That's not a saw-horse ...

[Bushmiller]

This is from Season 30 of the Woodwright's Shop on a German style of saw horse.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365309174/

Enjoy!

Craig

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
Paul

[pmcgee]

Is it a table? or is it for building a castle ... or The Pyramids?

http://www.oldplank.com/tables/custo...ole-table.html

[Robson Valley]

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.

[Bushmiller]

Is it a table? or is it for building a castle ... or The Pyramids?

http://www.oldplank.com/tables/custo...ole-table.html

Paul

I think RV could remove the turbines from a cruise liner with a couple of those .

Regards
Paul

[pmcgee]

The Great Sawbo


http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/woodworking-tips-1410oct/the-great-sawbo-part-1.html

[pmcgee]

saw horses.jpg

[pmcgee]

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/56073

[dakotax3]

http://www.basswoodmodular.com

[pmcgee]

Scandinavian standing bench

https://hyvelbenk.wordpress.com/

[Andy Mac]

Great thread, there are some cracking ideas there!

Cheers

[pmcgee]

The *carving* ... and the saw-horses ...

[IanW]

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,

[Bushmiller]

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?

Regards
Paul

[hiroller]

Of course, adding a small shelf/step and a hand hole in the top will get you one of these:
BEKVÄM Step stool - IKEA

[pmcgee]

Of course, adding a small shelf/step and a hand hole in the top will get you one of these:
BEKVÄM Step stool - IKEA

Mouth. Soap. Wash.