Re: Portable work surface

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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