"Ultimate" Adjustable Sawhorses! Well, Penultimate...

"Penultimate" is more apropos, but it's tough to beat these sawhorses for functionality and sturdiness...
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[@reforzar]

I could make those too if I had a CNC.

[@timsway]

hahahaha!

[@JeremySeifert]

Came here from a nod from the Pneumatic Addict. Great project. I really like your no-frills 'get er done' approach.

[@johnfithian-franks8276]

I love your reason for the paint job, I got a good giggle out of it and it will not get lost in the shop

[@mc4kvb]

Pretty cool build Tim. What a great way to use the sawhorses instead of just to make them flat by adding the extra top with the clamp parts.

[@feednspeed]

That was a very clean video on a very useful idea. Its solid and, I imagine, very approachable for a beginner.

[@idiotluggage]

Great idea. Thank you for sharing.

[@ScottTurnerformeindustrious]

Another very useful idea, and with that paint they won't get stolen ;)

[@timsway]

haha! true :)

[@StamosTee]

Fantastic idea. Very versatile, extremely useful !!

[@LetsPrepTogether]

Very cool! I really like the versatility of this design. It is very interesting to see how much thought went into this project.

[@timsway]

thanks!

[@daddynutz024]

Nice project. Looks like they will come in handy.

[@blumenaue7590]

I would use them for upholstering. Would need trays on the top so furniture legs wouldn’t slide off.

[@PaulMeyette]

Awesome! Thanks for the "shout out" but my involvement was as minimal as it could get. YOU did all the leg work. I think they are awesome, and the paint just makes it perfect. Solid work my friend

[@timsway]

Paul Meyette wouldn't have thought of it if it weren't for you.

[@sapelesteve]

Now that's thinking out of the box Tim! You guys should put a patent on that. I can see many uses for that including different sizes for other applications. Nice work my friend..................... :)

[@TheWoodYogi]

Very good Tim :) The paint scheme is fantastic :D I'm off to buy some pastel colours to paint my saw horses :D Can't wait to see my builders face when he asks to borrow them again :) ॐ

[@timsway]

As Scott pointed out, "they won't get stolen!" :)

[@TheWoodYogi]

😁 Look out for Santa's Elves. Look great in the workshop at the North Pole 😁

[@oojagapivy]

The interchangeable tops are a brilliant idea, especially the "roller" one for chopsaw outfeed. Add one with v-blocks for supporting round stock for cutting maybe. The ideas could go on and on.

[@timsway]

V grooves is a great idea!

[@alsmith1025]

You always amaze me with your clever ideas. This is GREAT. and video qty is amazing. Awesome job bud.

[@timsway]

Hey, thanks Al!

[@timsway]

I just got a new camera after filming this, so hopefully quality will improve even more...

[@woodkraftsfwi1999]

Clever boy! Thanks for sharing..

[@KBBAKTHA]

Mind blowing idea and a brilliant narration.

[@timsway]

Thank you!

[@JackmanWorks]

You're the ultimate woodworker 😁 I love these, especially the color scheme

[@TheHandsomeMatt]

Great idea, and it looks simple enough that it can be adapted to already made sawhorses.

[@timsway]

Matthew Herrmann indeed it could be added on many sawhorses

[@johnhartley3596]

Very cool idea.

[@masterofnone]

Another great idea Tim. Simple too.

[@RichardMartin]

Very cool, and a great paint job. They kind of look like real life sketchup plans, where each part is a different colour.

[@timsway]

haha! true. it is an added bonus to the paint that it helps viewers easily see the individual pieces. I mean, I planned it that way :)

[@TheHandystanley]

Pretty darn right innovative there Mr. Sway...pretty darn innovative - well that's my World Perspective for the moment.

[@timsway]

thanks man!

[@monkeytreey]

Love the idea! I think I might try something similar in my tiny shop.

[@timsway]

it works pretty well.

[@tooljunkie555]

Tim that's an awesome idea love the foot bar idea too..oh and i LOOOVE THE COLORS.😁

[@timsway]

thank you! IMO it's the foot bar that makes the horse :)

[@garagemonkeysan]

Great idea. I like the colors! : )

[@Dragonknight49]

I like the quick adjustment. I made a set similar but they folded and extended. But i can't stand on them like you can. I might make these in the future.

