Looking for a new pinch bar

MCritchley · Sep 17, 2018

We are looking for a new pinch bar. Something that i can pry up a corner of a several ton machine with.

Has anyone purchased a new one recently, any recommendations? I was thinking about buying one 60" inches long.

DMF_TomB · Sep 17, 2018

MCritchley said:
We are looking for a new pinch bar. Something that i can pry up a corner of a several ton machine with.

Has anyone purchased a new one recently, any recommendations? I was thinking about buying one 60" inches long.

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i use pry bars all different lengths and machine jacks mostly cause a jack you can raise and your hands are free to insert shims. pry bars are more for side ways prying. usually one handed prybar use and using other hand to insert shim you are limited
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i find big prybar often is awkward and gets in the way especially if only need a smaller prybar. i use smaller prybars 10 times more than bigger ones

Tedger · Sep 17, 2018

Zoro sells one about that long for under $40. Made by True Temper but I'm not sure of the actual quality.
EDIT: Looks like Amazon does also under the AME's brand

Zahnrad Kopf · Sep 17, 2018

Can lend you our Big Johnson, if you need. Have to wonder about the suitability though and think you may be better off with a toe jack. I can bounce on the very end of our Johnson bar and barely even wiggle the 9,500 Lb. turning center. On the other hand, it had no problem under the Haas. :rolleyes5:

Stop by if you need it.

Mud · Sep 17, 2018

Nose bars - Here - Eastern Rigging Supply - Pry Bars & Nose Bars

I have the 66" flare nose and am glad I do. Several riggers that have been here have expressed admiration for it and wished that they had flare nose bars instead of straight bars. I did without for years now I wouldn't be without one. The 66" is a handful to carry one handed, not sure if I would go up to the 72" or not if I had to choose again. The saleswoman at Eastern said the 60" bar is their best seller because it fits in riggers' job boxes.

My biggest machines are too big to raise with a bar, but once they are on skates this bar is great for nudging it along, just turn it upside down.

Milacron · Sep 17, 2018

Forged "Heeled pinch end" from McMaster Carr.... cost about 200 bucks but worth every penny...had one for decades. Makes the typical pry bar from a building supply store seem like a joke.

https://www.mcmaster.com/pry-bars

Click "pry bars" then look for style E

Hodge · Sep 17, 2018

I built my own custom wheeled rigger bars which turned out pretty handy.

MCritchley · Sep 17, 2018

Mud said:
Nose bars - Here - Eastern Rigging Supply - Pry Bars & Nose Bars

I have the 66" flare nose and am glad I do. Several riggers that have been here have expressed admiration for it and wished that they had flare nose bars instead of straight bars. I did without for years now I wouldn't be without one. The 66" is a handful to carry one handed, not sure if I would go up to the 72" or not if I had to choose again. The saleswoman at Eastern said the 60" bar is their best seller because it fits in riggers' job boxes.

My biggest machines are too big to raise with a bar, but once they are on skates this bar is great for nudging it along, just turn it upside down.

Great thanks,

Thats exactly what i was looking for!

MCritchley · Sep 17, 2018

Milacron said:
Forged "Heeled pinch end" from McMaster Carr.... cost about 200 bucks but worth every penny...had one for decades. Makes the typical pry bar from a building supply store seem like a joke.

https://www.mcmaster.com/pry-bars

Click "pry bars" then look for style E

Thanks, for some reason i missed that page during my search, Mc Master is usually my first stop.

MCritchley · Sep 17, 2018

Zahnrad Kopf said:
Can lend you our Big Johnson, if you need. Have to wonder about the suitability though and think you may be better off with a toe jack. I can bounce on the very end of our Johnson bar and barely even wiggle the 9,500 Lb. turning center. On the other hand, it had no problem under the Haas.

Stop by if you need it.

I appreciate the offer,we do already have a Johnson bar. I checked the capacity of the Johnson, its around 3,500 lb. Id say your doing good with the Hass!

DDoug · Sep 17, 2018

Nothing stopping you from taking the hardware store $20 one, and heating
it up and hammering what you want.

ewlsey · Sep 17, 2018

Milacron said:
Forged "Heeled pinch end" from McMaster Carr.... cost about 200 bucks but worth every penny...had one for decades. Makes the typical pry bar from a building supply store seem like a joke.

https://www.mcmaster.com/pry-bars

Click "pry bars" then look for style E

That seems like an odd end. Doesn't the machine like to slip off?

Style B is what I like.

MCritchley · Sep 18, 2018

digger doug said:
Nothing stopping you from taking the hardware store $20 one, and heating
it up and hammering what you want.

There is a lot stopping me LOL!

Spoke with the wonderful folks at Eastern Rigging, I ordered a 60" bar.

Milacron · Sep 18, 2018

ewlsey said:
That seems like an odd end. Doesn't the machine like to slip off?

Style B is what I like.

Paying attention to how far in it will go before lifting..not really. Seems like style B would tend to want to "roll over to one side or the other" when lifting ?

dsergison · Sep 18, 2018

Milacron said:
Paying attention to how far in it will go before lifting..not really. Seems like style B would tend to want to "roll over to one side or the other" when lifting ?

the variation in pricing on the same basic bar is insane. the same size and weight bar with different heels is $72 $139 $202

DDoug · Sep 18, 2018

I took a bar, and welded a little piece (about 1 1/4" long) of 1/2" round
rod, about 1 1/2" back from the nose, on the bottom.

Works great.

These things ain't Hi-tech people.

Cut & weld, heat & beat to your hearts content.

The main advice is to several different kinds.

Machinery_E · Sep 19, 2018

This was a good thread-
https://www.practicalmachinist.com/...story/rigging-pry-bars-what-works-you-317393/

I love my Warwood 51110 mine pinch bar, best thing I've found. At the right angle, and nice and thin to get under low clearance spots on a machine base to start cribbing the machine up.

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