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| I bolted my barrel vise to a piece of hitch tubing. |
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| Easy to make or get made, weld a flat plate on a hitch bar, bolt on your barrel vice, voila, one barrel vice for your truck! Just make sure it's long enough that you can still twist the action/scope/stock a full 360º. To be honest, I attached mine to a slider, the same I use for my wood vice, which I use to clamp my chainsaw to when sharpening it out in the boonies. It has a plate top and bottom, but the vice is a permanent fixture, while I remove the barrel vice. Cheers. |
| Posts: 684 | Location: N E Victoria, Australia. | Registered: 26 February 2009 |
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| 10 or 15 years ago I was working out of a temporary shop without a solid bench so I attached the barrel vise to a 2 inch square tube to fit a receiver hitch. Worked great!
And to this day, my barrel vise is still wearing the same piece of 2 inch tube! Just clamp it into the bench vise when I need to use it! |
| Posts: 558 | Location: Mostly USA | Registered: 25 March 2011 |
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| Never thought about doing this. I just pull mine loose from the bench.
As usual just my $.02 Paul K
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| Just use a strap wrench. |
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| Hey, just back the ole truck in the shop and... |
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| use a 3' of so long piece for room to swing tools. make sure the vise is flush against one side of the tube, and not in the middle.
if you need rock solid, put a floor jack under the end sticking out. |
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