History of Sawhorses?
For any future seekers, sawhorses were created at the dawn of time. shrugs There doesn't seem to be much by way of origin knowledge, possibly because they're made of wood and would have deteriorated before archaeologists could dig them up.
"Sawbucks" are designed differently, and while I still haven't found any source that notates an origin in history, the materials they're constructed with are basic. var_mingledTrash: Sawbuck
The Viking Lady site has a brief description and image of a pole lathe, attributing it to viking times (though it doesn't clarify if it came before or after the migrations), however, the base could easily be used as a sawhorse, so it seems credible to assume something like it existed.
Posted May 14, 2016, 11:39 PM UTC · edited
The first saw horses, and likely the ones vikings wood have used(pun intended), wood have been two smaller logs or branches lashed together to make an X here is an example but with lumber. http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/sawing-log-wooden-stand-28443538.jpg
edit: its called a saw buck. if you had read the wikipedia sources on the saw horse page you would have found this.;)
http://www.allroutes.to/logging/sawbuck.jpg
Ah, you're right, I paid no attention to the etymology section, I was simply looking for a date. In any case, I've found a site that says they had functional lathes, so they definitely had sawhorses.
Thank you for your response! :)
glad i could help, might i suggest you use "saw buck" and not "saw horse". saw buck will sound more interesting and might get a reader to look up what one is. also "sawhorse" is only used in u.s./canada its a colonial word.
Will do.
The old US $10 dollar bills with the roman numeral 10 used to be called sawbucks because of this.