RE: Saw Horse

Now, if he would only reveal where to find 8' 2x4s for $2.

nb

I get my framing stock, all kinds, free.... in the dumpsters at construction sites. Lots of other goodies, there, also. That's maximizing utilization.

That saw horse is not only heavy to haul around, you can't carry them easily or stack them easily on one another, out of the way, when not in use.

The ones I've made are relatively light weight, last years and I can stack 5 high before they're too tall for comfortable, easy reach.... and probably less than $2 each, not counting the 10 to 15 minutes labor it takes to make one.

Sonny

They forgot to put a top on that work bench. :-)

after you get it built? It's too cumbersome and heavy to move around - I guess you could build a house around it...

It really only weighs 3, 2x4 studs. I have step stools that are heavier than that.

Eat your Wheaties to start your day, then think?

Lew

$1.88 in Pittsburg, Ks. Fairly good too.

IMHO wooden horses are too much trouble and too cumbersome. I have a set of the good, fold-able metal horses and a set of the fairly heavy duty plastic ones. The metal ones have a 1,000 load rating when in their lowest adjustable position and they double as a base for my part- time assembly table. All fit well against side of my pickup bed. One pair of wooden horses will occupy 1/2 of the bed.

Ron

You're right, of course. I was comparing it to the two plastic sawhorses I use that weigh 2.5 pounds apiece. And upon thinking on it, I retract my comment about "cumbersome." I figure you could disassemble the thing to carry to the next job site.

'Course you'd have to save the nails, too, or it wouldn't be quite right.

LOL, I prefer the light weight plastic ones my self.

When we were building our house our framer had three wooden horses that looked like they had been around for 20 years. Beat to hell, full of saw cuts and open screw holes where all kinds of temporary things had been attached. I commented on the age and he said "Yeah, I get a year or two out of them and then make new ones."

I got tired of having to store sawhorses, so I built a pair of folding ones. Two three foot 2x4's for the top, hinged together at the bottom with a pair of 3" butt hinges. The legs are 30" 1x6's, let into the ends of the 2x4's with 12° lap joints, then glued with construction adhesive and nailed with roofing nails.

They are immensely strong, light weight, and they fold flat when you hang them on the wall. The top is cut from a six foot 2x4, and the legs from a ten foot 1x6. The only waste is the little wedges that you cut from each end of the top pieces.

(the 12° lap joints were a little hard to cut without a bandsaw)

Bob

Want a horse with a flat work top? Try these

Yeah, I still like those. :-)

...especially how you can use it as a clamp.

How do they stack, I can't figure it out.

Mike

At a guess - swap the legs end 2 end - single leg fits in the 'clamp'

Similar to the - Using a clamp-on vise pix - visualise the single leg as the clampee

CYA Steve

Don't swap end-to-end. The single leg /is/ the clampee for the sawhorses below. Each adds about 5" to the stack.

The only time I've ever stacked mine was to test stackability.

I can't recall that I've ever actually used one to support material being sawed - what I don't cut with a stationary saw usually goes on this:

You'd think so, but it's amazing how fast the place shrinks when I'm gluing up a batch of 8'x6' solar panels. :(

Something the ME saw horse handles quite well since it was designed specificfally to handle that task without suffering accidental cuts.

Lew

I noticed that, too. If I had a TMEN horse, I'd still use my RAS (which also seems well-designed for the task). :)