Crowd control Ī device for crowd control in the 20th century had the shape of a sawhorse made of wood. The top of each of these sawhorses appears to be made from a halved log, with legs mortised or dovetailed into place. For example, one of the illustrations in De Re Metallica (1556) contains a drawing of a millwright using a pair of sawhorses to support the beams he is forming. Modern sawhorses are usually made of dimensional lumber, but the basic form of the sawhorse has remained unchanged for centuries.

The Type III barricade has multiple rails supported by two end posts with feet.

Type I indicates sheeting on top Type II has sheeting on top and bottom.

The Type I (or II) barricade also known as a waffle-board barricade resembles a sawhorse that can be folded flat.The A-frame barricade or parade barricade resembles a sawhorse with a brightly painted top rail.Formerly made of wood, now many have metal structural members or are made wholly of plastic or composite. Barricades fitted with flashing lights and used to block excavations or road construction or other safety-related purposes.In the UK and Canada this is also called a sawhorse. A sawbuck is the US term for a similar device for working with logs and branches.In boatmaking, the curved nature of the cross-beam, designed to support the timbers used for hulls led to the colloquial name of sea-horse, this term, derived from old Norse, entered the Northumbrian dialect, it is thought, through Norwegian settlers as early as the 14th century. If the sawhorses are strong enough, the portable table can be used as a platform for tools like a table saw, although with caution if the top is not secured to the sawhorses. A sawhorse with a wide top is particularly useful to support a board for sawing or as a field workbench, and is more useful as a single, but also more difficult to store.Ī sawhorse can also be used as the base for a portable work table by placing a sheet of 19 mm ( 3⁄ 4 inch) plywood or even a door on top of two sawhorses. The sawhorse may be designed to fold for storage. A sawhorse may also be a rack for supporting logs for sawing, known in the US as a sawbuck.

The names come from the shape of the frame, which resembles a horse. In certain circles, it is also known as a mule and a short sawhorse is known as a pony. A pair of sawhorses can support a plank, forming a scaffold. 1916Ī saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) is a beam with four legs used to support a board or plank for sawing. Lightweight, stack-able, saw horses from the book Agricultural Woodworking: a group of problems for rural and graded schools.

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