What's on your Work Bench?

[joaquin suave]

Sweet table... that thickness though!

Towards the end of my career I was doing quite a bit of design & development work in the AG industry and several of my projects involved me buying a lot of steel from a large supplier over in the central valley ( they have their on rail siding). I got into a good relationship with the main sales guy and asked him to keep an eye out for "just the right chunk" for a KILLER welding table. So about a year goes by and he called me and said that he had my perfect table top. He explained that it was the "leftover" from a millrun of plates that a big customer had ordered that would be eventually Blanchard ground so care was taken to process them as flat as possible.

Of course I was stoked, but had to meekly ask: "How much $$$". He replied: "$ 600 delivered, just be sure to steer your clients our way!" Needless to say... I was their best cheerleader over here on the coast!!!!

Then rather then use the welder I had working for me, I hired a welder that specialized in "accurate big steel structures" to weld it onto the base we built in the shop. I am REALLY glad I did because the technique he used was counter intuitive but produced DEAD FLAT surface. We used micro adjust feet ( like used on milling machines), so the table turned out extremely flat and level.

You can't see in the picture, but over one end of the table is an 2 ton overhead rail for a hoist and the other end has plenty of room for my forklift, so between the two I could pick up some really big heavy stuff to work on.

 

[spankrjs]

Hurricane Francine debris:



Free Jeep parts!!


PS pump has good pulley and tank, I need the spare tire carrier for Plowboi Jeep to replace the current carrier that has a bunch of extra holes drilled in it, and a new transfer case torque arm mount and stud.

Box is missing latches and has one big hole drilled in the lower corner, but for free I am not complaining, I can epoxy the hole shut and add some latches easy enough



And a pair of doors for spare parts. Good glass and vent windows, hoping all the internal parts are good. Nutmeg pull handles not cracked, door panels not tore but cardboard is warped on one of them. Like I said, for free, I am not complaining!!

 

[mhinchliffe]

I'm so mad right now I just spit up Spanks! Great haul!

 

[RockTractor]

My father and I got started building some Adirondack chairs using cedar sourced from our family farm in VA..

 

[John N]

My father and I got started building some Adirondack chairs using cedar sourced from our family farm in VA..View attachment 114992View attachment 114993

I’ve been working with some cedar that my son and I harvested and milled from his property. Made a pair of swing seats for a friend.

 

[RockTractor]

I’ve been working with some cedar that my son and I harvested and milled from his property. Made a pair of swing seats for a friend.

Those came out great!

 

[mhinchliffe]

I recently cut down and ground a few cedar stumps on the property and boy does it smell good in that area! Nice work Rock and John!

 

[John N]

I recently cut down and ground a few cedar stumps on the property and boy does it smell good in that area! Nice work Rock and John!

When you mill it or run it through the planer, the smell is amazing.

 

[RockTractor]

When you mill it or run it through the planer, the smell is amazing.

The sawdust even made my garbage can smell good!

 

[Oakley]

Not going on my work bench! Way above my pay grade.
This is what happens when the wrecker guy doesn’t listen when I tell him he has to take the entire drive shaft out of my motor coach!
In 900 feet he ripped all the air lines the fuel lines the hydraulic lines the ABS lines the wiring harness x2 chassis and coach harnesses!
So far 6 different companies have said not a chance they are interested in taking on the job to repair this mess. I’m thinking I may have to go get a new one. Their insurance company is definitely not happy to say the least. And I figure they are really going to cry next week when they have to lease me a coach while they figure out what to do.

 

[mhinchliffe]

My dear friend Mr. F Gump once famously said "stupid is as stupid does."
Hope it all works out and sorry for your circumstances.....

 

[joaquin suave]

I made a handle for the sliding door into my shop.

 

[Kim Dawson]

I made a handle for the sliding door into my shop.

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When I read the title I was expecting to see a CJ grab bar. Drill bit is more unusual. Nice.

 

[Bad Karma]

That's heavy duty!!! Emphasis on HEAVY!

 

[spankrjs]

I need to borrow a trailer











Gonna say a combination of two things, with #1 being the bigger contributing factor:

1) That's a shit weld, I could do better!!
2) Trailer tire hooked a tree, well 4:1 low range won that battle

The funny thing, damn Chineseum original Harbor Freight axle lasted over 8 years of this abuse, and I even winched it back "straight" after finally bending it from a similar incident

 

[John N]

I need to borrow a trailer

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Gonna say a combination of two things, with #1 being the bigger contributing factor:

1) That's a shit weld, I could do better!!
2) Trailer tire hooked a tree, well 4:1 low range won that battle

The funny thing, damn Chineseum original Harbor Freight axle lasted over 8 years of this abuse, and I even winched it back "straight" after finally bending it from a similar incident

You can borrow mine, come on over and get it.

 

[Rosco1974]

Finally got my workbench setup.
Daytime shop:

Nighttime shop: 50th birthday party Saturday night.

 

[masscj2a]

I feel like I need to go buy some bell bottom jeans and turn on a disco ball. Some of you won't know what those are and some will.

 

[spankrjs]

New axle installed, only need to install new tail lights since I keep destroying them some how

 

[Belizeit]

Looks like the portable turkey blind is ready to go.