Moze
Active Member
I have a customer that puts these up and takes them down fairly often. They may need three put up or taken down in a given day, which, in the past, has meant handling and transporting six of the upside down ⅄ shape pieces. Those essentially take up 8' x 8' worth of space. Transport can be tricky unless you have a large trailer, which I don't. Those are heavy, but manageable...but they're pretty unwieldy and just take up a ton of space.
Brainstormed for a solution and came up with a collapsible version that is easy to store, load, transport, set up and breakdown. The upright post pivots forward and nests between the horizontal skids for storage or transport. A screw on either side holds it in place. To set up, remove those two screws, swing the upright into place, hinge the brace down between the skids and use those two screws to hold the brace in place. When attaching the faces, the upright posts can pivot backwards and rest on the end blocks. Lay the face on the uprights, screw in place, then pivot the face and uprights into place, screw the brace in place and you're done. Six of these (enough to make three skid signs) can easily fit on the roof rack of my van. The only weak point would be the hinges where they're screwed into the mitered end of the brace since shorter screws had to be used due to there being less wood, but it's still pretty sturdy and should hold up well.
Brainstormed for a solution and came up with a collapsible version that is easy to store, load, transport, set up and breakdown. The upright post pivots forward and nests between the horizontal skids for storage or transport. A screw on either side holds it in place. To set up, remove those two screws, swing the upright into place, hinge the brace down between the skids and use those two screws to hold the brace in place. When attaching the faces, the upright posts can pivot backwards and rest on the end blocks. Lay the face on the uprights, screw in place, then pivot the face and uprights into place, screw the brace in place and you're done. Six of these (enough to make three skid signs) can easily fit on the roof rack of my van. The only weak point would be the hinges where they're screwed into the mitered end of the brace since shorter screws had to be used due to there being less wood, but it's still pretty sturdy and should hold up well.
