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12th October 2014, 04:59 PM #16
Thanks Craig
King Roy is always entertaining to watch and I particularly liked this video.
BTW, my piece of trivia for the day is that his inspiration for the piece, who subsequently called himself "Agricola" when he became a farmer is that "agricola" is the latin word for a farmer and we derive our word "agriculture" from it.
Thanks again. I am seriously considering a pair of those!
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
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19th December 2014, 10:59 AM #17
Is it a table? or is it for building a castle ... or The Pyramids?
http://www.oldplank.com/tables/custo...ole-table.html
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19th December 2014, 04:11 PM #18GOLD MEMBER
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With contoured tops, we had all sorts of those "saw benches" to support out water ski boats
a) to get the engines off for cleaning & tune-ups.
b) so we could use the trailers to haul other stuff.
I haven't seen skookum benches like that in 40 years.
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19th December 2014, 11:51 PM #19
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27th August 2015, 08:53 AM #20
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28th August 2015, 05:20 AM #22
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28th August 2015, 08:39 PM #23
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29th August 2015, 04:42 AM #24
Scandinavian standing bench
https://hyvelbenk.wordpress.com/
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3rd September 2015, 09:01 AM #25
Great thread, there are some cracking ideas there!
CheersAndy Mac
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13th September 2015, 03:44 AM #26
The *carving* ... and the saw-horses ...
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11th January 2016, 09:25 AM #27
Thanks, pmcgee...
Now look what you've got me started on, Paul, breeding horses!
Been 'getting round' to making a couple more saw horses, ever since I lost my 'regular' ones during a move several years ago. Every time I use the short/low things I made for some special job (& I can't for the life of me remember what it was), I get a back-ache & think, "I really must make a couple of 'proper' horses!".
But your thread got me thinking that something other than the traditional splay-legged carpenters' horse made from 4 x 2s would be much more useful, and since I don't plan to cart them around to job sites, solid, bulky horses would be the go. So after mulling it over for a couple of months, I had a rough plan. I started out thinking it would be fun to make them with huge sliding dovetails for the legs, just to show off, but in the end, practicality and the need for a pair now led to simpler construction. I liked the idea of straight legs on one side to save hitting them with the saw when ripping small, sort pieces held along the top, and a large, wide top for stable support of all sorts of things.
I have a heap of radiata in all sorts of sizes, courtesy of the large tree that had to be removed from the corner of the house a few years ago: radiata slabs.jpg Tree to go.jpg
And here are the working models: saw horses.jpg
They were in use before the glue was properly dry: saw horses2.jpg
So far, so good, they seem to fit the bill, though if I repeated the exercise, I would put the stretchers up a bit higher, the one on the sloped legs is too close to where my leg wants to be when I'm straddling the horse to rip a short piece along the top. But they are solid, and a MUCH better working height than the silly little things...
Cheers,
Cheers,IW
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11th January 2016, 10:23 AM #28
Ian
They are excellent. Looks like from that last pic you might need a third horse as I see you made do with a pony.
Had you considered a narrow slot lengthways down the top of the horse (6mm or less perhaps only for a short distance) for ripping small pieces that are difficult to balance or support on the edge?
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11th January 2016, 11:37 AM #29GOLD MEMBER
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Of course, adding a small shelf/step and a hand hole in the top will get you one of these:
BEKVÄM Step stool - IKEA
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11th January 2016, 07:07 PM #30
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