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  2. Sawhorse - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a sawhorse. A folding sawhorse. Lightweight, stack-able, saw horses from the book Agricultural Woodworking: a group of problems for rural and graded schools ... by Louis Michael Roehl. 1916. In woodworking, a saw-horse or sawhorse (saw-buck, trestle, buck) [1] is a trestle structure used to support a board or plank for sawing.

  3. Trestle support - Wikipedia

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    Folding trestles Fixed trestle. In structural engineering, a trestle support (or simply trestle) is a structural element with rigid beams forming the equal sides of two parallel isosceles triangles, joined at their apices by a plank or beam. Sometimes additional rungs are stretched between the two beams.

  4. Sawbuck - Wikipedia

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    In woodworking, a sawbuck is a structure for holding wood so that it may be cut into pieces. [1] Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of an "X" form at each end which are joined by cross bars below the intersections of the X's.

  5. Minories (model railway) - Wikipedia

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    The original Minories layout was 1 by 7 feet (0.3 m × 2.1 m) in size, with the fiddle yard additional to this. It folded in half lengthwise, using a removable girder road bridge to hide the hinges. A two-section folding baseboard was an obvious plan for a layout, as the sections could fold in on themselves to make a protected storage box.

  6. A-frame - Wikipedia

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    An A-frame used as shears on top of an M32 armored recovery vehicle A sawhorse can be formed by connecting two A-frames along the length of a beam A-frame utility pole in Germany An A-frame is a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner.

  7. List of How It's Made episodes - Wikipedia

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    Sawhorses and toolboxes: Sorbet pops: School buses: November 14, 2013 22-07: 280: Sanders: Solid terrain models: Stucco: High-speed roll-up doors November 21, 2013 22-08: 281: Pressed glass: Pickup truck caps: Alpaca yarn: Utility knives: December 5, 2013 22-09: 282: Life casting: Downdraft cooktops: Compression hosiery: Electric motorcycles ...

  8. Basque rural sports - Wikipedia

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    The log is either fixed horizontally on sawhorses at a height of 40 cm (16 in) or at an angle with one end over the sawhorse and two members of the sawing team sitting on the lower end to stabilise the log, with two other handling the saw. The saw is usually 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long, the logs vary but can be over 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in circumference ...

  9. Collyer brothers - Wikipedia

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    Items were removed from the house such as baby carriages, a doll carriage, rusted bicycles, old food, potato peelers, a collection of guns, glass chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment, the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage, a sawhorse, three body forms, painted portraits, photos of pin-up girls from the early 1900s, plaster busts ...