[@timsway]

thanks man! do it.

[@FrankDoesIt]

great idea Tim! I really like those, may have to make some for my shop, they look super handy!

[@timsway]

Thanks. I was just using them today, welding together a 22"X22"X40" rectangle. If I put it on my bench I'd need a step stool. On the floor I'd need to stoop...

[@FrankDoesIt]

tim sway That’s great! Makes a lot of sense and helps ergonomically!

[@ArtfullyRogue]

Think I might need to make a set for my shop! Great idea

[@timsway]

thanks man! let me know how they turn out!

[@heuwel]

I really like this idea.....it will be one of my many next projects...

[@MyGrowthRings]

Well done, Tim.

[@LukeTheJoker]

Great idea!

[@Tugmun11]

TS great project, awesome video. I thought maybe you were channeling Steve Ramsey he has taken some pooo over his paint color choices over the years... And like you said at the end of the day it's a saw horse, in your shop, and it can be any color you want. Thanks for Sharing...

[@timsway]

Reed Kay and they won't get stolen!! Thanks Reed.

[@glummoks1084]

Great idea 💡!

[@VintageWoodWorkshop]

Brilliant, I'm definitely going to modify the sawhorses I built to make them adjustable like this👍👍👍

[@timsway]

awesome!

[@toddweller]

Great job! Those will be very handy!

[@timsway]

thanks man!

[@phil.pinsky]

This was very cool. Great concept

[@timsway]

thanks bud!

[@samaker4]

great build Tim!

[@timsway]

thanks man!

[@triplesevensix291]

Good stuff mate. Big up from the UK. ;)

[@timsway]

thanks!

[@NOLAMarathon2010]

Without a place to attach a guitar or bass, I'm not interested. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I'LL BE HERE ALL WEEK!

[@timsway]

In all seriousness, I'm thinking about making a guitar jig to put on it for finishing...

[@NOLAMarathon2010]

You're the best, dude.

[@patrickmeehan3728]

you're a true stable genius IMO. I honestly love this project.

[@timsway]

thank you. I was an unstable genius until I built these saw horses to help.

[@TJSWOODWORKINGSHOP]

Awesome project my brother i love it good job :)

[@timsway]

thanks man!

[@Cactusworkshopchannel]

glad to see this done! great!

[@timsway]

thanks amigo!

[@pavski]

Million dollar idea. I could see it in big box stores.

[@Bill.L.Carroll]

Nice Rainbow Horse, Tim... Brilliant idea guys.

[@timsway]

haha! I can ride them to my happy place :)

[@kaycox5555]

Terrific!!!

[@loganhancock6277]

I have an idea for the 2.0 version. Mount a little bubble level on the side that way you can ensure the top of the saw horse is level even if the ground isn't. Seems like their could be a little adjust-ability to each side. I may try to make some of these!

[@timsway]

logan hancock great idea!

[@bukatasv]

I liked this project!

[@tedwitham304]

Talk about building the better mousetrap , This takes saw horses from being a troublesome dust collector to a luxury tool for the shop and worksite , With plenty of room to modify the idea to increase usefulness and productivity. Next maybe you could build a small robot to move them around the shop and bring you a tall cold one at the end of the day .😁

[@timsway]

well the bench cookie holders double as cupholders, now if I can just learn and master AI... :)

[@leonardneal1297]

Those clamps are made to work the other way. May if you turn them under the saw horse, they will slide better. It would take a little more triggering to make a foot release.

[@johnwilcox1302]

See a need... fill a need.

[@timsway]

see three needs, fill it with one solution :)

[@MichaelKieweg]

I sawed a horse once. It was a giant mess! Great idea to use the pipeclamps and to make interchangeable top pieces. Now I'm waiting for some chinashop to massproduce cheap plastic versions of that nice thing.

[@timsway]

eww! Give it a few months and I'm sure you can buy one that'll break the third time you use it so you can throw them away

[@NickDV007]

Never ultimate, there's always the tiniest bit of wiggle room for improvement 😉😂 Great horse Tim 👍👍👍, and the paint job, well it's different ............................😎

[@timsway]

indeed! And there is room for improvement here. I could've used more colors :)

[@NickDV007]

Absolutely 🤣🤣🤣

[@WilliamLutesMaker]

I saw a horse once, it was scary !

