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Picnic Table Rolls On Wheels
“My picnic table is made from 2 by 10 wooden boards so it’s quite heavy. It used to take 2 people to move it around,” says Dean Wallace, Oconee, Ill., who solved the problem by putting retractable caster wheels on it.
  “The wheels allow me to move the table easily by myself,” he says.
  The 3-in. caster wheels are mounted on 2 by 6 boards that are attached to the table legs with hinges. A vertical wooden “prop board” is attached to the center of each board with hinges. The top of the prop board fits into a groove cut into the underside of the table top whenever the wheels are dropped down on the ground.
   “The pressure of the prop board coming down holds the wheels in place. Once the table is where he wants it, I lift up one end of the table and use my knee to kick the prop board down out of the groove. The table then rests on its legs,” says Wallace.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dean Wallace, P.O. Box 171, Oconee, Ill. 62553.


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2013 - Volume #37, Issue #4