Quick-Detach Vise

Quick-Detach Vise FARM SHOP Tools 29-3-36 Harold Fratzke recently called FARM SHOW to tell us about a nifty "quick-detach" vise mounting bracket that he came up with. It lets him mount a vise alongside his welding table - leaving a clear table top - or on back of a pickup in the receiver hitch. "We came up with the idea when we put a new 6 by 4-ft., 1/2-in. thick welding table in our shop," says Fratzke. "We wanted a vise on the table, but we didn't want it mounted on the table top because it would sometimes interfere with our welding projects. So we welded a piece of 8-in. sq., 3/8-in. thick metal plate to a 20-in. length of heavy duty sq. tubing. We drilled three holes in the plate so we could bolt the vise on, and also drilled a hole in the sq. tubing. "We then welded a length of sq. tubing under the table, the same type of tubing that's commonly used to make a standard pickup receiver hitch. We added two set screws to the sq. tubing to secure the vise platform. The vise can be rotated in any one of four different positions, by simply pulling out the sq. tubing and rotating it. "The tubing can be installed in any pickup receiver hitch, an idea that really comes in handy during harvest." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harold Fratzke, 234 Shoreview Dr., Cottonwood, Minn. 56229 (ph 507 423-6341; email: hnl@starpoint.net).

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