On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:47 AM, paul womack 
wrote:

on a well designed vise, the length and strength of the handle is designed
to NOT allow a normal human to destroy the vise. a high quality
forged-steel vise (not cast iron).
The handle was, by cast iron standards, disproportionately both in length
and strength.
This merely tells us that the vise is "quite robust"

This explains the huge handle on my big (60 lb) post vise, and the large
forged balls on either end, to keep the cheater pipe off the handle!

Michael-who with meetings has gotten his vise problem under control, sort of