🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Another "Am I the only one" question.

A friend of mine had a Home Depot order delivered last night. I'd tacked some paper lawn bags (county requires) so I wouldn't have to go (or order them.)

When I stopped by this morning he was looking at buying Sawhorses: "I forget 'em" ...

Okay. Here's the question. Am I the only one who knows 7 @ 36" a piece? Or whatever width you need?

He's changing his fencing out...prolly 40 old 2x's ...

IE: Cut seven at 36"
Make a T with two.
Make an I with the third.
Attach the legs using the top of the I as a "lip."

Sawhorse.

 

[Rsedge72]

done them similarly my whole life

 

[rick4bama]

 

[Krimson]

A friend of mine had a Home Depot order delivered last night. I'd tacked some paper lawn bags (county requires) so I wouldn't have to go (or order them.)

When I stopped by this morning he was looking at buying Sawhorses: "I forget 'em" ...

Okay. Here's the question. Am I the only one who knows 7 @ 36" a piece? Or whatever width you need?

He's changing his fencing out...prolly 40 old 2x's ...

IE: Cut seven at 36"
Make a T with two.
Make an I with the third.
Attach the legs using the top of the I as a "lip."

Sawhorse.

Guess it depends on how much he will use them and how much room he has. Got tired of moving and storing old school saw horses so bought some that fold up and are easy to transport, wouldn't go back. If it was for a project that I had with no plans for near future use after I finished, I'd build them and then get rid of them.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Guess it depends on how much he will use them and how much room he has. Got tired of moving and storing old school saw horses so bought some that fold up and are easy to transport, wouldn't go back. If it was for a project that I had with no plans for near future use after I finished, I'd build them and then get rid of them.

Yeah, my Dad would keep sawhorses from job to job. Nothing would make him more angry than a framer taking a 16 foot 2x4 and cutting it into three foot pieces. On houses he built multiple times, he'd tell the guy on the ground, "the plywood you just cut - that piece goes on the other end of the next run of decking." So many of those guys just mindlessly go grab a new sheet for every cut. I had to use twenty foot 2x12's for the rafters over my garage bonus room, stupid expensive. I watched those damned things like a hawk, nobody cut a header out of them.

I have six folding sawhorses. I hate it when they pinch me, otherwise I like them.

 

[footballer]

Yeah, my Dad would keep sawhorses from job to job. Nothing would make him more angry than a framer taking a 16 foot 2x4 and cutting it into three foot pieces. On houses he built multiple times, he'd tell the guy on the ground, "the plywood you just cut - that piece goes on the other end of the next run of decking." So many of those guys just mindlessly go grab a new sheet for every cut. I had to use twenty foot 2x12's for the rafters over my garage bonus room, stupid expensive. I watched those damned things like a hawk, nobody cut a header out of them.

I have six folding sawhorses. I hate it when they pinch me, otherwise I like them.

Yeah, using your cut- offs Is where you make or save money. In glass work also.

 

[sean]

And they're stackable

 

[TerryP]

Guess it depends on how much he will use them and how much room he has. Got tired of moving and storing old school saw horses so bought some that fold up and are easy to transport, wouldn't go back. If it was for a project that I had with no plans for near future use after I finished, I'd build them and then get rid of them.

He won't. That was the driving thought behind "why are you buying them?"