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Rolling Garden Caddy Keep even long tools handy — with golf bags. From "B. Original" episode DBOR-508

Tired of toting awkward tools throughout the yard or making several trips to the garage or shed for one more item? B. Original and make your outdoor life easier with this clever caddy from Michele Beschen. Made with a dolly and a discarded golf bag, this cool caddy handles all your essentials. It's the next best thing to having someone haul it all for you.

Tote tall tools...

And tiny treasures...

With this cool caddy.

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C

Rolling Garden Caddy

Materials:

2-wheeled dolly or cart
drill
1/4" drill bit for metals
safety glasses
1/4" eye bolts, 2" long
1/4" nuts
S-hooks
golf bag
old leather belt

• Lay the dolly on its back on a steady work surface. Most dollies have two crossbars across the back; measure and mark for four evenly spaced holes along each bar. The holes need to go near the bottom of the bars so that S-hooks will fit through them easily.

• Wearing safety glasses, use a 1/4" drill bit for metals to drill the holes (figure A).

  Safety Alert: Always wear safety glasses when using power tools, especially when working with metals. Tiny, sharp shards of metal can go flying whenever metal is cut or drilled.

• Install eye bolts and S-hooks in the holes as desired to hang smaller garden tools. Michele Beschen used four eye bolds in the top bar and four S-hooks in the lower bar (figure B).

• When installing the eye bolts, thread a nut onto the bolt as far as it will go (figure C), slide the bolt through the hole, thread on another bolt and tighten.
  

  Figure D

  Figure E

  
  

• To haul your larger tools, strap a golf bag to the front of the caddy with an old leather belt (figure D). Michele Beschen suggests checking out thrift stores and large yard sales for these bags. If there is room on the dolly platform, use two bags side by side: A second, smaller bag handles medium-size tools or kids' tools.

• Use the golf bag's many pockets and pouches to hold garden gloves, small supplies or even a cell phone (figure E).