Well it seems like all my favorite TH-camrs aand me are renovating spaces! Congrats and God bless! Your wisdom videos help me a lot, and the construction ones are really fun!
Really love this SCOTT! Mid sixties now and I don’t move like I did even ten years ago. I pretty much have a welding/automotive shop. Machinery, machines and a four post truck lift in the middle. Always repositioning. I have most on casters and moving dollies. Recently picked up Harbor Freight hydraulic lift cart, true back saver. Like your idea with these. Gives a steady, solid work area. No rolling equipment, and no locking casters. Which are great, but not as solid a footprint as a table leg or base. Keep it coming, Scott. Always enjoy these! 🙏😇👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
nice, certainly worth considering. I feel your pain, I am in my 70's and I spent a Lyon share of my adulthood, in carpentry, building everything from chicken coops to mulit-million dollar homes. building a school in Costa Rica was a fun project too. I thought that the move to wood working would be an easy transition but I was wrong, after all doing finish carpentry is a step above framing. it is a lot tougher than I realized. I am amazed at how much joy I get in making little projects that require good woodworking skills.
It was time to cull some subscription attain over the years. When it came to this channel, there was no doubt it's a keeper. Thank you for the insight,education, and humor.
When I was 20 moving things in the shop was easy, just lift it up and move it. But pushing 70 my body is telling me no-way! So wheels make a lot od since. PS my dad would use a prybar and pipes to roll thing around his store.
When I built my detached garage in back in my Denver house 10+ years ago I discovered the monotony of moving stuff around without wheels. Once I had the roof finished the extra 550sqft it became a catch all. Then then by the time I got around to finishing the electric, interior walls and floors I had moved everything several times. Fast forward to 3 years ago when I started building a 2700 sqft shop behind my house in AZ I had learned from my mistakes. Every single thing that came out of the bed of my truck or off my trailer went immediately onto wheeled moving dollies. Made everything so much more manageable and made a hell of a lot more progress in building out the space.
great info on the wheels!! thank you for sharing scott! On another note your jig for routing out the mortise reminded me of my dads jig his was steel and looked like a slide rule split in the middle. I hope that description helps explain what an easy setup my dad had for that jig. just a memory. thanks again.
The biggest design flaw of the casters is that you need to lift the whole table in order for them to retract and extend. If you are on the high end of the weight limit, that could be quite a deadlift.
I came to woodworking as a toolmaker and found wood's tendency to move and shrink frustrating. So one of the things I like about using mortice and tenon joints is that they help keep everything straight. A gate made with M&T joints is much less likely to warp than one that used glued and screwed half lap joints.
Loved the "old man" comment. After prepping our sub-floor for the installation of engineered hardwood, this 77 year-old man told his wife he thinks he's used up all his ups and downs - at least for 2024.
Give it another five years. I’m at that point. Getting down then up from the floor takes a little planning but I can do it. There was a time in my mid 60s when I had lower back pain severe enough that a dropped screwdriver may as have been on the moon! Then I found a really good chiropractor and I’m doing well in the mobility area. My only restriction is I can never mention to my new personal care physician that I see chiropractors…
I've seen chiropractors off and on for 40 years, but the best one actually diagnosed my problem (DISH Syndrome - meaning I grow a lot of extra bone and they don't know why). My spine is slowly fusing on its own, bone spurs in lots of other places as well. Consequently, adjustments are out of the question (breaking those fused vertebrae could cause nerve damage). I keep moving and doing what I can do, as long as I can do it. It gets harder all the time but you just have to suck it up and get the job done.
I put my floor drill press on a mobile base about twenty years ago and the drill press has been easy to move ever since. Choose your favorite mobile base.
Mounted that way, doesn't that mean the weight capacity is actually dependent on the capacity of the fasteners and the material into which they are fastened... or am I overthinking it? Looks to me, based on the design of the caster, like there's an opportunity to run a board through the square opening, then run fasteners in from the outside, and thus, remove the fasteners themselves from the capacity calculation altogether. No?
