Right after we moved into this house some friends dropped off a couple of used kitchen counters. A friend of theirs builds and installs cabinets and he always has old pullouts.
My wife wants to use one in the kitchen and suggested I make a rolling work table out of the other... as she handed me a bag of castors she got from Harbor Freight. She's a pretty smart cookie.
All I needed was something to make the top out of.
When we were doing yard work weekend before last I cleaned out the shared easement behind my back yard. There was a couple of old steel clothes line poles that went on the scrap steel pile and a big wooden stand a previous owner had built. I think it was used for flower pots and stuff. Whoever this guy was he loved his heavy lumber... Real 2x's. Didn't measure but I think they're 2x10s. And short 4x4 legs underneath. Heavy stuff. Poifect!
I knocked the loose bits and the 4x4's off. Nailed a 4x4 to the bottom of each corner and screwed the castors to those.
... I've got a rope strung across the front overhead door and a tarp thrown over it. "Baby gate" to keep the stupid dogs out of the street.
That hunk o wood is the same width as the cabinet but deeper. I left the bits hanging down on the front and back on it, set the back flush with the cabinet and cut the front. Then cut a board to cover the front. I used some old angle brackets underneath to tie it on.
I like it. A little tall but just right to set your elbows on it and go "whew!" Yesterday I bent some old rebar into hooks, drilled holes in the boards on one end and put my prybars on the hooks.
My wife wants to use one in the kitchen and suggested I make a rolling work table out of the other... as she handed me a bag of castors she got from Harbor Freight. She's a pretty smart cookie.
All I needed was something to make the top out of.
When we were doing yard work weekend before last I cleaned out the shared easement behind my back yard. There was a couple of old steel clothes line poles that went on the scrap steel pile and a big wooden stand a previous owner had built. I think it was used for flower pots and stuff. Whoever this guy was he loved his heavy lumber... Real 2x's. Didn't measure but I think they're 2x10s. And short 4x4 legs underneath. Heavy stuff. Poifect!
I knocked the loose bits and the 4x4's off. Nailed a 4x4 to the bottom of each corner and screwed the castors to those.
... I've got a rope strung across the front overhead door and a tarp thrown over it. "Baby gate" to keep the stupid dogs out of the street.
That hunk o wood is the same width as the cabinet but deeper. I left the bits hanging down on the front and back on it, set the back flush with the cabinet and cut the front. Then cut a board to cover the front. I used some old angle brackets underneath to tie it on.
I like it. A little tall but just right to set your elbows on it and go "whew!" Yesterday I bent some old rebar into hooks, drilled holes in the boards on one end and put my prybars on the hooks.