Building a Welding table for our New Workshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2021
- I really need a heavy duty metal workbench. Big enough to weld projects on. So I have decided to build a 3 foot by 4 foot welding table with a 1/2" thick steel table top. I will add locking casters to it, so it can be moved around easily. Then I will paint the legs black to match the tool boxes in the shop.
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from the Netherlands thanks for the video
That is a very handsome barn you got there , the colors are awesome together !
I've started using recycled fire hose on sharp edges for the straps.
Nice workmanship. Evan....
Good job on welding table
Nice build. Maybe YOU should add a shelf under the top to put your welder and things like a hand held grinder etc.
Awesome metal Table. Evan. Heavy duty I bet. Thanks for sharing this. . I learned ALOT about Homestead and Farming from you and Rebecca ❤🙋♂️👍🏡🚜🐈🐕🐃🐐🐖😁💯😇❤️😎🗜⚒️🔨📺❤
Nice Work.....
That’s one heck of a table that will last a lifetime. Nice job 👍
Nice table !
Nice job on that table, half inch top is probably overkill. I am a retired welder. The first thing that I would do is get rid of that flux core wire and invest in a bottle of Argon. That Miller welder is a fine machine and it will do a wonderful job as a true MIG welder. You will find that shielded gas welding is much easier for the novice welder especially working inside your shop, and you will spend much less time cleaning up the welding beads.
When I build a welding cart, it will hold a gas bottle. I plan to get a bottle of shielding gas after it is made.
Thanks, I'm sure you will enjoy MIG welding.
Another retired welder here. Great advice!
I agree for a DIYer it might be overkill but I was an electrician in a factory. When each trade was selecting what tools and equipment they wanted, the millwrights/welders made their tables from 1 3/4" plate 5'X 9'. I asked one of them why so thick and they said so they could grind the table flat and not really damage it after welding on it for years and years.
Harold Reece, that is one and three quarters inches. Not 1 piece 3/4" thick.
One thing i would add to the table. Is supports for the legs. At least on 3 sides.
I built the same table 3 yrs ago, 4x4 1/2" top with 3" sq legs. I also added 2" OD pipe under the table and slide pipe inside for an extension. Very handy addition because your table is never big enough!! Great job Evan!
Hi Evan👋🏻 that was clever
Couple of things: A few years ago I did the exact same thing you're doing for a welding table in my barn, except it's 3 x 5. It has worked great to fab up a mount for the Evolution off the right rear corner of the table so you can mount the saw flush with the top and use the table top to support sticks you are cutting. I also made 2 shelves under the table to hold clamps, cutoffs, squares, etc... but the upper one has a 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 angle iron lip around it so you can quickly hang your angle grinders on it. Also weld on a couple of hooks to hang vise-grip type clamps on it. On the corner near the saw, build a holder to hold a 6" speed square, a carbide scribe, a spring center punch, your little brushes, your angle grinder wrenches and your mig pliers/cutters. On the bottom shelf I mounted the welder and my plasma cutter. Last, but not least, get a bench-top belt sander.....the HF one is very popular and will do the job, but you will need it to de-burr and angle the edges you are going to weld to prep them properly. BTW, those casters are definitely NOT overkill. You will be glad you didn't find smaller ones. As far as auctions/marketplace....keep your eyes open for a good used mag drill and get a set of annular cutters for it. If you're going to build/repair/modify attachments, other farm tools, etc... you will not regret it....especially if you have to drill attachment pin holes.
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I was thinking of making a mount for the metal saw on one side and a table extension on the other side to hold long pieces. 👍
Well done. Beautiful table/bench.
Nice work table , well worth the extra thickness. Now get a gas mix for the wire welder .
Fine job on your welding table.
Awesome. You have put a lot of thought into it. Well done
Weld in a couple pieces of small angle iron underneath and drop in a piece of 3/4" plywood for a tool shelf. Maybe buy a hitch extender and weld it underneath the table. Reason being that you can buy a vise mount for receiver hitch and have you a simple removable bench vise. Lookin goodvthough,solid foundation.
Good job. Great table.
Excellent job, Evan👍👍
Evan .. .I love it.. 'No, that's not a good towel!"..all the women were thinking good that from experience 👍..good towels being used in the garage.🤪
Great video. Keepem coming Evan
Thats a nice welding table👍
Great job Evan and Rebecca!
Good job on your new work table👍😇
Good job Evan!
Good morning Evan and Rebecca, that’s awesome and will last!! You’ll have a great time making the accessory racks and a shelf for your extras. Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe and keep up the great work and videos, and have a little fun along the way Fred. 🙏🏻🙏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻✋🏻✋🏻
Nice work on your table, you'll probably use it more than you think.🧡👍👍
Outstanding!
Very nice. thank you for sharing this video. Have a great rest of your week.
