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Have some carpentry and metalworking skills and some experience working with commercial appliances used in restaurants, nursing homes, and schools. Am looking for plans for an easy to make garbage can hauling cart made from wood materials.
Are you talking about a cart for a typical round metal or plastic garbage can if so I built a can cart for an elderly man many years ago out of an old lawnmower deck. I got an old junked out lawnmower 4 wheeled push type type, side discharge type that had the horizontal blade, no special front or rear wheel drive type, just a plain push type mower. The mower deck was sound, so I pulled the engine and enlarged the hole in the deck where the engine sat to except the garbage cans diameter with a saber saw with a metal cutting blade. I used 2 pieces of 1/4 x 1" flat stock steel about 2 1/2' long bent to fasten with I believe 5/16" bolts, on the decks top surface and bent them 90 Degrees so they would hang down far enough into the open hole so the can would ride only about 2" above the ground for good weight distribution, remember to add the thickness of strapping metal to the hole Diameter, the two straps looked like wide u-bends. I don't know how much metal skills you have or what tools you might have, but a cutting torch Oxygen / acetylene to heat the metal to bend them in a vise would be very handy, or you could cold bend them but getting good sharp corners would be difficult without heat. I found that tow 2 pieces , two front to back or two side to side would more than handle the weight, but drill and bolt the straps to the deck! As far as those
pneumatic tires from Harbor Freight, I found they do not hold air reliably, you need to replace the tubes in them before you use them with better quality tubes from a tire shop, I'm speaking from experience here! The old lawnmower tires are hard tires and will always be ready to use, besides they'er already mounted for you! I hope this helps.
P.S. I did add a piece of strapping to the outside of the side discharge exit near the bottom for added strength for the added weight of the can for more support.
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