This is why I love your videos and channel so much. Need something bend? Just quickly build a neat little hydraulic press that works like a charm! The knowledge and experience you have is remarkable, rarely have I seen problems being solved this well.

A lot of people see you as a machinist but your welding work is also exceptional.

that roll-in saw is amazing. I need this in my life.

I bought a 60 ton train jack with an 8" stroke at a flea market. It came off a service truck for CSX Rail. I don't know why I felt the need to buy it, but it was only $90 and I thought I could use it for a log splitter or something. I ended up making a frame very similar to this one and made an aluminum can crusher. It will crush a can down to 1/8" and makes it into a solid slug. So then I put recycle bins all around the shop and from all my family and friends. Since then, I have made over $680 in aluminum sales to scrap yards. The trick is space. $10 worth of cans will take up a pickup truck bed. With the crusher, I can get that down to a fraction of that. Maybe a 55 gallon drum.

Very similar to one I built when I was young, except it’s straight, square, doesn’t bind, is properly welded, the design is superior, and it works. Enjoyed watching!

I’m lucky enough to work in a workshop with a minimal budget for new tools, so I knock out pretty much everything I need using offcuts and scrap. My press frame is just tall enough to get a 20 t bottle jack into. The 3 bits of I beam, ganged up, at the top flex less than the 20mm solid plate at the bottom. Love these vids of yours and your books have given me a “leg up” at work. Sincere thanks to you Tom.

This has tremendous potential for a small shop like mine with 1/2 and 3 ton arbor presses. This easily & reversibly adapts equipment I already have into a machinery lift - and keeps the original functions! Fantastic. Thank you for investing the time and energy make the video.

Yes, I have tool envy. I love that saw! Missed your videos lately. Hope you had a good summer. Great build btw.

I am consistently impressed with your shop and your abilities. Thanks for making the video and posting it for those who like to watch your dogmeat press creation in this instance.

Very cool Tom! really enjoy seeing the thought process and layout of the project and the fabrication.

Thanks Tom! Always a great watch. I always learn something. I'm a little disappointed when I check my subscriptions and note that you haven't put out a new video but of course life and work gets in the way. Thank you for your time Tom!!

More gronk for your dollar is ALWAYS a good thing! Nice quick and EFFECTIVE build. Thanks!

I was worried about the welds breaking since they had to take all of the force. Clearly they are much stronger than I expected -- Today I Learned! Thanks for teaching me something new and the excellent content, Tom!

Great Video! Sometimes when you don't have what you need you build it! You build a press to fixed a brake to build a parts for another machine. Sometimes the longest rout is your only path I guess but, on the bright side you now have a 10 ton mobile press that you have added to your arsenal of great tools. Great welding there too! Awesome job!

Good stuff Tom! Amazing what you can make out of the chowder box. Glad to see you are back to posting stuff.

Another great video. Interesting content, well explained as usual. The editing really makes the story move along.

Nice bit of "Table Top CAD." Have done some myself in past. Useful little press with impressive push to it, great video on its build.

Nice build, Tom. I like the idea of being able to move the ram. I lust after your saw!

I'm not a machinist but it's neat watching you work on stuff and all your neat acquisitions.

I'd like to have a personal shop large enough for it to echo when I talk to myself. I could use the feedback.

That is one wicked cool annular cutter. Cool little project, Tom!

You are giving me ideas Tom Love the press. Could of used one like this yesterday. Sweet build. Hope Mr. seal holds under a load. Nice video 👍

Hey it got the job done and materials were already lying around. Love it.

A very stout and nice looking tool. Always inspiring, Tom.

NICE Job Tom! Didn't think it would have worked out so well but glad it did!

Making something complex seem easy to meat head like me is impressive sir. I love the brief moment when I think I could do something like this myself before reality creeps back in.

thanks for acknowledging metric system,..it adds value to the already valuable info/tut.

Covid is in full swing in Melbourne thankyou Tom for keeping me busy and my mind active in what I'm definitely building next

Best bandsaw on youtube in my opinion, its amazingly accurate. Plus and your welding skills are also top notch Tom. Little press is pretty sweet! ~ Richard

nice build, that is cool. you really put the gronk on it too. WOW.. I was stressing on that one,, thanks for the video

I like your little press. Good use of equipment you already have around. You should show your dermatologist the clips where you are tig welding with bare forearms.

Oxtool dogmeat beats many guys prime rib. Great work as always, thanks for sharing. I always learn something from watching a master at work.

Well done, I wish I had seen yours before I built mine. Although I was working with a different pile of scraps but it works.

Great build Tom! Enjoyed it.

1:32 "We need more gronk." I laughed, "Yep, you definitely need more gronk."

The way you work is awesome,I mean you got it all ! I have to do a similar project at school, Im taking notes ahha. Keep up the sweet work.

For me the most helpful thing is you stated your confidence in the maximum load not exceeding the materials, tbh didn't think it would happily take ten and yet there it was. like magic. Sweeet.