Find and rebuild a large old vise for your table. Great project for a rainy day.
jack
EVAN,
Best practices is to line the top of your new welding bench
with brick. NOW you need to build yourself a chop saw
table/bench/stand.
!
Now weld a piece of scrap metal to the underside of the top for a place to connect your ground clamp.
Great project 👍
My dream workshop is progressing well. Thank you Evan from Rutland UK
Good work!
Nice table. It will last you your lifetime.
Nice table Evan, when I first saw your title I misread what it said. I thought it said Wedding table, and I thought what? Glad it's something that you can actually use! lol
Good job!
Functional project. 👍🦅🇺🇸
You should add a shelf underneath to set the welder on, at least until you get a cart.
Looks great
That table is stout!
Only use flux core wire outside. Get some gas and solid core for indoor welding. Your welds would be much better. Nice table man! Good job!👍😎
Great job
That is LIT! I just bought a welder and made a welding cart. It is the ugliest thing a guy ever saw and there ain't a square corner on it but it works. Last time I welded was 40 years ago so I needed the practice! Great video!!!
Hi Evan. You did a great job on the table, Very heavy duty and it should last a long time. Very well made. I enjoy watching all your videos and looking forward to a lot more to watch. Stay safe and enjoy what you are doing next.
Great job very simple concept but functional will last you a very long time. Have one I made for welding in 1985 still holding up very well
Ive been wanting to build a welding table, but haven't seen any that I can afford. Good job, my friend!!!
I probably would have bought one, if I only planned on welding on it. But needed something I won't be afraid to pound on if needed. It wasn't cheap to build, but it should last.
I suggest wiping the table top down with something to keep the rust off. I just used Wd40 on mine. Nice table I wish I would have used a thicker top on mine.
Awesome build! I've been kicking around some ideas for something like that too.
Daniel..glad to see you enjoy Evan's channel, too..good man👍🚜🚜
Maybe add a big vice that can be hinged and swing out of the way when not needed.
Nice work. Good video
Grinding and paint makes me the welder I ain't.😉
good job!!!
Very nice work bench! That will be so handy to have around the shop!! Love watching!
Great project good build. I’m sure we’ll be seeing this table put to good use in future projects. Stay safe
That thing is going to last forever
Nice build! Your knees and back will thank you in the long run! No fun crawling around on the concrete building a project. You won't regret the bigger casters as they will roll easier over any seams in your concrete.
I think I’d have to add a shelf under the table. A place to store your clamps small accessories, tools but overall a very nice job as usual.
Not so much into welding, but damn I love that pole barn!! As well as all your videos👍
You need to wear safety glasses when grinding.👀🙀
When I built mine, I used 3" angle iron for the legs and frame, and the top is 4 x 4 x 1/4. There's 2 pieces of 3" angle under the middle of the table and I have no issues with the 1/4" plate. I recommend not welding the castors to the plates as the castors are the only part of that table you will ever replace. Drill holes and bolt them on. That will also make it far easier to weld the plates to the bottom of the feet. I also added a shelf underneath about 12" off the floor. My angle iron frame has the web even with the edge all around so the outer 3" of table is effectively 1/2" thick for clamping. My castors are much smaller diameter and are a hard rubber compound so there's no need to lock them. It rolls easily if you push it, but not easily enough where you would want to lock it. I know you will enjoy using your table...it's far far better than the concrete floor!
To replace them later, I would have had to drill and tap 4 holes for each castor. Or drilled holes and welded nuts to the inside. But the 3.5" tube legs was just wrong, I don't think nuts would have fit inside the tube. The hole pattern was almost exactly the same size as the tube.
So tapping holes seemed like the only option that would work. But I didn't want to take the time and do that. So I went with the easiest way to mount themand weld them..
I agree the castor will be the only thing that will break. But I think a cut off wheel could get them back off fairly quickly. Let hope it isn't anything soon.
@@CountryViewAcres They should last a long while...it's the ball bearings at the top you need to make sure they don't get rusty...keep them lubed. The wheels you can change easily. I love having the castors! Mine were used ones from where I had replaced all the castors on some restaurant fryers...were gunked up with old cooking grease. Low profile (2" wheels) and heavy duty. Most of the time the bench is against the wall but I can roll it out for more room. I mounted a vise on one corner, but NOT a bench grinder! They vibrate everything off the bench. Take a pipe and make a pedestal and set it in a 5 gallon bucket of concrete. Plastic protects your concrete floor and the weight is plenty to hold the grinder.
Great looking table!
Good job Evan. That is a very nice table. Should last you many years. Well thought out.
