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Good work! It does kinda look like it was used for a seagull perch at some point in time. Razz emoticon

I abandoned the stacking sawhorses that I got inspired to make 40 some years ago when we sold the family farm.. Leftovers from a redwood deck my buddy who'd gone into homebuilding inspired, IIRC. Just didn't have space for them, and unlikely to need them, but absolutely nothing to improve on..
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Interesting to see cultural differences, even in sawhorses

Our trad. design goes like in the pic below.

Found commonly from backyards of old houses and cottages.

Left like this when used solo. Shortened from the top is used as 'legs'.

Hard to spend more than 1/2 hour for making one.
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The difference in sawhorse design is that the flat-topped one is used for cutting prepared timber, the X shaped one is for cutting logs.
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Even among the two different Nebraska crews there were major differences. The farmers still stood a couple of studs on the bottom plate and used ladders to put a top plate on and then spent hours leveling and bracing everything before filling in the rest of the missing walls.

It wasn't that we worked harder ( although no one out worked me I made sure of that ) it was just using different techniques that made the difference.

Towards the end of our stay there we all got together and drank beer and talked shop. The Nebraska guys were all very impressed with our work effort and how much and how well we were able to build. Of course we shared what we could to improve their efficiency. Much of it really very simple but if you had never seen it done that way...

As a very young child I remember seeing an old movie re-run on TV. Cheaper by the dozen, the original with a very young Lucille Ball as the mom. The husband/father was an efficiency expert. His job was to maximize the efficiency at the factory he worked at. I remember an early scene in the movie where the husband was buttoning up his vest.
I don't know anything about building houses but it may also be the case that individuals who have worked together more can leverage faster work techniques.

The Cheaper-By-The-Dozen guy was named Gilbreth. In time-motion studies that analyze and optimize assembly steps, the individual components of a motion are called, in his honor, "therbligs," which is - sort of - Gilbreth spelled backwards.
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