EC you need to watch some Adam Savage and his shop organisation. Might learn a thing or two. He loves everything on wheels. Even has denist stools and tray holders to work with. You remind of my dad in building work with cement and a grand pa i never knew who was a carpenter. Been watching since your first abvil videos. 7 yrs maybe...
Yeah, puzzled about that as well. Not much weight here, though could be an issue for backs. But I sense more issues if that bench was actually loaded up.
I could see adding a lever with a foot that hinges on the cross member between the casters. Or a little more compact double action pneumatic cylinders for lifting up and down wouldn't be hard to install.
Those casters look pretty light duty. I also have my wood shop on wheels since it’s also my garage. I tried putting my workbench on wheels. It Weighs about 500 lbs with stuff in the drawers. Put 4 200# rated (per caster) wheels on it. Not this brand, mind you, but bought the heaviest ones I could find. One of them failed about the 2nd time I moved it.
When calculating the weight that the wheels can handle on a four wheel table always use three wheels to calculate the weight. Because funny enough the weight will always be on three points.
Wow. They're like a pen clicker! What a smart solution!
Very cool. I'm setting up my shop again after decades and am wanting everything mobile. The casters look like exactly what I wanted.
Wow, great invention. This sure beats engaging 4 brake levers. Nice work putting it together!
Well it seems like all my favorite TH-camrs aand me are renovating spaces! Congrats and God bless! Your wisdom videos help me a lot, and the construction ones are really fun!
Really love this SCOTT! Mid sixties now and I don’t move like I did even ten years ago. I pretty much have a welding/automotive shop. Machinery, machines and a four post truck lift in the middle. Always repositioning. I have most on casters and moving dollies. Recently picked up Harbor Freight hydraulic lift cart, true back saver. Like your idea with these. Gives a steady, solid work area. No rolling equipment, and no locking casters. Which are great, but not as solid a footprint as a table leg or base. Keep it coming, Scott. Always enjoy these! 🙏😇👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
nice, certainly worth considering. I feel your pain, I am in my 70's and I spent a Lyon share of my adulthood, in carpentry, building everything from chicken coops to mulit-million dollar homes. building a school in Costa Rica was a fun project too. I thought that the move to wood working would be an easy transition but I was wrong, after all doing finish carpentry is a step above framing. it is a lot tougher than I realized. I am amazed at how much joy I get in making little projects that require good woodworking skills.
It was time to cull some subscription attain over the years. When it came to this channel, there was no doubt it's a keeper.
Thank you for the insight,education, and humor.
I'll bet Ken's pipe tobacco smoke is a wonderful aroma in the shop.
Scott, so you made Kenny a little more comfortable with a good wood chair and supplementary propane heat.
When I was 20 moving things in the shop was easy, just lift it up and move it. But pushing 70 my body is telling me no-way! So wheels make a lot od since.
PS my dad would use a prybar and pipes to roll thing around his store.
Great job. Thank you 😊
You guys should go interview Norm Abrams . It would be wonderful to hear a coffee fueled 3 hour conversation between two master craftsman.
When I built my detached garage in back in my Denver house 10+ years ago I discovered the monotony of moving stuff around without wheels. Once I had the roof finished the extra 550sqft it became a catch all. Then then by the time I got around to finishing the electric, interior walls and floors I had moved everything several times. Fast forward to 3 years ago when I started building a 2700 sqft shop behind my house in AZ I had learned from my mistakes. Every single thing that came out of the bed of my truck or off my trailer went immediately onto wheeled moving dollies. Made everything so much more manageable and made a hell of a lot more progress in building out the space.
great info on the wheels!! thank you for sharing scott! On another note your jig for routing out the mortise reminded me of my dads jig his was steel and looked like a slide rule split in the middle. I hope that description helps explain what an easy setup my dad had for that jig. just a memory. thanks again.
The biggest design flaw of the casters is that you need to lift the whole table in order for them to retract and extend. If you are on the high end of the weight limit, that could be quite a deadlift.
