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[b_b_man]

Have some carpentry and metalworking skills and some experience working with commercial appliances used in restaurants, nursing homes, and schools. Am looking for plans for an easy to make garbage can hauling cart made from wood materials.

[canzo]

I don't have a set of plans right now, but I would suggest that you start with a set of pneumatic tires from Harbor Freight. When on sale (which is every other week) they are very reasonably priced and work well. A simple steel rod would suffice for an axle.

Material wise, if you have access to pallets you could build the cart very inexpensively. Use a coarse thread screw for the connections (#10 or larger) and you could use Simpson Corner brackets (Home Depot) to reinforce for stronger corners.

[Tagwatts1]

The gentle man who has written prior to my note is right on track. A couple of things come to mind, how large of a cart are you talking about and how heavy a load are needing to carry? I use pallet wood for everything. It is east to find and cheap. For a garbage wagon it would work great. I would make the sure the wheels are large cough so as to push or pull would be easy. If your using just a regular size garbage can, make the width at least 4 to 6 inches wider than the cans to aid it putting them in the cart. Also, Make it long enough to be able to turn with ease I would not think you would want to make the deck height higher than about 18 inches off the ground.
Any high lifting may be an issue. I would use 4 or 5 inch boards on the sides. space the side about 3 to 4 inches apart. At each corner use a couple of 2 x 4's set at 90 degree angles to each other. This will provide you a strong service to bolt your sides and end boards to. I would use bolts rather than screws to hold the boards in in place as screws will eventually allow the boards to come loose. Lay 2 x 4's along the bottom of your lowest side and end slat boards. These 2 x 4's, i would lay down with the narrow part of the 2 x 4's facing the pallet boards and the other side would face the inside of the wagon. Add one more 2 x 4 to middle of the wagon also on it's edge. Now you screw all of your bottom pallet boards to these three 2 x 4's. make one end of the wagon removable to get the cans in and out easily. I hope this may be of some help. I would use carriage type bolts on the side and end slats so as not to catch on everything, especially if you are moving in narrow spaces. Good Luck

[JohnMTO]

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[Sprog]

Have some carpentry and metalworking skills and some experience working with commercial appliances used in restaurants, nursing homes, and schools. Am looking for plans for an easy to make garbage can hauling cart made from wood materials.

Hi b_b_man,

Pallett wood as previously suggested is ideal for this and freely available. For plans, try googling for 'free woodwork plans' there are more than enough out there to keep you going for years! Hope this helps,

Sprog

[Woodowl]

Here's a general purpose wood yard cart plan that might work: https://www.familyhandyman.com/lands...-cart/view-all

[skibo]

Have some carpentry and metalworking skills and some experience working with commercial appliances used in restaurants, nursing homes, and schools. Am looking for plans for an easy to make garbage can hauling cart made from wood materials.

Are you talking about a cart for a typical round metal or plastic garbage can if so I built a can cart for an elderly man many years ago out of an old lawnmower deck. I got an old junked out lawnmower 4 wheeled push type type, side discharge type that had the horizontal blade, no special front or rear wheel drive type, just a plain push type mower. The mower deck was sound, so I pulled the engine and enlarged the hole in the deck where the engine sat to except the garbage cans diameter with a saber saw with a metal cutting blade. I used 2 pieces of 1/4 x 1" flat stock steel about 2 1/2' long bent to fasten with I believe 5/16" bolts, on the decks top surface and bent them 90 Degrees so they would hang down far enough into the open hole so the can would ride only about 2" above the ground for good weight distribution, remember to add the thickness of strapping metal to the hole Diameter, the two straps looked like wide u-bends. I don't know how much metal skills you have or what tools you might have, but a cutting torch Oxygen / acetylene to heat the metal to bend them in a vise would be very handy, or you could cold bend them but getting good sharp corners would be difficult without heat. I found that tow 2 pieces , two front to back or two side to side would more than handle the weight, but drill and bolt the straps to the deck! As far as those
pneumatic tires from Harbor Freight, I found they do not hold air reliably, you need to replace the tubes in them before you use them with better quality tubes from a tire shop, I'm speaking from experience here! The old lawnmower tires are hard tires and will always be ready to use, besides they'er already mounted for you! I hope this helps.
P.S. I did add a piece of strapping to the outside of the side discharge exit near the bottom for added strength for the added weight of the can for more support.
skibo

[frances-ho]

Have some carpentry and metalworking skills and some experience working with commercial appliances used in restaurants, nursing homes, and schools. Am looking for plans for an easy to make garbage can hauling cart made from wood materials.

it also is dependant on size of garbage cans you have ? you can use a pallet , you could cut the pallet to where you have 2 long 2x4's with slats on top and bottom, you can add wheels as much as 20 inch bike tires and rims with as big as 16" bike tires to roll on ground, you can build a frame to set the cans in the cart,