Gems like this are the heart and soul of RUclips. I hope you enjoy making these. I hope you get a lot out of it. I rolled my eyes when you started to introduce your sponsor, then laughed out loud.
Nate i watched this video about 3 years ago and built one of these sawhorses and it is a very good design. Im going to build another one for a matching horse. I used untreated lumber and have left this horse outside and no rot to the legs👍🇺🇸. Thanks 😊
These are great saw horses. I have made five of them over the years and they are a sturdy design and are still strong. After making a couple of them I learned that I could make them stronger by avoiding driving the screws into the end grain of the pieces. For the vertical braces I angled screws from them into the horizontal braces and then angled screws from the underside of the horizontal braces into the legs. I also predrilled all screw holes.
Hey Nate, thanks I built a couple of the saw horses outa scrap lumber from Reno's I'm doing on my Son's house and they worked out great. I made all my cuts with a 12 in Rigid Mitre Saw. I am hoping to add a photo.
Hey, Just wanted to say, I am recently getting back into carpentry and I love this tutorial! your videos are great, the little extra details you go into editing and making it humourous while staying on topic and maintaining a simple tutorial makes it all around a great experience. Love the design for the sawhorse too. cheers!
Great video Nate. Been looking to make some quick saw horses for use at home and your video was spot on! Went with 30" on the legs though as the first iteration was a bit short, and I'm 5' 6"
I love the simplicity of the design and construction. I needed two sturdy sawhorses to stage my material for a deck rebuild. since it rains every other day around here ,I have no indoor storage for 12 and ten foot 5/4. Also I reused 2x4's that are pressure treated but were rough. I have no level surface to check my work from. I followed your directions to the letter and set down the first horse on a piece of concrete that was somewhat level. It was dead on and no rocking! I had two really rough 2x4's left for the bottom 48 inch lower brace. Instead I opted to use an old 2x6 from the same demo pile. It had a bad twist and threw the legs off so I switched it out for the 2x4's. Thanks for putting up this video it really helped me!!
I built two of these this weekend, and they came together great. Fast, simple, and sturdy. Start to finish including cuts and assembly for both sawhorses was less than two hours. Thanks!
I bought one of those Black & Decker books by a different name close to 30 years ago, and have built a bunch of these over the years, both for myself and others. As a little side tip, if you are judicious with your cutting, you can build two horses out of 7 - 8’ 2x4’s, but it takes 4 to build 1! I’ve made 2’ versions, lower and higher versions, and generally always add a 5/4 x 6” gusset on the outside of each leg set that ties the legs and the vertical and horizontal pieces together. You can also use plywood for this. Built a few for heavier use that used 2x6’s for the top 4’ boards. Very good project and video!
I’m revisiting your video ; I made 4 following your video a couple of years ago and l love them so much I’m about to make 8 more with your design thank you so much
Simple easy to make no fuss heavy duty sawhorse, which I am going to make from watching your video.This is my favourite one.Thank you for your time and showing this.Cheers mate
Built 4 to raise up garden pots - these were simple and fun to make. Pay attention to the measurement and centering (and avoid crappy lumber.) Recommended!
Looks great. I plan to build this tomorrow, putting a 2x6 on top. I have a new 30" metal brake but don't have the workbench space to mount it. This looks as though it'll be rugged enough for the job .... and somewhat portable. Thanks, Nate.
Hi Nate: great design, very strong! How ever, I am a tall guy so I cut all the pieces except the legs. Then I looked at the remaining lumber and there was enough to make the legs 35 inches long instead of 26 inches long. So now I have nice tall sawhorses from same 4 2X4’s. Thanks Hans
Just made these today, thanks for the plans! I made them using a circular saw (Makita; Model #5007MG) cause that’s all I have for a power cutting tool. My makita doesn’t have too fine of an adjustment for bevel cuts. There are tick-marks at 15 degrees and 22.5 degrees. Then there is another tick-mark separating those two bevels. I had to guesstimate approximately where 17 degrees was. Ultimately, I had to shorten my horizontal braces down to 8.5 inches. However, still the same results: sturdy, rock-solid, an no wobbles ;)
I made two of these the day before yesterday out of chainsaw-milled alder on my property. I'm very happy with them. Tried to send pics to your instagram. Thank you for the video
I built an adjustable painting easel and did the same thing, jumped up on top of it. Other peoples' easels in my painting class would fall over regularly. Not mine. They called it Michael's Monster. M
Great simple instructions and enjoyable to listen to.... which is quite a compliment with xxx million annoying youtube videos out there...my next project :-). Looking forward to catching up with more of your vids now that I am subscribed. Am i unique in that all I seem to do is build 'tools', benches, shelves for tools, ceiling for the tool shop, jigs for cutting, and now saw horses? Beginning to wonder if i am just addicted to the process, but afraid of the content. lol
To find out how long the 2x4 that he bought add up all the inches and divide by 4 because he said he needed 4 - 2x4s. 48 x 3 = 144 26 x 4 = 208 11¼ x 2 = 22½ 15½ x 2 = 31 Total 405½ " Divide by 12 for feet
I built a set of these, they are nice. Your instructions are not clear when it comes to the vertical horizontal braces.... I have a few questions here. Why give the length of them cut at 90 degrees instead of saying to just bevel or miter them? What are the dimensions of the brace after being beveled? I may just be looking at this differently because I'm only using a compound miter/circular saw as I don't yet have a table saw. The longer side of my horizontal braces is still 11.25 and it seems they need to be a bit shorter for things to mate up well.
