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While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

That's what I thought when I built mine.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

Got a start made on a new work bench today.
Three inch angle iron for legs and three building planks. Had to scribe the first plank to the wall as it was a bit wobbly. Still need to get some 2mm sheet folded up to go on top of the planks, make a shelf for underneath and mount the vice.

Thats much better now, turns out it was a bad batch of paint that was causing all the problems.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

Not much progress, just primed and painted.

Happy New Year and may the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Happy New Year and may the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Not sure if you have seen this before but thought someone might be interested in this, it was a set of plans available in the 1960's by Popular Mechanics to build a "Pow'r Pup" garden tractor.
on the "Large home tractor plans" about half way down the page. It might give you some ideas if you are building your own tractor.
http://www.vintageprojects.com/tractors/garden-tractor-plans.html

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

Nice work, that'll be a fab bench

nice job noel. that wee welder hasn't done that much work in years!

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

The adjustable legs are a great addition!

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.

Got this about a year ago. 1978 International 784. Slowly starting to replace all the rusted parts, mechanically everything works fine.

While waiting for the local engineering firm to open again to get the 2mm top folded up for my bench i thought i would make a start on my work table.
All the 40 mm box steel cut to length and a few bits of 19mm as well.

Starting to lay out the frame for the work top. Size is 2000mm x 1100mm.

As i am only using 2mm sheet for the top, the extra internal bars will be carrying the weight of the tractors.

My floor isn't very level so i have had to make adjustable feet.



All six legs complete and ready to be welded to the frame.

Legs tacked on and lower braces welded in place.


Everything fully welded and ready for the wire wheel and some primer. Still need to make some ramps and get a top fitted.