Paulk Smart Kart Build 

I like seeing CNC grade work being done by hand !

your system developments are exciting Ron. It's obvious to us, you love what you're doing.

Wow so much experience that is offered your video's that I know I am going to have to watch over and over again. I absolutely love the work station being a one time build and never to need another for life ( mind blown ) . Thank you so very much for your time , knowledge and patience. I am looking forward to building my own . 😁😁😁

Great idea Ron!

This is by far the most precise and well thought out work station I've seen. I built a large heavy workstation out of Timber stock that definitely is not portable lol. I'm thinking this will be a future project

Thank you for your quick response

Nice work Ron. Never stop

Nice design.

Nice work.

Thanks Ron!!! I’ve been following you for years and love what you’re doing. In fact, like you, I’m upgrading my original Paulk bench to your new smart total station. Love it! I’m also building your smart bench, smart kart, and smart router table. I love the new cradle idea as well for my dewalt job site table saw. Oh and i forgot to mention, all these new Smart changes are going in my SmartWoodShop that you inspired me to build a few years ago. Thank you Ron for what you do!

Awesome! I like your inventions.

Great Job Nicely Done RON 👍

Those casters are everything you need them to be. I’m so happy to have added them to my router table, but I wish they would have pre-drilled holes for the connecting beam, if that’s something you want to add. The steel they use is so hard, I destroyed my step-bit set.

I'm having three problems with the cart (wheel sellection), and they arise when using the carts on slightly uneven ground. The carts glide around on my concrete shop floors, beautifully. But the whole thing for me was a mobile shop I could take out onto the driveway. There are minor height adjustments leaving the shop, and the driveway has some rough patches on the asphalt. The casters could easily eat these, but for the fact they are the lifting casters. If one encounters pencil thick ridge and lifts a little to raise the unit, the caster stays in the down position because it is on a hinge, and worse, it takes a 90, and blocks sideways against the obstruction. The other issue is when lowering the cart, if the surface is not level then the feet will not rest on the ground, and the cart will suffer potential damage from the surface, or from racking to support the bench. It may rock on some high point. The final wheels problem is the lifting wheels are amazing, but due to the design, they have almost no ground clearance when down. This means that moving the cart from a level surface over a curb or onto a shallow ramp, will ground it out. I think some of these issues are why the Big Dolly made an entrance. And I move my bench over obstructions all the time with zero effort when using even a tiny dolly, but the smart cart gets stopped cold on the same surfaces. This is a problem with the wheels, but also with the longer footprint of the cart. I modified a standard mover's dolly, about 2 foot long, with a cutout from the bench. The bench top now locks onto that dolly. If I come to a curb it will normally take it in stride, with my just pushing down on the end of the bench top. A longer dolly, or the cart will ground out in the same situation.

Seems to be a little into the future.... No plans yet. REALLY love the detail in this video.

If you need any practice you could come to Florida and help me build some kitchen cabinets and put down some vinyl plank flooring

I absolutely would love to see you start your fixer upper, your new house or...? Succes with the search! location location location ;-) and stay safe!

I'm about to mount the wheels for this smart kart making it the first Paulk Plan I've built so far. It's going under my Moravian Workbench, which would have been a pill to make mobile otherwise. This is a perfect solution allowing mobility for a period bench that would be ruined with modern fixtures added.

Hi Ron, Im looking at the 20v DeWalt router, were you able to get it with the plunge base or did you have to get that as an add-on ? I got your plans the other day for the Smart Kart and im keen to start building.

Hey Ron - great kart! Can I use this for my Smart Total Station?

I must have missed something.. that's the first time I'm seeing the sawstop in one of your trays!

Which size of festool dust extractor do you use on your smart cart setup? 26?

Have any videos of these work stations in action ? It would be cool to see some cutting like how it's used . Thanks for the videos

The regular cordless makita base does not have threads but the plunge cut base does.

How do you roll it in and out of the trailer?

Just wondering why you chose the FastCap screws for the Kart and the trim head screws for the bench. Is there a structural reason?

Hello Ron, I'm in the middle of building your benches with both having the smart cart. Can you tell me the overall height with both benches and carts packed away for storage? I want to make sure they fit under my shelf. Thanks!

I must Say RON You Did It Congratulation You Manage To Adding The SawStop Into Smart Kart Mobility... Nicely Done...I'll See You This Weekend...

Hi Ron, I see you have the saw stop in the cradle. Just wondering how the weight compares with the older DeWalt you used to have.

Hey how do you like those knock off Dewalt Batteries?

I think the whole sawhorse needs to be redesigned. Starting with the cart in mind, I want the whole mass of the foot to remain. Cutting out the extra 10 MM makes the foot a lot weaker. Obviously it works, particularly because if it is used in the Kart as there is arch support there. But if some time I just want to throw the bench up on saw horses, then I am back to the weakened foot. Obviously it still works, but I don't see the logic in making the foot weaker. Of all the parts of the sawhorse, it is the one that takes the most heat, yet it is the weakest. On the sawhorse, the top two feet are 90 mm, and the bottom one is now 70. It looks stupid, and 70 is 49/81 weaker, and 343/729 less stiff. And now, the bottom horizontals is lost in the bucket of the Smart Kart. To me the whole thing needs to be redesigned. Get all the horizontals the same 90MM; provide for the deeper cutout, on the foot; recenter the middle horizontal; possibly make the lower foot actually wider so that it is the same height as the ends of the SK, and restores the stock support function of the cut outs on the sawhorse. Or, make the sawhorses out of 1/2" with no cut-outs. That saves a ton of money, and would be equally strong, and probably the same weight. If one is using the Kart all the time, much of the feature set of the original sawhorses is gone, and some people may not need that middle stock support shelf either. Then you can put your business logo on the sawhorse. The middle complicated cutout should go, if the SK is used all the time, as Ron suggests. At that point the sawhorses, even with the horizontals, would be so easy to make that pattern routing and pattern making is not really worth it. Just screw them together and run them through a bandsaw.

Even under PSK materials/supplies, I see no link to the wheels you used. Could you provide one?

I need to buy a mm tape

When did Robert Redford become a carpenter?

Do you still use the lite wood ?

Ron, why the chamfer instead of a round over?

Don't forget safety glasses!!

have you updated the saw horses on the other plans so that they're modified to match this?

Does the smart cart work with the Big Bench?

A bit about the functionally and demonstration would be very helpful. I just wanted to see what this this is. No help here?????

Ron are you going to modify the original plans smart bench to include the 42 mm foot + increased depth? 😅 Just a quick suggestion, but thank you so much for your content and sharing your tremendous experience.

Hey Ron, thank you for the design. Question: if you are selling plans and making money on them. Then why don’t you update them? Your PSB plans call for a 764mm wide saw horse. The smart kart plans makes no mention of narrowing the saw horse bases, only raising the horizontal ledge between the feet. Only in minute 12 of a 24 minute video of you NOT MAKING THE KART, but talking at length about why you made your choices, do you offhandedly mention having to narrow the base of the horse. Its incredibly frustrating. There are people giving away plans online who correct them when there are errors. It’s been a year since your video and I just bought the plans. I spent an hour certain I had messed up something in the template or somewhere in the process. Either give the plans away and just say “good luck y’all, best to scour all my videos for hidden dimensions and don’t trust the plans” or continue to sell them like a business man and please align your plans with your innovations along the way. Or trim your videos down- I appreciate you, but please update the plans to work with eachother. After all, you sell them as a package. They should work like a package. Thanks.

Why are u talking in metric? Oh I forgot your up in Washington, the part of the country that thinks rioting is ok, and police are bad. Not saying u Ron, just your politicians