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OT: Brought this home from work.

RBnSC

RBnSC

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Worked at a big marina today doing some cleaning up. A dock building company was busy installing boat lifts, some of the larger aluminum beams came on these wheeled dollys.They measure 26.5ins.x23.25ins. came away with 51 of them any ideas what to make out of them. Wheels are cast iron and fixed. Tubing is 2x2.
Ron
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You could make some heavy duty skateboards out of them by putting a platform on top and getting a knucklehead to stand on it.
Zach
 
many uses just put them away until you need them set up and sale them for $20 or so for a set what ever you can dream up.
 
Hello RBnSC,
I don't want you to think i'm picking on you,
but looking at the picture on the one standing up, the tubing appears to be rectangular like a 1 by 2? are my eyes are playing tricks on me?
Guido.
 
Hey Guido,
No problem, I really guessed to start with so I went and measured and they are 2x2. Besides when I want to be picked on I post on the JD forum.
Ron
 
I agree with the opinions below, Splitting stand bases would be excellent. Ebay those that are left (except your 6 that are reserved to use as needed). JimN
 
weld two together and some 4 foot upright angle iron on the corners for firewood storage in the garage?

Gordo
 
I will have to ponder on it a while. I have been at the water factory four years and I come up with a new use for plastic barrels about every month, I'll come up with something. If nothing else like every one else said put a few on ebay. Pile the rest up out back and you will find a use for them, even if you have to cut them up and use the tube'n for something. Can never have to much tube'n in the scrap pile.

Dave
 
I got a few of those from a farm fleet store, but have two swivels.

You can put a pallot on them, and stack scrap iron, tool boxes, firewood,band saw, sander, planner---well you name it. I shove them unde the work bench, and around the shop. When I need something, I roll it out on the work floor, then return after using the item. Works great for us older dudes that finaly figured it out that the old back can't be abused forever.

A couple of wood shims keep the sander and other units from rolling when in use. The cement floor has got to be swept in order to woork good.
 
Put a platform on it and they are great for setting small 3 point hitch implements on, like siclebar mower, fertilizer spreader, generator,in order to move them around the barnfloor to compact storage etc.
 
I have an idea for those thing Make a mobile work bench out of about 5 or 6 of them You could lay the first one down (one with wheels) on the floor, then cut up 2 or 3 for the height of the table How ever high you want it Weld them in all for corners Cut the wheels off the bottom of the next one a weld it across the top an weld a plate across it an you have a mobile work bench You could roll anywhere in you shop
 
Thanks Guys those are a lot of good ideas. I thought of making an engine dolly to roll around those spares we all have around the garage. Definitely needs at least 2 wheels that swivel I think I will make 2 like that. Now what to do with the other 49 then the 90 more that they said I could have when they got the beams off of them. I apologize to the folks on the JD forum. There are some helpful people over there.
Ron
 
Handy, that is for sure. It my old job we made similar dollies for moving things around on concrete or pavement. Ours had a frame around the bottom so they could hold oak 2x6s for level with the top and we added swivel casters. If you put a pallet jack on the front and a dolly on the back you could move about anything.
 
I've got several, similar, put swivel casters on
one end. Handy for putting engines on, and moving
them around the shop.
 
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