The Woodshop Shed

Lumber / Panel Cart Modification

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Years ago Grizzly sold a lumber and mobile panel cart. To stabilize the cart from tipping over each caster unit was wider than the panel holding portion. For years in The Wood Buddies we just stuffed lumber, full sheets, and panel off-fall into the cart. This ended up scratching some of the better panel pieces.Next we tried to place an insert inside the body of the cart allowing larger pieces to be outside the insert. Again it was too stuffed.Looking at the lumber / panel racks of other LJ's we noticed the angle rack sides others had created. An idea blossomed why not place angled racks outside the main body of the cart as they would only hold smaller pieces and not enough weight to tip over the cart. Using one sheet of 7/16 thick plywood two 5 wide angle racks were created and attached to the cart. We glued a high pressure plastic laminate to the interior floor allowing larger panels to slide.Now the larger panels are stored inside the cart while smaller items are in the two exterior racks.
Thank you LJ's for all the creative solutions you share.

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