Your custom welding cart

[[memphis]]

I think we had a thread at the old place but... I never built a welding cart when I bought my machine 15 years ago... After a few years I purchased a flimsy Princess Auto version but ended up selling it when I had some half ass idea about moving across the country and dumped a bunch of my tooling but not my trusty Lincoln!

Had this thing, it barely rolled..

I have been thinking about building a hand cart/dolly style as a space saver for inside the shipping container but I don't want the machine this low to the ground as I don't want to be tripping on cables or stepping on my whip when it's not being used:

What have you guys built that I can steal ideas from?

 

[granitestatedestroyer]

I "built" this a few years ago. I obviously didn't build the cart, just the brackets to hang the bottles off of it.

Works great for what I do. I keep all my metal tools in it. Clamps, Bandsaw, grinder + discs, consumables, etc....

It likely wouldn't work great on gravel but its good on the concrete floors/driveway.

I even run the plasma off CO2.

 

[[memphis]]

I "built" this a few years ago. I obviously didn't build the cart, just the brackets to hang the bottles off of it.

Works great for what I do. I keep all my metal tools in it. Clamps, Bandsaw, grinder + discs, consumables, etc....

It likely wouldn't work great on gravel but its good on the concrete floors/driveway.

I even run the plasma off CO2.

I had thought about this with a HF General Tool Cart. But it’s a bit bulky for one machine… the dual setup is nice

 

[Mike Honcho]

 

[Gots_a_sol]

Made this for my tig/cooler and plasma. First aluminum project when I bought the tig. Some things I'd like to change but meh, it has been working good enough for like 10 years now. I finally put the actual wheels on it like a month ago

Tank sits on the back, just can't see it from this angle. Has room to hold tig rods vertically next to tank, just never finished that part of it. I have all the tubes stacked up next to the plasma currently.

 

[PinionLabs]

I created this contraption out of 1.75 hrew.

 

[Mike Honcho]

I created this contraption out of 1.75 hrew.

I might have to copy that. Looks great.

 

[PinionLabs]

I might have to copy that. Looks great.

It's a little heavy for what it is, but it's very sturdy.

 

[Clb]

Some discard nursery/shopping cart abortion

 

[[memphis]]

Some discard nursery/shopping cart abortion

Hey it’s better than nothing (what I have LOL)

 

[Mike Honcho]

Some discard nursery/shopping cart abortion

 

[[memphis]]

This is seacan life… this is how you get shit done on a budget

 

[arse_sidewards]

Why move the welder when I can just use longer leads?

 

[[memphis]]

Why move the welder when I can just use longer leads?

Voltage drop bruh! Although how much does that matter on the input side versus the output? Lon extension cords are bad juju but long leads?

 

[crazybluerider]

Whipped this up to tote around the tig and the plasma.

 

[RunningProblem]

I built mine out of a metal bed frame. I put casters on the bottom that all rotate. I spent a lot of time making the frame and ‘shelf’ for the welder then fucked up and welded the wheels on crooked so it rolls line shit. It looks better than you might expect for a first time welding project. I spent a fair amount of time with a flap disc on it to make it look good.
It doesn’t hold a bottle.
I angled the welder up so I was looking straight at the dials when I looked at it.

 

[denis]

I came up with this fine piece of engineering
I'm so happy with this prototype, it may actually get a coat of paint one day.
That thing can litterally go everywhere.
Here's my high/low stability compact liftable welder cart/wheelbarrow, custom built for the 250A kemppi

 

[[memphis]]

I came up with this fine piece of engineering
I'm so happy with this prototype, it may actually get a coat of paint one day.
That thing can litterally go everywhere.
Here's my high/low stability compact liftable welder cart/wheelbarrow, custom built for the 250A kemppi

No concerns having the bottle sideways?

 

[denis]

None, since Argon or Argon/CO2 mix are never liquid in our welding bottles, they would be fine upside down if needed.

BTW, the bottle barely ever gets swapped, I just fill it from a bigger one. Its a moderate PITA to get in on and off but that could be fixed easily enough, I guess.

 

[buzzbombxj]

My first one, for the 120 welder. Made as I was learning to weld. All of the welds, fitment, squareness etc is poor at best. Finally painted it though 15 years later.

The cart for the 220 welder. The first cart was made entirely from free materials, this one I spent $5 on the file cabinet. I like that it the gun, ground, and 25' extension cord each have their own hook, and the handle to push it around is nice, features the 120 cart lacks.

 

[obenshain]

Here's my attempt. Works great around the garage, a bitch to load into a trunc.

marc

 

[Lee]

From 2014-ish, and the first real project with the welder. I was given a free legal size double drawer filing cabinet. I got the wheels and caster from Surplus Center, and the garden hose holder and seatbelt from Amazon. This is before I got a phone with decent image stabilization, give Shakes McGoo over here a camera and you get blurry pictures.

It hasn't changed a whole lot. I had a blow out on one of the semi-pneumatic wheels, so it has a much larger wheel with a low profile solid rubber tire on it now, same overall diameter as original. The drawers didn't have latches, and that got annoying, so the drawer pulls got replaced with some auto latching boat/RV drawer pulls. I put the seat belt on in an abundance of caution, but it's probably not necessary.

If I had to do it again, I'd sit the welder further back and to one side, then put a holder for the ground and whip to the other side. since they're always in the way of the top drawer when wound around the handle. Easy enough to fix now I guess, but I'll probably just go on complaining about it and using it as-is though.

I remember debating locking casters at the time, as they were over 2X the cost of non locking, but they were 100% the right choice.

I built this thing and a month or so later I saw Harbor Freight's version in the store on sale for about 1/2 of what I had just in materials in mine.

 

[ANGRYBLACK]

I made this to hold my mig up top and a bench top stick welder in what's now a hole. Has a bottle holder out back.

I gotta do something else. Something narrow but with more storage.

 

[Clb]

This is seacan life… this is how you get shit done on a budget

Good eye

 

[Bggrnchvy]

Left over scraps with some hardware from another project turned into a MIG/Plasma cart. Rolls over the gravel in the side yard as well as the garage which is nice.

 

[rattlewagon]

2 drawer filing cabinet with some bed frame angle iron to hold the casters on the bottom. been using this for 5 years, going to remake it soon with bigger wheels so it rolls out side better.

Just a flux core hoar right now, but I could add something off the back for a bottle if needed..

 

[buzzbombxj]

I'm jealous of all these carts that hold the plasma too. Could just have a y and one cord for both. Wish I had planned ahead and made a space for it. Lots of cool ingenuity here

 

[chaplinfj60]

this was a simple solution for my cart when i first go to my shop.

and then

 

[FleshEater]

Hey, I can actually post mine. It’s my first ever metal/weld build. Yeah, the welds are boogered, but it’s still holding.

I’ll paint it black when it warms up.

 

[MigGunslinger]

I’ll paint it black when it warms up.

Oh my sweet summer child

Five years from now you are going to be pulling the welder out for a project and think, "shit! I keep meaning to paint this"