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I'll have free scrap to practice on and I'll get to practice more when I build my own welding table and pedestal vise stand here in the not too distant future.... with help of course but, some day I'll hopefully be on my own. --I garden a lot and frequently have extra produce that I normally toss out to the chickens. I see little road side stands similar to this on metal frames with lock boxes bolted to them that people passing by can stop and buy on their honor slipping $ into the money boxes. I think the day will come that I would feel comfortable trying something like this on my own and I'd rather sell excess produce than feed it to my birds. Has anyone ever built a little roadside farm stand on wheels and if you have..... do you have a drawing or a supplies list that I could stick in my purse so when I'm out and about I could start picking up materials on the cheap? --I'm thinking this might be a great little 1st project of my own even if it takes me a few months to gather materials and another few months to finish but please do correct me if I'm potentially biting off more than I could possibly chew. I do have basic woodworking skills I could apply to a project such as this. I also have an older Cub Cadet riding lawn mower I could use to move it around that has a hitch of some sort. This photo isn't mine. I got it off the internet. --MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reply:Actually, you can combine metal and wood. Build a steel frame and bolt the wood to it. You don't want heavy material either. If it's anything like the material for the table with I beams, you better save for a Peterbilt truck to move it .
Reply:Seems completely "do-able"! I think BD1 has the right idea - build the underlying carriage out of some lighter steel tube (maybe 14g square or rectangular tube), then build the wood upper on top. Cedar is light and very weather resistant, although not particularly cheap. Cypress is even better if you can find it... Looks like a great first project to me! Of course, I'd say the same thing about a vise stand, or a welding table, or a cart for your welder, or...
Reply:Originally Posted by Just_GeorgeSeems completely "do-able"! I think BD1 has the right idea - build the underlying carriage out of some lighter steel tube (maybe 14g square or rectangular tube), then build the wood upper on top. Cedar is light and very weather resistant, although not particularly cheap. Cypress is even better if you can find it... Looks like a great first project to me! Of course, I'd say the same thing about a vise stand, or a welding table, or a cart for your welder, or...
Reply:A Peterbuilt truck, eh? Arent those more expensive than houses? Ive totally abandoned any idea of building my welding table with I/H beams for legs. I just thought the price I was quoted for a 10 length of 5 I beam was too good to pass up at the time. --I thought once I got the experience of building a welding table and a pedestal stand for my vice with help from somebody who knows what hes doing that this little produce stand just might be doable on my own. Last year my gardens yielded over 300 lbs of tomatoes and even I got tired of canning, dehydrating, and putting them up as sauces, salsas, and pastes after a while so I started sending them to work with my husband to give away and pushing them off on anyone who stopped in. This year I only planted 20 tomato plants
. everyone is tomatoed-out. Next year after everyone realizes that WalMart is selling GMOed tomatoes
Ill plant more tomatoes. Ill hopefully have a little produce stand by then. --Definitely yes to an underlying carriage out of metal. Thats what I see around here
. little road side stands on metal frames with lock boxes bolted to them but I like the idea of welding a money box to the frame much better. I only added that photo because it was the 1st portable farm stand I found a decent photo of on the internet that was sort of along the lines of what I wanted
. albeit constructed 100% from wood and considerably larger than what I need. --Make it so you can move it easily, but people can't. maybe removable wheels EXCELLENT Idea. I have a riding lawn mower. Its very old but it does have a trailer hitch on it so I was already thinking along those lines. --If it moves too well the xxxxxx kids will put in in the ditch, on the road or take it for a ride. Boys will be boys. Ive got two options of where to put it upon completion. In front of my home chained to one of two heavy duty steel posts at the end of my driveway set in concrete or on the main road chained to a street sign where it would be unattended
. anyone with the right tools could easily steal the little stand. Evidently the thieves in this area are more interested in stealing 10k horse trailers, riding lawn mowers, and copper wind chimes in broad daylight though so thats a good thing for me. --Not so sure about the wood Ill use. Probably pine if I cant get my hands on what I want. Ive got my eye on a stand of Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) down the road thats aggressively colonizing an area where there are utilities. The shallow roots are causing problems for the underground cables. Theyre on the public right of way. AT&T gave me permission to take them all down and haul them off for personal use if I treat the stumps (Ive been trained to use pesticides) but that stand isnt quite mature enough yet so Ive been on the look-out for another stand. Black locust would be a great wood to use for a project like this. Its used primarily for fence posts because its an incredibly strong and durable wood
. that can last up to 50 years in the ground. People often overlook Black Locust because its not commercially available and well
