It’s great to be able to park your table saw in one spot and attach a permanent outfeed table to it so the saw is always ready for action. In my tight shop space, however, everything has to be on wheels, including the table saw. So I sized the legs on my workbench to allow the benchtop to do double-duty as an outfeed table. That setup has worked OK, but every time I need to use the bench as an outfeed table, I have to clear almost everything off of it, and I can’t stack workpieces there as I use the saw.

This new Rockler folding table frame is the solution. It lets you hang an outfeed table (you make the tabletop) off the back of your saw and includes two adjustable legs that pivot down to support the table. When you need extra space in the shop, or you need to move the saw, you fold the legs up into the frame and fold the table down, where it simply hangs out of the way.

If you have a dust hose coming out of the back of your saw, it helps to attach a flex hose or a 90° elbow to it to keep the hose out of the way and allow the table to fold down freely. Otherwise, you’ll need to detach the hose when you fold down the table.

The frame attaches to any table saw with a Biesemeyer-style T-square fence, but it won’t work with rip fences that secure at the back (which is most common on small job-site saws). The frame’s thick, strong attachment brackets have clever jack bolts built in. These brackets let you set the height of the outfeed table just a hair below the saw table and lock in that relationship permanently.

To make sure the tabletop won’t drag on the floor when folded down, you need to limit its length by the height of your saw. But I ended up with 44 in. of outfeed support behind the blade of my SawStop; that’s plenty for most jobs.

You’ll need to retract the legs completely in order to fold them out of the way and fold down the table, so you lose their height setting when you do. But it’s easy to reset the legs to the right height when you put the table back into use.

At $100, this heavy-duty folding outfeed kit is a bargain.

 

—Asa Christiana, editor at large