Re: Portable work surface

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"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On 2/22/2013 7:43 AM, JoeRaisin wrote:
>> I would like to have some sort of portable work bench/table that I can
>> stow in my truck.
>>
>> My truck is a pick up with an 8ft bed and a topper that does not extend
>> above the cab.  Inside the bed I've divided it roughly down the center
>> with one side having shelves and tool bag storage and the other with
>> ladder hutches (8, 6 ft ladders laid flat & 4 ft on its side) and space
>> for wire spools/boxes, equipment to be installed and other material
>> (really just open area above the ladder hutch).
>>
>> I was looking at the black and decker workmate but it really isn't all
>> that compact when folded.
>>
>> Do any of you use something like that?  The older I get the farther away
>> the ground gets and working off a print laying on the cold concrete of a
>> commercial construction project is getting old.
>>
>> I've gone so far as to try and design something I could build myself but
>> since I don't weld or have the ability to shape metal (cut and drill,
>> sure, but nothing beyond that), everything I can figure out would still
>> be too clunky - I guess I'm not as creative as I would have liked to
>> believe.
>>
>> If you have something proven I'd even be willing to take it to a welder
>> - but I haven't done that with anything I've come up with as I don't
>> really want to put out the cash on spec.
>>
>> Work carts are nice but you have to have a van to stow one of those - so
>> anything portable and compact along those lines would be great as well.
>>
>> If you guy know of any products or have even built something along those
>> lines I would greatly appreciate it... And these old legs would thank
>> you as well.
>
>
> LOL - I am a putz that can't see the forest for trees...
>
> After reading Robert's and Rocky's posts I had an epiphany.
>
> I have one (and have had for over 10 years) one of these (well, very much
> like it- we got it just before leaving Japan) in my garage.  We use it
> camping all the time.
>
> http://ds_product_photos.s3.amazonaws.com/large/24983.jpg


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