Mobile bench height?

[Cato]

I've made a bogey frame (welding was involved!) for moving the Ski-Doo about while it's being stripped. However when that's done, or possibly before, the idea is to make it into a mobile bench. It'll be multi-purpose, welding, grinding, laying out, stripping engines etc. Dirty stuff, and also things that may need a bit of bashing as well as placing some heavy things on it. The frame is 80 x 80 x 5mm box section sitting on castors rated for 150kg each giving me 600 kg max, which is likely to be 100% more than the heaviest thing I'd be likely to have on it.

The other main bench in the workshop is set at a comfortable 900mm high, but as the mobile bench is for very different work I'm wondering if this should be lower? If I'm working on something like an engine which sits 300 - 450 mm high the top of it will be too high to work on comfortably. Lower stuff like welding something up will be lower but I tend (rightly or wrongly) to be more comfortable working 'over' something like that.

I'm sure loads of you have a bench for this sort of stuff, so what height do you recommend based on what you're using?

 

[Cato]

This is the bogey/base frame as it currently sits.

 

[8ob]

My father always reckoned benches should be cock high.

Bob

 

[James1979]

That’s why his is 4” off the floor

 

[Agroshield]

Can you make telescopic legs so the height is adjustable via four pins? That gives versatility for different applications or different things sitting on the bench. Maybe a central jacking point under the top and below the shelf on the base for a (removable) scissor jack to adjust.

 

[Cato]

Can you make telescopic legs so the height is adjustable via four pins? That gives versatility for different applications or different things sitting on the bench. Maybe a central jacking point under the top and below the shelf on the base for a (removable) scissor jack to adjust.

That's a thought.

As for the other comments, I made an effort with this topic. It's even got welding content. And still...

 

[Bullet2012]

That’s why his is 4” off the floor

How do you know he has very short legs ?

 

[Mark 2]

That's a thought.

As for the other comments, I made an effort with this topic. It's even got welding content. And still...

Just don't cock it up.

 

[redlig]

How do you know he has very short legs ?

Perhaps it runs ,with difficulty, in the family.
About belly button Hight seems comfortable for me . ( no joke )

 

[George A2Y]

My father always reckoned benches should be cock high.

Bob

What was he doing at the time?

 

[Cato]

What was he doing at the time?

The workshop version of a table ender?

 

[leadpig]

Perhaps it runs ,with difficulty, in the family.
About belly button Hight seems comfortable for me . ( no joke )

Ditto

 

[Cato]

Can you make telescopic legs so the height is adjustable via four pins? That gives versatility for different applications or different things sitting on the bench. Maybe a central jacking point under the top and below the shelf on the base for a (removable) scissor jack to adjust.

That's put the idea for a simple solution in place, thanks. I'll put a block into each lower corner with some threaded adjusters that way I can raise it and also level it accurately if I need to as well.

Apologies for the interruption, you may now carry on with the mirth, merriment and ribaldry.

 

[redlig]

That's put the idea for a simple solution in place, thanks. I'll put a block into each lower corner with some threaded adjusters that way I can raise it and also level it accurately if I need to as well.

Apologies for the interruption, you may now carry on with the mirth, merriment and ribaldry.

The information was there you just had to find it. Hopefully with a smile.

 

[Cato]

The information was there you just had to find it. Hopefully with a smile.

Always, it's what keeps you going. The level of micky taking and random subject drift on here is what makes it a very accurate reflection of a real world site or workshop. A particularly good thing for those of us who work alone.

 

[CompoSimmonite]

Scaffolding adjusters ?

 

[cocker]

Scaffolding adjusters ?View attachment 395735

Exactly that .
Available for beer tokens from any large building site, just ask the groundworkers for details !

 

[Cato]

Scaffolding adjusters ?View attachment 395735

Yep, "great minds" etc.

 

[Memmeddu]

My father always reckoned benches should be cock high.

Bob

True

 

[JOEPRO]

Perhaps it runs ,with difficulty, in the family.
About belly button Hight seems comfortable for me . ( no joke )

Same here I like a tall workbench! Otherwise I tend to get a sore back leaning to any degree. I am 6'2" maybe thay doesn't help but I have had to make any "good" benches I have had and they have been exceptionally tall compared to others that's just how I like em