Outboard Motor Cart Overview

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