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So to practice welding while at the same time do something that can put it to the test I decided to build a hand cart. I don't have one, I've wanted one so this is my solution. I possibly could of bought a stronger better engineered one for cheaper(?), but win, lose or draw I'm going to enjoy and abuse this thing. If a weld or something fails, odds are it won't be a major catastrophe.
Here is the parts pile. $40 on the axle and wheels, and $20 in iron.
And the not quite finished cart. I want to weld some re-enforcement pieces on there as well as some strap iron in the middle of each rectangle, but I wore out my last cutting wheel and called it the day. So I'll see about putting the finishing touches on tomorrow.
But that did not stop me from doing some work with it
Decided to move some junk around the backyard.
It works great at picking up rear axles. I've been dragging this around the yard, this is much simpler.
Went around picking up the various junk in the backyard and piled it all in a corner of the yard.
Its original intent is to be able to load the OHC L6 blocks and such on it and survive going up and down the basement stairs. However I now see this thing evolving over time. As I was going around the backyard I thought to myself, I bet this would pick up the tongue on the POS camp trailer, I could weld a small catch on the trailer and perhaps pull and push the trailer around using this cart instead of having to grab the tongue and dead lifting. It's about ~150lbs tongue weight unloaded. That's just one idea, I'll be thinking of other stuff too.
Here is the parts pile. $40 on the axle and wheels, and $20 in iron.
And the not quite finished cart. I want to weld some re-enforcement pieces on there as well as some strap iron in the middle of each rectangle, but I wore out my last cutting wheel and called it the day. So I'll see about putting the finishing touches on tomorrow.
But that did not stop me from doing some work with it
Decided to move some junk around the backyard.It works great at picking up rear axles. I've been dragging this around the yard, this is much simpler.
Went around picking up the various junk in the backyard and piled it all in a corner of the yard.
Its original intent is to be able to load the OHC L6 blocks and such on it and survive going up and down the basement stairs. However I now see this thing evolving over time. As I was going around the backyard I thought to myself, I bet this would pick up the tongue on the POS camp trailer, I could weld a small catch on the trailer and perhaps pull and push the trailer around using this cart instead of having to grab the tongue and dead lifting. It's about ~150lbs tongue weight unloaded. That's just one idea, I'll be thinking of other stuff too.
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