June 13, 200619 yr This is my 100lb post vise mounted to a steel table. I also have a cheap Harbor Freight machinest vice attached to the other corner.
June 13, 200619 yr Author Ok, it is a post vise without the post, or a leg vise without the leg. Any suggestions on what it really is and why it has no leg? And if it has no post, how can it be a post vise?
June 13, 200619 yr It appears to be a wagon tounge vise / to be attached to the tounge of a covered wagon as they headed west
June 14, 200619 yr Post vise behind the anvil is mounted on steel i-beam and steel plate, between 400 - 500 lbs total.
June 14, 200619 yr My vise 5 " columbian mounted on boxed in I beam 3 feet in the ground in concrete. Several spares in case I wear this one out
October 14, 200718 yr Heres my " little shop vice " . 7 1/4" . Have 4 others , 2 x 4" , 1 x 5 " & 1 x 5 1/2 "
October 15, 200718 yr I'm just getting started. This was in my grandfathers shop. I put it up this morning.
October 15, 200718 yr My main shop vise is mounted to my big workbenchhttp://www.tharkis.com/images/shop/viseandhammers.jpg I've got another big one mounted to a 2x4 tower because i had a pile of 2x4s on hand when I wanted to mount it. I need to replace the spring on it though.http://www.tharkis.com/images/shop/2by4towervise.jpg Lastly is a pair of smaller ones (3 and 4 inches) both needing mounting hardware, and one needing a spring, which i'm going to mount in much more portable fashion once I forge the needed parts.http://www.tharkis.com/images/shop/grindersandvises.jpg
October 16, 200718 yr 60 lb vise, $40. I lagged a 2x4 to the shop wall, then lagged a 2x8 to that and mounted the vise on it. working on a portable stand.
October 25, 200718 yr This is my 6" Indian Chief. I picked it up near Reno about 20 years ago for WAY more than folk in the mid west would think a bad joke. It cost less to air freight it to Alaska. I also have a 4" no-name but it's not set up, buried in fact. There'll be room in the new shop though. :cool: Frosty
October 25, 200718 yr Okay, this is the pic I forgot to attach to the previous post. Go ahead laugh, I'm used to it. Frosty
November 4, 200718 yr :cool: This is one of the bigger ones bit of a dog I picked it up for $5 some 25 years ago
June 20, 200817 yr from Smederij Faber, ambachtelijke smederij there is a vise of Claudio Bottero, Italian blacksmith
June 20, 200817 yr The leg was broken with about 4 inches of stubb left. I heated up a piece of 1 inch black iron and drove it on the stub. There is about 100 lbs of concrete in the wheel. It don't move.Portable leg vise. - Blacksmith Photo Gallery
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