nightjar nightjar@ wrote:
"Chris Nellist" wrote in
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I want to make a wooden stool, quite an unsophisticated one,
with four legs square in cross section.

The reason that milkmaid stools were made with three legs is that three legs
will always all touch the ground, no matter how uneven, while four legs will
only all touch if the surface is perfectly flat (assuming no errors in
making the stool).

It will be used for usual stooly things such as standing
on to reach things that are high up,


For standing on you don't want a three legged stool, very unstable.
Whereas with four legs it may wobble on an unevensurface but is less
likely to give way when trying to support two feet.



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David Clark

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