Hands-On: We Put 946.5 lbs. on Husky’s X-Workhorse
By Chuck CageConclusions
If you’re looking for a portable table to carry around for the purpose of mounting a power tool at the jobsite or just to create a portable workbench, the X-Workhorse is a good choice. When they tell you it’ll hold up 750 lbs., they’re not kidding. It’ll hold a good bit more than that, though we don’t advise trying it yourself. Regardless, you should be careful to assure that whatever heavy load you’re going to place on the X-Workhorse is symetrical as side loading will cause the table to twist.
Best of all: It’s quite inexpensive at $35 (currently) from Home Depot. If you go looking online, watch out — they call it a “Heavy-Duty X-Sawhorse.”
Husky’s X-Workhorse [Home Depot]
September 12th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Come on guys… “xx” tall and xx” x xx” wide.” couldn’t be bothered to measure?
:D
September 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
Rick: You totally busted me. I decided to add the dimensions as I was adding photos to the post and then I forgot to go back and replace them. Doh! They’re in there now.
Good eye!
September 12th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Nice review. Seems like a good product. If only you knew someone with a big hydraulic press to really destruction test it…
Peter
September 12th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I’ve been looking for an excuse to get one or two of these but nothing has come up. Now I might just have to get them anyway. Nice review. I had to laugh when I read your testing technique, reminds me of an episode of Jackass.
September 12th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
I’ve been looking for an excuse to get one or two of these but nothing has come up. Now I might just have to get them anyway. Nice review. I had to laugh when I read your testing technique, you really are hurting for some of those ‘Doh!’ entries.
September 13th, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Loved the Article - it truly is a Superior product! Keter Plastic Ltd./Home Design Products is actually the manufacturer and designer of this product! We also produce and sell to The Home Depot other consumer plastic products like Garage Shelving, Cabinets, Totes, Tool Boxes, Outdoor products, etc. Hurry in to Home Depot and get your’s today! (Vice President Sales - HDP/Keter)
September 14th, 2006 at 12:36 am
This product looks like it will work okay on a solid level surface but what if the surface is sloped or uneven? Is there any kind of leveling adjustment built into the feet?
September 14th, 2006 at 12:40 am
PaulS: That’s a great question. Some of the other reviews we saw on the web mentioned that one of the feet adjusts to help level the table, but ours didn’t seem to want to move. We think they’re talking about the red part of the feel (visibile in one of the photos in the post above). They do rotate a little bit around their center mounts.
FWIW, it was pretty stable on our slightly-sloped shop floor, and we had pretty good luck with it in the yard — a good test considering that that’s where it might end up with building contractors using it. However, we’d be a little concerned about using it on a really unstable surface like big cobblestone or the like.
September 15th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
[…] Hands-On: We Put 946.5 lbs. on Husky’s X-Workhorse Believe it or not, we don’t really want to break things all the time. We do, however, question any plastic-y portable workbench that says it’ll hold 750 lbs. But rather than just wonder, we decided to find out by loading up the X-Workhorse — a cool little folding table designed to hold a miter saw or serve as a workbench on the jobsite — with lots more than even the advertised 750 lbs. In short: It held the load. It even held it when we whacked on it with a 2×4. Check out the post for pix. […]
September 30th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
Excellent review. Saw one of these at the Big Box and wondered if it lived up to the packagings claims.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Can’t find this item anywhere! How can a person get one?!?!?!?
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Hi William
Keter -fortools used to make them for a UK company called B&Q -a large diy chain.
I’ve been trying to get them too as I have a pair but they are getting a bit old. If you find them let me know!!