Welding cart plans

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Looking for welding cart plans My needs are to be able to take it over gravel amd hold 2 150 cuf tanks. What's your ideas ?
 
I bought a broken pressure washer off a guy and use the carriage to mount my welder to. It already has hooks to hang the cables from.
 
20h 26L 16w multiprocess welder.
Seperate Plasma cutter under

Plus I need to mount 2 150 cuf tanks
How big is the machine? We talking a 140a inverter machine or a 250a+ transformer machine?
 
20h 26L 16w multiprocess welder.
Seperate Plasma cutter under

Plus I need to mount 2 150 cuf tanks

Too big for my original idea probably, seen some people use a utility dolly (larger solid wheels), cylinders mounted on the rear, welders mounted on the front sitting sideways.

I was googling around and ran across some cool ideas on pintrest (yea I know). The ones with the wide gokart tires look awesome and would probably work well on gravel but not cheap I'm sure. pinterest.com/bartlettvern/welding-cart/

Depending on how loose the gravel is, an old lawntractor chassis may be good to cut/shorten up and build into one. Nice larger diameter/wide tires would make it a pleasure to drag around.
 
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Yeah I was looking on there too But the 150s kinda hamper ideas. Makes the cart really top heavy. But cart width isnt a concern
 
Yeah I was looking on there too But the 150s kinda hamper ideas. Makes the cart really top heavy. But cart width isnt a concern

If you tried the dolly idea, as long as you position the dolly where the welders and tanks sit flat near/on the ground it shouldn't be very top heavy. Two 150s, a welder the size you listed, cables, and a plasma cutter is not going to be light. The stacked welder and plasma shouldn't be any taller than 42" or so from the ground. So you would be looking at a foot print of what, roughly 26"x26" if you sat the bottles side by side and the welder sideways in front of them.

If you wanted to go with more of a 4 wheel cart, I might would try the mower/gokart chassis idea and make your tank shelf a couple inches off the ground to keep COG low.
 
This looks like a 300 tank but similar to what I was talking about. ETA, I would rather have the front of the dolly framed up, one tank on each side (in the same area as in this pic and the welders mounted forward of the tanks (unless your machines are very light).
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Duplicate or modify an oxy acetylene or an appliance dolly to hold the tanks properly and use larger wheels to work on gravel.
The retractable casters can stabilize it when moving it.
Hang the welder on the front, with a swing arm to allow you to swap the cylinders easily.

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You own the right tools.. build exactly what you want! Sketch it out and build away!
 
You own the right tools.. build exactly what you want! Sketch it out and build away!
That's exactly what I started today. Then the rain started

The way my workbench is set up I have to run a 20 ft stick of steel out the door To hold it in the vise So back at it tomorrow.
 
I too look forward to seeing what you come up with.

I own almost a dozen bottles ranging up to 250’s. For what you’re doing, rather than a 2 wheeled cart I think that I’d go with a 4 wheel design using wheelbarrow or hand cart sized no-flat tires.

Keeping the weight balanced on a 2 wheeled cart, especially over rough terrain can be a challenge.

This cart concept looks pretty practical.

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Perhaps the running gear above mated to something like this?

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Keep center of gravity low biggest recommendation and bigger tires the better. We had a two wheeled torch cart with small tires and it was a royal pain. Now have one with larger tires that is much much better but still not ideal over rough areas. I think a 4 wheeled with tires on outside to keep it low would be most stable over the gravel.
 
That lights work.

I’ve had carts that only held the equipment, and carts that also had drawers for supplies.

I much prefer the drawers.

Surprisingly Horror Freight’s welding cabinets are not bad. The wheels suck, but the cabinets are decent.
 
If you can make a little gooseneck for the casters like in scotts picture of the 3 wheeled unit up above and then mounted the axle setup to the back to keep it low It should work well. Its always surprising and sure doesn’t take long for things to get top heavy with bottles or heavy welders.
 
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