sawhorse designs

"Steve B" wrote in news:AFfCf.14015$JT.986@fed1read06:

The "X" piece that you cobbled is called a "sawbuck" [once, also, the slang name for a $10 bill] and, when connected by a bolt at the cross point, can be easily and simply folded for transport.

Two of these, when joined by a 2' piece of allthread and attached by a pair of couplers, would provide a "double sawbuck" which can hold a log section horizontally for cross-cut sawing.

An alternative way to join the two "X" pieces would be to simply saw notches near the ends of a branch/sapling to fit over the crossed legs of each sawbuck.

FWIW, this may well have been the "original" sawhorse.

Do a Google (Images) Search = DAGS

David Merrill

Thanks so much, David. I never knew I could do an image search on Google. I will have to try it on other stuff. BTW, there is a picture of an X shaped sawhorse there that looks like what I need. I can make them of part wood and part square tubing.

Again, thanks. I like a day when I learn something new.

Steve

50+ years ago, my Dad bought scrap (slab and edgings in four foot lengths) from a local sawmill to fuel our kitchen cook stove. We made six 'H' shaped frames from 2" edgings and fastened them together such that when the upper open area was filled with wood, we could make two cuts with the old chain saw through the bundle and have a couple days worth of stove wood ready for the wood box. I never did develop the concept of tying the bundle and hoisting it out of the saw jig. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:50:33 -0800, Gerald Miller wrote (in message ):

I believe "Framing Bench" is the correct name for these things. I built one from a Popular Mechanix magazine article about fifteen years ago and it has served me very well ever since. Google "Framing Bench" and see what you get.

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:48:23 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Roger Hull quickly quoth:

There is the X-framed saw buck with the gnarly-toothed buck saw.

Google for "saw buck" and get the little women to do the work. ;)

An interesting page of how things used to be done:

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With a name like "Skip", .....................

Steve ;-)