That is genius! Looks like the same type of mechanism that is used in a retractable ballpoint pen
Great video
Keep up the good work!
I came to woodworking as a toolmaker and found wood's tendency to move and shrink frustrating. So one of the things I like about using mortice and tenon joints is that they help keep everything straight. A gate made with M&T joints is much less likely to warp than one that used glued and screwed half lap joints.
are you going to install some kind of cantilever so you can lift the bench with foot pressure? take the load off your arms and back.
Loved the "old man" comment. After prepping our sub-floor for the installation of engineered hardwood, this 77 year-old man told his wife he thinks he's used up all his ups and downs - at least for 2024.
Give it another five years. I’m at that point. Getting down then up from the floor takes a little planning but I can do it. There was a time in my mid 60s when I had lower back pain severe enough that a dropped screwdriver may as have been on the moon! Then I found a really good chiropractor and I’m doing well in the mobility area. My only restriction is I can never mention to my new personal care physician that I see chiropractors…
I've seen chiropractors off and on for 40 years, but the best one actually diagnosed my problem (DISH Syndrome - meaning I grow a lot of extra bone and they don't know why). My spine is slowly fusing on its own, bone spurs in lots of other places as well. Consequently, adjustments are out of the question (breaking those fused vertebrae could cause nerve damage). I keep moving and doing what I can do, as long as I can do it. It gets harder all the time but you just have to suck it up and get the job done.
Keep moving, just keep doing what you can do. That’s what I tell myself every morning.
I put my floor drill press on a mobile base about twenty years ago and the drill press has been easy to move ever since. Choose your favorite mobile base.
Mounted that way, doesn't that mean the weight capacity is actually dependent on the capacity of the fasteners and the material into which they are fastened... or am I overthinking it? Looks to me, based on the design of the caster, like there's an opportunity to run a board through the square opening, then run fasteners in from the outside, and thus, remove the fasteners themselves from the capacity calculation altogether. No?
Those look like well engineered casters. I think it would be worth lying on the floor to install them to make use of a plum bob or torpedo level.
EC you need to watch some Adam Savage and his shop organisation. Might learn a thing or two. He loves everything on wheels. Even has denist stools and tray holders to work with. You remind of my dad in building work with cement and a grand pa i never knew who was a carpenter. Been watching since your first abvil videos. 7 yrs maybe...
What would I give to have a friend like that.
95% of my shop rolls and its worth it all day.
Any Amazon link for the gentleman with the pipe? Looks handy!
So you have to lift the bench to engage the casters? My back could not handle that.
Yeah, puzzled about that as well. Not much weight here, though could be an issue for backs. But I sense more issues if that bench was actually loaded up.
Correct, I installed a set on my 6' 400 lb woodworkers bench. I get help to lift and engage the castors.
I could see adding a lever with a foot that hinges on the cross member between the casters. Or a little more compact double action pneumatic cylinders for lifting up and down wouldn't be hard to install.
I use my auto floor jack to get moving dollys under a heavy bench. Guessing the same could be done with these casters.
I would use my hand truck as a lever and fulcrum to lift the end of the bench.
My 50 years of caster experience has shows me 2.5 inch wheels get hung up on a dime. I use only 4 or 5 inch casters.
good move, it's about time...
His son ( grandson ) will sell it all and move to Hawaii 😊
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Instead of having to muscle up the bench to extend the casters, why not just make the bench legs shorter and use locking casters?
Better hope there's nothing on the top of the bench if you need to move it
Sorry don’t see the point of those wheels if my bench can never sit on the floor !!? I am missing something here
Those casters look pretty light duty. I also have my wood shop on wheels since it’s also my garage. I tried putting my workbench on wheels. It Weighs about 500 lbs with stuff in the drawers. Put 4 200# rated (per caster) wheels on it. Not this brand, mind you, but bought the heaviest ones I could find. One of them failed about the 2nd time I moved it.
When calculating the weight that the wheels can handle on a four wheel table always use three wheels to calculate the weight. Because funny enough the weight will always be on three points.
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