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.

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

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:

https://www.homemadetools.net/upload...loor-jack.jpeg.

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. :headscratch:

Where's the lawn mower motor?

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.

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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Originally Posted by mansworld

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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Hard to argue with that. Problem is that they are not so easy to find.

Mark