Prototype Pulmore truck - photos

[Toolmaker51]

I have a couple of vises I also have a couple of vices but those are partially controllable
I would really like to get my hands on this bad boy though

So chivalrous! That poor woman's been captive who knows how long, trapped with at least two fingers in the jaws...Ms. S OK with that?

We all look at such tools, in how we'd fabricate. I haven't means to generate sufficient heat to bend for the jaws, yet bandsawing that first of 4" plate is not one bit outside realm of do-able. Thread the screw & nut, sleeve that with heavy wall tubing, big stub of wide flange, couple strips of leaf spring, turn & mill some one off fasteners, 1-1/2" rod for handle...I see the jaws sawn from a single long piece. Clamp upright, carbon arc or rosebud the neck of one, allow weight to pull it down 90°, quench and turn it around for second [shorter] side and repeat.
Lol, what it needs most of all isn't visible; padeye, fork pockets, or hoisting ring.