Customer Reviews

Bosch TS2000 Gravity-Rise Wheeled Table Saw Stand

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just received this stand around december 22. it does have to be put together, which takes about 30 minutes unless you do it backwards like i did, then it takes a little longer. have transported the saw to a job site and it folds up nice and sets up quickly. it has a great work height and is stable. it does make the saw heavier but is easy to load and unload. if you have a bosch table saw this would be an added benefit. especially if you need to wheel saw around to job site to job site. the wheels are very good. I had the rousseau stand but was not satisfied (the rolling one) this works much better.

I didn't think any saw stand would be as good as my Rigid M-SUV mitre saw stand. Oh how wrong I was!

This is a very solid, very well built and very well engineered jobsaw stand. It is durable enough to take the beatings of being dragged out of my truck, bounced across a job site, up and down a set of stairs, or anything else you would want to do to it.

I have the DeWalt DW-744 mounted to mine, and all the holes are pre-drilled and markings are STAMPED into the top plate! This really is a universal stand.

To me, the single item that really stands out is there is not a single hydraulic strut on this stand, and yet it requires very little effort to get the saw into the working position. No strut means nothing to leak or wear out! No seals to replace. Everything is accomplished with old-fashioned leverage, and it works wonderfully.

The pneumatic tires are also a big plus in my book. Solid tires just won't take the weight and punishment that pneumatic tires will. My only gripe is I'd like the tires to be about 2 inches larger in diameter. But with the design of the stand, it's not a big deal, as I think I can retrofit something larger on my own.

YOU CANNOT GET THE SAW THROUGH A 30" DOOR WHEN MOUNTED ON THE STAND. Everything else is great. So what? I can't move it to the basement, from the garage into the house, into my storage room. The width is 29" at the wheels. Sounds good - if any of my doors opened 180 degrees and didn't have stop molding. In practice 27.5" should have been the design width they worked within. That should not have been difficult given the saw width is 25".

And don't think you can just turn it side ways and slide it through. With the stand and blade guard installed (both require tools to remove), the profile is more than 29". You can wiggle it through but I doubt the plastic blade guard will survive too many attempts. The whole assembly is also very heavy and awkward when trying this.

Don't underestimate how important this is. Only my front door is greater than 30 inches. Every other door is 30".

The Bosch 4000 is the best of the "benchtop" (i.e., portable) table saws. With my table saw "living" in my storage shed and carried to my patio work area each time I need it, portability is a must. I got the Bosch 4000-07, the model with the red folding base, a couple of years ago. It worked fine, but each time I needed the saw I had to pick it up off the base and carry it across the lawn to the patio, set it down and make another trip for the base, and finally pick up the saw and put it back on the base. I never bolted the saw down to the base because the combination is both heavy and bulky, a package too unwieldy for me to haul across the lawn in one piece. And with uneven ground, a standard movable (castered) base wouldn't help.

Then last year Bosch came out with this item, the "TS2000 Gravity-Rise Wheeled Table Saw Stand with Universal Mounting Slots". A big name, and even bigger performance. Even though this base cost more than my first "starter" table saw, I'm really happy with the purchase.

The package as delivered was both big (42" high) and heavy (66 lbs.), so I was glad I had another wheeled cart (a hand truck) to move this to my back patio for assembly. When I opened it up I found the manual to be better than usual. The diagrams of the major pieces are pretty good (except the "lower cross bar" picture looks distorted), and the diagrams of the fasteners are EXCELLENT. They're done to scale so you can lay the parts on the page for a "no doubt about it" match. The fasteners come in two bags; the larger bag is used to assemble the base, and the smaller bag to mount the table saw on the base.

Each assembly step includes a closeup showing where the fasteners go. With just a closeup each time, I found myself scratching my head a couple of times to locate which sections of the larger pieces were depicted. But I had no other problems with the instructions for assembling the base, and only one problem in mounting the table saw to it. (The mounting instructions say to insert and securely tighten the first bolt, then repeat for the other three holes. I tried it that way, but the other holes were out of alignment by a hair. Instead you should *loosely* tighten the bolts until all four are in, and only then secure them.) I only tried to mount my Bosch table saw, of course, but there are instructions included for Dewalt DW744, Craftsman 21830, Makita 2703, Hitachi C10RA2, and Ridgid TS2400LS table saws as well.

The tools I used were:

- utility knife, to open the packaging

- rubber mallet, to persuade the upper & lower cross bars to snug together

- large Phillips screwdriver

- 17 mm, 13 mm, and 10 mm ratcheting wrenches

- 8" crescent wrench

Total assembly time was just over 1-1/2 hours, including time spent looking for tools.

