In this video I want to give you an overview of the outboard motor cart. It's
one of the projects in the welding course you can build. And as you can see
here it's it's not just useful for moving the cart up and down to the water
seasonally as you have to do, but also as just a place to store the motor when you
finally got it in a shed or wherever you're going to keep it. As with all the
projects here you should study the plans but also print them out so you can have
a hard copy in your shop as you're working. There's just a couple of things
I want to point out here. Most of the project is made out of one inch by two
inch rectangular tubing which is nice to work with and it's plenty strong
Probably the most complicated part of the project would be the wheels and how
they fasten to the actual cart. So you can use bicycle wheels and the exact
diameter doesn't matter. It's kind of whatever is handy. And the wheels
fasten with these axle plates. So it's just a plate of mild steel. The dimensions
are in the materials list. But there's an oval shaped cutout here for the axle of
the wheel. And the best way to do that is to drill a hole of the diameter you want
and then just continue with a cut here and a cut here in order to turn that
into an oval hole so that the axles can just slide in. You can take them, you can
take the wheels put them on or off just by simply sliding in. Just like wheels
are normally held on the back end of a bicycle. Another thing I'd like to point
out is this piece here. The outboard motor support. The location of that, its
height on the cart needs to match the height of your outboard motor. There's
kind of standard sizes but then there's also this thing called a long shaft
motor. So it's basically a taller motor than normal for a larger boat that's
taller at the transom at the back. So you'd need to adjust this. So the exact
position of this outboard motor support and the lugs you can see down here the
lugs that actually allow the wood to bolt to the cart. That's something you're
going to need to customize. Now in this case on the plans we have two locations
This location for the the two by six piece of wood is kind of for a normal
outboard motor and then if you've got one of these long shaft ones you'd want
to have the lugs higher up so that you have more room for the motor to just hang
there. And just one more thing to leave you with. This is the cart in action and
you can see how there's some handles at the bottom. I mean there's the this arm
you see here and then there's a steel pipe that's been welded on at 90 degrees
to it to form a handle. That's actually a really important feature of this cart
And the arms stop the cart from flopping forward. I mean it allows the cart to sit
upright so it's very important. But these handles as you can see allow a
second person to to help as the carts being worked up on rough terrain. This is
very standard for an outboard motor. You carry the motor down to the water in
the spring and then you carry it up again in the fall. So making the cart a
two-person deal is is a very big help as you'll see