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I was sure I'd posted this before and when I started to type the title, this one came up as one I'd typed before. Can't find it anywhere, so I guess it got deleted.
At the beginning of the summer I was waiting for a chance to go and get my Victoria U2 mill. It seemed like a good project to fill time to make a toe jack out of a little 2-ton bottle jack I had on hand. I looked at a bunch of sites that showed what people had made and then threw some scrap together.
The lifting toe was made by welding together two pieces of 3/8" thick angle iron. This takes advantage of the strength of the built-in corners.
The base and column were welded together out of 3/8" plate and 1/4" thick angle, with an aluminum pillow block bolted in to brace the top of the jack.
The little piece of angle opposite the column is to hold the base of the jack in place.
The threaded extension at the top of the jack has to be cut off in order to screw it through the hole in the top of the lifting toe.
It turned out that this was the most essential tool I had the day I moved the mill into the shop.
If you need to move heavy machines around your shop, it is worth having one of these little jacks around. Mine only needs a 3/8" gap under the machine to be able to lift it.
At the beginning of the summer I was waiting for a chance to go and get my Victoria U2 mill. It seemed like a good project to fill time to make a toe jack out of a little 2-ton bottle jack I had on hand. I looked at a bunch of sites that showed what people had made and then threw some scrap together.
The lifting toe was made by welding together two pieces of 3/8" thick angle iron. This takes advantage of the strength of the built-in corners.
The base and column were welded together out of 3/8" plate and 1/4" thick angle, with an aluminum pillow block bolted in to brace the top of the jack.
The little piece of angle opposite the column is to hold the base of the jack in place.
The threaded extension at the top of the jack has to be cut off in order to screw it through the hole in the top of the lifting toe.
It turned out that this was the most essential tool I had the day I moved the mill into the shop.
If you need to move heavy machines around your shop, it is worth having one of these little jacks around. Mine only needs a 3/8" gap under the machine to be able to lift it.