On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 19:43:10 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I've thought about this before, but it comes to mind every time one of
my two bench mounted vises is in the way, or I wish I had more room to
use one of them.

Do any of you guys use a vise on a pedestal?

For my uses I would NOT want to bolt it down in one place so I'd have
to make it pretty heavy. A few hundred pounds doesn't bother me to
much. My concrete filled pickup wheel pedestal for my bench grinders
has been working out quite nicely, but it might be a bit light for a
vise.

I am also NOT thinking about a post vise, but rather a bench vise
bolted to a platform on a pedestal.

Yes, I am thinking about the vise on a hitch mount with a tube under
the work bench too. It would work ok on my butcher block work bench,
but on the steel top bench the C-channel supporting the top would make
it problematic.

Waaaadaaaayaaathink?

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I'd look into the suitability of a pipe vise tripod stand. Threading
and unscrewing pipe are the most demanding jobs I use my bench vise
for.
-jsw


My vise is a 5" Wilton machinist vise on a pedestal bolted to the
floor. The wheeled welding table / work bench is next to it most of
the time. The pedestal is 6" square tube. I like the setup. Nice
and stiff, good for filing, holding rifles for cleaning, and pretty
much anything I need a vise for.

Pete Keillor