Who has the "Heaviest" work bench?

[Delirious]

Mine is not as pretty or as clean as some of the benches I have seen on here... But it is pretty hefty, weighing in at just under 8000 lbs before the vise, anvile, clamps, and trinkets.

I think its pretty cute albeit a little dirty.

Sorry about the mess, since I have found this forum I have been driven to clean things up.

 

[ADSR]

There is a member here with a 1 foot thick 5 x 10 table top on here. There pics are here somewhere. It's crazy!

Yours is very nice as well!

 

[Nick Danger]

What gets me is that it has lugs, in case the bench is moving around too much and needs to be bolted to the floor.

 

[Delirious]

What gets me is that it has lugs, in case the bench is moving around too much and needs to be bolted to the floor.

The lugs really were to keep the legs from jumping or sliding, tho the legs were not allways attached to a piece of deck plate.

They were attached to a 200 ton flywheel punch aboard a naval vessel. The table is a piece of the deck plate from the ship.

 

[Nick Danger]

Found it. Once I see the whole machine, it makes sense.

I'd attach the picture for future reference, but GJ isn't allowing me to make attachments.

http://vintageadsandbooks.com/cleve...vintage-1953-design-construction-ad-q911.html

 

[Jarhead0408]

I can't believe no one has asked about the vise yet!?

Care share the details? Jaw width, make and model?


Awesome bench btw.

 

[Delirious]

I can't believe no one has asked about the vise yet!?

Care share the details? Jaw width, make and model?


Awesome bench btw.

Thanks, my grandfather found it somewhere when he was younger. Its a rather large Columbian vise, I really never looked for any info on it, before now I never had a reason to talk about it haha.

Looking around on here, it seems like you guys "get it" so I will do my best to clean things up a bit and research my own posessions haha.

I will make a shop post in the pics section.

 

[rburke65]

Wow....that puppy is quite large. Not many guys ever hear that!

 

[plow]

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Really Dude! A PLASTIC dust pan??

 

[ADSR]

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Really Dude! A PLASTIC dust pan??

Looks like it's collecting dust up there. I guess it's doing it's job

 

[Delirious]

Looks like it's collecting dust up there. I guess it's doing it's job

I have a plastic dust pan!? Kill it kill it!!!

The big metal one is floating around somewhere...

 

[plow]

An another thing! get those fire extinguishers serviced.....You know the ones. Tha
e Ansul under the fan and the Amerex by the welder. :;

 

[plow]

Sry for the typo's. I'm drunk.

 

[Steevo]

That bench ( posted by the OP) is awesome!
Any event that would require it to be bolted down would be a "kiss-your-***-goodbye" event anyway.

I wonder what that base was originally supporting? Must have been a fairly large machine.

Oh, and that anvil in front of it is a mighty excellent one, too.

 

[Steve from Socal]

How big is the table, I have an angle plate from a large boring mill. It is solid cast iron 36X36X132" weighs right around 8~8500 pounds.

Steve

 

[ADSR]

How big is the table, I have an angle plate from a large boring mill. It is solid cast iron 36X36X132" weighs right around 8~8500 pounds.

Steve

WOW!!!!

 

[LXCam]

/me looks sadly at his wittle 3Klb table and wonders off with head hung low and in shame.




Damn dude, you got a nice collection of bigass chit between the table, vise and anvil, nice going!. Obviously you do a serious amount of welding, but what's your trade?.

 

[Strouty]

My table is only about 1 ton, I feel like a light weight.

 

[Slowboat]

Mine is 4x4' and 3.5" thick. Figure 3000lbs

 

[Delirious]

How big is the table, I have an angle plate from a large boring mill. It is solid cast iron 36X36X132" weighs right around 8~8500 pounds.

Steve

Its ~4'x8' the top is 1 1/4" thick the legs are solid cast, there is only about 6" of space under the table, there are two 1'x3'x4' cast balast pieces occupying that space.

The machine it was attached to was a 200 ton flywheel press aboard a ship.

 

[blazentrout]

And people give me chit about my 1k and 2.5k tables. I wish i had the room and could find something like that.

 

[Delirious]

Damn dude, you got a nice collection of bigass chit between the table, vise and anvil, nice going!. Obviously you do a serious amount of welding, but what's your trade?.

Thanks, I do weld but my shop is truly a hobby shop, everything works tho and is used regularly with the exception on the tig machine due to the lack of a foot pedal.

I dont have a trade per say, I was a finish carpenter for a bit untill I got into managment. Hard to have a real trade at 24.

 

[ambenz]

.... It is solid cast iron 36X36X132" weighs right around 8~8500 pounds.

Holy canoli! WINNER!!!!

 

[Delirious]

Holy canoli! WINNER!!!!

Il have to add another piece of deck plate to beat that thing. And its got paint...

Haha he wins

 

[Steve from Socal]

There may be somebody here with a even bigger table. I always wanted to get a floor plate from an old boring mill. The angle plate I have bolted to the floor plates, they are big hunks of iron.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/84-X-168-1-...554?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43c51fae0a

Steve

 

[Delirious]

That floor plate weighs in at ~15k!! Holy moly! Sure It would NEVER EVER move but you would have to engineer the floors and build the building around it haha. But, if someone is willing to spend 5k on a chunk like, that plus shipping, im sure they wouldnt mind.

It would be kina cool if I could get my hands on an 8 or 9' vertical boring machine's bed. It would make a great poker table for the man cave.

 

[dieseltron]

The weld shop at work has a few 8'x10' 2 inch plate tables. Sorry can't take pictures.

 

[Steve from Socal]

That floor plate weighs in at ~15k!! Holy moly! Sure It would NEVER EVER move but you would have to engineer the floors and build the building around it haha. But, if someone is willing to spend 5k on a chunk like, that plus shipping, im sure they wouldnt mind.

It would be kina cool if I could get my hands on an 8 or 9' vertical boring machine's bed. It would make a great poker table for the man cave.

Nah,

You just have to have a different mindset, the first picture I posted was of that table in my two car garage along with a lathe, mill, drillpress and big vertical bandsaw. I parked two car in there as well. The floor plate is heavy and big but, it really need no special floor itself, if I moved with my forklift the floor would have to be able to carry the weight of the plate and the axle holding it up about 30K pounds. That sounds like a lot until you break it down, 30K across 4- 10 inch wide tires is 750 PSI roughly. Well within the limits of most floors. Put the plate on six legs and each leg is bearing 2500 pounds, a 5 inch square base is 25 square inches, do the math.

The forklift would be the bigger one in the picture. The little one move the blue table around.

Steve

 

[Nick Danger]

That bench ( posted by the OP) is awesome!
Any event that would require it to be bolted down would be a "kiss-your-***-goodbye" event anyway.

I wonder what that base was originally supporting? Must have been a fairly large machine.

Oh, and that anvil in front of it is a mighty excellent one, too.

See post #5.

 

[Diesel Dan]

They were attached to a 200 ton flywheel punch aboard a naval vessel.

To clarify the punch press did not weight 200 tons, that was its max punch capacity.
Our 2000 ton presses weighted in the 1.2-1.3 million pound range not 4.0 million pounds.

Nah,

You just have to have a different mindset, the first picture I posted was of that table in my two car garage along with a lathe, mill, drillpress and big vertical bandsaw. I parked two car in there as well. The floor plate is heavy and big but, it really need no special floor itself,

We have a bigger/older/rougher hyster with a 50K lb lift capacity. Granted we move heavier stuff but our floors are in the 12-15" thick range. If you need a work bench that large you are going to be putting heavy stuff on it. I'd want at least a 6" thick floor under it. That's just me.