Many home re-modelers, when they first buy a miter, don’t want to have the extra expense of buying one of the miter saw stands. You’ve probably even seen some weekend re-modelers out in their driveway, with the saw down on the concrete, making their cuts.

If their back survives the first few weekends, they may keep doing it for a long time. But most of them quickly realize how hard using a miter saw on the ground truly is, and seek a solution. Sadly, many of them move to their next strategy of saving money, and pull an old table out of storage, and try to rig up a way to use the miter saw.
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