because they dont have a means by which to convert a log into usable lumber. Heres a little blurb on Black Locust for any woodworkers out there, http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-.../black-locust/. --Ive got a little Haddon lumbermaker, http://www.haddontools.com/lumbermaker.html. My only suggestion for anyone wanting to go it on their own making lumber for a project like this would be to buy a ripping chain for your chainsaw. Theres countless YouTubes on how to use a Haddon if anyone is interested. --Make your cash box welded on the tube frame and inaccessible, just a little coin / bill slotThere were instances locally here of cash going missing, they caught the local cop stealing produce and cash on video. This is horrible
. absolutely horrible. He should be ashamed of himself. What cops we have left in the area that havent been laid off to balance municipal budgets are all good guys
normal people out there just making an honest wage so they can pay their bills. Our cops might be forced to rough up somebody resisting arrest because they want to make it home ALIVE to their wives and kids but Im pretty sure none of them would EVER steal anything. I cant say the same for people passing through this area though. The economy is so bad that pert near everything not bolted down is getting legs. We are one of the few houses that hasnt had a break in. The only thing we can think of thats saved us is that we have an older Great Dane, an English Mastiff, and two younger assertive little German Shepherds inside our house that are only about 75 and 90 lbs. Theyre all from shelters. And they seem to be very protective of their "forever" home. Soon as one of the shepherds gets all worked up
. the Slobber Meisters seem to feed off them and get worked up too. I swear Im beginning to think adult shelter dogs are much better than any alarm system on the market. Who wants to risk getting bit by a 260+ pound dog thats been spooked? And there
. thats my pitch for getting ones next 4-legged family member from a shelter. --Here are the only plans I found online for a produce stand that is the size I would like
. theyre for a kids lemonade stand so theyd have to be tweaked. There are no produce/farm stand plans available anywhere that I could find so when I get more welding experience under my belt
. Ill probably come back and resurrect this thread to get lots of help with designing a metal undercarriage
. I just wanted to know if this type of a project would be doable or not for someone working on their own for the very 1st time with limited welding skills and now I have my answer. I will be able take care of everything above the steel frame. Im leaps and bounds better working with wood and textiles than metal and either already own or have access to all the woodworking tools Id need. (oopsie, can't add the document, pop up window says invalid file extension)--And
. I pulled these out of a recycling bin on the curb. If this produce stand ends up being light enough to pull
. I might be able to put them to use. I added them to my stash. MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reply:No trash will ever be safe again! Originally Posted by Equilibrium--And…. I pulled these out of a recycling bin on the curb. If this produce stand ends up being light enough to pull…. I might be able to put them to use. I added them to my stash.
Reply:You're right.... no garbage in my neighborhood will be safe again. It's against the law to remove anything that's aluminum though..... another law I didn't know existed until I brought home the shovel handles. I think the biggest stumbling block is that our services include 1 annual haul off and the homeowner schedules it. I suspect I'm missing the really good "stuff" that won't fit in a little recycling bin like metal shelving, old garden carts, and broken dollys with wheels on them that I've been looking for because of that. I'd have to go out the night before garbage day to scour the neighborhood every week to catch what I want and that's just not possible. Sure do wish we had a city wide large item haul off day like other cities have. --I'm not the only one out there doing this. Before I joined here I was looking for simple beginner welding projects made from ordinary things around a house like clothes hangers and incredibly this thread popped up, http://www.millerwelds.com/resources...ldor-if/page50. I made it to page 50 by going back to read it every time I had a few minutes. I meant to go back to finish reading it but gardening season hit. If you ever want a deep belly laugh....start reading that thread. You'll find a lot of garbage pickers and metal hoarders in it.MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reply:Just thinking ahead to winter and starting to gather materials for a future produce stand.... I bought these wheels for $20 at a flea market. I like everything about them. --MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reply:Originally Posted by EquilibriumJust thinking ahead to winter and starting to gather materials for a future produce stand.... I bought these wheels for $20 at a flea market. I like everything about them. --
Reply:If anyone has built a small portable farm stand.... or any farm stand for that matter, I'd love to see photos.--BD1> Ohhhh.... now there's an idea I never considered. It could be aimed at the HO Association President's family room where she has a high powered telescope set up. All the better for her to keep tabs on what's going on when the leaves drop in fall. Brilliant. MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reply:I changed my mind on the wheels because.... I found another set I like even better. ----Perhaps with only two wheels instead of four? Something along these lines only larger...----I took these photos of a produce stand I saw that seemed compact enough... albeit larger than what I had in mind. I don't know that I'll use any ideas from this one but.... I don't know that I won't. ----If anyone has any ideas for an underlying metal carriage.... any drawings would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty sure I could make my own axles but don't have much experience building anything else this size.... well... except for my welding cart and I had a lot of help with that.MM 211Smith Tru Lite O/A set, Thanks Bob!Lincoln AC-225--But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium- Ursula K. Le Guin |
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