I have a 2x4 and a 4x4 centipede. I can do woodwork behind my house but the cleaning is terrible. So I prefer to work outside when I can and they are great for that, except once you have them attached they can be difficult to move. Mostly I work with 2x4, sometimes with 4x4 and sometimes with both. You can't just attach the wheels to these platforms as the legs are plastic and there is nothing to attach them to. I suppose you could do something to get the wheel down through the leg, but even with swivel wheels that lock up, they're not always trustworthy. I don't want to insist and move it suddenly, plus I need something with minimal assembly and disassembly. I thought this mobile base would be perfect, but so far it's been nothing more than a headache. As shown on their box, they expect you to buy an XxX tree leaf to fit the floor and this works great if you want to use it as shelf space, but you can't do that with a centipede so you'll end up with US$25 -Dollars wasted when you could use a 2x2 or 2x4 for less than $10. Or you could use 1 inch boards and then add a cross member, but I want each one to be installable, disassembleable and reusable. If they raised the edge of the base plate about an inch you could use a 2x6. If they made the base plate so there were 4 holes instead of 2, you could use 2x4. If they made a round insert in the top panel for the centipede's legs, wow. But no, they haven't done any of that and so far it's been cf getting it to work for what I need. Regardless of the size of the tree, leaf, plank or whatever, if it's 2 inches tall it will fit in the corners, but just barely. At each corner you have a bracket and a notched plate that holds the wood together and then the bolts go through holes in the wood (you drill of course) and then thread into the threaded hole at the bottom. But they designed it for something like 1/2 or 1 inch thick plywood. If you use 2 inches in the corner it's pinched enough to fit, but whatever you put on the top plate risks slipping off. There's just a little edge that keeps everything in place. And they provide two sets of different sized screws, but not for 2". I believe they include a set of 1 1/4 and 1 3/4. I decided to give it another try. I decided to cut in the 2x6x8 half to make it 2 2x6x4 unfortunately I bought the 2x6 before researching it thoroughly it's only 10.50 but as I said they don't include screws for 2" wood and I need at least a 2 1/2 " Bolts and they should be flat heads because the board has countersunk holes at the top so the surface is flat. I hate looking for bolts and screws because it's always frustrating for hours. First find the size, and it there are two options, and then determine the thread size, which is difficult without knowing a gauge and/or the dimensions, remember that the screw must be screwed into the bottom plate, no, but when you start skipping parts and the base to modify, wa rum do you buy them then?. Turns out if I buy the right size in HD they're almost $3 each! dollars per set. Spent over an hour just to find a set for about $15. About $30 total. What a joke. .2 only go in one direction Then moving is not as easy as with 4 independent wheels But happened to have a set of wheel jacks, 1 for each corner I used to buy. Didn't think they would work for this because each wheel has to be attached to whatever you move. But I attached each wheel to a 2x4 block and then attached it to the ends of two 2x4 beams and then added some metal plates at each corner to keep the centipede's leg from slipping off. As a result, I got something similar to village skis. Doesn't look great but fits my 2x4 centipede as well as my 4x4. For a 4x4 I only need a 4 foot 2x4 piece to put under the center piece for support, but other than that it works fine. Not sure how much weight it can hold but I put 2 vises and a piece of MDF on it and it moved well and when I put it down the centipede is sitting on a 2x4 so it's very stable. The so-called Mobile Base is still on the shelf until I find a practical use for it. That is, until a configuration emerges where it makes sense to simply cut a piece of plywood for the floor. Until then, I'll just stick to my country skis.
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