Building a 7,000lb Welding Table for $600 

I love how it's immediately over $600.

Sonny I am 72 years old and have been welding since the 70's. I have built everything from semi trailers, to pump jacks and even race cars including wheel standers and drag bikes. That is hands down the finest welding table I have ever seen or dreamed of. A lot of experts would say to me, what about this table or that table, nope, I've seen em all, I would choose yours over all of them. Art from Ohio

Dude - that was a mammoth effort. You are developing tools for life. Lifting... legs man. legs. If you wear out your back - you'll miss out on working with all these killer tools you've built. Thanks for sharing - super impressive build

You do have to spend some time setting the saw up... blade, fence, etc. But once done, the saw is great. Fairly compact which is Nice ru-vid.comUgkxXh-4_3-ZT1fFWP91ZV7iVqzElr0lEb-a I did get an Incra Miter Gauge which takes some setup as well. The stock miter gauge can be adjusted in the miter slot with a little painter's tape... this tightens up the side to side play a lot.

Dude... What an absolute unit of a table. I'm not sure I've ever seen a more solid table ever. Fantastic job!

You gotta love the experts in the comments. Like look around at the shop he is in. I’m sure he knows how to machine a thing or two. His way. Not your way. There is no right or wrong way. Just the way that works.

The traditional heavy equipment approach for the caster mounting plates is to mill a caster mounting flange pocket in the receiving caster plate. This way the caster mounting plate cannot move in shear, can be a rather large force if both the table and work piece are heavy. Also, the pocket helps to line up a new caster if a replacement is needed. If the caster receiving plate has a recessed pocket then you have many options for the caster bolts in terms of strength, meaning you can use SS locking (serrated) flange bolts. The misc. shelves many times are made using custom welded SS (304) sheet metal pans with raised edges to catch fluids and bottom strengthening stringers as an option, wood is combustible so is not used as part of the table build. The pans slot into the tables to keep them in place. SS pans clean up really well and are non-sparking.

Look into annular cutters if you don’t already know about them. Much faster for poking holes. I hardly ever use drills if I’m just making holes over 1/2”

After watching you build this table, I am surprised your channel doesn't have more subscribers.

Building a 7,000lb Welding Table For $6000 would still be a good deal for less than a dollar a pound. This is one of the nicer build I’ve seen recently. 👏👏

I just found this channel. Great build, explanations and quality. This is one of my favorites channels now!

I love your attention to the aesthetic details and robustness of the finished product. You could've just slapped it together and be done with it, instead you persevered to make it something you can hang your tools and your pride on. Excellent craftsmanship!

So, in other words, this table can be made for $600 if McMaster-Carr screws up, and if a builder has over-bought 5” square tubing, etc etc.

Great video! Crazy overkill weld table,I'm jealous,you attention to detail is great watching for the third time.

Table is awesome. What I took away more than the table is now I'm debating getting a radial arm, real nice to swing it over the table like that

That welding table is off the hook, great job as always, thanks.

Next time, turn some of the thread off the rod and press the round stem into the plate. Makes registration and alignment much more accurate.

"Just a little bit of overkill." Understatement of the year! Great job mate!

Really cool table!!! Great job, you will enjoy working with that. Awesome accessories and clamps! You did everything first class...!!!

I just watched the Vice review two days ago. Awesome Vice and survived 197 blows.

ABSOLUTLY FREAKING AMAZING, I THOUGHT I OVER BUILT THINGS BUT YOU SIR ARE THE KING - GREAT BUILD AND TABLE - VERY ENVIOUS - KEEP BUILDING

Anybody who has or aspires to have a shop can appreciate how useful a bench like this would be. Great finished product homie

If you buy all the material now and wait a few years, it'll be free. Wow, i didn't know it worked like that. Joking aside, awesome build, man. Thanks for sharing

Great job on a serious table. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum this week 😎

Nice going, as a welding assembly table it is ideal for your purposes. Necessity is the mother of invention, and you have used that to your advantage. Well done 👍

Very nice table. Should be a great asset to your company for lots of jobs great Idea you had

Awesome beautiful table.