In operation, the Gravity-Rise stand is just wonderful. The big pneumatic tires take the trip across my uneven lawn without any problems, even though the combination of saw and base is most of my weight. The superb balance -- upright for moving, lowered for operation, and in between -- is responsible for this ease of operation. I tighten down the Bench Dog featherboard and it's good to go. The standard Bosch miter gauge *almost* stays locked in its storage slots on the left side of the saw, and works OK if I watch it. The Bosch dust collector bag will stay attached while moving, but the end drags on the ground so I remove it while wheeling the saw about.

Using my table saw with the new stand is both faster and easier on my back. As an added bonus, in the upright position the saw now has a smaller footprint in my storage shed than with the original red folding base.

You *really*, *really* want this if you've got a benchtop saw that you move around.

The stand that came with my Bosch 4000 was sturdy, but cumbersome to move. I do most of my work out of a small one car garage, and to try to keep it clean, I'd move the saw outside. This meant lifting the entire saw and stand, or dragging it.

I just got the new folding stand (ts-2000) and I absolutely love it. Folds and sets up easily, moves effortlessly and saves a decent amount of floorspace when it's folded and not being used.

My only gripe is that it wasn't part of the package deal when I bought my saw 2 years ago!

I purchased this Bosch stand on Nov. 14 and Amazon gave an arrival estimate of Nov. 28, but it arrived only four days later with the free Super Save UPS shipping- great!

This $139 table saw stand is Very Well Made and fits my DeWalt 744 perfectly. It takes about a half hour to assemble and everything fits together as it should. The pieces are heavy guage steel and appear that they'd last a lifetime. And although the stand adds about 54 pounds or so to the total weight of the table saw, it's well worth it as it makes the saw so much easier to transport around the garage or basement or to the job site. Beats the heck out of lifting a 40-50 pound table saw off the flimsy OEM stand and then moving them both in two trips. And this Bosch stand is a snap to go from folded storage/transport mode to a stationary stand - it's effortless magic! One note: Do NOT overtighten the four bolts that hold down the table saw to the assembled stand since all these portable table saws are built on a polymer/plastic base and you don't want to crack it.

There are a lot of table saw and compound miter saw stands out there, many of which will cost you twice as much (or even more) as this stand. I've looked at them all, up close and personal. I have two suggestions: One, that you buy this Bosch stand for your portable table saw (regardless of brand) as it's the best thing going - well designed and engineered. And Two, that you buy the Ridgid Miter Saw Utility Vehicle (SUV) model AC9940 $149 available at your local orange box for your miter/compound miter saw. This is another "most bang for your buck" stand that's well made and engineered and is better than anything that sells for twice the price, and I use it for my Hitachi 10" compound laser after quickly marking and drilling a couple of 1/4" holes for the saw mounting bolts. No problem, fits like it was made for Hitachi and not a Ridgid miter saw. Check it out via a web search.

In summation - this Bosch table saw stand is a Must Have and combined with the Ridgid Miter SUV you'll find yourself "wheeling" around and tackeling projects that you once ignored for fear of ending up in the hospital in traction due to blowing your back out. Both these stands are a 100% Best Buy and Highly Recommended, you won't be sorry with either one!

I cannot say enough good things about this stand!!

Easy to assemble. Solid as a rock. silky smooth operation. stable. a dream to operate and move around. Totally flexible to virtually any portable 10" saw. While the saw has holes pre-punched actually for most saws, I had to drill new holes for my Ryobi BT-3000. Having holes spaced 17inx19in which are not pre-punched but easy to add. The good news is if you have a BT-3000 this stand works GREAT!

Easy to roll around and setup in seconds with the flip of the lever. Terrific finish, and easy to use. BUY this stand and save your back. The best stand ever designed and built, hands down.

This stand fit my DeWalt DW744 10" Table Saw "like a glove"! It offered me the mobility and space saving I was looking for. My "wood shop / work shop" is a little 8' by 12' shed with a 30" deep work bench wrapping around two of the sides, so you can tell that space is a big concern of mine. I wheel my table saw outside every day and do the majority of my cutting outside. The setup of this table was quick and easy, just be sure to read the directions. Same goes for using the table, read the directions or else you'll be like me and keep trying to bend it where it's not supposed to bend and then spend the rest of your time wondering how you got it to do what you just did. It rolls really smooth with those huge tires over bumpy lawns and gravel. The tube construction is very beefy feeling but surprisingly light to move around. A top choice if you ask me.

Overall this is a nice stand, but I think it still is a bit bulky as a whole unit together with the saw. There should be a wear bar on the front bar that contacts the ground when you stand the saw on its end. It just scrapes the paint on the concrete in my garage.

If you have this saw, this is the best and only way to set it up and move it.

The original red folding stand was OK, but this is the next level in usability, one man set up and transport.

Highly reccommended for all users, DIY and Pros