I had built a small table and welded two vices to it. The only thing I found is it needed to be a heavy vice. Would be nice if it could articulate in many positions. Due to material handling. I was doing a lot of salvage work at the time and found I was hard on the vice. Due to the pounding and things. It has worked well. It would be nice for welding if it could articulate more. Also to grip pipe. The larger it is it won t get beat apart like I have done. I look forward to your additions to your table. Hope you have a great week!
Nice job, well made and should do everything you need.
Great job, safer for you than on your knees.
Good video
Great build on that table. Maybe you could even make a wood top to put over it to make a butchering table when you start to butcher your own pigs or steers. Thanks for sharing, have a Blessed day.
I bought a table with white cutting boards that are the table top. Made for butchering. But it will need repairs. I plan to fix it up eventually.
@@CountryViewAcres Oh that's great.
Your table looks good Evan good job. God bless you and as always Amen
Well thought out and well built Kevin. I'm sure that table is as good - or better than - most you could buy and a lot cheaper. I was a little concerned about you getting those casters set well and put on until Rebecca showed up and save the day :). But a nice well-built project that I'm sure you'll get tons of use out of. Thanks for sharing.
His name is Evan
@@cathiwim Yeah well sorry. Sometimes my hand is quicker than the noodle ... quiet often in fact. But maybe EVAN will forgive thee:).
Good video you were talking about sliding some tubing in that area below the table top how about getting a vice and attaching to a tube and slide it in to use when needed ?
Evan, that table is solid as a rock and that will support just about anything you put on it. The table was well built and you are a good welder, even if you think you are not. The inside of the new barn is looking really good.
Good bench Mr. That steel is expensive. Well done
looks sweet evan, now build me 2 more!!! i want !!
You did a good job. This is going to be an awesome work area. You took the time to make it right, and it shows. Blessings🙂
Those Evolution saws are great! Nice job on the table!
I love watching people make things from scratch, so this video was right up my alley! Nice job on the table, Evan!
Looks great Evan I’d smooth off the edges just to save you catching yourself on the edges
i made a welding table for our shop out of a 5ft round centrifugal mold (called a Chill) it is about 2in thick(thats after it was worn out) a local company made hard surface rod and inserts for tillage tools the chill is made of an alloy somewhat like cast iron that a weld only sticks at the surface you could take a chisel and (pop a weld off it you stick to it)mine is the top half of the mold with a hole in the middle(where they pored the molten metal in) (so you can cut and drop the sparks in a bucket or such)
instead of building a welding cart add a shelf under the welding table to sit the welder on.
Looks like a heavy duty welding table to me. Great job, Evan!👍
I built mine about the same. Only my top is removeable and there is a egg crate pattern underneath for clamping and using welding jigs
Nice, heavy duty table. Should mention approx cost for materials for comparison if purchased.Diy almost always better, and cost savings.
You could put a shelf under the table to sit the welder and welding tools like hammers magnets clamps ect ect so where ever the table is so will be the welding equipment.
So glad you’re rested up and back at it. Very nice job as always.
Awesome job on that table ...great looking and stout...you need a chain hoist for inside your pole barn for lifting heavy things ..look on Andrew Camata link...he built him a nice one...I probalyspelled it wrong but you can find it..
Very nice welding table. Similar to mine except mine is 4'X 8". Mine also has a 1/2" plate top but instead of the 2" square tube, I used 3" X 1/2" angle iron all the way around the bottom edge. That made the outside of the table edge 1" thick and almost impossible to damage yet lets me use clamps to hold things to the table. My legs are 4" X 1/4" square tube. I used 2"X 1/4" angle iron about 1' above the floor to make a frame for a shelf. My main problem is there is no equipment here to help move it. When I moved it from where it was made to where it is now, it took 10 men and they had to rest 2 times while moving it 100'.
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That looks great! So clever to have the options to expand and build onto the table at a later date. Well done!
That's a welding table you can be proud of. That's nice.
Great table. You'll use it. I was fortunate to find a 30" x72" table from a guy for $50 a few years back. 1" top, 3" pipe legs. Still need to add casters and bottom shelf. They're very handy. Enjoy welding.
As a fabricator and farmer by trade, you can't go wrong with these skills. there will always be demand for metal workers in some form. Also, a joke we metal workers have been saying to each other lately. "Did you mortgage the farm to buy that steel!?" Steel in my area is up over 130% and welding supplies and consumables are 50% more expensive if not more.
Yes steel prices are high right now. This would have been a lot cheaper to build a couple years ago.
Evan, I like the design and size of it. I gotta say though, welding and grinding with all the exposed spray foam would make me nervous.
Good call on using 1/2" material for the top. Inevitably, you will be pounding on something on that table, and 1/2" plate will hold up way better and stay way flatter than 1/4" would.
Spray a thin coat of wd40 on the top to keep the light rust off. I got a table alot like that and have to keep it a little oily
even indoor. Nice barn. 😀
Thx