Huk, nyuk, nyuk.
That image is the chainsaw bar clamp I use day to day. It was my first try at melding a stump vise with angle iron. This was my first try.
I have on video the second try. It was a few seconds of plasma torch to blow the points off, wire wheel, and weld the angle iron. Vwah-lah!
Yes, I did, it was like 6 months ago, I set up a tripod and I may have gotten the whole welding of it together in real time. The angle iron comes from interlocking bedframe irons, they're hefty and look nice. Then I pulled the ground off and carved the new owner's name into this nifty new chainsaw bar vise with the plasma cutter.
Then I epoxied it with appliance paint to sort of ice the cake
Would you want to see that? I don't label my tapes very well, so I'd have to hunt it down. Then I would encourage you all to have one made. It doesn't take long. The bed frame irons come as a set of four, so you might want to think about making two clamps if you're gonna go to the trouble of making the one.
It is about time to test another video. Yay? Nay? Mebbe post this one in MPeg4. I will use music from a CD, from an artist whom I have permission to use his music. No itunes interference this time. No Quicktime. Ya wanna give it a ramble?