In the process of carrying out repair and construction work in a private house or in a summer cottage, it is often necessary to transfer building materials from the storage location directly to the place of work. Manually pulling heavy bags of cement, crushed stone and sand, as well as boxes with tiles and paint, is long and inconvenient, therefore a freight trolley made of profile pipes is useful for these purposes.
The main stages of work
To make a do-it-yourself trolley, you will need segments of the profile of square and rectangular sections. First of all, it is necessary to cut the workpieces to size, and then drill one hole for fasteners in two profile pipes. Next, you need to weld a rectangular frame - a platform for building materials.
The profile pipes have thin walls, so it is best to weld them “automatically” or semi-automatically (in argon shielding gas), but you can do with a conventional inverter - in this case, electrodes with a diameter of 2 mm are used, the current strength is not more than 50-60 Amps .
At the next stage, we weld the second frame, which will be located vertically - the cargo will be supported on it during transportation. In two long profiles, you first need to drill holes in the lower part.
Then we connect the two "halves" of the cargo trolley with each other using two wing bolts with nuts. Two short sections of the profile are welded to the bottom of the structure, on which the platform will rest.
Two strips of metal are additionally welded to the vertical racks of the trolley, in which a hole for the wheel axis is drilled. A pin will be used as an axis, so nuts of a suitable diameter will also need to be welded to the strips.
At the last stage of work, it remains only to cook two handles in the upper part, to clean the weld points with a grinder, paint the trolley and put the wheels. You can see the detailed assembly process of the cart in the video on the website.
