[ron cozzo]

You tried to support a body on a 4x4 in the middle of a piece of 1/2 particle board. The saw horse didn't really fail, it had too much load over too small an area. If you had a 2x6 on top of that particle board to spread the load out to the steel it'd probably still be holding, but certainly not stable.

[xkeots]

Originally Posted by ron cozzo

You tried to support a body on a 4x4 in the middle of a piece of 1/2 particle board. The saw horse didn't really fail, it had too much load over too small an area. If you had a 2x6 on top of that particle board to spread the load out to the steel it'd probably still be holding, but certainly not stable.

Each saw horse had a 1,000 lb load limit on each one. The empty GTO convertible body doesn't weigh 1,000 lbs. I had 4 under the body with two 4x4's across. Each had no more than 250 lbs on each.
It should have held.

Jax