Making my own welding cart

Every time I wanted to weld something I had to kneel down either on the gravel driveway or garage floor. Both are painful on the knees and I'm getting too old to bend over every 60 seconds. So, I'm going to build a welding cart that I can roll out on the gravel driveway and weld without bending over.

Tractor Supply had these wheels two for $9:

And of course we need some angle iron for a frame and steel rod for axles:

So I weld up a rectangular frame 21" x 33" so it's a little smaller than the 24x36 steel plate that will sit on top. I weld on the axles, but I also put some braces on each side of the axle to make it stronger when pushing it over rough terrain:

woo-hoo! it spins!:

So I built a basic frame:

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