount holds the vice.
I have one of those vises on one end of my 2000# steel topped worktable. I've bought a big old 100# vise used, and it's on the "to do" list to swap them out,
The pictured vice tries to do all things holding all sorts of metal shapes in all sorts of positions, and consequently doesn't hold any of then very well, plus the swivels won't resist swivelling very well when you try to lock them down.
Dave

[plym49]

Quickie portable winch for loading and unloading trailers:

It's the HF 200 0lb 12v el cheapo ATV winch (I was surprised that it was better than I expected), aluminum plate, tow hook and a wide angle iron mount for the fairlead. Built from scrap on hand. I tried it out this weekend to pull a cement mixer up into the bed of my truck. Worked fine. I am going to add wooden lateral skids to help steady it but wanted to see how it worked first.



Note: It is not attached to that plywood; it is just sitting there.

[Broncobilly72]

Originally Posted by plym49

Quickie portable winch for loading and unloading trailers:

It's the HF 200 0lb 12v el cheapo ATV winch (I was surprised that it was better than I expected), aluminum plate, tow hook and a wide angle iron mount for the fairlead. Built from scrap on hand. I tried it out this weekend to pull a cement mixer up into the bed of my truck. Worked fine. I am going to add wooden lateral skids to help steady it but wanted to see how it worked first.

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Note: It is not attached to that plywood; it is just sitting there.

Plym49,
That's exactly what I had in mind, with that $49 HF 2000 lb atv winch! I didn't know if that winch would hold up, so thanks for the little review ; ) I was going to attach the winch to 2 2"x4" boards (stacked & bolted to make 1 4'x4' for rigidity), run horzontally and attached at the front stake posts behind my pickup cab. Then winch up the heavy items on atv ramps. Once I get 240v in the house I am at now, I will eventually weld up a steel horizontal piece, and attach it to the bed sides with grade 8 bolts.

[Crystal Blue]

I need some large wrenches for an OT home project.

So here's what I came up with.

Yup, they're made from plywood, and worked great !

[plym49]

Originally Posted by Broncobilly72

Plym49,
That's exactly what I had in mind, with that $49 HF 2000 lb atv winch! I didn't know if that winch would hold up, so thanks for the little review ; ) I was going to attach the winch to 2 2"x4" boards (stacked & bolted to make 1 4'x4' for rigidity), run horzontally and attached at the front stake posts behind my pickup cab. Then winch up the heavy items on atv ramps. Once I get 240v in the house I am at now, I will eventually weld up a steel horizontal piece, and attach it to the bed sides with grade 8 bolts.

Yep, we are thinking alike. That is indeed the little 49.95 HF winch and I was very surprised as it far exceeded expectations. Note - the shear pin looks puny and I am sure that that will go first if you overload the unit.

The stake holes on my truck are covered with a bed liner. So here is how I secured the front of the winch: I took a long rope and looped it under the frame between the cab and the bed. The rope went up between and then over the front edge of the bed. Rope against bed liner did no damage. This is strong enough to pull up a cement mixer (as I did) or a quad. It also gives you a better angle as the winch sit in the dead center of the bed and the rope angled down, then a straight shot down the ramps. Your plan will work, too, and I might well have done it that way if I had access to the stake pockets.

[plym49]

Originally Posted by Crystal Blue

I need some large wrenches for an OT home project.

So here's what I came up with.

Yup, they're made from plywood, and worked great !

Hmmmmm - obviously for filters and drums? Making biodiesel? Filtering waste oil for use as fuel?

[Crystal Blue]

Originally Posted by plym49

Hmmmmm - obviously for filters and drums? Making biodiesel? Filtering waste oil for use as fuel?

Pond filter system using "plastic" 55 gal drums

[Ford Mike]

Never could afford one of those fancy sandblasters!