What’s not to love? The overkill concept, name and precise execution allied to the quality film editing and Spartan commentary all allow me to get over the use of a 1-2-3 block as a hammer .great stuff, and may every job on that behemouth will be pleasurable and double accurate

A great project, especially on your own. That is some vise you have!

It's a badass table and I'm ordering the vise Monday for our shop Great video

The only thing more impressive then this table...and what a table! Is the machines used to make it. Great skills you have. Great video!!

A table that makes the fireball vice just look a normal vice. Dang that is impressive

Save a lot if time by using the mag drill to drill the holes before you cut the plate. Plus the slugs make nice knobs with very little work in the lathe. The allo9wence for blade thickness is a little tricky for laying out the holes. most of the time I don't need that precession. I do the same with the metal muncher too. I tap punched holes with the impact wrench. I just add thickness to compensate for the lack of thread engagement.

Absolutely the most beautiful table I’ve seen. I want one. But I don’t need one 😂 Awesome build. I love the heavy duty overkill. I subscribed. Looking forward to more content. I will be getting a Fireball vise though. That I know! Keep up the great work!

Insane build. Now I wanna look for parts to build one… but all I have is a 2 car garage lmao

Nice job! You had me feeling some stabs of pain in my knees, seeing you kneel on that concrete... yeah, I'm old! I didn't see any comment from Jason, so I'm guessing he hasn't gotten wind of your design & application of his tooling. All in good time.

Love your workshop!!!!!

One idea on the threads into the plate is to turn the threads down to less than the minor diameter of the threads so you have a smooth consistent surface and then bore the hole into the plate with a 0.001" press. This does 2 things. It gives a tight fit and gives a shoulder on the threads to square it up to the plate and you can set the depth for the plug weld on the back side

I was pretty excited until I figured out that you got by far, the most expensive part for free. Most of us don't get to find that sort of luck in life.

This amazing. Now I have to copy you.

Some chain come alongs would come in handy for holding that frame down to the table top while you weld it down.

I thought I'd seen it all when fireball made that vise, but this is epic my friend 👌👌🇬🇧

Damn dude, your shop is coming together. That welding table is sick AF. Just dont accidentally roll over your toe with that thing.... lol. A future video idea may be to trench out a corner of your shop so you can pour a 18 inch slab to sit that thing on... lol. You did an awesome job dishing out the troll repellent by explaining that you were welding with a beater chuck... Dont freak out about precision... Awesome vid dude. Im inspired to make my forever welding table now.

I belive him, i love welding table, your table are great and i have table the same with $400 , most of iron i bought in scrap station.

For the threaded rod, it might be overkill and more work (ie not needed), but if you had chosen to do threads in the plate, thread the rod into the threads, then weld it, could that have helped give you a better solid attachment to keep it from tilting while welding? Or I guess you could have cleaned off the threads in the lathe for the part that sticks into the plate and used that for the press fit. In either case I love watching your logic and work flow for projects, please keep up the good work. :)

just put 4 casters on the horizontal reinforcements of the base to move it and add some THICC threaded bars as legs that you can use to lift the table and finely tune the flatness of the whole table against the floor every time u move it. every time you move the table u need to check the flatness of it.

Sound solid strong. What a fixture table you have put together. Better than a Fireball Tool fixture table. But then having the top made would cost someone around ten grand more on its own. And all the clamps can be arranged any position at all. I thought you would use all thread or bolts with T nuts to weld up the trolley base, obviously I don't need to go into the circus as a mind reader! And as you noted the sheer size of it is as much as most jobs would ever need since you can overhang a bunch of the project and still utilise the flat fixture feature.

If you have more than 3 casters, the maksimum weight is still calculated for just 3 in case the floor is not perfectly flat

From a crane guy. Use a choker for your sling. Just in case it's not quite balanced it gets tighter as you lift. A basket it could slip off. Enjoyed the video tho really sweet table.

