Christmas wagons

Those are wonderful !! Could you please tell me where you got the wheels and axles ? Are they lawnmower wheels? Ive got 7 or 8 of those old crates myself (mine are Pepsi though ) and Ive got a couple of young ones that would absolutely love one of those wagons!!

-- Jimi _ Measure twice, cut once.......@#%#$@!!!......measure twice, cut....

You are right they are lawnmower wheels. I got mine at Lowe’s. I think you can use any old sort of wheel. I did one for an old friend who took it to a auction and the wheels came off an old dry goods store scale. I think Grizzly has some good in expensive wheels. I clear coated the boxes and took the dividers out. I lined it with 1/2 birch. I made a pattern for a bracket that made mounting the little wooden rails easy. I guess I should have explained all that in the beginning. The barckets and rails are made of what ever I had laying around. One is fur and the other is Red Oak. The axle is just a lag screw set into the wooden block. I used a 1/2 inch by 6 inch lag screw with flat washers at the front and back of the wheel. The wheels have bearings pressed into them. the front swivel is a 5/16×5” Carrige bolt with a self locking nut and flat washer riding in a recess on the bottom of the axel block.

-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."

Very sweet well done .I think kids will love these for years to come.regards Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

I love those. I now know what I am going to do with the old Pepsi crates I have. I guess I’ll have to make a Coke wagon for my wife.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Those are instant classics! I love them!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://americancraftsmanworkshop.com

I have had a request for more detailed pics of this project. Apart from posting them here I can’t figure any other way to make the pictures availible so Here goes.

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-- Terry Roswell, L.A. (Lower Alabama) "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."