8"vise retrieved from scrap dumpster

[wrenchguy]

my sons scrap business helps out my vise collecting habit.  he's got 25 boxes at different client locations.  some times he bring them in the shop to sort scrap.

wrenchguy with son


yost 108 meadville pa. around 285lbs. 8.5 wide jaws.  vise w/ stand 540lbs.




video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV_glT5x5us

[Bill Houghton]

How could someone throw something like that out????????????

[Yadda]

That is the type dumpster diving to make anyone envious.

[wrenchguy]

i can't name names but this client buys stuff all over the world whole buildings at a time.  everything in the building gets shipped to them, i mean everything down to rolls of t-paper.  they only keep the machines that interest them to make big money on. everything else goes to scrap, 1 or 2 boxes a month. i looked in amazement what else was in the box.  he started with this client 3 months ago and is starting a reseller business for just this clients stuff.

[Yadda]

Where is this dumpster located? 

[wrenchguy]

i've always had my "ao" in my profile for years.

[Yadda]

Totally safe.... I'm rarely motivated to move much past the city limits down here in H-town....

[john k]

That is fantastic,  with steel bench too, took a fork lift to push it in there and could have broken.  The roundball end on the screw says it is 1930s or earlier I do believe.  Thanks for posting. 

[kwoswalt99]

That is fantastic,  with steel bench too, took a fork lift to push it in there and could have broken.  The roundball end on the screw says it is 1930s or earlier I do believe.  Thanks for posting.

Yost made them like that until ~1970.

[wrenchguy]

That is fantastic,  with steel bench too, took a fork lift to push it in there and could have broken.  The roundball end on the screw says it is 1930s or earlier I do believe.  Thanks for posting.
** the roundball end been abused and brazed repaired.

Yost made them like that until ~1970.
**i didn't know this, maybe not as old as i thought.  for some reason i thought meadville yost were somewhat prewar.  thanks.

[p_toad]

Hey, nice one...   good to see you raised your young'un right (i.e., he knows what you like in tools...)