I enjoyed seeing the thought processes and design, for me that was the most interesting part of this very interesting video. Thanks for sharing!

Nice job Tom! Thanks for the video, Cheers, Doug

"Get back to what we were supposed to be working on!" that has a familiar ring to it Tom.

Nice build. Good video.

Hey Tom I work on enerpac equipment, if you’d like I’d send you out a kit for your rc106 free of charge, repayment for all the great content

As usual a nice video, been meaning to build a small press this size for a while.

I love your saw Tom!!! I thought for a moment you might need another ton or two of grunt, but it worked.

What a cool saw!

Nice design and interesting build. Cool video. Hey, I'm still watchin', must be good! Thanks for sharing.

That's one straight cutting saw. Thanks for another one!

Table Cad, he said table cad!! I think I broke my elbow when I hit the floor! Dammit man, I've got class Monday!😎 Great video. Problem solving 101! Love that saw by the way. Oh, and you're not such a bad welder either. Lol!

Nicely done. I love the fact I can make my own tools with my powerarc.

This is some excellent yak shaving for sure! Love your work!

Very cool Tom. I like it.

Great new tool to add to the shop!!

I love how clean is your work and your work style! Almost surgical, I would say! :) Subscribed!

Love it! Gonna make one for me! (It'll be my first and likely only press (except for my 3 ton arbor press, of course.))

That’s an awesome 1DB, one day build! Machinist answer: “because I can”. Cool.

Love it, you will find a lot of use out of that little guy!

Watching the arbor press flex is pretty cool.

Wow! So knowledgeable, as usual. Love the videos

That was awesome Tom, really love your videos, wish you put out more of them. As soon as I get a couple projects knocked out I am going to make an Oxtool Sign for your shop. I will send an email to see if you can send me the CAD/Vector file for your logo.

You got some great equipment Tom!

Good work man! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the inspirational video... You are a National Treasure.

Love it. Also love that bandsaw.

Nice work Tom, I enjoy these "problem solving" type videos. They must have put some serious gronk to bend those fingers like that.

Neat little press, I'm making one pretty much the same size for a mill restoration I'm doing as I got stuck when it came time to pressing a new set of bearings into the quill.

Your arbor press makes mine look like a Christmas ornament.

That power feed saw is NICE

Love it Tom, Well Done!

funny, i use a beat up file to knock off spatter too. Clever build Tom!

Great build, great video thank you!.

Need a tool make a tool. Love it!

Great little press. Nice back of the napkin design.

Nice one mate. Definitely fit for purpose. Lovely bandsaw btw.

Awesome press

the ability to cut a hole with the cutter turning in the wrong direction is truly amazing.

GREAT VIDEO !!!

Loved the press...

Great little press build, and a neat design study wrt considerations for construction. Interesting the things that just fall out of your mind after years of doin the dang thing! 👍🤙🐕🙊😂

Good job!

niiiice! better than the Chinese 12 ton I have still haven't taken that bottle jack apart to fix all the leaks love the radius's you chose for the last video the match kinda at the back there where it says brown and sharp, got a bathroom I gotta remodel for less that $150 dollars starting with a stainless johny ring and some Wal-Mart nexus vynal tiles framing under the head with some hem-fir going all out brass screws and all so basicly thanks for taking my mind off that for a bit really hit the spot

Very nice!

Just like every job! first see that the tools in the shop lack the moxy design and build the tool to do the job repeat! great table cad!!!

i love these kinds of project videos

I enjoy watching you work and problem solve. :-)

Tom what band saw blade you using with no coolant i want one good job on the press i would have made it taller bigger the better!.

Love that bandsaw.

We had one of those pistons like that we bought from Harbor Freight or some where and we used it to move bronze pieces so we could weld them together to make a giant sculptures or monuments. Yeah they leak at the seal often from being new.

Just what I need in my garage for wheel bearings etc..

Never saw a rollin saw like that. Doesnt appear to be an inclined plane. How is the feed set up? Thanks for sharing.

Like it. Good job.

Making something to repair something to repair something else.the fun never ends lol

Great job in a short time...cool

Tom, I do have a question for you on the power of the 618, I have one also and have converted it to a VFD to run on single phase. The motor does not seem to put our much power (1hp 208v motor) only allowing about .001-.002 DOC with a .030 step over. Do you experience the same performance on yours? Nature of the beast? I do love this unit, mine has power cross feed and depth and is accurate from end to end of about.0002.

Nice Press , maybe a pressure gauge . Looks like you had a weeks worth of sun burn on that arm in a couple of hours ! COVER THEM UP or mabe tape a stencil on your arm with a pretty pattern Great content keep them up

Most Excellent Mr. Tom -jim

Those are some pretty impressive tig welding in awkward positions

I always learn from you thanks

Like your press, great project. In my case, I would just use my Harbor Freight 20 ton shop press.

nice work.

That gave an idea to do the same with my porta power. Make me a shop press.