Building A Rolling Lumber Cart

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.

Building a rolling lumber cart.

Assemble the bottom of scrap wood cart. 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. But i wanted a rolling lumber cart that i could wheel out of the way when i needed to access the space behind it. Storage cart for lumber build this awesome rolling scrap wood storage cart using the free instructions at the link.

Build a simple rolling shop cart to transport heavy toolboxes and pieces of wood from one end of the shop to the other. Lumber storage cart dividers. Lumber cart pdf build your lumber cart using these free downloadable plans. These 2 casters work great.

Load up your new lumber cart. If you plan to leave your scrap wood in one spot all the time you can skip this step. 1 1 4 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.

All you need is a sheet of 3 4 in. Just missing two shelves in this photo. I did not deviate at least not intentionally from the original build plans. Mobile lumber cart almost complete.

It will hold full sheets of plywood as well as other miscellaneous wood. Sketchup file update. Kreg rip cut optional kreg accucut optional pocket hole jig. After searching online for ideas i used sketchup to design a cart only to.

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. Valinskas for drawing out a cutting diagram. 2 1 2 pocket hole screws. 2 1 2 wood screws.

First i cut a piece of 3 4 plywood to 24 x 72 for the bottom. The solution is a rolling plywood cart that stores full sheets horizontally. The dimensions i ended up with is 5 wide 3 high and 20 deep. Dining table from salvaged lumber.

Building the rolling lumber cart.