sawhorses

Since it uses sawhorses, a desk built this way can support hundreds of pounds and is easily portable.

Corporate mythmaking extols the cheap desks Bezos et al would construct out of sawhorses and reclaimed doors.

Years ago, at highway construction sites, sawhorses would be erected that were equipped with flashing lights for safety after dark.

A key point is that the main barriers at Bourbon and Canal are normally just sawhorses.

Desk: two sawhorses tables, + view on the left, + view on the right.

This is a purely historical note, because modern construction sawhorses use LEDs instead of high-voltage gas-discharge lamps -- cheaper and more reliable.

As a result, if a large number of sawhorses were erected in a dark location, eventually all the lights would get into synchronization.

I've seen them roll a 10' 8x8 (~150 lbs) across the sawhorses when someone forgot to clamp it before drilling.

The story I have heard about early Amazon was that everyone put together a desk from a door and sawhorses.

I've built a similar desk using the same door and a pair of sawhorses.

About the brick laying, I'm told that you usually do that poorly if you have no experience (unlike activities like making sawhorses etc.

For legs you can use some combination of: shelving, filing cabinets, sawhorses, brackets+lumber, and a-la-carte legs.

On the other hand we would never say dua kuru-kuru to mean "two horses" since that would probably mean "two sawhorses" instead.

My variant is to lay two 2x4s across either two filing cabinets or sawhorses, then put two 2'x4' sheets of 5/8" or 3/4" MDF on top of the studs.

When my friends and I made these 20 years ago we leaned into the "cannon" vibe and mounted them on sawhorses held down with sandbags, then the ignition was on a wire so you could step back to fire it.