So the more I think about this, the more I think, get those kids a couple furni dollys and let them get a taste of convention center and hotel pushes. 1/4 mile is nothing ! Ah, the glamour of show business.
@mrb604 Have you seen Van's post? ? ? Be sure to include a full length glued and screwed stopper strip along the the edge opposite the near vertical support to prevent loads from slipping off due to vibration and REMEMBER to push LOADS NOT the near vertical back-stop. I'm sure @Van will provide further details if you have any questions. (Thanks Van!)Here ya go. Build a couple of these. I cannot tell you how many Nike shows and Opera sets and units of plywood and piles of crap I have pushed through parking lots, convention centers, world headquarters.... This is not in scale I drew it in Foxit PDF Reader so keep your drafting comments to yourself. Simple construction screw and glue in all the obvious places. Yes, please be sure to install straight casters on one end and swivel on the other it will help keep control of the load, just like a real panel cart. The gussets are critical as kids will always wind up pushing on the upright instead of the flat that is lying on this thing.
Hope this helps.
@Jay Ashworth & @mrb604 6" with locks (brakes) or locks (to keep them rolling straight)? [I'd assume the former with rigids on one end & swivels on the other]And Van doesn't say, but I'd plan on at least 6" casters for those -- and buy them at a wheel shop, not Harbor Freight.
Locks are good too.
4-6"And Van doesn't say, but I'd plan on at least 6" casters for those -- and buy them at a wheel shop, not Harbor Freight.
Locks are good too.
'Cause that's the way I always built them... Back in my day we didn't have extra 2x4 we did everything with gussets. Sometimes we stack up layers of veneer and made our own plywood... and We Liked it!Van
Curious why you are not recommending a diagonal instead of just a gusset?
I did indeed mean rolling-locks on the non-caster wheels, rather than swivel-locks on the caster wheels.@Jay Ashworth & @mrb604 6" with locks (brakes) or locks (to keep them rolling straight)? [I'd assume the former with rigids on one end & swivels on the other]
I like those too! The big wheels are great. I have modified them in the past; making a taller rail for the outside. they tend to poke through 4' and 6' wide flats.https://www.globalindustrial.com/p/...ruck-with-plywood-steel-deck-1200-lb-capacity
I find these to be the most useful and flexible. Can load lumber, panels, flats and platforms. And you can remove the inner bar and move garbage cans. I have to load and unload up and down a serpentine loading ramp, and this design works best for me.
@kicknargel In the mid 90's I found myself in a Berlin scenery shop finessing a couple of "Tommy" pinball machines in storage between the end of a run in Offenbach and a proposed run in Berlin. A truck similar to those seen transporting plate glass in North America backed into the dock with a load of what they termed their standard "large" sheets of plywood. I was stunned by the size and was told they had "standard" size sheets and "standard large" size sheets. If I'm recalling correctly, their "large" sheets were 2 Meters x 4 Meters; 6' 6" x 13' 0'' by quick math / conversion in my head. The plywood was being transported through the narrow secondary streets of Berlin racked vertically on edge 2 Meters high x 4 Meters long. The rack was located outside the rear wheels with its lower supporting surface approximately 4" above the pavement, the stack of sheets were maybe 6" thick in total and canted slightly towards the truck's centreline with its open box used to tote the remainder of the shop's order; smaller dimensional lumber, cartons of hardware, hinges, bolts, pails of glue, paint, etcetera.I once had wind catch a flat I was carrying and ding my boss's car. Not good.
Wait, you said high school students? Shoot, that means you've got bodies to burn. Four corner those thangs (6 man if they're freshmen) and tell em to hike. Call it a team building exercise. .
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