Cut slots in the top of your tenons, fit wedges that protrude above the tenons by about an inch, then when you drive them into their mortices, they will be forced into the top if each leg causing it to spread open to fill the mortice. This should tighten thing up a tad.

linseed, pine and turpentine... sounds like a a good song ;)

Excellent leg support and reinforcing.,,!!!!!! For now,, Iam living in a apartment/with a garage on site. I’ve been working on 2 smaller versions of yours. One I’ll mount on a lowboy dolly, so it’s mobile. The other will be as Your’s is. To save me from building an additional bench for spoons, pull saw and spatula making,, as you have. Iam going to build a “clamp down “, type vice on the other end of my bench;, to use for spoons or spatula’s. Excellent Video,,, Thank You,,,,!!!!!! Joshua

Great video. Thank you.

I need to build one of these for working outside on nice days. For more stability, I'm going to countersink some PVC pipe just slightly larger than the leg diameter & at the same angle. Then, I will put the legs of the mule log into those pipes and hopefully that will stop the racking. I have never seen someone use a sealer on the surfaces and I think that it is a great idea. Nice build!!

Nice build! Thanks for taking us along! Blessings

Looks great, nice job. You might be able to bang some wedges into the mortise holes to secure the undersized tenons.

I like that broad axe! Just found your channel- subscribing. God bless

Good to see someone putting substantial legs on one of these. Still looks a bit wobbly to me but at least it won't be bouncing around.

Great job

Nice project, I think racking could be solved with some 6ft branches as legs (tar them up) shove them in the ground until it suits you’re personal preference:)

Looks great! All ya need is a diagonal member, or 2, to tie the bottom of the bench to the bottom cross member(s) that hold the legs spread. I have a crazy feeling of de ja vu, like I've seen this before. *scratches head, squints eyes*

Why did you not just split the log into halves with your chain saw? It could have been a lot easier, faster and smoother. Just asking.

Never heard a chicken speeded up interesting

My family put a black smith shop, livery stable & general store in eastern NC right around the time they were figuring up our constitutional structure. My Uncle was a gun smith. He used axes & hatches to take wood for stocks & such, & I'd help hand checker them. When work was over, you whittled while you shot the shit. Everybody worked wood - growing up in the 1960s we still didn't see any sense in going to a lumber yard when it rose right out of the ground behind your house. No sense in buying nails either. So I know how to slap together a carving bench & that this altogether enjoyable video has another target market. Yet when the cool righteous morning fades and I get run inside, I sit and watch with utter pleasure. Why? Cause there's something about working wood that balances things; ya'll know what I'm talking about. And you transport yourself right there doing what that fella's doing in that video. Plus you remember how much you like chickens. Some videos take you off in the woods and by the time you're done watchin' you've plum forgot what was irritating you in the first place. And that dag on dog in one of them videos piddling around in the background while a log's gettin' rough hewned sure looks like ol' Charlie. . . If I were King, and that ain't a good idea, my first edict would command that all shall whittle up something before they make any major decision in their lives; figure that ought to steady things up well enough. So thank you for this video partner, and thanks to every single one of you folks workin' a little wood that make them. Appreciate ya'll.