Instant Outboard Motor Stand from Shopping Cart

Here's a slick outboard motor dolly you can make from a shopping cart in a minute.
It's good for moving the motor around and keeping it from falling over.

Step 1 Start Cutting

My granddad used to say: "To make a carved bear, take a piece of wood and cut off everything that doesn't look like part of a bear."

So start cutting.

I'm lucky to live in an area with lots of homeless people, so there's never a shortage of shopping carts.
I picked an especially small sturdy one for this project.

Comments

[pcooper2]

Just because a "homeless person" stole and abandoned the cart that you later converted still doesn't make it right. It's called "receiving stolen property" and it's a crime in its own right. Stolen shopping carts cost all of us money in the form of increased prices at the supermarkets. If supermarkets lose enough money due to cart pilferage and shoplifting, they go out of business and everyone in the neighborhood loses.

[WPee]

ENOUGH ALREADY about STEALING SHOPPING CARTS. Nobody needs more ideas on using stolen stuff!!! YES This is a POSITIVE and CONSTRUCTIVE comment on legal use of bright ideas....not more reasons to RIPP OFF stuff for personal gains.

[masterochicken]

How do you know it was stolen? I find broken shopping carts all the time the stores discard.

[ilpug]

Yeah, carts are easy to get in a legit way, you don't have to steal.

[Ricardo Furioso]

Tim, what is that thing in the background of the first picture?
Is it a duck amphibious vehicle?
Is it yours?
rich

[ilpug]

Yeah, that's a DUCK. Dunno if it is his or not. I doubt it, kinda.

[pinkrobot228]

Looks pretty sweet, Im actually trying this later today

[KWHCoaster]

Funny, my father did exactly this at least 10 years ago. Only he added a piece of 2x6" or 2x8" to act as a transom for mounting the outboard. Works great for shuttling the outboard around in the garage. And for flushing after a run in sea water.

[Uter]

This is a nice idea, I currently have my 8hp outboard mounted on a dolly. The problem I see with the shopping cart is people like me who live on lakes need to wheel their motors down to the lake, usually down hills and/or across lawns. The small wheels on a shopping cart wouldn't cut it. Of course you could weld on bigger wheels, but by the time I got done with all that it's basically my dolly that I'm already using :) Thanks for the instructable though.

[TimAnderson]

I just edited the intro text to try to answer this question thanks, tim