Board supports are one of the areas I will need to address, so in the meantime I'm always keen to see what people are using. Is it stable if you "accidentally" lean against the board ?

I haven't been following this, but the whole thing looks about 2ft wide. In the central part I would worry about the front and back legs moving separately from each other ? At the ends, I worry that it might not be resistant to a front-to-back knock - there seems to be a lot of scope for the end legs to form a long lever on a narrow base. Hope I'm wrong, but best to ask at an early stage.

ken

Hello Ken,

It is actually only 18 inches and the stability was a worry. It is actually not too bad but I do intend to make braces which will just drop over the pairs of legs to keep them a standard distance apart. I will then add a brace from the end legs to this. I did consider widening the track at the bottom but thought that bits sticking out would be just asking to be tripped over. If after all this I am still not happy then I can resort to some sand bags on the braces underneath.

At the end of the day though there is less than

Glad you have it under control - it's not the cost of the wood that matters, it's the time and cost of building everything else on the layout.

Put some sand bags on extensions of the end braces, so that people stumble into the sandbag before they trip on the supports ?

ken

Sandbags on outside is a good idea but hopefully people won't get too close because of the barbed wire. Oh, didn't I mention the wire? Not real of course but should be effective in keeping little (and big), fingers away.