Silverline 226168 Heavy Duty Trestle 150 kg

I bought this with the intention of using two with scaffold boards to create a platform to work off seeing as it states 150kg capacity thought that would be fine. When unboxed very first thing you will see is a big warning sticker saying DO NOT USE AS A PLATFORM! I can see why when you see how spindly the tubes are, I wouldn't trust it to use it as a working platform. screws and bolts are poor quality, three stripped their threads on installation. It wouldn't be bad as a adjustable height workbench and good for keeping one ton waste bags open but that's about it. On the plus side they are quite cheap so you get what you pay for I guess.

Really 4.5 stars but very bad instructions is not enough to take away a whole star.A bit of sideways wobble when standing up on planks, but for this price it is no big issue.Great for occassional use if standing on them, not sure how they would long they would do if you were tradesman though. As a work surface they would last very well I am sure.Legs on mine are differnt colour to pictures, but I prefer the grey colour, so no issue there.------- TIPS FOR BUILDING THEM -------step 1 in instruction (see my attached pic 3) shows building the raising bar first - DO NOT DO THIS!!There is a nub at bottom of the upright bars (pic 4) which stops them raising up too high - this also stops you pushing them down into frame when building. Build frame first, then push upright bars up through frame, then bolt on the cross bar at the end.The screws don't match the drawings in instructions - see pic 5 for some help with that.There is a lockbar on the frame to keep the raising bar upright (see pic 6)- The instructions don't make this clear. When bolting the centre crossbar into the frame sides (first job you should do), make sure the locknut (large hexagonal head - as opposed to the screwhead) is on the correct side of the frame i.e. same side as the lockbar.

I bought four of these trestles from the same company, three were delivered the next day and the one remaining was delivered two days later! They came prepacked and you must make them up, the instructions are not very good and after a few goes I worked out how to put them together, but be warned on step one you have to insert the two vertical bars in through the bottom of the two triangle stands and then bolt top horizontal bar to the two vertical bars. I knocked it down to four stars rather than five because the useless instructions and the fact that all four trestles had a defective nut that I had to change with ones from my spare nut and bolt box! If you haven't got any spares you are fudged! Once made up they were reasonably sturdy and robust.

excellent delivery and quality.instructions are good but one thing to note is the following:the upper cross bar shows it being fixed to the two vertical slide bars then slotted in to each side, this won't work.the two blue triangular side pieces come with the two vertical bars already slotted in place, so don't remove these and just fix the upper cross bar.I removed them to fix the upper bar and couldn't get them back in as they have a nib on them to prevent them pulling out and you can only get them in from underneath without the upper cross bar being fixed.I may not be explaining this particularly well so just remember not to remove the two vertical slider bars from the two blue side pieces in order to fix the upper cross bar.I have found this to be excellent quality and value, which has already come in very handy and saved a lot of messing about trying to support materials.highly recommend.

Obviously built down to a price and I suppose they are not bad really. The instructions, they're awful, using them took me 35 mins for the first one. Chuck them and use common sense. The rest took me about 10-15 mins each. The nuts and bolts will be replaced over time as they are very poor quality and a diagonal brace will be installedon each side to eliminate lateral movement. It's not a lot of movement but I'm going "belt and braces". To assemble these I used a 1/4" drive socket set & a good quality flat screwdriver", an adjustable spanner and aa cheap screwdriver will not suffice. Remember also that these are NOT a work platform, but an adjustable height work bench, so do NOT climb on them.