Shop Project: Mobile Base

Dontcha love it when you can use chain hoists, hooks, straps, and I-beams to move heavy stuff around. Makes one feel much more powerful. Until, of course, the load starts to shift. Then, one starts to question the sanity of attempting such a move . . . or looks for a safe place to hide until the pieces stop flying around the room attempting to do grave harm to anything they can find in their collective path. Ah well, something has to keep us in line – even if it’s gravity.

I was planning on making some of these for my equipment but lucked into a few salvaged 19” racks. One is the base for the bandsaw; the other is the base for the jointer.

Good luck with it. Post an after pic; I’m curious.

Whit

-- Even if to be nothing more than a bad example, everything serves a purpose. cippotus

I’ll let you know how it goes, unless it falls on me :)

When you are a 5 ft 3 in fat lady getting older every day, you start being thankful for such a thing as mechanical advantage!

-- A woman's work is never done-but power tools help!

I like this mobile cart, don’t know how I missed it in Woodsmith. Thanks for bringing it our attention!

-- Chuck Emery, Michigan,

clever to copy the handle from the iron world :-)

just remember to release the handle from your hand if you think your load
is starting to think itself witch way it want :-) ....always work with palletsfraight…nearly
only went wrong a few times when it was a highload and it had toooo much speed
and brought to stop the hard way :-)

this is one I will remember thank´s for sharing it D. Lady

take care and good luck
Dennis

Here’s the saw on the base-

Very easy for me to hook up and roll it around, with only one arm! Short video of me moving it, camera in one hand, rolling it around with the other :)

The only change I would make is to allow for 1/4” clearance in the dimensions instead of 1/8”. I had to give the legs a couple whacks with a mallet to make them slide in.

-- A woman's work is never done-but power tools help!

good job

-- jack -- ...measure once, curse twice!

nice work, looks simple and effective

-- New Project = New Tool... it's just the way it is, don't fight it... :)