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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron Montgomery View Post
    Just what I wanted to hear! Thanks! Now to sell some of my possessions and buy an X-3 rack, horse stall mats, and properly dimensioned 45's to store on the rack.
    I gave the flat footed Rouge equivalent a push or two last week. It's not something that you've want to be moving around regularly. I swung around on it and it didn't want to budge. With a few hundred pounds on it, it's not going anywhere. No bolts needed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iamsmuts View Post
    I gave the flat footed Rouge equivalent a push or two last week. It's not something that you've want to be moving around regularly. I swung around on it and it didn't want to budge. With a few hundred pounds on it, it's not going anywhere. No bolts needed.
    But if you needed to move it 12-18" it was doable?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron Montgomery View Post
    But if you needed to move it 12-18" it was doable?
    I can move my 400+ pound racks around on stall mats if needed. It's mostly about getting proper leverage.

    I have rearranged my gym WAY too many times.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron Montgomery View Post
    But if you needed to move it 12-18" it was doable?
    If you really had to. It's not a daily or weekly kind of thing unless you are desperate. In that case nearly anything is possible.

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    OP here,

    Not that anyone cares, but I decided to build a deadlift platform this past weekend. Very pleased with how it turned out! I used two layers of 5/8" OSB on the bottom, one 3/4" layer of birch ply for the top 4x4 piece, and cut two 2x4 horse strips of 3/4" horse stall matting for the end pieces. It's all screwed together and extremely solid.

    A few of my first impressions:

    1. I can see how people have issues with the different layers warping/not laying perfectly flat. I took a lot of time to make sure I got really flat pieces; however, who knows how they'll hold up over time. To be continued, but it definitely does the job. I decided to keep the platform on top of my already covered floor (stall mats), so the concrete will never be in danger now (two layers of 5/8 OSB + two stall mats).

    2. Maybe my favorite part about it is just having a dedicated space to deadlift. The thing looks awesome too. I lacquered the top piece of plywood to protect it, and it turned out a lot nicer than I thought it would. I am keeping my full deadlift jack on it with a bar, ready to go. Load it up and lift. I thought about keeping a pair of 45's loaded and ready to lift off of the ground. What I consider convenient and motivating, you may call a waste of space.

    3. The cost wasn't much, really. I spent $17.50 per piece of OSB ($35.00) + one sheet of nice plywood ($40.00; I only used half of the sheet, so....$20?) + one horse mat on sale for $35.00. So, between $90-110 depending on your view of using half of the birch plywood. I can use it for another project.

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