Art & Inspiration Work benches, lets see'm

This is one side of my shop, 44 dodge 1/2 ton under wraps and a doner cab on the floor. Sorry for all the fibreglass, just getting my protruck parts back in one piece

 

is that a sticker museum? lol

 

Here are my benches. First is on my clean side of the garage, more for storing magazines, parts and other stuff plus a few toys.



behind the modified you can see my working benches and storage cabinet. I have added another cabinet in the other corner to store more junk.



other cabinet

 

3'x5' .75" plate top W/ 3" legs, it don't move around much, got it for "severance" when work closed the doors

 

So far, which are the favorites of everyone?

 

I think it's under here somewhere

 

Looks strong as hell. Lots of under storage space

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

Here's my "work triangle." I've envisioned it for years, and finally got the shop walls finished so I could build my fab/welding/work table.
The cabinet with the orange doors is a Pitney-Bowes mail room cabinet they were getting rid of at work. I've used it as my main bench for about 10 years. The shelf on top is great. I added the light and the pegboard. I don't like the doors, because there's no selves behind them--just one shelf on the bottom. Lots of wasted space. I'd like to get rid of the doors and shelf, remove the wheels from a roll-away tool box and put it under there. I keep a couple sets of drill bits, a set of number and letter punches, center transfer punches, and a drill index box I use to store taps and dies, on it.
Gotta find a cheap shop stereo to set on the shelf. My current radio is on the other side of the shop--found out I don't like the radio right next to where I'm working--too intrusive. I like it as background noise.
Right now it's a catch-all for in-process projects that I don't have a better place to stash. I need to get it cleaned off.

I made the vise table about 10 years ago as well (based of one my grandfather made in the '40s). 2-inch angle iron legs, shelf and top frame, with lengths of C-channel welded together to make the top. Grandpa used a hunk of armor plate from a surplus half-track he bought to mount his crane on.
The vise is the third, and last I'll have on it--93-pound Reed. It's a hoss.
The pipe vise seemed like a good idea, but I've never used it. Nor did i ever use the one on my grandfathers' when I was growing up. Seems like a dust collector. I should get rid of the pipe vise.

I made the welding table a few months ago (and did a build story for Street Rodder). 3x5 with a 1/2-inch plate top, and heavy-wall tubing for the legs and feet. On the end of it is a Studebaker Machine Tool hydraulic vise, operated with foot pedals on the ground. I don't have the lines hooked up yet, so it's only good for holding my welding extension cord now. The vise weighs almost 100 pounds, the table without the vise is over 600 pounds.

I HATE benches that move or are flimsy. This one doesn't move. At all.
We manhandled a Ford 9-inch rear onto it... I set my side on, Boy Wonder was a little short on one end and sorta dragged/scuffed/slid his side of the rear onto it, and the table didn't even know we put something on it.

Last week we temporarily heaved that box and pan break up onto it... again, Boy Wonder was a little short on one end... it got REAL dicey there for a few minutes... we almost lost it. Fortunately we were able to get it up there without loss of limb or tool. Shipping weight on the brake is 305 pounds.
Again, the table never moved. There's nearly 1,000 pounds there with the table, vise and brake... nothing moved when I bent too-thick aluminum with the brake.

Gotta love mass.

-Brad

 

I cleaned the bench off a few weeks ago & snapped a pic. Covered w/ shit right now.

 

No........ thats just a figment of your imagination,
but fixin them also pays the lite bill

 

This is my cluttered bench ...Just rebuilt a Posi and doing a bench test test

 

707, is that napa area? i am in Hayward, well a small city called San Lorenzo and no one has ever heard of it so I just say Hayward lol

 

I had been dragging around my bench for a few years, it was going to be junked and I cut it in half to fit in my old garage. The top is a butcher block top and the legs are just two by fours bolted together. My wife thought I was crazy, but you can’t knock free! The tool box I have has a butcher block top as well and was free too! Built it last summer and is already covered with tools and I added a old hand crank drill press (it was cheaper than a power drill press and looks cool).

 

Nice collection!

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

I was gonna show you my work benches, then I saw nice....clean....organized benches and shops here and couldn't do it - just too damned embarrassing!

If nothing else, this thread is inspirational for all us lazy bastards that can't see the bench for tools and general CRAP!!! I will take some pics, but will hang them at each work station to remind me to never let it get this bad ever again!!! Now, I have four workbenches, a 4'X8' welding table and an office/engine/clean room to organize - one at a time. See you in about a month.

 

When should we send a search party?

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

I found this item on garagejournal.com. If you havent visited it yet, you must go there. Its the Hambs sister site. Anyways, I found this item on their blog. Not much info on it other than where it is located. But lookes like it would be easy to build. This may have been an item that was made by a company or by an individual I am not sure but I thought that it could easily be made. Check it out:




An interesting idea for a tool box replacement. I guess you would call it a cart. In any case, it was found by a gentleman on The Jalopy Journal. He found it at the Kalamazoo Air Museum where it serves their general repair man. Kind of a neat idea…

you can check out the article here:

http://www.garagejournal.com/2011/12/air-zool-tool-box/

 

Organized Chaos !!
It never stays clean long !!
3 car garage--boat --boat trailer--car--etc
I really need a bigger shop !@#$#

 

Lol love the flood sign. Whats the story behind it?

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

I pulled the sign out of a river in Boulder canyon.

 

That is hilarious. Talk about stating the obvious lol

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

Wow, I thought I was tight with a buck but Scotty squeezes his $ in a vise!

 

Just got mine hone from being in my parents house. We brought it to our new house (gf and my house) and it fits like a glove in my garage. I will take pictures tomorrow for sure. Also I will be needing to pick some of those brains of yours for a cheap but efficient way to stablize the massive mobile table. I need it to stay mobile so there will need to be some creative engineering done there. I will post tomorrow an idea I drew up in google sketch up, may be the way to go. But I want to pick brains first like a zombie before I rush and pass up a decent and simple design someone else may have.

Thanks,
"Skrach"
My Vintage Blog:
www.VividlyVintage.com
My 55 Chrysler Worklog:
www.Pop's55.com

 

Here's the ones at home. Sorry about the crap photos.
Skratch, the mobile benches at home have two fixed (non swivel) wheels on one end and normal feet on the other. Between the normal feet is a cross bar with a locating that, when desired locates a dolly/trolly to pick up that end and wheel it around.
Does that make sense?!

 

Nice workbench. You could even use it for bunk beds when you have company !

 

I built this workbench from an old warehouse shelving frame. I got 24 feet of it and used some for the legs. I added 3/4" plywood topped with some 1/4" hardboard for the top. It's incredibly heavy and very sturdy! It sits under the window where my other workbench is sitting in the pic. That one is an old "Beach" rolling workbench that I scored at a farm auction. It has 5 pull out drawers and two shelves under it. It's one of my best auctions scores.

 

I made the workbenches behind me out of 3" square tubing and 3" angle iron. They are 8 ft long and 24" deep. The tops are two layers of 3/4 inch plywood. THey are really heavy duty.
The cabinets are 1948 vintage from a mental hospital...., and thats me the escapee



You can see a green metal workbench across the front of the shop, This is 40's-50's vintage and heavy duty.
The blue table is 4" square tube 1/4" wall with a 1" thick blanchard ground top. It weighs between 1600 and 1800 lbs

 

Very cool thread guys! I'm in the process of fixing up my 1 1/2 car attached and then maybe closing in a carport to make it a 2 1/2 car. Need all the ideas I can get!!