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Agricultural Woodworking: a group of problems for rural and graded schools ... by Louis Michael Roehl. 1916
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across two sawhorses. If the sawhorses are strong enough, the portable table can be used as a platform for tools like a
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has multiple rails supported by two end posts with feet.
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