[@timsway]

real horses make me a little sad. except the wild ones.

[@gregkieser1157]

Good concept...

[@timsway]

thanks!

[@andonizaratiegui4504]

maybe adding a button spirit level to help if the floor/ground isnt level?

[@andonizaratiegui4504]

sorry, AWESOME and cheap idea too (the sawhorse of course) :)

[@timsway]

Andoni Zaratiegui someone else mentioned that and it's a fantastic idea!

[@serajmuhammed3942]

I enjoyed watching you build adjustable sawhorses. I want to get your video please.

[@fbiker79]

Good idea. I wish you would have made the foot release mechanism without a welder. Thanks for the video.

[@timsway]

If you do exactly the same procedure with the tap and screws on the top as I did on the bottom you can make this without welding. that would actually be a better way as you could completely disassemble the entire saw horse, if needed.

[@fbiker79]

tim sway I get it. Thank you for the suggestion. The truth is that I know how I would “fix” it or modify it so that it is not welded. I actually have a welder, but not all DIYer have a welder that is where my comment comes from. But, at the same time, it is a prototype.........................Take care.

[@marceaton3128]

Mr. Chisel. Did you see the M.A.S.H. episode where the crazy soldier had Mr. Sock and enemy glider? Nice work, the paintwork​ was spot on.

[@timsway]

thanks! Was that Jamie Farr the cross dresser who also had the sock?

[@marceaton3128]

Jamie Farr, Klinger was training this guy who had Mr. Sock. My mind works counterclockwise​ on things.

[@dariomendoza175]

I don´t recall if you mentioned that but: 1) how tall are the saw horses and how tall can be extended? 2) How much weight can they resist? The idea is great for what I commonly work. Some furniture restoration like sofas and similar heavy furniture. 3) can be designed and will work also with foldable saw horses?

[@timsway]

They can be as tall or as short as you wanna make them, but the height adjustment is directly related to the main height as the pipe clamps, so the taller they are, the more variable they can be. You could absolutely engineer them to fold, too

[@paulbuckeljr8870]

Shut up and take my money! Simple and elegant Tim.

[@timsway]

make your own! :)

[@paulbuckeljr8870]

Lol! I will! I just wanted to convey that the idea is worthy of marketing.

[@tonyozimek2116]

Great build! Did you upgrade your camera? 4k? looks great

[@timsway]

thanks! no, I did just buy a new (used) camera but it came in after I filmed this.

[@PJGalati]

Everyone seems obsessed with the colors, but if it's an "ultimate" sawhorse... WHERE is the cupholder? LOL I mean, who doesn't saw and drink at the same time right? Love the innovation Tim. Way to Bearded Dragon those paints too.

[@timsway]

P. J. Galati good point...

[@haidafella8651]

Bench cookies, and coffee

[@samuelroberts334]

Pretty cool!!!

[@timsway]

thanks!

[@douglidz2944]

TSPWHQ (there Tim I remembered the Q this time) does it again! Winner, Winner, chicken dinner! Who says Lutes has all the great ideas.

[@timsway]

uhhh, no one but Lutes?

[@PaulJohnsLife]

Really like this idea. Does the color scheme make it a saw unicorn instead of a sawhorse?

[@timsway]

funny!

[@johnhubbard3485]

Mine just are not holding level, I believe I used the wrong color Pink, off to the paint booth to try to dial them in.

[@bobwadsworth3747]

Overall a great idea. I'd like to see a smoother height adjusting design...I think that one would drive me crazy. And just to be "that guy", how come you threaded the bottom of the steel rods and then used sheet metal screws? 🤔

[@timsway]

been a while since I made this (and it's a prototype, like everything I make) so I don't have answers fresh from memory, but the best I recall the pipe was already threaded and the screws fit the holes :)

[@andrew5792]

Tim, Tim, Tim, blue and green should never be seen unless there's something in-between. Other than that, fantastic mod.

