{"id":25334,"date":"2015-11-12T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=25334"},"modified":"2015-10-30T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T23:33:48","slug":"bossmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/bossmate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bossmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been restoring a decrepit 1895 Georgian Revival house for about 5 years now. Early on, my father in law gave me a Bossmate to use as scaffolding for plaster work and the Bossmate has been invaluable. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an extremely simple design, comprised of a square tube steel frame acting as legs which accept and support a couple of 2x10s as the worksurface. The working load is 350 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>You can tailor the length of the 2x10s to your circumstances. I just keep a couple of 8 footers sitting around to use with the Bossmate. <\/p>\n<p>I also have aluminum ladders and a shorty workbench but the Bossmate gives me a very broad 34&#8243; high work surface. When I need a bit more height for tall ceiling work I add jerry rigged platform of two milk crates connected on top with a piece of 3\/4&#8243; plywood (I know it sounds wobbly but real milk crates have huge load carrying capacity and if you connect them correctly they&#8217;re very stable). <\/p>\n<p>Although the Bossmate&#8217;s 1&#8243;square feet have plastic inserts, because of their small footprint I use four pads (and old towel stapled around a 10&#8243; square piece of plywood) to protect my flooring from dings.<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-purpose portable work bench<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25336,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25334\/revisions\/25336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}