Torch carts

[Jorville]

Here are a couple of torch carts I have built. The big blue one was for work and so was the small one with one cylinder behind the other. The one in the snow is the one for home.

 

[ultrarunner]

I built a little one for the shop... real handy to have a place for tips, torch and bottles.

Yours look like you could go anywhere... well built and real tires.

 

[jbwilson]

Nice job. Does the wheel pivotting arrangement on the big blue work as well as you imagined?

 

[Jorville]

It was built to be pulled behind a in plant tug. There is also a hook on the back of it to pull a welder. It pulls easily and tracks nicely

 

[jbwilson]

Oh, I didn't think of pulling - I imagine it would fulfil that purpose very well. Fabrication for the three looks very professional.

 

[Jorville]

jbwilson,
Where I worked we had the equipment, when the plant closed I don't have access to the equipment anymore. I used a DiAcro hydraulic bender to make the rings around the cylinders. A hydraulic conduit bender for the pipe between the cylinders. the axles are automotive spindles turned down to fit inside 2 1/2 pipe. The rotors had the breaking area cut off. Then the shear to cut the sheet metal, and a break. I can't make anything like that anymore.

 

[Jorville]

I built a little one for the shop... real handy to have a place for tips, torch and bottles.

Yours look like you could go anywhere... well built and real tires.

With the right tires you could push two of them 50 MPH.

 

[jbwilson]

A hydraulic conduit bender for the pipe between the cylinders.

Jorville - if one day I get back to oxy/acy welding, one of my 1st tasks will to to fabricate a lightweight former for 1" pipe, using 1/8th mild steel cut outs using the following design - allowing for a number of former shapes to be added. I have no idea whether it will work or not, but seems it might (in my mind).