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"Lazy Susan" Tool Cart
No matter what tool Jan Parker needs it doesn't take long to find it, thanks to his "Lazy Susan" tool cart.
  "It's much faster and easier than digging through a tool chest, looking for a wrench or socket that might not even be in there," says the Reedsville, Ohio, farmer.
  The cart measures 4 by 5 ft. and carries a 7-ft. high, 4-ft. wide steel frame that holds the "Lazy Susan" - four panels of plywood with all eight sides fitted with tools. The plywood panels attach to a metal shaft that runs vertically down the middle of the frame. The bottom end of the rod rotates on a bearing installed in the floor.
  He hangs tools by category on all eight sides, with wrenches on one side, sockets on another side, screwdrivers on a third side, etc.
  "I arrange the tools so the smallest one is on the left and the largest on the right," says Parker. "If I'm working on a tractor or other equipment where I need to use several different tools, I just pull the cart over there with me instead of having to walk back and forth all the time. I mounted 500-watt Quartz lights and electrical receptacles on top of the Lazy Susan's frame so no matter where I'm working I'll always have plenty of light. I had been using a rolling tool chest, but I got tired of sorting through the drawers looking for what I needed.
  "On some panels I just drive nails to hold tools. I attached 2 by 6's sideways to some panels and bored holes in them for hanging screwdrivers, chisels, pliers, etc."
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jan A. Parker, Box 41484 St. Rt. 7, Reedsville, Ohio 45772 (ph 740 667-3881).


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2002 - Volume #26, Issue #2