Fireside function: Build a firewood cart

Build a sturdy card to help stoke your next fire

By Ryan Shervill

Photo by Roger Yip

Those of you who have a wood stove or fireplace know how tedious it can be to move firewood from where it’s stored to where it’s burned. Whether you employ the “armload method” or use a canvas carrier, it generally means multiple trips back and forth from the woodpile to the stove. I designed this firewood cart to help make this chore easier and faster, requiring fewer trips to the woodpile and less strain on your back.

I had some objectives I wanted to achieve with this design. It had to be functional, of course, but I also wanted it to be made with readily available parts and materials, be lightweight and fit through a standard doorway. The unique, forward-of-centre placement of the handle and the pivot point make the cart extremely easy to tilt and manoeuvre.

The unique position of the handle makes it easy to carry a big load

Skill
3

Instructions

Part Material Size (T x W x L*) Qty.

Shopping list

Baltic birch plywood 1/2" x 2' x 4' 1 sheet
Hardwood dowel 1 1/8" x 5' 1
Threaded rod 1/2" x 36" 1
Aluminum tube 3/4" outside dia. x 36" 1
Copper pipe 3/4" inside dia. x 12" 1
Flat washers 5/8" 4
Lock nuts 5/8" 2
Stove bolts 1/4" x 1 1/4" 2
Coupler nuts 1/4" 2
Wheels
(LV# XP225)
20"-dia, 3 1/4" hubs 2



* Length indicates grain direction

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