Building A Rolling Lumber Cart

These 2 casters work great.

Building a rolling lumber cart.

2 1 2 pocket hole screws. Mobile lumber cart almost complete. Lumber cart pdf build your lumber cart using these free downloadable plans. Here are a few work in progress photos.

Assemble the bottom of scrap wood cart. But i wanted a rolling lumber cart that i could wheel out of the way when i needed to access the space behind it. 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. Dividers installed via dadoes and secured with wood glue and spax wood screws.

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. Dining table from salvaged lumber. All you need is a sheet of 3 4 in. It will hold full sheets of plywood as well as other miscellaneous wood.

The solution is a rolling plywood cart that stores full sheets horizontally. 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. Sketchup file update. 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.

Add casters for a rolling lumber cart. Lumber storage cart dividers. The dimensions i ended up with is 5 wide 3 high and 20 deep. If you plan to leave your scrap wood in one spot all the time you can skip this step.

First i cut a piece of 3 4 plywood to 24 x 72 for the bottom. I did not deviate at least not intentionally from the original build plans. 2 1 2 wood screws. Kreg rip cut optional kreg accucut optional pocket hole jig.

Load up your new lumber cart. 1 1 4 wood screws. Build a simple rolling shop cart to transport heavy toolboxes and pieces of wood from one end of the shop to the other. Just missing two shelves in this photo.

Building the rolling lumber cart.