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[crabo]

I built a stand for my vise and bead roller at school.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/Beadroller1_450x600_zps5ee818fa.jpg

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/vise1_180x240_zpscd08b489.jpg

I decided that I would build a stand for an anvil that we are going to get. I called over to transportation and asked if they had any more truck wheels they didn't want. They sent me 4 more wheels and I pulled the weights off. I love truck weights. I tried to weigh the weights but they were too heavy for my electronic scale. Easily over a pound.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/Truckweights_320x180_zpsc8789837.jpg

[starmac]

I'm sure you are, but you are going to mount the anvil on wood aren't you.

[crabo]

I haven't quite worked out all the details, but I plan on putting hard wood between the metal stand and the anvil. We are also getting a new Beverly shear which will need a stand.

I like being able to move the tools around the shop. My present shop is 44 yards long so we go from one end to the other with tools.

[blackthorn]

When the mill I worked at closed in 1987 I bid on the anvil from our old blacksmith shop and I got it ($75)! IT came mounted on a heavy wood block with steel reinforcing bands, top, bottom and middle. My boy (who the anvil was for) picked it up in his pick-up truck. We weighed it on the way home---500 pounds! Even back then the going price for anvils was $3 a pound. He was one happy camper!

[runfiverun]

craig they usually say how heavy they are right on them.

[Gliden07]

Cool stands Im building one very similer to it but I have very limited room so I'm making mine so I can swap the top out for a flat round top to use a 12" sand bag, an adapter to use post dollies in I have a bead roller like the one you have and I want to use that on there too!! I'm gonna use the holes in the rim to hold dollies and some of my larger hammers.
Your bead roller is the Harbor Frieght type that you rienforced? Did you change the bearing blocks on them or are they the stock ones??

[crabo]

Gliden, the bead roller is a Harbor freight one that I re-enforced. The bearing blocks are still the stock ones.

I also have a Harbor Freight Beverly shear. I mounted it on a 15" rim and it is too light. You can't buy replacement blades for the HF shear, but you can sharpen them on a belt sander. I am getting a real Beverly shear and am going to put it on one of the truck wheels also.

My problem is bored teenagers who think you should be able to cut round stock in shears.

Here's looking down one wall of the shop at school.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/7Hoods7_320x240_zps7c0adf22.jpg

I also am able to teach some of them some basic metal fabrication and welding. This student took a Harley tank with the center fill, extended it and reshaped it.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/50JordonEitel_320x240_zps666a6130.jpg

He copied the paint job from a House of Kolor poster of an S10 Blazer.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/49Jordonatstate_320x240_zpsdc99b0ae.jpg

We also fabricated the stand for it. We angled it so that it would show off the work better.

The stand you are building sounds like my reloading table that I keep in the house. I just spin it around, depending on the tool I want to use.

http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w482/Crabo308/Reloading%20Equip/d6171699.jpg

[Gliden07]

Crabo,

That tank was done by a student?? WOW thats awesome!! I love doing this work but I'm not very good at it, I'm teaching myself by reading books and watching videos but its a very slow process! But I keep trying!!

[crabo]

I challenge my students to "do hard things". The key is to give it to them a step at a time.