When you do not have a work bench on site, what to do?

Stephen B

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No site workbench, what to do?
This was my solution, what have you done in the past, good and bad?
 

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I have two inexpensive folding saw horses. I would find some ply or something like your board to make a bench. You could also keep an MFT in your truck. You could make your own saw horses, on site. Hope this helps.
 
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Must be a difference in the New York /Australian psych at work here.

I was looking for members to share photos of the unusual, humorous, safe and not safe solutions they had seen or indeed used themselves, not advice on horses, platforms and MFTs.

In my example, the better solutions had all been taken by the painter, otherwise known as 'senior management '.

LOL.  [smile]
 
haven't got any pics, but this does put me in mind of something i do pretty often, even when a workbench is available, wondering if this is common practice or just me because i've certainly gotten some strange looks while doing it…

when i need to cut a 4'xwhatever strip off a piece of plywood, I lean it against a wall, put a block underneath the sheet, and start the cut holding the circular saw backwards and keeping the sheet away from the wall with my left hand.  when I'm about  foot in, i stand with my back to the sheet and the saw to my right and cut the rest of the way down.

this was mostly how i did it before owning a track saw, but now that i think about it i could easily make a stop for my track to hook over the top of the sheet and do the same thing
 
Untidy Shop (Stephen B) said:
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Must be a difference in the New York /Australian psych at work here.

I was looking for members to share photos of the unusual, humorous, safe and not safe solutions they had seen or indeed used themselves, not advice on horses, platforms and MFTs.

In my example, the better solutions had all been taken by the painter, otherwise known as 'senior management '.

LOL.  [smile]


Probably,
In New York, we like a good joke, too...but, we don't like to waste time. Or, have someone waste our time.
 
Dad used to have a 1/3 sheet of plywood with a 2x1 screwed along the top for a fence and a couple of bits of 2x2 screwed in place against which he put a straight edge to guide his old circular saw. That was 40 years ago. From that I eventually came up with the idea for the Parf Dogs. Here is a picture of my interpretation of Dad's old setup. The fence has been replaced with a pair of small bench dogs and the two blocks of 2x2 have been replaced by Parf Dogs. I use this setup quite a bit and it just sits on a pair of folding trestles.

Peter
 

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