This has been a project that’s been in development for quite a while, and I’ve had to manage a few design challenges along the way. I think I’ve finally come up with a solution that works for me, and managed to put it together satisfactorily.
I wanted a way to store my lumber. I often have quite a few lengths of timber, and sheets of plywood hanging around, and I wanted a good way to store them. I’d seen plans for lumber carts before, but they were well beyond my current level of expertise. Eventually I pulled the trigger on a simpler version, constructed for the most part out of structural timber that I had left over from an older project.
There were a few immediate challenges to navigate. I wanted to make better use of the space in my shed, so I had only about 300mm to work with, which meant that the lumber cart was going to be long, but quite narrow. It also needed to be mounted on wheels, so that I could slide it out to access it as needed. I wanted to be able to store lengths, sheets, and shorter cuts of both normal pine (and eventually, other woods) and also offcuts.
As I was constructing it, I also through that I could add a pegboard dimension to the top of one side, to store common tools and clamps. This worked out well.
Perhaps the trickiest bit was working out how best to store the lengths of wood. In this respect, the 3D printer came to the rescue – I was able to custom print the lumber cart hooks that I wanted. Time will tell if these are strong enough for what I am using them for, but so far, so good.
The final part was the fabrication of some very basic plywood boxes to store bits of wood in.
Overall, I’m quite pleased with the result. 
