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These are some of the portable ones we have at work. Portable in that you need a truck with a lift gate.
These are out standard ones our metal shop makes, each crew typically has two of them.
The last time I put a fence and boards on it I routed a saw dust gutter in the back. It worked out pretty nice as the sawdust does not build up and push the board away from the fence.
I saw this one on CL recently but I think the company is out of business.
This is the two that I have at home.
Please keep em coming, I’ve been thinking of ideas to build a compact-ish stand.
I do not the space to dedicate to a full time miter station.
I also do not have enough patience to set one up every time I need to use it.
So this is my compromise setup.
My miter saw (and sander for that matter) is on a slide. So I pull the saw out until it hits stops and I have two threaded knobs that lock the slide in place. In this picture the saw is pulled about 2/3 of the way out.
I have Fast Cap Best Fence rails for it. You can see them stored under my clamps. The Best Fence rails clip to the saw and adjustable rail mounts on the ends. You can see the left one but the right one cant be seen.
The saw surface planes with the work bench top so if I need to cut something short or to the left I can do so without installing the rails.
Not very original….YET! But it works slick as snot. This is the MFT with the Fastcap wings. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]
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Keter stand & home made wings with Kreg fence when on site. Then our shop has a permanent location setup. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied][External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]
I’m not as crafty as you guys, I don’t have a really cool home-built stand. I just use the one that’s made for the saw. My stand idea is to fold up my stand and hang it on the wall, out of the way. I could build a miter station but only if I wanted to never park in the garage. I tried to kick my wife’s car out of the garage but that idea didn’t fly as far as I had hoped. No space for anything that won’t hang on the wall or store over the bench. Actually works out pretty good with the saw and stand hanging on the wall…saves space and keeps them easy to get at. Otherwise I’m sure they’d be buried behind a workbench or hidden in a closet somewhere…
I don’t have a miter stand I just use the floor at the moment.
My miter station is a work in progress once I have it up and running I’ll be sure to post
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Got a mobile buisness so I just use the good ol’ Dewalt miter saw stand. Works good enough but some days I wish I had full support. Think I might buy two sets of brackets and build a few boxes with fences on them to ride the beam.
Brackets are just stupid expensive though…
Hugh Jass wrote:
3 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:Got a mobile buisness so I just use the good ol’ Dewalt miter saw stand. Works good enough but some days I wish I had full support. Think I might buy two sets of brackets and build a few boxes with fences on them to ride the beam.
Brackets are just stupid expensive though…
Ever thought about building a portable workstation into your trailer? Connect the trailer to power and your ready to go for the day.
Kato wrote:
16 hours ago, Kato said:I’m not as crafty as you guys, I don’t have a really cool home-built stand. I just use the one that’s made for the saw. My stand idea is to fold up my stand and hang it on the wall, out of the way. I could build a miter station but only if I wanted to never park in the garage. I tried to kick my wife’s car out of the garage but that idea didn’t fly as far as I had hoped. No space for anything that won’t hang on the wall or store over the bench. Actually works out pretty good with the saw and stand hanging on the wall…saves space and keeps them easy to get at. Otherwise I’m sure they’d be buried behind a workbench or hidden in a closet somewhere…
your lucky to have a garage, my vehicles are outside all the time. I was going to build a shop, have the space in back yard but no….if I want to build I have to match the house all because some yahoo deemed my area a historical part of the city and any new out buildings need to look like it was there from the beginning. On top of that , I live in the part of the country with 4 seasons, well they say 4 seasons but it is closer to 3 seasons hot warm cold! so my only option was to take over half of the basement, heated all year round, ground level entrance on one side, house is on a hill front of house basement is ground level back is not.
the best part of this is I can bring in stock or take out finished items without going through the house…..what was my point…oh ya I probably would build a shop if I was 30 years younger…. but this works…
Jronman wrote:
27 minutes ago, Jronman said:Ever thought about building a portable workstation into your trailer? Connect the trailer to power and your ready to go for the day.
There’s no way I could clear enough room to dedicate half of my trailer to the saw, and I also have the 780 which is sliding, would need the Bosch Axial to make that work. If I were pulling a 25′ instead of a 12′ maybe.
Also I live far too close to the equator to spend more than a few seconds in the trailer during the summer, it’s nothing to see the interior roof peak at 140F by noon. I need to Gaco that sucker honestly.
Hugh Jass wrote:
4 minutes ago, Hugh Jass said:
There’s no way I could clear enough room to dedicate half of my trailer to the saw, and I also have the 780 which is sliding, would need the Bosch Axial to make that work. If I were pulling a 25′ instead of a 12′ maybe.
Also I live far too close to the equator to spend more than a few seconds in the trailer during the summer, it’s nothing to see the interior roof peak at 140F by noon. I need to Gaco that sucker honestly.
it doesn’t have to require going into your trailer. Could turn the side walls into awning doors and you would be good to go.
Yea. I might break down and do something like this for the next trailer, could build a shelf right at the bottom height of the side door that’s on heavy duty drawer slides and mount folding material supports to the exterior of the trailer on piano hinges. That would be pretty slick and I wouldn’t have to lift the saw anymore.
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could also make a portion in the back for a table saw and you’d be good to go.
Mine currently. Plan is to make a mobile Jay Bates work bench where the saw is and put the miter saw into a dedicated miter saw station on the longer wall. [External image (uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com), not copied]
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Hugh Jass wrote:
13 hours ago, Hugh Jass said:Yea. I might break down and do something like this for the next trailer, could build a shelf right at the bottom height of the side door that’s on heavy duty drawer slides and mount folding material supports to the exterior of the trailer on piano hinges. That would be pretty slick and I wouldn’t have to lift the saw anymore.
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kinda like this, obviously not the same kind of trailer but slides out door can swing down for support, saw stand can collapse
