DIY Welding Table Cart [Complete Resource: 50 Designs]

Last modified: July 25, 2024

Get inspired with Ideas, Designs and Pictures for building your DIY Welding Table or Cart.  See how others have handled storage for welding machines, rods, gas tanks, angle grinders, chop saw, vises, clamping,  and more.  See which work surfaces will work best for you.  See our article on structural steel if you want steel sizes for building your own table.

A sturdy welding table with a flat surface and metal frame, featuring casters and organized tools.

Neat pull out support for larger projects. Big vise is essential too. Lots of great fab projects like this on OffroadFabnet.com...

Plasma cutting table with metal grate, integrated welding machine, and casters in a workshop or garage setting.

Neat idea for a plasma cutting cart. All the slag and dust funnels down to the bucket. Pirate4x4 is another great source for Fab projects...

Sturdy metal clamping table with grid-patterned bottom shelf and wooden slats on top.

Welding cart set up for clamping. Try Garage Journal for this project and more...

Blue welding cart with a Miller Dynasty 200 welding machine and various metalworking tools.

Tig Cart from MillerWelds forums is neat. Storage for the Tig, a homemade Tig water cooler, some rod, gas bottle, and the inevitable plastic box full of accessories.

A blue welding cart with a Dynasty 200 welder.

Miller Dynasty Cart. These carts that match the welder's are sharp...

Stainless steel workbench with 1-inch thick plate and square legs featuring a shelf with a cardboard box and two small objects.

The pro-welders recommend thick plate on top. This table has 1" steel plate. See Practical Machinist for more, another great source of ideas.  Love the cutout for the Tig pedal.

A sturdy steel clamping table with a slatted top and rolling base in a workshop setting.

Another very stout table, set up for clamping...

Mobile cart with three attached angle grinders in a cluttered workshop.

Every welder needs a bevy of angle grinders handy. I like hanging them right on the cart...

Red metal table with gray top and built-in vice in a garage or workshop setting.

Lots to like about this Big Red Table. Thick metal top, Big Vise, Clamp Storage, Angle Grinder Storage, and look at those handy outlets for angle grinders and whatever else up under the table lip where they're protected. There's even flip up storage for the chop saw. Nice!

Blue welding cart with outlets and Miller logo in a workshop setting.

Outlets on the cart seem nice. If you've got multiple welders on the cart, providing them each with a 220 outlet on the cart that goes to a single connection the wall sounds handy too...

Blue metal cart with wheels and open door revealing a pegboard in a workshop or garage setting.

Gas tanks often consume quite a lot of space. This rig lays them in horizontally to recapture some space and keep the center of gravity low. Nice idea, though wrestling them back out of there for refill is probably painful.

Even more welding table and cart ideas:

Plasma cutting table with tools and equipment.

Nice basic table that includes a well for plasma cutting. Seems to me a pullout or flip-up plasma surface that’s a little larger would be a neat feature for an all-in-one table + cart…

Portable welding cart with red frame and black top, featuring two welding machines and helmet.

Here’s a nice basic cart for welding…

And another neat little cart…
Cluttered workshop with metal beams, tools, and machinery.

Got some I-Beams available for salvage? They make for a beefy cart. This one’s from Welding Web…

Collection of grinders on a wooden cart in a workshop setting.

This might just be a grinder cart as much as it is a welding cart, but it is still neat…

Rod Storage right on the Cart seems like such a good idea…

Another Rod Storage Idea: Just Make a Rack for the Tubes They Come In…

A mobile workshop featuring a large toolbox with multiple drawers and shelves, equipped with various tools and a drill press.

Practically an entire Fab Workshop on a cart. I’m loving the big wheels as I know rolling a heavy cart over the 3/4″ step to my garage would be so much easier with those than regular sized casters…

Welding equipment on a gray background in an industrial setting.

Tig, Mig, Oxy Acetylene, Nice Tool Chest (looks like a side box, which are handy when you want narrow)–All the Essentials…

Thick cast iron with square holes is the ultimate industrial welding table surface. This type of surface is called an “Acorn Table”…

Steel welding table with pull-out plasma cutting rack.

Neat pull out Plasma Cutting Rack. Note the jacking system so you can pull the casters up off the ground when done rolling the table. Thick steel table is awesome too. This one is from the Hobart Welding Forums…

Sturdy workbench with dark top and gray legs, featuring tools and equipment.

Hitch Receivers are ideal to mount vises, chop saws, grinders, and anything else you may want to get out of the way if you need more room. Here’s another example of a jack up system to pull a table off the casters…

Industrial tool with Street Rodder text, red lever, and dark gray handle, in a workshop setting.

Be sure to weld a nice grounding point onto your table so you can get the ground clamp out of the way and just leave it hooked up…

Large black rolling worktable with shelves, tool holders, press, drawers, and toolbox in a workshop/garage.

Another very nicely done table. Lots of storage + outlets + hitch receivers for accessories…

My Quick and Easy Welding Table

I recently took one of two car lifts out of my garage to make room for expansion of the machine shop sickness. The good news is that I picked up a large garage stall of floor space, and the bad news was that the lift had been a convenient work surface for many projects including welding. Part of this new push would involved getting things organized and fabricating some custom work surfaces. That meant I needed a convenient place to weld, hence this approach. I'm of the opinion that you can never have too much work surface nor too many drawers, so the idea of building a welding table on top of a rolling tool chest really appealed to me. Here is a brief photo essay of the project:

Black metal table with four white blocks holding metal brackets in a garage or workshop.

The idea was to use firebricks to insulate the tool cabinet from heat together with an additional stand-off bracket to increase the air gap...

Tan-colored material block with metal bracket, square nut, and bolt.

The stand-offs were made from pieces of 4×4 square tubing that I sectioned on my chop saw...

Man in plaid shirt and welding helmet focusing on metalwork with tool.

Brother Dave on the Tig welder. We each did half the welds. Hard to keep in practice for Tig!

Gray Craftsman rolling cart with red stripes and welding machine nearby.

Here is the finished table. The square tubing sticking out the front was a last-minute idea. I'm going to mount my vise on there so it is removable as needed. I have a hunch that I'll come up with other things to insert in that "holster" that will be helpful. We'll see!

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