Seems I've been coming across a lot of cool stuff for the new shop lately. At this rate the place will be full before I move in.

I had been planning on building a chassis table for a while now, and just about the time I was starting to price out steel Dustin called and said he found the perfect table on Craigslist....kinda. It was setup with a kind of axle in the middle and a long piece of square tubing that served as a trailer tongue. It was also much too tall for my intended use. The tires were so bad I cant believe they hold air for more than 30seconds and lets just say the drive from my house to the old shop (8 miles) was pretty entertaining. On the up side this thing is freakin beefy as hell. The top is 4'x13' and it's an inch thick. The beams that support the top are 2x12x1/4". Yeah....it's heavy.

Tonight we got to work on gettin this thing usable. First we chopped off the rear legs and pulled the wheels off.

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Next I cut out a lifting ring, welded it to the end and used my engine hoist to pick up the other end so we could cut off the other legs and axle. This turned out to be slightly harder than expected. After maxing out my hoist on the 1-1/2 ton setting we realized that this thing was even heavier than we thought. With the hoist pulled in to it's 2 ton setting we were able to get it up in the air.

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Once all the legs were cut down I welded on some bottom caps with 5/8" nuts welded in for some adjustable leveling feet I got from Mcmaster-carr. Now I just need to spend some quality time with a flap wheel cleaning all the rust off the top.

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It is a beast! Those legs look so danty.

I know, compared to the rest of the table they look tiny. According to the specs they are rated for 15,000lbs each though so they should be adequate.

might consider renting a floor sander from Home Depot instead of flap wheels.

I'd have gotten it to the new shop before cutting the wheels off of it...

I picked up a Dana surface plate the other month. My Bobcat has a tipping load of just over a ton and it cannot budge it. Going to have to rent a forklift to move it into the shop.

And a second on the floor sander. I bought one off craigslist to sand the floors in my house, but have also used it to sand down some bowling alley lanes for a workbench for my woodshop and am planning to clean up the surface plate top with it as well.

I would have loved to cut the legs off at the new shop, but I need to start on a new buggy in the next couple days and the new shop wont be ready for work for a couple weeks at least.

The legs are probably fine like you said for weight... just don't side load :eek: they look like little thread is sticking out so I`m sure it'll be ok :D

Nice score, do we even dare ask what it cost :flipoff2:

Lets just say I could take it to the scrap yard and make money on it.

That was the deal I got as well. Worst case scenario was that I went straight to the scrap yard and got 4x what I paid for it. :)

What the hell were the previous owners of that thing using it for?