Abstract: A manually operated stake driver has a slide hammer and guide. The guide is fitted with a receiver that captures and guides the stake. The slide hammer provides percussion force directly to the stake by extending into the receiver when the slide hammer is actuated. The slide hammer may have a weight attached or incorporated into a handle to provide additional force to the stake when actuated. In one embodiment, the stake driver may be designed to be used while the operator is standing and to drive stakes into the ground.

Abstract: A connector (12) for use in assembling a sawhorse (6). The sawhorse has an elongate cross member (11) mid four elongate leg members (13) joined together using two connectors. Each connector is manufactured from a tubular center sleeve (7) having a bottom wall and defining an interior passage having a longitudinal axis. The interior passage receives an end of the cross member. The connector also includes first and second tubular leg sockets (8). Each socket defines an interior passage having a longitudinal axis. The first and second sockets are secured in opposing angular disposition to the center sleeve, so that the longitudinal axes of the first and second sockets are disposed radially relative to the longitudinal axis of the center sleeve. Each of the first and second sockets receives an end of one of first and second leg members. The received ends of the first and second leg members bear against the bottom wall of the center sleeve.