The longer side is suppose to be 11.25, I cut them to length before because it is difficult using the miter gauge with longer work pieces. Cutting it to length with the angle and not a 90 degree works too.
@@natelarge thank you so much for getting back to me so fast. This project will be way cheaper than investing in scalfoding? (forgot how to spell it) that will be 200+ with taxes. I will buy the materials tomorrow and start building asap...blessings
Gems like this are the heart and soul of RUclips. I hope you enjoy making these. I hope you get a lot out of it.
I rolled my eyes when you started to introduce your sponsor, then laughed out loud.
Nate i watched this video about 3 years ago and built one of these sawhorses and it is a very good design. Im going to build another one for a matching horse. I used untreated lumber and have left this horse outside and no rot to the legs👍🇺🇸. Thanks 😊
These are great saw horses. I have made five of them over the years and they are a sturdy design and are still strong. After making a couple of them I learned that I could make them stronger by avoiding driving the screws into the end grain of the pieces. For the vertical braces I angled screws from them into the horizontal braces and then angled screws from the underside of the horizontal braces into the legs. I also predrilled all screw holes.
Hey Nate, thanks I built a couple of the saw horses outa scrap lumber from Reno's I'm doing on my Son's house and they worked out great. I made all my cuts with a 12 in Rigid Mitre Saw. I am hoping to add a photo.
Hey, Just wanted to say, I am recently getting back into carpentry and I love this tutorial! your videos are great, the little extra details you go into editing and making it humourous while staying on topic and maintaining a simple tutorial makes it all around a great experience. Love the design for the sawhorse too. cheers!
Great video Nate. Been looking to make some quick saw horses for use at home and your video was spot on! Went with 30" on the legs though as the first iteration was a bit short, and I'm 5' 6"
I love the simplicity of the design and construction. I needed two sturdy sawhorses to stage my material for a deck rebuild. since it rains every other day around here ,I have no indoor storage for 12 and ten foot 5/4. Also I reused 2x4's that are pressure treated but were rough. I have no level surface to check my work from. I followed your directions to the letter and set down the first horse on a piece of concrete that was somewhat level. It was dead on and no rocking! I had two really rough 2x4's left for the bottom 48 inch lower brace. Instead I opted to use an old 2x6 from the same demo pile. It had a bad twist and threw the legs off so I switched it out for the 2x4's. Thanks for putting up this video it really helped me!!
I'm glad you had such a positive experience, thank you for sharing.
I built two of these this weekend, and they came together great. Fast, simple, and sturdy. Start to finish including cuts and assembly for both sawhorses was less than two hours. Thanks!
Just made two of these! Great way to spend the afternoon with my saw. Thanks so much, Nate!!
I bought one of those Black & Decker books by a different name close to 30 years ago, and have built a bunch of these over the years, both for myself and others. As a little side tip, if you are judicious with your cutting, you can build two horses out of 7 - 8’ 2x4’s, but it takes 4 to build 1! I’ve made 2’ versions, lower and higher versions, and generally always add a 5/4 x 6” gusset on the outside of each leg set that ties the legs and the vertical and horizontal pieces together. You can also use plywood for this. Built a few for heavier use that used 2x6’s for the top 4’ boards. Very good project and video!
If you keep the top rails and bottom brace at 40" you'll only need 6 x 8' lengths of 2x4s for two saw horses.
I’m revisiting your video ; I made 4 following your video a couple of years ago and l love them so much I’m about to make 8 more with your design thank you so much
Simple easy to make no fuss heavy duty sawhorse, which I am going to make from watching your video.This is my favourite one.Thank you for your time and showing this.Cheers mate
Most welcome 😊
Really just called a drill an electric screwdriver haha
these sawhorses are fantastic - I'll be building a couple of them this week
Thanks Paul
Built 4 to raise up garden pots - these were simple and fun to make. Pay attention to the measurement and centering (and avoid crappy lumber.) Recommended!
Looks great. I plan to build this tomorrow, putting a 2x6 on top. I have a new 30" metal brake but don't have the workbench space to mount it. This looks as though it'll be rugged enough for the job .... and somewhat portable. Thanks, Nate.
Hi Nate: great design, very strong! How ever,
I am a tall guy so I cut all the pieces except the legs. Then I looked at the remaining lumber and there was enough to make the legs 35 inches long instead of 26 inches long. So now I have nice tall sawhorses from same 4 2X4’s.
Thanks Hans
Just made these today, thanks for the plans!
I made them using a circular saw (Makita; Model #5007MG) cause that’s all I have for a power cutting tool. My makita doesn’t have too fine of an adjustment for bevel cuts. There are tick-marks at 15 degrees and 22.5 degrees. Then there is another tick-mark separating those two bevels. I had to guesstimate approximately where 17 degrees was.
