Mitre saw stand or bolt to bench?

I am just about to start building my house. The first job is to build the garage and workshop so I can work out of there to build the rest of the house. The garage will be pretty big so I can build a long workbench down one side.

I have a mitre saw and I am wondering whether I would be better off buying a decent stand stand for it (e.g. DeWalt at £150) or bolting the mitre saw to the middle of the bench. I don't anticipate needing to move the saw off the site.

If I don't buy a stand what do I lose?

Thanks
AA

I would make it so the saw can be moved up and down the bench using clamps, if you bolt it in the middle you will restrict the lengths of timber you'll be able to cut unless the bench is 10 meters long allowing you to cut at a maximum of 5 meter lengths. Other than that there would be no reason to buy the stand if you doing all the cutting in the garage/workshop.

Once building you house it may be a different matter as there could be a lot of back and forth to the garage/workshop.

So you would loose a lot other than convenience.

Gobz

Thanks for your advice.

ive got 1 of these,i think there pretty good considering brand new it only cost me iirc £50-£60.

found this 1 on flea bay,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SIP-Professio...Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item20b21551c0

go for the de7023 leg stand for around £115-125 it will pay for its self within a week in time and not killing yourself

you need the saw where your working not in a remote area
do you think carrying a ton off timber 30 or 40 yards extra to cut is a good idea