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    Rough terain welder cart

    The title means just what it says
    my little Miller 210 mig welder has been suffering from a gravel floor for far too long
    very difficult to move around on the factory wheel kit
    So I dug a few items out of my classed for reuse pile of scrap and made a cart that can be moved around very easy.

    I started out with the front frame of a Toro walk behind mower

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    First up modify the frame work
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    Next cut the hubs out of the rear tires
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    then lengthen the forks for larger tires
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    he modified assembled cart frame
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    I managed to make 2 hubs out of 1 so this gave me 4 hubs
    2 of these will be used on my torch cart later this week
    here I have just welded the hub into the center of a doughnut spare tire these can be bought for next to nothing but I had 2 the same size just laying around
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    the finished cart may never win any beauty contests but it is very functional
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    Thanks Frank S! I've added your Rough Terrain Welding Cart to our Welding Carts category, as well as to your builder page: Frank S' Homemade Tools. Your receipt:


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    I think it's cool , beauty is function.

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    One thing is for sure it rolls easy.
    Later I plan on adding a shelf on the back with some bottle supports to add one of my cutting rigs to it this way I will have both welder and torch at hand at all times. I have 2 or 3 sets of bottles gauges hoses and torches that I am not using just now anyway
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    Great build. Similar concept (though slightly more complex) as some of the "off road" floor jacks we've seen, like this one by am4x4 on Pirate4x4.com:

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    I'll bet she rolls like a champ. There are fewer things more frustrating than being a grown man, and forced to drag a wheeled cart over a rough surface. It makes you feel like a caveman who hasn't quite finished inventing the wheel.

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    Where's the lawn mower motor?

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    A few years ago I modified the cart to a 3 wheeled design with a steerable pull handle removing the front casters as they had a tendency to go the direction they wanted but not both in the same direction I have a golf cart tire for the front wheel now and it is so much easier to move around
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    Nice! Thanks Frank.

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    Most of my workshop machines move on airless/ solid rubber tires. No matter how long the machine is left idle -could be years- when the time comes to roll the machine, it rolls instantly. Never have to worry about flat tires that need air. For the same tire diameter, a 10-inch solid rubber wheel may have a load capacity of double that of an equal size air tire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mansworld View Post
    Most of my workshop machines move on airless/ solid rubber tires. No matter how long the machine is left idle -could be years- when the time comes to roll the machine, it rolls instantly. Never have to worry about flat tires that need air. For the same tire diameter, a 10-inch solid rubber wheel may have a load capacity of double that of an equal size air tire.
    Hard to argue with that. Problem is that they are not so easy to find.

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