| Looking for suggestions for matrials and construction techniques for a
work bench to be set up outside. This would be for the cold and rainy
northeast. Looking for something that could be left outside and used
for general wood working. The most obvious problems would be rot and weathering. Somewhere close
behing would be the issue of keeping everything flat. Does anybody
outhere have experience with this? One thought was to put a bench on wheels and store it in the shed. But
that creates its own problems and you still have environmental extremes.
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This may not answer your question directly, but it may give you some ideas. I am building a boat outdoors in Southern California at a place where the
yard is paved concrete. Needed a place to layout bulkheads which could be as large as 12' x 16',
consisting of 4x8 plywood sheets assembled to form the large panel. Built a bunch of saw horses from reclaimed pallets. On the saw horses, assembled some 2x6x20 ft timbers on a grid sort of like a
system of floor joists in a house using bolts and fender washers to hold
everything together. Have basically ended up with a 12'x20' floor joist system about 36" high and
exposed to the weather. No snow, but lots of UV from the sun, lots of water when it rains, and lots
of epoxy drips from me. It is about 3 years old and is holding up well. When I'm finished, it won't owe me anything. You might consider something similar, maybe give it a couple of coats of
wood preservative when you build it. Expect a 3-5 year life and then build a new one.
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