raising card table height for work/canning

[homebody]

How would I raise it up 6-8 inches and still keep it steady?Do not have concrete blocks and that would be too bulky anyway. Would get in the way of my feet while canning. These are the straight legs. Thanks for any ideas.

[Windy in Kansas]

Are you sure that a card table can support the weight of canning items? Many of the newer card tables are pretty flimsy.

Perhaps you might cut some lengths of PVC pipe that will slip over each leg and then drill and insert a cross pin through the pipe so that the table leg rests on the pin within the pipe.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by homebody

How would I raise it up 6-8 inches and still keep it steady?Do not have concrete blocks and that would be too bulky anyway. Would get in the way of my feet while canning. These are the straight legs. Thanks for any ideas.

Windy is probably right about the weight.

Do you have a pair of saw horses and some 4x4 scraps? If so you could stack (or even temporarily nail) the 4x4's to the height you need on the saw horses, and put the card table on top if you need to.

If you want to raise it 8 inches- use 2 4x4's on the saw horses and the 2nd resting on those 2.

I would be careful to put the weight on the corners only.

Rick

[wy_white_wolf]

Table stilts.

2x2 boards 6 to 8" longer than the legs. Use hose clamps to hold them on the legs and have a little block of wood screwed on them for the bottom of the leg to rest on.

[homebody]

Seems to be stable on top. The canner wouldn't ever be on it, just the jars, 7 filled quarts max.