Portable Hydraulic Press And "Wheelbarrow" Style Air Compressor

Portable Hydraulic Press And "Wheelbarrow" Style Air Compressor FARM SHOP Tools 22-4-38 Tom Dutton, Menoken, N. Dak.: Tom says he couldn't get along without the portable hydraulic press and the "wheelbarrow"-style air compressor he built. "I built the press last fall to bend 1/4-in. by 7-in. shoes for a neighbor's swather and I've since bent 3/8 by 4-in. shoes and metal up to 7 in. wide. It consists of a 10-ton Portapower hydraulic jack mounted in a C-shaped frame I built out of 5-in. channel iron. The unit's about 2 ft. tall by 10-in. wide so it fits easily in the back of my pickup. I've never seen anything like this on the market. It works so well a friend wants me to build one for him. The biggest expense was for the Portapower jack, which I bought used for $50. Otherwise, everything I used was scrap. "I built my portable wheelbarrow-style air compressor using an air compressor out of a junked freezer and an 8-gal. air tank out of a semi trailer. I welded a pair of handlebars from a kid's junked bike on one side and built a wheelbarrow-type frame fitted with an 8-in. dia. wheel off an old lawn mower on the other side. Makes it easy to push the tank around the yard."

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