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I needed a third sawhorse yesterday and was barely able to get to the first two. All of them were buried in the "moving stuff" shuffle. I looked around and spotted a Laptop stand that I was not using and shoved it under the 100 pound sheet of plywood I was cutting (a story for another post) and it worked fine.
The stand looked much like this one:
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I also used a couple of my favorite tools Saturday. I had to move a heavy old bookcase (6' wide x 20" deep x 7' tall) from the shop to the house. My son helped me move it and it was greatly simplified by using my 2 yard sale skateboards. I move all manner of stuff with one or two of those. One is maybe28"long but the little one is only about 18" long. I had it laying upside down on a table and as I looked at it I said Hmmmmm... i see other possibilities there.


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There is a time and place for both roller and ball bearing stands. I've become a fan of Rockler's Heavy Duty Flip Top stand (their #43399). This stand can be either a roller or ball bearing. It is perhaps the heaviest stand on the market, it doesn't fall over like so many lighter stands.

With an accurate straightedge I can zero in the roller "flat on" with the outfeed side of the jointer, extending the ability of the jointer to edge long boards.

I now have several of these stands, look for Rockler's sales and specials that occur frequently.

I don't have any bearing-type stands (yet) but can recommend the Rockler stands as being super sturdy and almost impossible to tip over when using them as infeed/outfeed tables even when cutting large ply sheets. When I started buying them many years ago the bearing-type were not sold. Another advantage is they have rotatable rubber bushing on each leg that can be used to level the stand to an uneven garage floor.
Forrest

I have the ball bearing style and a rockler style stand. Each has its own strengths and weakness's. Here is a link to my next one.
http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/2082572/33046/General-Extendable-Roller-Stand.aspx
With a little luck one will show up Christmas morning. Fjimp