February 26, 20224 yr This followed me home with the 2 uber-over-kill bottle jacks------soon to be the vise stand----this thing is HEAVY ......
February 27, 20224 yr That should work fine for a vise stand, yt12. It kind of looks like the jackstands we used in railcar repair. Ours were a solid piece though. We used air jacks or a Pettibone crane to lift the car up, remove the centerpin and roll the wheel set out. Then lower it onto the stands. Kind of give you the willies when someone bumped the jacked up car with a forklift while you were under there with your welding hood down.
February 27, 20224 yr I bet that kinda made you want to bump the forklift operator with your chipping hammer. Frosty The Lucky.
February 28, 20224 yr After tack welding their steel toed boots to the fork lift tines---with them in them of course!
February 28, 20224 yr Author nodebt----I think you nailed it,this came from a retired career railman---along w/ the 2 mega bottle jacks. I put one of the jacks to work last weekend----helped a friend set a post jack in their basement to support the joists-----had the distinct feeling that one too many pumps was gonna lift the whole house off the foundation-----over-kill is a good thing !!
February 28, 20224 yr I saw those bottle jacks and never even heard of using them to lift cars. The air jacks we used were monsterously powerful. They all lifted at different speeds so you had to watch what your partners was doing on the other side of the car or ka-blamo. I tried to find a video of them in use but couldn't. Here's a picture. Be sure to post a photo of your vise mounted on there...
February 28, 20224 yr Big $$$ Google: Pneumatic Jack Duff Norton 126R 100 Ton Refurbised ones are even up there. Edited February 28, 20224 yr by Nodebt Fix a thing
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