Unique Dolly

[znowboarding]

Hey everyone!

So i built a dolly, with some random stuff... and it worked out pretty good.

Its a modified design fit to run on a aluminum ladder.

I don't have great photos of it and the parts i used might be hard to replicate/find.

anyway, photos...





hopefully that works.

What the dolly consists of is an old school desk mounted on a platform that is seated on a frame. the frame has 2 rollers on it (there long rods that spin very well, old supermarkets might have them... what we got them from was a very old bike trainer.

anyway we built the frame out with nuts and washers so that the width of the rollers would just be wide enough to fit onto the ladder we used. (it is a 40ft ladder but only half of it was the right width so we only had 20 feet of track)

anyway, mostly i just want to show this off, but if anyone is interested i will post more on how i made it and add some more photos.

 

[tashbee]

pretty cool idea
ive been procrastinating building a dolly that runs on a ladder
i was gonna use 2 wheels at each corner
with just the rollers and angle iron to keep it straight do you get much side to side jerky movements?
or with the angle iron it keeps it rolling pretty smooth/straight?

 

[j]

Please, please, please post more photos.

 

[Postmaster]

Cool, but it looks like you play steelguitar on it.

Frank

 

[znowboarding]

I need to go take more photos and will post them asap.

 

[ODDNAME]

That is some lovely diy =)

 

[Richard J. Johnson]

Just add some black matte paint and cover the wood. That is some creative stuff there. good job.

 

[znowboarding]

More photos

More photos

ok, I have more photos...

and by no means is this a finished project, it is still very much a work in progress.

 

[tashbee]

alright so i got a pretty good idea for a substitute to the roller pins that are hard to find and im going to start finally to put my own DIY dolly together once its done ill start a new thread also but probably closer to after the summer

anyways wood dowel or some type of metal pole then use shrink tubing

http://cgi.ebay.ca/4-FEET-1-5-ID-BL...yZ100181QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and shrink it around the surface
just wondering if anyone has experience with shrink tubing and if it would be a good substitute, its cheap and would work the same as znowboardings rollers i think
hopefully it has a bit of a rubberish feel for grip and would shrink perfectly around the object

Thanks alot znowboarding for giving me an easy design to use

maybe someone can answer if shrink tubing would work in this case

 

[Jason Miller]

go with skate board wheels, two on each top lip, and two on each outside lip of the ladder, its how I made the dolly for my moco and it works beautifully,

 

[Richard J. Johnson]

That thing is awesome!

 

[znowboarding]

Here is a Video i made of it in action (w/o my dvx100b)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKmcht8KJJw