Roll-Around Lumber Cart

Need a better way to store lumber? This easy-to-build cart has space for plywood, long boards, and all of your cutoffs too.

Here, there, and everywhere. That’s one method for storing lumber and plywood. Long boards are often stacked on the floor, short pieces of wood get buried in a pile somewhere else, and sheet material is usually just leaned against the wall.

The only problem with this type of storage “system” is it’s a hassle to sort through everything to find the piece you need. So I’m always on the lookout for a better way to store lumber.

One of the best solutions I’ve seen is the roll-around store-all Lumber storage for the long and short of it — and everything in between. There’s even a place for sheet material.

As you can see, there’s plenty of storage. But just as important, this store-all provides a great way to organize lumber and sheet material. You can slide long boards into the open-ended compartments in the A-shaped “tower,” and shorter pieces of wood fit into a row of bins on the side. The other side holds full and partial sheets of material.

BONUS: Panel-Cutting Guide – But there’s more to this project than storage. As an option, you may want to add the panel-cutting guide. It makes it easy to cut sheet material into pieces of manageable size, and it can be attached directly to the cart or the wall.

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What You Get:

  • 14 printable (digital) pages of step-by-step instructions
  • 60 full-color photos and illustrations
  • Instructions for building an optional Panel-Cutting Guide
  • Retail sources for hardware and supplies
  • Shop-tested guarantee from the editors of Woodsmith magazine

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