Ok... its not perfect, and at first I didn't want it, but...
A friend is moving across country, and was emptying his garage. He told me to come over and get anything I wanted out of what he was leaving behind. I got some cool old style flip top metal gas cans, A faucet tap kerosene can, a huge metal funnel, couple tow bars that I will salvage the trailer coupler off of, some fence top rail and fence hardware and a big work bench.
Actually all I wanted off the work bench was the vise bolted to one end. Its an old Columbian vise Made in USA. Over the years we have used it for many projects at his house, and while I have broken cheaper cast ones when pounding on something with a 4 pound hammer, or using a cheater bar on the handle this one has never even deflected noticeably that I recall. My buddy told me if I take the vise I have to take the bench and all the storage boxes on the shelves under it. I almost left it, but then I saw all the wire brushes in the drawers, and all the handy looking v-belt pulleys filling one of the larger drawers. I went home and got my trailer. LOL.
Yeah I hauled off a lot of junk to sort through that wouldn't go in his dumpster and will wind up in mine, but I think its worth it.
While we were loading the bench I realize the top is a solid piece of 1/4" steel supported by heavy angle iron. (It took every bit of four of us to load it on the trailer.) I think I just got a new (to me) welding bench. Yeah it won't be good for butt welding, but for everything else, or for working with small hard to clamp to pieces this could be just the ticket. Never having had a welding bench before (and having welded on the floor many times) I wonder if there is anything I need to do other than add a ground lug/stud for the welder lead?
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