Ultimately, I had to shorten my horizontal braces down to 8.5 inches. However, still the same results: sturdy, rock-solid, an no wobbles ;)
Good job on making it work with what you got.
Great edits here made this actually helpful and not overly long and boring. Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
Getting ready to build a small boat. Saw horses are strong and to the point.
Sounds like a fun project. best of luck
Great design! I just built two of these. Does anyone know what the weight capacity might be?
I made two of these the day before yesterday out of chainsaw-milled alder on my property. I'm very happy with them. Tried to send pics to your instagram. Thank you for the video
Had a good laugh at the "minimal tools" part when the mitre saw made its appearance.
Best saw horse I've seen 👌
Good job, I will be building a set of these. I saw a set on the net, but without the bottom brace.
You did a good job on the sawhorse
Bro one of the best video’s…! Just made two myself and they look mint…!
Thank you so much for creating this wonderful guide, worked like a charm !
your welcome. this was one of my favorite projects.
Thank you. I will be making these. Great information.
Omg. The days of $3 2x4s
Who knew we would see such madness
Best sponsor plug ever
Exactly what we need but I'm adding a selection of drop in shaped tops that drop in your slot and give me a v section or a sacrificial plank.
A nice strong design. Well done!
Really like this design,
I have a sawmill and will try some oak and sweetGum fingers crossed on the S.Gum.
Cheers.
I built an adjustable painting easel and did the same thing, jumped up on top of it.
Other peoples' easels in my painting class would fall over regularly.
Not mine. They called it Michael's Monster.
M
Looks strong, cool man.
Nicely done Sir,
Will be building two sets tomorrow,
Funny, informative, Best of all for you!
You say that you can build these with pretty basic handtools, and then demonstrate that you in particular cannot.
Thank you looks great ❤
This was a great video helped me out alot thanks 😊
Great simple instructions and enjoyable to listen to.... which is quite a compliment with xxx million annoying youtube videos out there...my next project :-). Looking forward to catching up with more of your vids now that I am subscribed. Am i unique in that all I seem to do is build 'tools', benches, shelves for tools, ceiling for the tool shop, jigs for cutting, and now saw horses? Beginning to wonder if i am just addicted to the process, but afraid of the content. lol
To find out how long the 2x4 that he bought add up all the inches and divide by 4 because he said he needed 4 - 2x4s.
48 x 3 = 144
26 x 4 = 208
11¼ x 2 = 22½
15½ x 2 = 31
Total 405½ "
Divide by 12 for feet
Great video from UK Based Brexit voting viewer. Loving the imperial measurement references 🇬🇧🇺🇸👍
well done. I like the saw horse and the video
What an awesome sponsor
Your video was both informative and enjoyable to watch! Nice job.
Love your sponsor 😁
I built a set of these, they are nice. Your instructions are not clear when it comes to the vertical horizontal braces.... I have a few questions here. Why give the length of them cut at 90 degrees instead of saying to just bevel or miter them? What are the dimensions of the brace after being beveled? I may just be looking at this differently because I'm only using a compound miter/circular saw as I don't yet have a table saw. The longer side of my horizontal braces is still 11.25 and it seems they need to be a bit shorter for things to mate up well.
The longer side is suppose to be 11.25, I cut them to length before because it is difficult using the miter gauge with longer work pieces. Cutting it to length with the angle and not a 90 degree works too.
Great video
Thank you
Can you tell me what the height of the saw horse will be from the ground up? Thank you, looking forward to building these tommorow.
They are 27 1/2". bada bing bada boom
Made it, solid design!
I find this video helpful
Great video! Thx!
Top top
Very nice👍
Thanks
Question....can the sawhorse feet be longer than the one size u suggested? Need to be able to reach 9 feet wall and I am 5 feet tall...thanks
Yes, absolutely. I would scale the length of most pieces or add more cross member support to keep the extra long legs from splaying out.
@@natelarge thank you so much for getting back to me so fast. This project will be way cheaper than investing in scalfoding? (forgot how to spell it) that will be 200+ with taxes. I will buy the materials tomorrow and start building asap...blessings
Thank you
Really clear instructions, and fun presentation.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks, Great Build
Glad you like it
I guess your table saw blade doesn't provide angle adjustments?
It leaves me wanting more.
Is dont have 73 degrees on my miter. Can I just cut every angle to 17 degrees
cutting at 17 degrees will give you a piece that is 17 and a piece that is 73. just make sure the angle goes on the correct piece.
No need to make so complicated, nor use so much wood.
Why use a hand saw when already used a table saw? Sounds like unnecessary work.
I've built the same saw horse and added a 2x6 (48") on the top. They last forever.
Solid tip
how long were the boards
i need to know for school project
2x4s are how long from the store?
Depends. I buy 2*4 that are 8'long. They are also sold in a few other lengths
Helpful but it really irks me that your using a regular drill to fasten the screws and not a impact driver
I'm pretty cringe at times 🤣
I don't get it
Bruh sound effect..............
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Smh
Very helpful. Thank you
So glad!