These often go on sale for $10-15/ea, should be already much better...
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/05700 ... ku=0570035
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/05700 ... ku=0570035
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I've seen those on sale recently in Rona for $15. They're really flimsy.Daijoubu wrote: ↑ These often go on sale for $10-15/ea, should be already much better...
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/05700 ... ku=0570035
Jul 9th, 2018 1:39 pm
+1 picked 2 of these up a month or so ago at $12.99 each.Daijoubu wrote: ↑ These often go on sale for $10-15/ea, should be already much better...
http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/05700 ... ku=0570035
Jul 9th, 2018 1:39 pm
If you've got unlimited funds and you're so danger-averse that you never buy anything that's cheap and just barely good enough, then why aren't you paying a pro contractor to do all the work? That's much safer.
Jul 9th, 2018 2:10 pm
I have the CT ones. (got them on sale for $10.99)
Jul 9th, 2018 2:17 pm
What a ridiculous statement. You can buy very nice tools that will last your whole life for the cost of labour of one small project.
Jul 9th, 2018 2:29 pm
Jul 9th, 2018 2:41 pm
They are light and the clips that keep the legs folded out break or buckle, then the slightest bump makes the legs fold down and everything collapses. Even for painting trim, these suck.pinkdonut wrote: ↑ What were you putting on them...!??
I agree they are the cheapest of sawhorse is extremely flimsy compare to most metal sawhorse.
But I can't imagine them ever breaking or failing with a sheet of plywood on them (4x8 sheet weight around 50lb, 10% of their rated capacity)
And most people aren't putting a slab of stone or stacking few hundred lbs on them.
I have both metal and the cheap HDX ones at home. I found myself using the cheap plastic ones way more often because it is light and portable.
It is much easier to move it around in side the house and unlike the metal ones, you won't get a chip on your drywall if you accidentally bump it on the wall.
The metal ones also needs way more time to setup compare to the plastic ones where you just unfold it.
The plastic on them do flex a bit, so when you unfold them you have to make sure all 4 legs are sitted stable on the floor first
Jul 9th, 2018 2:44 pm
... and you end up with a garage full of very nice (and very expensive) tools that you may use one time for one small project. You undoubtedly took time to shop for the tools, learned how to use them, bought all the accessories you needed, and took then took the small but significant risk of doing the work yourself. Then the tools will take up the space to store them for years (or decades) to come, and you'll end up disposing of them for pennies on the dollar many years from now.
Jul 9th, 2018 2:52 pm
You're quite the propagandist eh? Cut out the part in your quote of me where I mentioned that you don't need to buy top quality, then created a straw man to attack with that last line. Lol. Dork.Exp315 wrote: ↑ ... and you end up with a garage full of very nice (and very expensive) tools that you may use one time for one small project. You undoubtedly took time to shop for the tools, learned how to use them, bought all the accessories you needed, and took then took the small but significant risk of doing the work yourself. Then the tools will take up the space to store them for years (or decades) to come, and you'll end up disposing of them for pennies on the dollar many years from now.
Or you can be sensible and selective, paying for top-quality tools only when it's justified by the amount of use you're going to get from them, making do with cheap-but-good-enough for the stuff you're only going to use a few times, and paying a contractor when the investment or risk for you to do the job isn't worth it.
I think it's ridiculous to say that you should always buy top-quality tools.
Jul 9th, 2018 2:56 pm
Jul 9th, 2018 3:10 pm
I could use another couple of quality sawhorses but could I easily attach 2 x 4s to the top of these (so you can saw through the material into the sawhorse)? At the very least I imagine this would interfere with the folding mechanism?Blubbs wrote: ↑ If you want good quality stuff so you don't die, look at these, I had HD price match:
https://www.amazon.ca/DEWALT-DWST11155- ... walt+horse
They fold up tiny. I don't skimp out when it comes to basic safety stuff, same reason you don't buy a cheap table saw with a flimsy fence. Your life is on the line.
Jul 9th, 2018 3:18 pm
Yep, there are grooves for 2x4s:
Jul 9th, 2018 11:26 pm
They're very light duty and wobble way too easily; if you're using power tools to work material on top of these, unstable surfaces yield sloppy cuts or potential personal injury. If you drop a piece of plywood on top of a pair, they'd probably buckle. Description says 500lb capacity per pair, but I'd be hesitant to put any more than 50 lbs on these, and no way would I attempt to use them as a human support structure (though they'd probably work well for back yard wrestling). Good for painting trim, doors, etc (what I've used them for in the past).
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