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....Even though it concerns a non-RV, it DOES involve a sawhorse.
I was changing the engine on my Cessna 180 at the Oxnard, CA airport. I decided to pull the landing gear off and have the legs magnafluxed. Home Depot at that time sold wooden sawhorses that they claimed were good for something like 2,500 pounds or so, and I bought one.
At the end of Sunday, the plane was resting on the sawhorse under the gearbox, with the landing gear and engine off, tailwheel on the ground. It wasn't too solid. We wedged the belly so that it wouldn't rock. The right wing overlapped a friend's Cessna 185. Another friend shook his head and said, "Man, if there's an earthquake, this place is history."
Well, that was the night of the Northridge earthquake. Even up the coast where I was staying then, it shook the cottage. Without thinking about downed bridges, I boogied on down to the hangar. It was completely intact. No damage at all. That wooden HD sawhorse did the job.
A few days later we flew the 185 out to look at the damage. It was like all over the place for maybe a hundred mile circle. Fresh cliffs in the hills, tarps over roofs in the Valley, bridges down. In fact, I later noticed some damage at my cottage 45 minutes up the coast in Carpenteria.
The sawhorse? Right now it's holding up the fuselage crate for my RV-3B. It's shown here when the kit was delivered.
That's one sawhorse that has a job for as long as it wants.
Dave