Mobile bench height?

[Cato]

I just had a look at 10mm steel plate for the top. Christ on a bike it's expensive now!

I'm glad I had the box section kicking about the back of the container, otherwise making a steel bench would be a dear old do.

 

[Agroshield]

Scaffolding adjusters?

More for discussion than as a statement of fact, I wonder if these, with their coarse thread, on a relatively lightly-loaded bench (standard SWL for one jack seems to be 4t), might tend to self-lower if subject to vibration. Unless the bench is very flexible, one out the four will always be less loaded than the other three. Maybe you could drill and tap the collar for a locking screw if the problem did surface.

 

[8ob]

Tall is ok as long as you don't have to wrestle a heavy job onto it.

Bob

 

[Cato]

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

I think limb length (not a euphemism no matter what @8ob 's dad says) has a more to do with it than your overall height. Longer than average legs will mean more bending and cause lower back grief.

 

[Cato]

Tall is ok as long as you don't have to wrestle a heavy job onto it.

Bob

I've gone for 800mm from the floor and I'll give it 150mm of potential lift. The thinking being that with something tall-ish on it I'll be able to work comfortably, but I can take it up to the same (900mm) height as the main/fixed bench. With it on wheels it means I'd also be able to easily transfer something heavy between the two benches if necessary by making the loaded bench a few mm higher then the bench whatever is going on to.

 

[MattF]

My father always reckoned benches should be cock high.

Bob

Pretty much the yardstick I work to though. From tackle to waist height.

 

[James1979]

Pretty much the yardstick I work to though. From tackle to waist height.

That is not a yard.

By any stretch of the imagination

 

[Cato]

Pretty much the yardstick I work to though. From tackle to waist height.

I'd prefer mine to be below bench height and out of the line of fire tbh.

When I was an apprentice we used to get the BOC cryogenic van into the workshop. It had a big vessel in the back for nitrogen which I think they used for onsite stuff like train 'tyres'. Anyway, the driver had a huge stock of porn mags (yes it was that long ago) tucked behind the vessel body which made the van a popular attraction when it came in. In a rush one of the apprentices grabbed the valve handle to pull himself into the van, the valve opened and shot him straight in the meat and two veg with what remained in the 'empty' vessel.

Straight off to hospital to get his love spuds defrosted.

 

[MattF]

I'd prefer mine to be below bench height and out of the line of fire tbh.

Pussy.

 

[Cato]

Pussy.

I prefer to think of more as self preservation.

 

[redlig]

I prefer to think of more as self preservation.

It's nice to hear of someone so concerned with the fate of future generations .

 

[ajlelectronics]

That is not a yard.

By any stretch of the imagination

Oh I don't know... Three feet require three legs. That must be why I was known as "Tripod".