I tell you what .. your shop space has come a long way since your 2021 workshop tour! I assume this is the same space a the 2022 tour, it just looks _so big_ here! Nice table, too!

no such thing as overkill! 😂💪🏼 badass table and that vise is a beast!

I love Fireball stuff. Great stuff.

So Good! Great job

Absolutely, Well Done !!!

The name of the game is overkill. Awesome work!

Fantastic table👏

That's a very cool welding table❤ a bit of Danish rock music in the background❤

Very enjoyable to watch

Great job!

Brilliant build sir! You said when getting out the 8x3 steel that you had been in that shop for two years and it had not moved in that time, did you take over an existing business with all the machinery? Or most of it? I'm curious to know as I'm a new subscriber from the UK

Man - I have seen bridges that aren't as engineered ! An epic table.

Wow! Heavy duty!! Great job on the vid. Obviously a sustained effort over a number of months and to end up with a cohesive story is remarkable. One thing I missed...how does the stand connect to the table top? Or does it just sit on it?

wish i could get my hands on a similar heavy machine component :)

Wow Wow Wow!!! So Cool. Congratulations

Love it…thanks

Outstanding!

Just found your channel. A couple things.. First awesome build! That's a lifetime table your kids and grandkids will be using. Second what happened to your Epic Beard? And last but definitely no least... Excellent choice on the Fireball Tool Vice! Those Vice's went through a lot of R&D to be the best on the market. He just put out a new video on how tough they are.

Hell yea, I heard some Volbeat at 26min mark🤘🏻

Dzięki za film. Dużo można się nauczyć. Muszę obejrzeć resztę Twoich filmów. Co to za frez którym fazujesz?

You may have already said, somewhere, where you got the table..... so, apologies if you already covered this. Where did you get the table? A used machinery reseller, a scrap yard, or what? Thanks! Love the finished table n vise! 😊

I’m curious about the kind of work you do in your shop. Are you a job shop? All I’ve seen in your videos are renovations of shop machines. Love the detail you provide as you move through the video.

"I have these Massive Nuts" Absolutely going to watch this to the end 🤘😁

Those legs made had me doing a double take hahaha

I freaking love you Mike(not a sext way, you know what the hell I mean) lol. You are just a cool, funny, fun, down to earth,American, patriotic , man and I'd love to have a beer with you some day.

Now thats a table!

I've worked whit back pain before (it would sometimes shoot down my right leg and it would go completly numb) and i dont wish that for anybody, so please use something to help you lift those big plates man, also more leg and less back. But, sick table man, overbuilding something so practical to ensure reliability is always a good investment of time and money

bad asss welding table

What wizardry is this pneumatic beveler? I’ve never seen such a thing! Do you have a brand or link of some kind? I’d like to check this out. Nice work man! 👍

AMAZING!

Which AC forklift is that? Looks exactly like my AC 40 i brought back from the dead. Will see if you have a video on the channel about it.

Nice job

Beautiful content, suscribed

if you want to weld stuff without worrying about parts warping.. get a fronius tps with LSC and PMC programs.. lets you weld stuff up with min movement bud

Great build - Wagnerian excess !

How well does the table roll around

Cool table. A table this large defects more than you think if your frame and floor aren't flat. You would never be able to hold .001 even if the table surface were pristine.

Outstanding repurpose truly imaginative. Want it flatter send it out for grinding, freight would be a bear.

I am sooo jelly of your vise

I may have missed it but how is the top attached to the base?

hi there nice table , john

I'm pretty sure you could repair a battleship on this table!

The 1-2-3 block as a hammer just earned you a subscription! Bitchin build

Is the table top bolted to the base ?

Fireball tools just released a new video testing your vise against the competition. I had no idea vices cost so much money.

*Fireball tool has entered the chat*

I wonder where I can find a cast iron cnc table for free

Love your badass table. Could you please send me one:). Great video

Nice table but just so everyone knows it does not include the vise Which is a $2000 fireball tool vise that you were passed down for generations to come😂 Work of art right there and hope you give your welding table a name like Red Dragon

1:00 5in thread free stud with big nuts. Yep.

Sweet ! 🤙