Plus, they’re easy to make. Rigid saw horses are the simplest—often nothing more than five pieces of wood nailed together—but they take up a lot of room with their permanently splayed legs.

If you don't have enough 2 x 4s in your scrap pile to build this, it will cost less than ... and can be built using nails or screws. We first saw this design used by Mark Clement of My Fix It ...