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Recently, I have been getting fed up with the lackluster approach ive been using to organizing scrap wood in our school's shop. I decided that I was going to blow it all up and start over, and am determined to rebuild a large section of our space.

First, I needed to get the existing scraps out. Luckily, I was able to use mostly scrap/ recycled wood to build this and kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The particle board was leftover from old prom decorations, and most of the dimensional lumber were cutoffs from coenhole boards or other outdoor projects. The only thing that I really "bought" were the caster, but the were going to be for another project that I haven't gotten around to yet so I decided to use them for this.

Pic 4 shows the disarray of the old method of scrap storage. It was very cumbersome to search through and often could be dangerous, with pieces falling out onto your foot. Pic 5 shows the cleaned up version, much better.

The tops are designed to held pieces <16>. Anything longer than that can go in the area in between the sides. Eventually I will get a shelf or two inside there, but I ran out of scrap ply for now, and (full disclosure) motivation.

I also left a gap on the bottom (pic 6) so that I can fit a shop vac nozzle in the to clean out all the dust that will eventually accrue.

Thanks for looking, as always, comments, questions, or suggestions welcome.

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That is a real nice cart. I know the feeling or containing all that scrap.. Good job, Tooch!!
 

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Scrap areas are a necessity in most any shop, unless you throw it all away. That's a nice cart and the wheels only make it better.
 

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That is really cool. I use a couple wheelbarrows as scrap bends but need to build something like this. Great job buddy
 

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Thanks guys.

Hoss the great thing about builds like this is that it's totally utilitarian, and it really doesn't matter how it "looks". Sure you want it to be nice, but its great to be able to just pound boards together and not really worry about it being square, level, etc.
 

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Good one. It's amazing how quickly cut-offs build up all over the place
 

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Really nice. The old way you were storing cut offs was way better than my plastic tote on the floor. I really need to do something like this. Digging through my scrap bin is a pain. I usually just don't and cut from a new board to save time. Which, in turn, makes even more cut offs. Vicious cycle. Thanks for the idea.
 
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