Welding a dolly!

Stock used from other applications. All rescued from a dump or roadside trash. An end of a metal bed frame for angle iron would have cost about 6 bucks...free. The front forks of a couple of free bycycles. Potential cost 50 bucks, and I still have the chains and gears from them to build a rotiserie/Pig roaster out of one of the sets and a waterwheel power drive out of the other set.

 It still worked well for what I created the dolly for. So when you see roadside trash, be creative and try to see the value of , for example an old metal bed frame and a bicycle or two on the pile!

       The actual man cave is about how to do stuff as a one man army. Our pioneer ancestors were of this ilk. Many a man and spouse were put to task by clearing ground and then building a cabin/house of the forest they just cleared. They too had to haul the trees that were to be the walls of their home. They had to hoist them into place one atop another with limited resources and no small bit of engineering skills.

      I on the other hand have a few luxuries they did not have, like a welder.

       So I continued to weld piece

after piece until I had my dolly made.

       So the "finished" product is ready to go up my side of the mountain to where I had cut a couple of maple trees down for use as bridge beams to move wood across our creek of 30 feet wide or so.