Help me fine a vise mounting picture

[Flattie]

To all;

I have been all over the web and searched this site for two days ca while back someone posted a picture of a vise mounted on the back of a service truck. The vise was mounted to a tube. When they were done using it, they turned the vise upside down and slid it under the truck body. Does anyone know where that thread is at?

 

[neophyte]

I'm not sure which thread on GJ you're referring to but if you do a Google image search for "truck hitch vise mount" it brings up images of what you're describing.

Wilton makes a vise specifically for truck hitch mounting, and Harbor Freight makes a mounting plate.

http://www.google.com/search?q=truck+hitch+vise+mount&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&oq=&gs_l=

http://www.harborfreight.com/hitch-mount-vise-plate-66260.html

http://www.wiltontools.com/us/en/s/atv-all-terrain-vise/

 

[Flattie]

I'm not sure which thread on GJ you're referring to but if you do a Google image search for "truck hitch vise mount" it brings up images of what you're describing.

Wilton makes a vise specifically for truck hitch mounting, and Harbor Freight makes a mounting plate.

http://www.google.com/search?q=truck+hitch+vise+mount&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&oq=&gs_l=

http://www.harborfreight.com/hitch-mount-vise-plate-66260.html

http://www.wiltontools.com/us/en/s/atv-all-terrain-vise/

Thank you but I should have been more specific. I really want to mount my larger size vise like he did, on a work bench I have. The sliding out of the way thing was the key. My vise weighs too much to just mount it on a reciever hitch. It weighs something around 90 pounds. I kind of want to make a hide a vise setup. It's mounted to my bench now. And don't like it. It's just in the way a lot. I just committed to a new bench that is much larger than I have now. I will now have two AWSOME work surfaces and am wanting to be able to slide the vise out of the way under my new bench. Mounting it on top of my current bench was one of the worst ideas I ever had.. But, thank you so much for your time. I will look at your links

 

[bl00]

I remember that. It was a Wilton mounted to a round tube inside a tube and it would store under the back of the truck. Standby and let me see if I can find it.

 

[Fretters]

If I remember correctly from the one I recall seeing, there was an outer tube with two slots in it, spaced 180 degrees apart. The top slot was just a short slot, and then the bottom slot was from the front of the tube to a depth which allowed the vice to be pushed to a suitable depth underneath the bench. The inner tube, to which the vice was mounted, had a length of square bar welded to it, of the same length and width as the top slot. It was a simple pull out and rotate 180 degrees and push that bar into the respective slot. There'll have been a clamping bolt through the outer tube to secure the inner tube once located.

 

[zkling]

This one?

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4451471&postcount=8

 

[Flattie]

This one?

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=4451471&postcount=8

YES!!!! Thank you ALL for the help. Fretters, thanks for the explanation.

 

[drivesitfar]

Flattie: sorry i don't know how i missed your thread. my client had his prior Wiilton C1 stolen so when he bought a restored one for me it was an easy fit and he may have welded the bolts this time. i did think it was pretty cool too.

in case you need a stand or a hitch type mount for a vise or grinder that vise stand thread in fabrication section has a lot of options.

cheers

 

[Flattie]

Flattie: sorry i don't know how i missed your thread. my client had his prior Wiilton C1 stolen so when he bought a restored one for me it was an easy fit and he may have welded the bolts this time. i did think it was pretty cool too.

in case you need a stand or a hitch type mount for a vise or grinder that vise stand thread in fabrication section has a lot of options.

cheers

Heading over to that thread now. Thank you for posting in the first place. I have googled for 2 days now...

 

[Hammer1963]

Chase down a public works truck ei. Electric service, water company etc. Most all have vises mounted on the back of their trucks

 

[drivesitfar]

Hammer: you are right those utility trucks have a vise mounted to the top, but it isn't nearly as cool looking the one i posted and Flattie has been trying to find. here's a picture for the thread so others won't have to link to it.

 

[Marc Benjamin]

Hammer: you are right those utility trucks have a vise mounted to the top, but it isn't nearly as cool looking the one i posted and Flattie has been trying to find. here's a picture for the thread so others won't have to link to it.

When tucked in, is there some kind of lock on that?

 

[drivesitfar]

MB: i'm not sure other than he made a hole in the bumper for the handle to fall into. sorry i can't email him to ask because my outlook crashed last year and i lost all my old client's emails. can you see the handle going into the hole. i guess he could have a pin in the pipe to hole it too because i think that's how it holds it upright when he is using it.

ZK: BTW nice find until i found this thread.