Impromptu Job-Site Door Buck
This isn’t the most stable door holder, but it works in a pinch.
On a job a while back, I had to mortise hinges on several doors. I hadn’t planned for this, and I didn’t have any proper door bucks on hand to hold the 80-lb. doors on edge, so I came up with an alternative. Using heavy-duty clamps, I attached a 5-gal. bucket to each end of a door, with scraps of wood between the bucket and the door to prevent marring. This isn’t the most stable door holder, but it worked perfectly when I couldn’t follow my usual practice.
— Daniel Boyce, Red Feather Lakes, Colo.
Edited and illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #265
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I've never worried about having door bucks on hand. Every room (unless it's round) has 4 bucks in it...just shove the door in any of the 4 corners. Or you can use wooden screw clamps,large c-clamps,chop a notch in a piece of 2 x 4 and a wedge...and last but not least just straddle over the door and hold it between your legs.
持有这些4门变得相当dancy如果你哈ve short legs KnotRough. But ya, notch a pair of 2 x 4's, wrap the notch with cardboard, slide in a wedge and you have the best makeshift door bucks I've ever used. It's quick, it's simple, whether the door weighs 200 lbs. or 20. If you know how to mortise a hinge "properly", then surely you can notch a 2 x 4.