Best place to mount a vise?

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64DartGTinAZ

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Anybody have luck with a mobile vise base (something you can use without the vise moving/wobbling/migrating)?

If so, what's it look like, how's it made, how much does it weigh?
 
Weld some square stock to a piece of plate and put it in your hitch receiver. Drill a bunch of holes in it for all your stuff(vices, pipe benders, tubing notcher, ect).
 
64DartGTinAZ said:
Anybody have luck with a mobile vise base (something you can use without the vise moving/wobbling/migrating)?

If so, what's it look like, how's it made, how much does it weigh?
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Mine is a 1 foot tall chunk of 20ish inch culvert with a forged ford I beam cast into it, offset, with concrete. I welded a piece of 12 inch long C channel to that and welded corresponding nuts to fit the vise. I can stand on the concrete base to offset any movement when torquing on it. The offset gives me leverage to roll it around. I know... Pics. It weighs a lot.

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If mounting in truck receiver hitch weld a nut flush into both sides of hitch part. Then you can install a bolt into both sides and tighten to remove any play.
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I have also welded a receiver tube vertically into the top of my heavy but mobile steel welding table . It is also tightened with a bolt to keep it from wiggling. On the other end I mounted in similar fashion a bar to support longer heavy items once in the vise. Both are removable and adjustable for height.
 
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If mounting in truck receiver hitch weld a nut flush into both sides of hitch part. Then you can install a bolt into both sides and tighten to remove any play.
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steel work bench.
 
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