[@timsway]

when I start mass producing rainbow shop furniture, I will hire you as a color consultant

[@JohnMadeit]

I think this might actually be the ultimate saw horse. Not what I was expecting when I saw the thumbnail... If the foot realise was more of a v shape so your foot went more to the center, would that help release the clamps (the clamps would get a even pressure)? The changeable top is also genius idea..

[@timsway]

John Made it the pressure is pretty even as is, it's all rigid enough. There's just a little slop in the clamps so it can go crooked when you are pulling it up and down. Better clamps would yield a better result. Thanks!!

[@JohnMadeit]

tim sway ok I see the problem now.. We don't have the bar clamps here in Europe. So I'm gonna have to stick with a un-ultimate Saw horse 😖

[@timsway]

no pipe clamps overseas? no way!

[@RichardMartin]

John Made it You can get the clamp parts on Amazon. www.amazon.co.uk/Bessey-BPC-H34-Pipe-Clamping-Black/dp/B0012YNJRO

[@GregsGarage]

Killer ideas coming together.

[@timsway]

thanks man!

[@eduardonascimento4641]

Hellow form Brazil. God Idea e excelent vídeo...Tanks ! What is a god clamp brand ? Do you have some a god on-line store that you indicate? So, thank you very much for your job and tips.

[@timsway]

I know Rockler sells some pretty nice looking pipe clamps. thanks!!

[@funkysod]

Brilliant design. No i regret just building boring traditional saw horses.. :)

[@timsway]

really all I "need" is a pair for my truck tailgate when I break down sheet goods, but I've put off making them for years because I figured there has to be a better way...

[@jpkalishek4586]

did you design the color scheme of the upstairs bedroom in my house? Well, there is no purple.

[@timsway]

All the purple paint was used up in my "master bedroom" ...

[@jpkalishek4586]

Ah, that 'splains it. I plan on making that room the Reloading room. I have an ancient rifle that I must handload ammo for. It will likely become very white so I can see better and mine eyeballs don't fall out from the pink walls and ceiling with green baseboards. I wonder what color hides under the ugly carpet.

[@jaredhildabrant13]

your non matching gloves match your non matching shoe laces. red on right yellow on left.

[@timsway]

I don't set out to not match, it just sort of ends up that way.

[@williamlawson1999]

I believe you have a "miter saw" there, not a "chop saw". Big difference. Nice idea though.

[@timsway]

It is a compound miter saw actually, But I was just chopping with it :)

[@bobleeswoodshop7919]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@MarshmallowVogt]

why wood screws into metal bar

[@timsway]

they are sheet metal screws

[@dmaifred]

WWMM lend you some paint?

[@timsway]

come and get it! I did a wall art piece for a customer a cpl years ago (kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4C3eniwf7Khfck) and had to buy a 6 pints of customer-chosen colors to use 6 oz of it.

[@giovannipetitti1588]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@jackburke5313]

You could make it out of an office chair...

[@timsway]

Jack Drawz great idea!! Those things are always in dumpsters!

[@413DaveRN]

Look at you with the clickbait title... And with that color scheme it's more of a saw unicorn!

[@ThomasRZack]

Wax those pipes and they will slide smoother.

[@wufflesthespider]

Yeah, I suppose it's clever and all that, but if I had all those amazing paint colours I'd have thought of it and not you. So you know, whatever. X

[@timsway]

Daniel Thomas that's the spirit! Haha! Thanks amigo.

[@wufflesthespider]

Now go and like my IG baiting comment. Leave a guy hanging. *cough* Wuffles Design.

[@sntgchns]

10th!

[@WatchMeDIYIt]

First..uh...I mean penultimate!

[@deadtech]

So. Rad.

[@timsway]

thanks!

[@Greybeardmedic]

Sorry dude, you did not tap those screws in, those are sheet metal screws.

[@timsway]

I made these 2 years ago and have used them almost daily since. Don't worry, it's gonna be OK :)

[@Mitermikeswoodshop]

Tim that weight test isnt accurate....your kinds a light guy, next time i come over we will do a true weigjt test.....lol,

[@timsway]

I've put on a few pounds...

[@Mitermikeswoodshop]

lol, not that many.....keep it up Tim see you soon.