How to make the best sawhorses you'll ever own
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2023
- This video will be a basic introduction to how to make a pair of conventional sawhorses with simple power tools. Decisions regarding design, engineering trade-off’s, and the practicality of how this is done will be discussed. For those who want to duplicate this classic design, a parts and tools list will be provided at the end.
Any form of DIY adventure involves risk, both to the person involved, property, and bystanders. This video is offered in good faith, for free, but with no guarantees as to accuracy or safety. Power tools like the circular saw and the table saw can cause life threatening and profound life altering complications. Those risks are particularly high if you try to cut something from stock that is too small to control safely. Don’t blame me if you make a stupid mistake! Only move forward with any project if you’re willing to accept and bear responsibility for those risks.
Music at the end is River Meditation by Audionautix
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Looks good. Man, nothing more handy than throwing a sheet of plywood on your saw horses, instant work bench.
I have a pair of saw horses that my dad built in the mid 1980s. They look identical to your project and are still used today.
Very nice design , I bet they will last many years !
Editing and flow on this video is great
Thanks, man!
What a great design. Thanks for posting it. The stackability is particularly useful. Might also look at the possibility of modifying the design to create a 'peening pony' for sharpening my scythe blade.
Those look like some great saw horses.
Do you have any issue with warpage from the pressure treated wood?
I replaced the 30yr old boards on my picnic table and though I was buying redwood but in fact I was buying “red”wood pressure treated 2x10’s. The table warps and sags depending on humidity and direct sunlight. I will have to repurchase the lumber after I find a lumber yard that has suitable lumber.
That's an excellent point, Chad. If the legset is tightly held together the chance of wobble is higher, especially if boards twist over time with the dramatic weather change through seasons. I often find variants of this 2X6 design at lumber yards, and I've always liked the heavy feel. If it twists there is always the option to trim down a leg, or even plane or swap over the top plate. We'll see. Thanks for stopping by!
If they're only used occasionally, rather than being part of your normal work flow, they end up stacked in the unused wet corner of the work site - typically your garage - and the bottom one imbibes the damp - and not being used and being a nice stable platform they inherit a stack of odds and ends some heavy that may help with those warping woes. I have an original workmate workbench (you can call it a sort of saw horse) that has had its stack for fifteen years off in that corner (luckily dry as a bone).