Weight Machine Supports Chop Saw

Weight Machine Supports Chop Saw FARM SHOP Miscellaneous Jeremy Row Shickley Neb FFA vice president: We turned an old weight machine into a handy portable table to hold a chop saw The weight machine already had a wheel on front that retracted up out of the way when not in use so the machine wouldn t roll around It works great for a table because we can move it whenever we want or keep it stationary To make the table we cut the machine s four uprights down to a height of 29 in then made a square frame out of angle iron welded it to the bottom of the uprights and bolted a section of 1/2-in plywood on top The problem we ran into was getting the wheel to retract without contacting the table top We solved the problem by spinning the wheel 180 degrees and cutting 30 in off the handle

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