Building A Rolling Lumber Cart

Dining table from salvaged lumber.

Building a rolling lumber cart.

2 1 2 wood screws. Add casters for a rolling lumber cart. If you plan to leave your scrap wood in one spot all the time you can skip this step. Kreg rip cut optional kreg accucut optional pocket hole jig.

Dividers installed via dadoes and secured with wood glue and spax wood screws. This would allow me to roll the entire cart to my truck for easier unloading and it would also allow the sheets to be picked directly off the cart while only taking up eight feet of wall space. Storage cart for lumber build this awesome rolling scrap wood storage cart using the free instructions at the link. Whether your shop is big or small it s sure handy to have a cart or two for moving stacks of parts from one machine to another.

Load up your new lumber cart. After searching online for ideas i used sketchup to design a cart only to. Building the rolling lumber cart. These 2 casters work great.

Lumber cart pdf build your lumber cart using these free downloadable plans. Here are a few work in progress photos. I saw a lot of pictures of lumber carts all over the interwebs so compiled a bunch of those ideas together and figured out the size based on my workspace and the materials i had on hand at the time. Lumber storage cart dividers.

But i wanted a rolling lumber cart that i could wheel out of the way when i needed to access the space behind it. Sketchup file update. Mobile lumber cart almost complete. 2 1 2 pocket hole screws.

Just missing two shelves in this photo. It will hold full sheets of plywood as well as other miscellaneous wood. Assemble the bottom of scrap wood cart. The dimensions i ended up with is 5 wide 3 high and 20 deep.

The solution is a rolling plywood cart that stores full sheets horizontally. I did not deviate at least not intentionally from the original build plans. This lumber cart solves much of my storage problems and after building it i discovered that it holds a lot more wood than my old rack and takes up less space. Build a simple rolling shop cart to transport heavy toolboxes and pieces of wood from one end of the shop to the other.

Valinskas for drawing out a cutting diagram.