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Randy: Hey, guys. Randy here at etrailer.com. Today we're going to be taking a look at a folding work bench from CargoSmart.Now, this is going to allow you to have a very solid workspace inside an enclosed trailer, maybe in a house or something like that, or in your garage where you need some space but you want to have a good sturdy workbench. You can install either the vertical or horizontal E-track and really be able to use it in just about any situation. And we've got a couple of pins here that are going to pull and you can see how this is going to deploy. Legs are going to come down.

We'll just place our pin back in on both sides here.And with that in place, as you can see, it's really quite sturdy. We're using 5/8" inch thick plywood here, but you could use 1 bys, 2 bys, whatever you wanted, and those can be up to 8' long so you can get a lot of space. Now this will also double as a bench. You can see we have telescoping legs here. With those legs fully extended like we have them now, it's going to give us about 40" to the top of our work surface.

And we can bring them all the way down here. That'll get us down to 26. Now, that 26, that 28, that 30" kind of range, that's going to be ideal for benches, which we'll show you in that configuration here in a minute.But overall I think it's going to be a very handy way to get a surface in areas that you wouldn't generally want them without sacrificing that space. We can very easily pull our pins, fold this back up, and either get back to work if we're doing it in a garage, or load up whatever items we want to load up and hit the road.Now, something else comparable to this, while it wouldn't work out as a bench, I don't think, would be from Tow-Rax. They make a folding aluminum work station, more so than a work bench or a sitting bench.

That one's going to be 45-1/2" long, 18-1/2" deep. That one being aluminum, though, it certainly wouldn't be one that I'd be hammering on or something like this. This one is extremely solid. After we got it installed, I beat on it with a hammer a little bit just to see how rigid it was and it surprised me on how nice and sturdy it was. I wouldn't have any problems changing bearings, working on equipment and stuff like that on this one.

I think on the Tow-Rax, however, we'd probably have it bent and damaged. I think that's more going to be for paperwork or very light duty type maintenance, where this one's definitely going to lend itself to some heavy-duty applications.Now, there isn't a stated weight rating for this system, the tracks. Basically, since we do have our telescoping support legs here, these are nice, thick, heavy duty. I wouldn't be worried about these bending or flexing. And we've got our E-track here. You're going to be looking at a pretty significant weight, especially if it's for a bench. If we had a few of these stacked up and we had a 8' piece on it or something, I think you could get a couple of people on it.I think the E-track in the vertical position here, I think it's rated for up to 1,600 pounds, so our anchor and our bracket should also be weighted for that, or rated for that. So with those things in mind, depending on how you've mounted your E-track, if you've got it properly secured to something, that's going to lend itself to the rest of the system. But certainly, I mean, they recommend 3/8" plywood. We put 5/8" on here. But if you use an 8' long piece of 3/8" plywood and you've got it secured 6" from the end, the middle of it's going to sag, so use your best judgment. Don't overload it so you don't cause any damage, which really shouldn't be an issue if you're using it the way it's intended.Now when adjusting the height of your table, you will need your pins to be out, but it's just a matter of removing the bolt. We're going to line up our holes here. Once that's through, it'll allow it to come down. Just going to thread our nut back on, and just like we did before, we can make our adjustments. You want your pins to go in place, of course. You get those slid in on both sides.But overall, you can see it's nice and solid. It's sturdy. Not a lot of give to it. Making the adjustment took us around three or four minutes. It's not all that difficult. I don't think it's something I want to do every hour, but overall, to go from a bench like this back up into a work bench, it's not going to take you that long to do.Now the installation's going to begin like any E-track or X-track type accessory. You're going to pick the height you