folding sawhorse

[woodironman]

I built this at work to try to save some space.
I'm not sure if I'm happy with the chains. I may use some 1 1/2 1/4 flat on the next one. I need to build 9 total. hope the pics show up.

[David R]

NICE..... Built out of "stuff"

David

[woodironman]

Thanks! It really didn't take that long either.

[Joker11]

YOu have an idea there!
My sawhorsies are plastic from the depot. I hate em. they always fold when I want them to stay and they stay when I want them to fold.

[woodironman]

Probably should've applied for a patent! If you think about it for a min. you can make it out of alot of different sized and shaped steel. I used 2 inch channel, 1 3/8 solid round and 1 1/4 pipe. That's what I had laying around and we use them to put 5'x10' 10ga. steel sheets on for cutting. Sometimes we will use two or three and put a dumpster on them so we can stay up off the floor. I didn't weigh it on a scale but, I'd say it's around 20lbs.

[jamlit]

That's a cool idea.

I built two on the same idea 16 years ago out of pipe. The one addition that I did was to weld in large nuts in the end of the pipes. I then cut to short pieces of angle that I screwed on a piece of wood. Now I can add the wood to my saw horses for doing carpentry wood.
I will post pic's later

[denrep]

Very nice. I guess Woodiron really knows when to fold 'em!

I kicked a bunch of horses out, because of all the clutter. Now, I'm thinking about borrowing Woodironman's plan, and modifying them to fold.

Any thoughts on the best way to modify already built horses; so that 4" channel legs can be made to hinge?

Good Luck



I really can appreciate the value of this idea. You see, I bought the sawhorses at a factory auction once, 100's of them. I ended up junking a bunch of them, because they were such a pain to handle. It was tough to fork more than two at a time, they took up a lot of room, they wouldn't stack, they wouldn't nest; it was just impossible to secure a decent load of them on a truck. I wish I had thought about cutting off two legs!

[star]

whats the height ?

[woodironman]

Originally Posted by star

whats the height ?

about 35"

[TrafficCopSmith]

Originally Posted by Joker11

YOu have an idea there!
My folding sawhorse is plastic from the depot. I hate em. they always fold when I want them to stay and they stay when I want them to fold.

Mine too. I hate the plastic ones, I'll have to try making these metal ones this weekend. I'm too cheap to buy pre made metal sawhorses.

[Crawford]

home depot does sell metal ones, however they are not as good of a quality as this one is pictured. very nice job!

[mla2ofus]

Good job!!! they look similar to a pair I made for myself a few yrs ago. I made mine out of 1 1/2" sq tube w/ .060 wall. I made a built in stop at the juncture of the legs, so no chains or strap required, however I wouldn't want to really test their strength either. I put a wood 2 x 2 on the top mainly for wood working.
Mike

[Stick-man]

Very nice. I also would opt to nix the chains and use a piece of flat stock loosely bolted with a nylox nut on one side and maybe a stud and cotter pin on the other to hold it open.

[HundredaireSocialite]

That's a quality horse. I've got the store bought pain in the *** folding metal yellow ones. They're a chore. I like yours a lot better.

[DesertRider33]

Nice!

[heimbuckwelding]

here asre my folding sawhorsses that do have a patient but it seems like those never work any more oh well to bad billy mays is dead we could bolth make a fortune lol

[nodak ironman]

heimbuckwelding, you patented those? I seen plans for saw horses just like yours in a 1950's lincoln welding book. they didn't have the wood on theirs of course. i built a set like that for a customer about 15 years ago.

[heimbuckwelding]

yeah in 1991 my father did and i have keept it up since guess they didn't their loss im sure theirs were built out of different material diff size i mean its like cars their are differnt styles sizes shapes that have patents but all in all it is still a car

[bert the welder]

[NOMADMAD]

Originally Posted by Joker11

YOu have an idea there!
My sawhorsies are plastic from the depot. I hate em. they always fold when I want them to stay and they stay when I want them to fold.

i hear you there on those plasic ones. ive broke a set and will not get them again. good idea on the sawhorses. the chain should work good on them