Dynasty DX Crazy Cart

[whateg0]

I don't know if I just didn't notice it before or if it wasn't visible, but how's that panel behind the bottle made? The one that has the panels in it. It looks cool!

Dave

[wildfire]

Dave the rear panel is just 1/8th plate but I put the 1 inch flat bars across there to make it look a little more appealing.Without them it just looked plain. I guess I'm like all of us. We start in at a project and we just get ideas as we go along so that's what happened here. Well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it Thanks. Paul

[MXtras]

That's the only V-8 powered welding cart I have seen with a spare tire.

Very creative and very nicely done!

Scott

[whateg0]

1/8" PLATE! Wow! So, it not only looks good, but it'll take a beating too, huh? Thanks! I'm pretty sure if I try, I can complicate that.

Dave

[wildfire]

1/8" PLATE! Wow! So, it not only looks good, but it'll take a beating too, huh? Thanks! I'm pretty sure if I try, I can complicate that.

Dave

Dave I think you meant to say " duplicate". Man if I can build it anyone can. The fun part for me was the designing aspect of the cart. I could have built a cart like someone else's but where's the challenge in that? The hardest part of building anything is in it's design! I'm honored though that someone would like it enough to want to copy it. Thanks


My next cart is in the plans and that one will very much different than the Crazy Cart and anyone who likes the Crazy Cart will love this next cart. Post some pics when you get yours done.

Thanks Scott. Glad you liked the project.

[whateg0]

Dave I think you meant to say " duplicate". ....

Oh, no. I meant complicate it. If you've ever seen anything I've made, you'd know that with few exceptions, I can take a very simple project and make it complex. I'll add a feature here, or make this hidden, or put a twist in just to make it look cool. Nope, nothing is safe from my mind. I can find 50 ways to get from point 'A' to point 'B' and none of them are in a straight line. Where would the fun be in that?

I don't want to hijack your thread, but here's a perfect example.


I coulda just made the corners square and used a simple piece of angle for the top to pivot on, or I could have made the top at a fixed angle. But no, I had to go and bend the sides. And at the time, I couldn't bend the sides all on one piece because it was in a H-style hydraulic press, so I had to make the sides in pieces and then weld them all together. Then for the pivoting top, I didn't just drill a set of evenly spaced holes in the sides to run a pin through. Nope. Not me. I drilled a set of evenly spaced holes in the side frame and then a series of evenly spaced holes in the top using a different spacing, so you get not 4 angles, but 12.


Here, you can see the chain and the way (well, sorta) that I have it hooked. No hole with a pin through it, or a J hook. No, I have a catch that rotates out to catch the chain and then swings forward and is pinned in place to pull the chain a little tighter and to keep it there.

So, you see, I complicate things. It's what I do.

Dave

[wildfire]

Dave I got to say I really like that cart of yours. There's no problem to see that when you do something you put 200% into it. I guess we're alike in the fact that we think outside the box and also take the long way around something rather than the short cut. Really nice bends there on yours.
Post a pic here if you can of how you did yours and what you used. I used a bender kit to do mine but it was a hand operated one.

Nice job on the cart. Thanks for the pictures. I'm impressed. Paul