8-3/4 fixture, for your engine stand!

I have no fabbing skills let alone a welder. Made it out of cardboard and then took it to the local metal shop and said make this.
My first idea was to have the pipe attach to a vice. Was cleaning up my garage for this project, pushing my eng stand to its new clean corner... I when Hmmmmm and the wheels started turning!

I did a search on here, did another on with Google, and found only one person that had made one of these.(and it was for a ford 9" of course) He used a trailer hitch/receiver that he welded to the side of his big sturdy metal bench. My bench is wood and cheesy so i new that would not work.

I'm glad someone found it interesting. I post mostly on the racing form..........but felts it was more fitting to be post up in this section.
It really turned out stronger than i thought. We will see if there is any flaws to my design in a couple weeks, when it get warmer.