I-beam sawhorse

Looks like they will last a lifetime or two and should support a car. Well done.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Wow!! Excellent work. Very Heavy Duty. I’m sure those Sawhorses will be around for many years to come.

Welcome to LJ’s, Tom. This is the greatest woodworking site on the Internet.

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

TJ
I love the I beam design feature. Say again how long it took to build these. Why didn’t you use angled cuts to join the legs to the base? A shelf between the legs on one of them would also be a useful design feature so you could lay some marking tools or a sawthere. Nice work on table saw jigs, nice collection, those cross cut sleds are very handy. Best wishes to you and your new hobby.

-- Bob A in NJ

Great sawhorses. It’s always nice to have stacking ones, because they take up a lot of room otherwise. And a full 48” wide also. nice job.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Very sturdy sawhorses. Should last you a long time.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

I’m planing to build something similar. This is very inspirable for me.

-- Jiri

To Bob A in NJ:

Thanks for the kudos. My father helped me build them as he was visiting last week. It took the two of us about 90 minutes to build them. Very, very simple plan. Plus, I had specific instructions with measurements so there was no guessing about what to do.

Frankly, I didn’t angle the cuts on the legs because the plan didn’t call for it. I thought about it, but thought maybe the full depth of the 2×4 would help to distribute the weight of the I-beam. Having four screws (2 in I-beam top and 2 in bottom) in that joint probably helps anyway.

I could add shelves to the horses, but I believe that will take away the ability to stack them and I prefer to have that feature as my space is limited.

-- Tom, Charlotte, North Carolina

I like the idea of the different lengths so they can be stacked. That’s the kind of touch I usually think of after the project is complete.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Good well thought out design. ‘they’ll take up less room a big plus. makes better use of space. three cheers. mike

-- (You just have to please the man in the Mirror) Mike from Michigan -

Great project that you will find very useful. They look about as strong as the rock of Gibraltar.

Excellent work.

-- jeanmarc manosque france

I followed identical plans to make almost identical horses. Very sturdy and the stacking is a nice feature. The only thing I did that was not in the plans was to cut put an angled cut on the foot-end of the legs so that they would be flat on the ground.

Those are some nice sawhorses.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker