Rolling Metal Rack Transports Long and Heavy Steel

By: Paula Barbour

On his last Christmas break from school, Alvin Homier, 15, didn’t play a lot of video games. Instead, in one week of working full days, he built a rolling steel storage rack for his dad’s farm and commercial shop.

Homier used mainly scrap metal for materials: two old harrows, scrap rasp bars, “and other odds and ends,” he says.

His dad, Roger, did have a local machine shop laser cut adapter plates in order to use salvaged truck wheels they already owned. These were adapted to the stock six-bolt hubs of the running gear. The undercarriage for the trailer is the running gear from an old grain wagon. Truck wheels carry the extra weight.