Horse

It rained all day today. So I spent most of the day down in the basement in my shop. I built this saw horse:

I bought the brackets for the saw horse about 30 years ago. Yeah, thirty years ago. I’m a bit behind in the projects. The 2 x 4’s that are required to build it were not included, just the plastic brackets, so the box of parts went into the garage to be made into a saw horse when I got a round tuit…. and then they sat there for 30 years.

Every time I came across the box of parts I thought, “Gee. I ought to get some wood and build that saw horse”. But we all know about good intentions.

However…..  since it was going to rain all day today anyway, and I will need a saw horse for a project I am going to do soon, I went to the Big Box Home Improvement store and procured 12 feet of 2 x 4 and then cut away everything that didn’t look like  a saw horse.

It’s not exactly Chippendale fine furniture, but it came out rather nicely I think.

I wonder why they call it a “horse”?