Tools for the shop you make yourself

[wroughtn_harv]

This is something I came up with cause I'm probably lazier than the average bear and like to take things the easy way.

Look at it close before you skip to the next post. Check out what it's made of and figure out if you know what it's for. If you guess correctly wregular harv promised me he'd do your message on the answer machine.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It looks like wregular harv has a new career.

You guessed it wright of course.

 

[s1120]

Cool! Show us more!

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I used unistrut channel and two of their supertrick roller bearing thingys that I was told were rated for five hundred pounds apiece.

If you don't have that kind of friendship with a commercial electrician you can go down to your farm store or tractor supply and pick up a section barn of sliding door track and a set of rollers for it.

My welding table sits outside under a shed. So for security reasons I had to be able to remove it easily. That's why I used the piece of two inch by one inch by eighth inch channel cut to fit the handle of my little Lincoln two hundred and thirty volt hundred and thirty amp mig.

With this little dilly due I can weld up an eight by eighteen gate and the mig just sits up there sliding back and forth being as helpfull as it knows how.

I don't use the mig very often. The reason I originally made the system for it was I had a guy who had some problems welding sixteen gauge pipe gates up with stick working for me. But it is handy.

In a shop this system would be handy because the mig could be tucked back against the wall out of the way and yet when needed just pulled out nice and easy like.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

These are some of my favorite things. They're rollers set at the height for a chop saw. I'd roll out in a pasture say and have to cut umpteen pieces. I'd set the saw up on the floor of the trailer and then set out about three or four or more of these so the material could be rolled in easy like to the saw.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Now I know in your mind you're trying to figure out how I could keep them puppys all lined up nice like for more than one piece.

Check it out.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

See that little piece of five eighths bar stock there on the left side? I've used three quarter succor rod, three quarter tubing, rebar, even heavy flat bar stock.

It works.

There's no secret to it. Go to a surplus yard where they'll have some roller conveyor stock and pick up a section. You'll have more rollers than you can use this lifetime and then it's gravy from now on.

Some of these projects where you lay it out on the floor and you have to make sure you don't take up much space will be a snap with this little trick.

Did I mention that they're fantastic casters if you turn them upside down?

I should have. I've probably used them darn near as much as casters for moving things around as I have for feeding a chop saw.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

If you won a custom message on your very own answering machine from wregular harv I wouldn't take no for an answer.

 

[EdKing]

That is just too cool, when I finally get my garage built, I think I'm going to do a setup like that. I have a cart I made for my MIG, but it is a pain moving it in and out of my little shed, so I end up carrying the weldor out and moving it around from spot to spot to get the leads to reach.

 

[JRP]

Wow! A roof and a lamp. Now you can work at night while it's raining! Great Idea!

JRPoux